ioncorpse wrote:I thought you all just made a mistake, when wrote 1xxx...this wan't mistake, it was such "low bidding"
Something like that....... if everyone here can solve level for N$ in 5 minutes - do we need starting bids ~3*N$ ?
For new players? ANY new player which came here will be able to solve level for N, maybe he will need few hours, but he will solve it. He will be motivated, don't worry.
Those are exactly my thoughts, just didn't know how to tell that. We should start at about 75% of the score we prognosticate to be the winner (don't rely on that though,
all you need is common sense actually). In some recent contests Votart exaggerated his bids a little, and others did it way under the norm. We should start with bidding just a little, some $100 below our real score and raise as we can.
By the way, I'm awfully sorry for not playing with you right now, school is eating all the time and I need to reinstall my computer (can't launch openGL/directx applications, else I would be playing all the leagues including AR1 masters league). Once I get over my laziness and reinstall, I'll download AR2 and hop in the game again.
Meanwhile, I did a quick update on ARext, called AR2ext - for AR2:
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