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!
When I give default auction.* it works, but obviously I don't want that. When I take that one away and give default auction.admin, still nothing works. Odd?
For some reason, the permissions aren't working. I know there is just two, but I added this to my server, along with WhatIsIt. I added auction.bid and auction.create to my default's group...
Is it any way possible to make this sign-based?
Will do!
@sheepwool7
Sure, let me know if you have any other issues. I'm always eager to help.
Thanks so much for the response. I do apologize, I didn't see the dependency there. Thanks for the help!
@sheepwool7
Sorry for the delay, was entertaining some friends and wasn't looking at the site here.
Do you have WhatIsIt installed? It's required for names. Here's a link:
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/whatisit/
The error you're getting effectively says you don't have it installed.
I have a error on startup for whatever reason.
Server log for craftbukkit version and whatever else you may want: http://pastebin.com/UeeXLh0n
and just the floauction error http://pastebin.com/zkkpD3BD
Thanks!
@sheepwool7
Please do, I'm sorry I couldn't do a full test of the auction queue. I did a few simple tests, but the logic seemed pretty stable. Let me know asap if you see anything wrong and I'll try to act quick to fix.
Cheers for the update! I only run a local server with friends, and haven't tested it yet :P But I will ASAP!
I uploaded 2.2.0. As noted in the caveats: I have not been able to actually test queuing of auctions for the most part because I only have 2 testers and I haven't seen either online...I'm uploading it with thumbs crossed. Post a comment if you see any errors with whatever info I need to reproduce it.
Man, I spent all night last night working on trying to make something Vault could use to facilitate a gold based economy like floAuction does. To get any semblance of floAuction 2.2 out today, I'm gonna have to remove the banned item list and taxes till 2.3 to focus on making sure everything works. I was hoping to make 2.3 focus soley on scopes...but it might have to wait till 2.4.
@sheepwool7
Still working on the 2.2. I'll try to have something today or tomorrow. Thanks for the spurring.
Thanks for the reply! :P
@MonkeyFiddler Please reword that so I have some idea you are at a skill level high enough to warrant running your own server. No offense, but your question doesn't give me anything to go on and I'm not going to start training people to use bukkit.
@corruptraige Yeah, my thoughts had gone to that area. Since I effectively already have the code, it wouldn't be very difficult for me to make a very simple plugin designed to be hooked into things like Vault and Register. I wouldn't give it any features beyond what it takes to be hooked in. I'll talk it over with Sleaker.
or to hook gold standard into vault. or to get vault to recognize floauction currency as standard. idk.
awesome! works great. now if only i could get my other plugins to use the gold standard. =P mostly herobounty.
No plugin folder appears when i restart the server and it dont show up in /plugins
Hmm...I suppose I probably should have tried this in R4 before marking it R4. Let me know if you guys have any issues, k? Should be fine though unless they removed something core all my stuff is pretty standard, I think.
Yay, I finally got around to doing the configuration information page!
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/floauction/pages/configuring-flo-auction/