Back in the good old days of the oldschool chronicles i've met a server with a weird system for the clan halls.
The thing for clan halls depending on their location had a different minimum and maximum bids
Thing is simple at this situation , 2 clans -> 1st clan adds 500kk , 2nd clan adds ->1kkk ==> Winner is 2nd.
SituationNo2. , Both clans adding the maximum price , what's gonna happen next ; System will auto-genarate a winner ; that's kinda unfair tbh
So the solution was going like this , ch bids is like poker some players don't place only money at their table , right ; right.
So when 2 clans were bidding the maximum price , there was an option that you could add more things [Can't remember the capacity but let's say we can place 40 different other than adena] like Weapons Armors & Jewerly
How this thing was rolling ? For every weapon/armor/jewerly behind the scene there was actually a price.
Let's give you an example , for each Arcana Mace you place increasing the maximum bid for another 20million adena(same price ofc for every other top S grade weapon)[obviously different prices for armors parts and jewels depend on the grades].
This thing seems to working , untill 2 clans reach at this point were they both add the maximum bid in adena and the maximum bid in items , right ? i guess so
So what was the solution here ?
Epics were taking place , yes epics.
This thing had a lot of benefits , when you place a maximum bid in adena , after a point even a mid clan can be competitive for a top CH , when that happens , the better clans will have to take a race placing weapons/armors/jewels , when the mid clan join this race as well , then the hard discussions had their place on the table.
Note : All weapons/armors & jewels had to be at enchant "0" in order to be biddable.
The benefits from it , server was sucking a huge amount of adena so the server had a long term stability , clans were dropping the leftovers such as boots gloves helmets even weapons so the OE thing was not an easy thing , the recyclable market was real , everything could be sold/bought.
Met this thing in a very old server around 2008-2010 , were Admins wanted somehow to suck the epics such as baiums/qa/zakens from the server.