On 5/20/2021 1:44 AM, Gaelan Steele via agora-business wrote: > > >> On May 19, 2021, at 6:36 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-business >> <agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: >> >> I bid 670 coins on the Protection Stone. > > For each stone being auctioned, I bid n-1 coins, where n is the value of the > current highest bid on that auction. > > Gaelan >
First, where's honor (or in this case, dishonor) when you need it? Second, CFJ 3819 found that you (and looking at the record, specifically you, Gaelan) can't do that: Judge R Lee wrote: > Gaelan attempted to bid on a zombie auction an amount that is "n > coins, where n is one higher than the current SECOND highest bid". [snip] > The intent to bid was crystal clear and not > conditional, putting it beyond the "by announcement" standard and into > the > unique realm of rule 2550's mandate to "specify[] the amount of Agoran > currency". Unlike the dichotomous example of _whether_ or not someone > took > an action, this rule requires players to pick a number out of the vast, > unbounded universe of numerals. Evaluation of Gaelan's bids, requiring > (admittedly basic) algebraic skill and further mathematical and legal > evaluation of previous numbers, is difficult enough that conditional > numbers for auction bids can never count as "specifying". The language in the regulations: > BIDDING: Players CAN place a bid on an auction in its bidding > period by creating a public message (henceforth a "bid message") > specifying a number of the auction's currency as eir bid not equal > to the bid of another player. contains the same requirement to "specify[] a number of the auction's currency" in the bid message itself that was the pivotal language for this CFJ. https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?3819
