floAuction
floAuction - In-game auction software
There are no supported versions of floAuction v3.0.x higher than 3.0.4.
floAuction provides a powerful chat based auction system with many options to help control "spam" and scams and many customizable features making it perfect for any server. Help support development of floAuction: Donate
Notable Features!
floAuction has too many customizable features to reasonably put on the main page here, but here's a list of notable ones.
- Full language customization, even (with the use of WhatIsIt) item names themselves.
- Auction house, silent auctions, sealed auctions, countdown suppression, individual opting-out of all auctioning, and many other "spam" limiting features!
- Reserves funds (i.e. removes them from the player account), ability to disable auctioning damaged and renamed items, full item details displayed, and other abuse and scam prevention features!
- Percent of winnings or price per auction taxes, limits on max's and min's of different auction aspects, banned items list and other economy protection features!
- And, finally ss of the release of floAuction version 3: Auction scopes. The ability to designate world grouping and create multiple auction houses, each with distinct language and config settings.
A list of main features, complete, in progress, planned and under consideration can be found here. Specific per-version history can be found here. And GitHub here.
Important Notes and Disclaimers
- Before commenting, read the FAQ!
- This plugin requires Vault and WhatIsIt, make sure they're installed if you want floAuction to work.
- floAuction uses PluginMetrics to create pretty graphs and charts on mcstats.org. All the data uploaded to their site is impersonal data, including version numbers of your server and floAuction, hardware capabilities, and ip info. If you are uncomfortable with this, go into your /plugins/PluginMetrics folder, change the "opt-out" value to "true" and restart your server.
- floAuction version 3 uses gravitylow's Updater functionality. You can disable it in floAuction's config.yml by setting "auto-update" to "false" or disable it for all plugins using that code in the /plugins/Updater/config.yml by setting "disabled" to "true". This Updater functionality contacts Bukkit's servers to determine if an update is available and installs it so.
- The GitHub for version 2 has moved to 2.x.x-archive as it is no longer under active development. The 2.x.x branch on GitHub is temporarily being used to develop version 3.
- A number of technical difficulties have corrupted floAuction versions 2.10.0 through 2.10.2, do not use these versions!
Videos
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPU3c8eFM8 - Admin How-To for version 3
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhZKwejao8 - Usage tutorial (v3)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XScxexjbTQs - A great installation tutorial for version 2, but version 3 is basically the same on all these points.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7XOsLisdI0 - Me rambling on about version 2, and kinda just rambling
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgG4gSkUCJk - How to use floAuction (v2)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsws7f4Rwh0 - floAuction Overview with some very distracting stuff going on (v2)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpMrRnE1KNQ - A long, but good showcase video (v2)
Send me a message if you know of any videos I missed here and I'll see about getting them added.
Commands
- /auction - Main auction interface, use "/auction ?" in-game for more information, permissions vary per functionality. Requires permission "auction.bid":
- /auc - Shortcut for "/auction" (v2.6.0+)
- /sealedauction same syntax as "/auction" but forces sealed auction. (v2.6.0+)
- /sauc - Shortcut for "/sealedauction" (v2.6.0+)
- /bid [bid amount] [max bid] - Bidding, all parameters optional. If [bid amount] is omitted, bid automatically becomes the current bid + minimum bid increment. In sealed auctions, [bid amount] is required and [max bid] is ignored.
Permissions
- auction.start - Allows creation of auctions.
- auction.bid - Allows bidding on auctions.
- auction.admin - Allows administrative functions including cancelling current auctions, suspending player's auction capability, pausing and restarting auctions. (default: op)
Setup and Configuration
This plugin requires Vault and WhatIsIt.
Click here to view a detailed list of all config options for floAuction version 2 and how to use them. As of the release of floAuction 3, floAuction 2 will no longer be supported. floAuction 3 has all the features that version 2 has, plus more!
Click here to see detailed configuration and setup details for floAuction 3. It is multiple pages, but if you take the time to go through it, you will discover that floAuction is by far the most powerful auction plugin available for Minecraft.
Development Participation
I sometimes upload development or "alpha" versions of my plugin to a folder on my own website. If you would like to participate in helping me make sure these major changes have been well tested before I make an official release here on Bukkit, feel free to visit http://www.flobi.com/projects/floAuction/files/ and download the most recent version available on that site. Read the readme file there before participating. I recommend against using any of these files for any server where you need to guarantee up-time or functionality, but only on development or test servers. If you choose to use these against this recommendation, do so at your own risk (though technically it's your own risk in any case, lol, I'm not guaranteeing anything).
Misc
Sometimes I post development stuff here: https://twitter.com/flobiKenobi
I don't always play Minecraft, but when I do, I play on:
Drop by and pay us a visit!
