(04-03-2015, 03:10 PM)Melkire Wrote:(04-03-2015, 03:01 PM)C Wrote: In comparison, are there any date auctions that don't actually take real gil? Would people go to a date auction if the money were all pretend?
Haven't <<DOVE>> and a few other FCs done this?
Little late to this one, but KinRP did one way-back-when which was done without the involvement of real gil. I remember that we had it around a time where there were a couple of other auctions going as well (but I do not remember in detail what those auctions entailed) People did attend, and the biggest problem we had was that people wouldn't be "realistic" with their gil - with bids spiraling way out of any control, in the end we had to close the bid rounds prematurely to prevent things going downright silly.Â
I still think that the actual-gil auctions have had numbers that are in the silly-bracket, but there you can also understand why they're so high, since the point is to raise gil.Â
I don't know how much people think about economy with their characters, but I wouldn't really find it realistic when someone who's rping as your average adventurer suddenly has millions of gil to blow on a date (which is where it ended up for the non-actual-gil-auction we had)Â
So in the wake of that, I tried thinking of alternative ways of doing it. One of the things I had in mind was a token system, where you declare that every person receives say 100 tokens. And then they can bid with that. But I never got to the point of testing it, as we started to focus on other types of events as well.Â
I think the involvement of actual gil discourages more than it encourages, because not everyone has a lot of gil to toss at events. In that light, whenever I go to something that has actual gil involved (and where I also pay) its usually because I actually want to support the people behind it anyways.
