On Sep 2, 2017, at 4:22 PM, Nic Evans <nich...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/02/17 18:12, Nic Evans wrote: > >> I bid 15 shinies. > > Since this is already irrelevant and I don't intend to continue to be > annoying about it I'll just mention my working theory: > > 1) A matched bid stops the highest bidder from being able to claim the > estate. This seems pretty certain from the wording in the rule: "[...] > if there is a single highest bid on that auction, the player or > Organization that placed that bid can cause Agora to transfer the > auctioned Estate to emself [...]" (R2491) > > 2) More interestingly, a matched bid may mean that both players receive > a Yellow Card, depending on interpretation of "If the highest bidder > does not do so in a timely fashion, the Surveyor shall issue the player > who submitted the bid a Yellow Card." (R2491)
I believe the first is correct, and both proposals I have in flight that affect the Estate Auctions rule correct it by making only monotonically increasing bids valid. The second might take a CFJ to sort out. The use of the definite article there might mean that this only applies when there is exactly a single highest bidder - and that was my intention when writing it. However, it’s badly phrased, and I wouldn’t object strongly to a CFJ that found your interpretation to be correct. -o
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