Yeah, that makes sense. I missed that. Obviously the whole "bid a billion shinies to stop the auction" plan still works, but it is illegal now so that's good.
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > >> On Nov 1, 2017, at 10:28 PM, VJ Rada <vijar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It's rather silly that it's possible to tie the auction and stop any >> sale from happening. Perhaps bids should be made secretly to the >> Surveyor. > > I believe only increasing bids are effective now: > >> During an auction, any player or contract may bid a number of Shinies by >> announcement, provided that the bid is higher than all previously-placed >> bids in the same auction. > > The wording’s a little clunky, but the intention was to stop tie bids from > counting. > > -o > -- >From V.J. Rada