@sheepwool7
Didn't know what part to work on next, honestly. So I move your desires to the top of the list.
One thing you can already do, is that if you need to suspend an individual from auctioning, you can via whichever permissions plugin you use. Just turn off their auction.create permission. Of course, I plan to make an easier way.
@corruptraige
I uploaded 2.1.1 there for you in which I included your fix. I couldn't reproduce your issue specifically, but I saw in the code how it could happen and wrote around it, it should be good to go.
Also, there's a Servers Using floAuction page if you'd like to be listed (instructions there).
I can't wait for these two planned features:
Queuing of auctions, with optional sleep period between auctions. Suspension of auctions by command globally, per player or per channel.
Thanks for the update 2.1.1!
I'll get on it right away.
i have gold2economy right now but this seems a much better alternative.
i really want to see this pluggin work for me. gold standard is EXACTLY what im looking for and the fact that someone wrote it is awesome! but i'm getting an error. i'm using floauction 2.1 on a tekkit 3.0.4 server with a few other mods and many pluggins. i have "vault" and "what is it?" installed so im not sure what the problem is. had the same error with factions pluggin but getting the latest revision fixed it. i only want this because gold standard is so perfect to me.
error message
2012-06-17 21:38:19 [SEVERE] Error occurred while enabling floAuction v2.1.0 (Is it up to date?) java.lang.NullPointerException at com.flobi.floAuction.floAuction.setupChat(floAuction.java:636) at com.flobi.floAuction.floAuction.onEnable(floAuction.java:131) at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:215) at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:336) at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:386) at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:262) at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:244) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.t(MinecraftServer.java:375) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:362) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:191) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:426) at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:492)
Plugin works great and the author is amazing with working with us to getting what we need for our server in general done! :)
2.1 is ready. Just waiting for file approval.
@sheepwool7
My pleasure. Please let me know if you have any issues.
Very cool. Thanks!
There is a 2.0.1 on the way with a couple fixes.
Thanks, God. Don't download the alpha...despite that no one mentioned it (thanks, alpha testers...), it sucks. Due to the underwhelming help of the alpha testers, I've decided to skip alpha testing altogether and uploading a beta version. I've made a lot of fixes since then, added some configuration options and am planning on putting it up after I do a quick run-through of it after I get home from my day-job.
Something new here too: Since I'm mainly making this for Aerial Heights server right now (they were on version 1.3.1 which is a fork off iAuction), and they have opted to go sans-currency, I'm adding a gold standard option soon too, so something to look forward to for people who don't even have currency. (I'll go add that coming features now.)
EDIT: Okay, I decided to skip straight to release. It seems pretty stable to me now. I've done a lot of fixing of things.
This looks like just what I need! :D Downloading soon
Okay, I think I'm at a good alpha point. I uploaded a file, feel free to test (when it's approved, of course) and send any issues you find. The more info about them the better, clearly.
Note to mods: I didn't mean to submit that as a release file. Please do not move this out of experimental. I updated the file properties. Sorry for the interruption.
It seems some sort of update on the progress is in order, so I think I can safely say I'm roughly 90% on the basic auction functionality. I have gotten multi-line and colored language support from a yaml file working, yay! WhatIsIt and Vault integration seem to be working perfectly.
I've gone ahead and updated the source on github and I'm about to upload a dev copy for anyone who wants to play with it (2-dev.0.0?). Please note that this is a very very very dev copy and do not put it on a server where you value your money or items :).
If you're in need of an auction plugin for a production quality server (i.e. you value your stuff), please use iAuction in the mean time. This is version 2 because floAuction version 1 was a fork of iAuction. I think by iAuction's terms I'm required to give source if asked, but I will only do so if asked on Aerial Heights or OniCraft's forums (my username is "flobi" on both).
@retricide
I'm doing what I can. Work's been heavy for me, and I either caught the flu, a cold or the pollen has been killer in Augusta this year (never know the difference). I'm trying to get an alpha out asap for people to start testing, but I want to get the basic auction functionality working (which unfortunately includes basic messages...hence the 90% on the language support) at least to the point where one can start, bid and win an auction. Fortunately for me, I couldn't care less about the Masters and as such, this week's impact of it on me is only minor traffic inconvenience and having to listen to music instead of the local talk radio while driving to and from work.
Wow, it took me forever to figure out how to get the messaging working...turns out I was sending a preformatted message into the sendMessage function instead of the language.yml key...doh!
Can't wait to try out an alpha version - I've been looking for a good auction plugin for a while, now.
@craftycreeper
Thanks for posting, craftycreeper, it's always good to get encouragement. At this point, it's looking like maybe next weekend before I get a viable alpha up.