Sector Auction

[Radeghast]

Hi all

Does the sector auction board message only stay for a certain time ?

I've not see it for ages now that I am starting to have enough money to think about getting involved.

Cheers

Rad

[Carlo the Curious]

Until around day 20, iirc.

In my current game there was a long period when it didn't offer me the chance to bid anymore, but it came back eventually. You'll get a message if someone else wins the auction.

[Krytonic]

you can buy a sector? i didnt even know this O.o what boards do the auctions normally show at?

[esd]

All boards, which I find quite irritating. I wouldn't mind if they limited themselves to Trading Stations, but when you've no intention of paying

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650,000,000cr

for vacuum you can build in whether you own it or not, the messages get in the way of seeking missions.

[silenced]

you cannot miss those messages and you'll love them, really

i miss a button that says: "i do not want to buy that frikkin' sector, leave me alone with your frikkin' messages"


however, cheapest available is 615.000.000cr

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save'n'reload helps

[Krytonic]

are there not anything extra you get out of owning a sector? like taxes from the NPC stations or anything else?

[esd]

You get a

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Trading Station

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You get to name the sector.

[GCU Grey Area]

All boards, which I find quite irritating.

I found it immensly irritating, enough so that I ended up buying the place just to get rid of the BBS spam.
Expensive, but worth it once the subsequent BBS messages telling me I'd just bought the place finally stopped appearing.

[Krytonic]

All boards, which I find quite irritating.

I found it immensly irritating, enough so that I ended up buying the place just to get rid of the BBS spam.
Expensive, but worth it once the subsequent BBS messages telling me I'd just bought the place finally stopped appearing.

im having trouble finding the message to buy one! lol

[parameter]

You get a

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Trading Station

and

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You get to name the sector.

AND

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You get to welcome the inevitable Kha'ak/Xenon/Pirate swarms!

[patient zero]

You get a

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Trading Station

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You get to name the sector.

No.

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You do not get to name the sector. You only get to choose from a small list of possible names.

[Fresshness]

incidently, if you do not want to spend that much cash (bear in mind the cash earlier mentioned is the bear minimum, aka chances are good you are gonna pay 30% more)...

you could install roguey's mod, which offer 3 more buyable sectors

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including a cheap one for a mere +100Million

[perkint]

Hi folks,

When does the auction end? I am currently on day 13 (well, near as damn it) and am running on the assumption that I'm OK to not bid until around day 16, at least.

Which leads on to a related point. The reason I'm leaving it later is because I'm hoping that joining the bidding nearer the end gives less time for the price to increase. Is this a purely futile hope?

And I know it is arguable as to whether there is any real value to buying it, but I had nowhere near enough money to first (and only other) time I played X3, so this time I want it!



Tim

[Edit] Sorry - when I posted this as a separate thread I was thinking that I was asking something different (does it affect the value by waiting). Not surprised it got (quickly!) moved

[Nanook]

The one time I bid, and won, Avarice, I did it just as soon as I first could bid. And I got it for the minimum of 615 million. But I've heard of others bidding early and not getting it until after several rounds, and several hundred million, later. I personally think it's just like most of these kinds of things in the game; there's a very high degree of randomness.

As for how long, I believe it's in the range of 20-25 days that people have reported being spammed by theses messages. They didn't want to, and never did bid, so the messages just kept coming. So I'd say if you have enough cash by day 16, you'll be just fine. And I won't even impugn your business acumen by questioning why you're gonna let some low-life bankrupt Teladi sell you the Brooklyn Bridge, err, the sector Avarice. After all, you have to ask yourself why she went bankrupt.

[999jefro]

argh FFS i now have 700m and am gonna bid

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650m

on the sector so i can move in my 3 heavly loaded TLs and place my dam stations AND I CANNOT FIND THE MESSAGE ON BBS!!! ive checked in several different stations (flying around new income and montalaar) I am on day 14 in game what am i doing wrong please help?

[aksele9]

999jefro - your signature is a bit impolite IMHO.

[999jefro]

999jefro - your signature is a bit impolite IMHO.

WOAH? i like to invade ppls privacy. What can i say? xD

(btw just in case ur worryed nobody else can see what u see on the note it will just show THERE info)

[aksele9]

I am not worried and I know how it works, come on. It is just not polite, that is all. Your reactions tells me a lot about you, so it's OK, I can see you too


Edit: would like to know mod's opinion on the staff anyway

[Carlo the Curious]

I don't think think the sig is impolite, unless you thought it meant you'd been hacked or something. Bit pointless, but then most sigs are (like mine! ).

ive checked in several different stations (flying around new income and montalaar) I am on day 14 in game what am i doing wrong please help?

I wouldn't worry about it - as I said earlier it did that for me as well but showed up again eventually.

[esd]

If you have an issue with someone's signature, please PM a moderator about it instead of dragging it out in a thread.

In my opinion there's nothing wrong with it - they're old and a little cliché, but they don't cause any harm. They also get things wrong, particularly the ISP if it goes through a different ISP's route or are a reseller.