A new way to buy and sell [Suggestion]

[jpressley101]

Adding sellable cars to friends would be cool, but let's face it; there is not a big enough buyer pool. The auctions make more sense. It would add a whole new aspect/strategy to the game. However, I could see possible corruption in transactions if PD does not program it thoroughly enough, but that would be extremely un-PD like

 

[nizmo_bro]

I'd love to have an auction house type thing in the game. After I get my 1000 cars trophy, I'll have like 500-600 cars I will want to get rid of

I'd like to see them go to people who are looking for them rather than deleting(selling) them for money.

 

[GfxJG]

I'm for the auctions, but against the sell cars to friends. Why? Even with the minimum price, would still encourage duping and glitching too much.

 

[sorg]

PD should release feature pack like EA did for Shift 2: you can pay $15 and unlock (all cars become priced at 0cr) all cars and events at once. Dupes and cheats will become useless then.
PD told us many times, that GT5 is about racing, not collecting or exchanging cars. So give whole content to users and they will concentrate to racing only!

 

[leowan731]

I'd like them to fix glitches, bugs, and duping before I'd like the auction house, in which case I hoped for it a long time ago.

 

[Downhill Dino]

Are you talking about getting an online auction house as an add-on? It has to be set up and run online by the developer on their servers. That's where this problem I was talking about stems from. We currently aren't paying for use of the servers, or for an upgrade to support this activity. This is why people pay to use XBL or games like WoW and have so many features available to them.

There's really nothing for us to have added on our end, aside from maybe a small patch to set up access to it.

Available to PlayStation Plus users? I'd get PS Plus if that was the deal.

I'd like them to fix glitches, bugs, and duping before I'd like the auction house, in which case I hoped for it a long time ago.

Let's not start with that, this discussing the idea not what we'd like and not like in the next update.

 

[Machate-man]

Yes, as for the many players who agreed to auctioning with a forza-style house, that seems like a great idea. However, they need (i presume) more servers to handle the mass of people who are going to put up their prize cars, and the multiple accounts people are going to make to exploit this system.

 

[PAWEL17]

Yes, as for the many players who agreed to auctioning with a forza-style house, that seems like a great idea. However, they need (i presume) more servers to handle the mass of people who are going to put up their prize cars, and the multiple accounts people are going to make to exploit this system.

Exploiting the system...now i have been wondering how they will go about this. Especially if PD make it a mandatory save after selling your car.

 

[Turkey :D]

I approve of the op.

 

[IceMan PJN]

You mean... like an auction house in Forza?

I know ntohing of Forza. Explain if it's that similar.

Well, it's not exact, but basically you put any price on the car and someone buys it from you.

Well that's not like bidding on somerthing, whichwouldbe much more thrilling.

Actually, Forza's Auction House is bidding.

In the FM3 Auction House, you put your cars up for auction, and set a starting bid price, but you can also set a buyout price so they can simply buy it right away instead of bidding up on it. You also set how long you want the auction to run. The longer the auction, the more it costs in in-game credits to run the auction, so many auctions are short (two hours is the minimum, I believe, but some run for far longer).

So, Bob puts a 1995 Porsche 911 GT2 up for auction and sets it to run for four hours with a starting bid of 1,000 CR and an optional buyout of 10,000 CR. Jimbo bids on it, which raises it a bit (I forget how much it goes up, though I once calculated the exact formula that decides bid increments). Frank comes in and bids it up and then Jimbo fires back with another bid. Frank decides to wait until the auction has nearly ended and throws in another bid. Jimbo has been watching it so the bid war resumes for a while. Frank gets tired of bidding back and forth and just throws in the 10,000 to buy it out.

You could have another auction that just one guy bids on and so he gets it for basically nothing; just a hair above the starting bid price. If the auction runs down to the last minute and people are still bidding, it adds another minute until bids stop coming in. The whole system actually worked really well.

Exploiting the system...now i have been wondering how they will go about this. Especially if PD make it a mandatory save after selling your car.

As I recall, in FM3 when you put a car up for auction it removes it from your in-game garage and saves. You lose the car when you put it up for auction, even if nobody buys it. If nobody buys it, the car is returned to you. The problem here is that with GT5 save backups people can simply backup before auctioning a car, put a car up for auction, and then restore their save with the car in their garage.

 

[GT_Prologue5]

There needs to be one thing- cars that can't be bought. Like GT4's system.

Because a auction house would put up say, a R10 TDi. People come in and start bidding. Then it goes over $4,750,000. Everyone backs out and goes to buy it at the dealer. The auctioning was useless.

Bring back the un-buyable cars.

 

[PAWEL17]

As I recall, in FM3 when you put a car up for auction it removes it from your in-game garage and saves. You lose the car when you put it up for auction, even if nobody buys it. If nobody buys it, the car is returned to you. The problem here is that with GT5 save backups people can simply backup before auctioning a car, put a car up for auction, and then restore their save with the car in their garage.

derpy derp derp, of course. I didn't think of it, because i cannot do that.

 

[Downhill Dino]

There needs to be one thing- cars that can't be bought. Like GT4's system.

Because a auction house would put up say, a R10 TDi. People come in and start bidding. Then it goes over $4,750,000. Everyone backs out and goes to buy it at the dealer. The auctioning was useless.

Bring back the un-buyable cars.

That's a good point. But wha about classics and rare standards? Those would probably go for much more hen what they're price was originally.