feature request: long-term auctions about iconomy HOT 5 CLOSED

explain the search command.

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suppose there's 20 auctions up, lasting times from 1 hour to 6 days, selling various items. I want to buy some cloth, without having to look throguh all the other stuff:

/auction search cloth

id | name | type | amt | price
13 | bob912 | cloth | 64 | 1

or, /search bob912 to get all auctions by bob912.

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The only thing preventing this from being made is the timer functionality in Java, I will look into ways to implement multiple Auctions in the future, ideas can continue to be posted as such.

We will be discussing ways to implement them.

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well, the easiest way would be with SQL - handling auctions in a batch on a periodic basis.

Get a user list, and then select all expired and open auctions for online players (have an "active" flag), and award the winner their item.

select * from auctions where active=1 and expire < now() and user in (select * from online_users)

That way you don't have to have a thread for every auction, you just use sql statements to poll, bid, and buyout auctions.

With flat files, it'd be more complicated. You'd have to do it entirely in memory and write out the files after every transaction.

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or have a table for won items which can be managed by an external web based auctioning site. To collect their winnings they just join the server and type "/auction claim" for example.

The web auction of course will fetch the auction data from the mySQL tables for iconomy, this is actually something i was planning on making, but i don't know java and so can't do an in-game command unless i use my slightly slow php server wrapper =/

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