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So earlier today (according to the change log) there was a change made to the public auction where if a bid is made in the last 10 minutes of an auction, 2 minutes are added on the the auction time. I fully understand the reasoning behind this change, and I appreciate that it’s to help prevent bid sniping and to drive up prices for those selling. However, I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it now that I’ve experienced it.

I just got in a nearly hour-long bidding war with another player for a number of pointed rank special foundation horses. It was one of the most frustrating things - partially because I was having to use my phone, and partially because my home internet was being more subpar than usual and data signal out in the boonies is atrocious. I lost several bids simply because the page wouldn’t reload or update fast enough or because I had to click “Place Bid” 50 times before my phone decided to actually do it. My biggest frustration is that what would have used to be maybe a 10 minute bidding war at the end took me nearly an hour because the auction just kept getting extended over and over.

That being said, could limiting the total amount of time that can be added to the auction be an option/taken into consideration? Or is there another alternative that might work better? Or is this a forgone conclusion?

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk lol sorry for the lengthy post