Worff wrote:===================================================================
Ok back on track... 0 bids are a waste of time and they are annoying to the loot officer and raid leader too... selling it for 0 means it still has to be recorded as a sale, while FFA it does not... thus saving some time there from having to write it down or dig it out of the log later. FFA also absolves us from any responsibility on making sure a certain person gets that loot. Loot officer can release the corpse and move on to next objective. We don't care who gets the loot if it's FFA... it can be a guest even if its called in /rs rather than only in /gu. So, if you're really truly interested in an item, bid 1 and that 1 will secure it for you if no one else bids. If it's not worth 1 DKP to YOU .. it's not worth the trouble to process that sale to US... that's the bottom line.
As far as the idea of minimum incremental bids go... I'll never agree to that, DKP pools aren't big enough and people like to have the freedom to bid exactly what they want to bid... and I think that's fair.
Time limit on bidding per item: this I might agree with, at first glance it seems like a little too much pressure for some folks, but as long as it is a reasonable amount of time though I think it could work and remain fair.
How is minimum bids of 1 not a waste of time? Its the same idea, only thing i see is that you're too lazy to record something into dkp so you think that if something goes ffa it might save you a whole 15 seconds of entering it into the system later. Do we seriously have issues with ninja looting on our raids that we need the loot officer to lock a corpse? Just take bids, write down who wins and move on. I'm sorry for being cold about this but I've done dkp in the past and its really not that complicated, hell when I did dkp it was entered into the system after every fight so that dkp was always current for every bid. Not saying we should be doing that. That was a bit over the top for us but the fact you don't have to do anything but take an hourly raid dump and write down who won a loot into a notebook, not gonna get sympathy saying that its so time consuming you can't pay attention to /rsay.