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!
Come on Bukkit, the peeps are going mad with anticipation. :)
@saxons12
Fantastic. I too have been unable to find any bugs in that version. I'm testing what is currently being called 3.alpha.1.3 which will have code to identify if it's an upgrade from the 2.x branch and rebuild an auction house if they had one. Other than that, I'm contemplating on releasing it as 3.0.0.
Just wanted you to now that 1.1 alpha is working great. No bugs so far!
@ssSkillzzz
No, but that's a good idea.
Is there a way to exempt the tax from a certain group if the tax is enabled?
@leo1232
I have been contemplating integrating with the Citizens plugin. I have not yet decided to do this. I think one of the biggest issues I have with that is trying to figure out exactly how the interface would function. I'll keep it in my thoughts though.
Hello, you think the integration of "non-playing person" is possible or not? I saw in your category "study" it would be great if this could be added!
3.alpha.1.1 uploaded to the development folder. http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/floauction/#w-development-participation
@saxons12
Change your auction-scopes to what I have above. You can look at the sample config.yml for further examples. Alternatively if you would rather assign it to a worldguard region, here's an example of that.
The config section is optional and contain overrides on most of the top level config options. I replied to your email, btw.
@incredinex
So the problem is with the config. t has changed. Here is mine: http://pastebin.com/iq4rhy4D
How do I add the auction house settings in here? I don't think the syntax is the same.
I still cant't acess flobi.com. Can you send me 3.alpha.1.0 as email? I sent you an email as a reminder.
Thank you flobi!
@saxons12
Regarding the auction house can you post your config.yml for me?
Regarding the arena listener, that should be fixed in floAuction.alpha.1.0.
Regarding the second pasty, the entire message manager has been rewritten in 3.alpha.1.0 so those errors are in code that no longer exists. I saw one message in 3.alpha.1.0 that wasn't working in my testing today with lever97, but nothing huge.
Thanks for helping me test these alphas. There's a lot of code to test and it's really too much for one person, but when this is done, floAuction is going to kick ass.
In v3.alpha.0.4 there are many bugs. When the server starts up Auction is enabled everywhere on the server. But I have a auction house set. And after some time (15min or so) auction stops working and says internal error for any command. Here are the logs:
http://pastebin.com/B7j5QW71
http://pastebin.com/FCCeEwmA
@TheChiz
I am not aware of such an issue. Please provide a version number and steps to reproduce. I think if there were such an issue, it would have been reported before now, unless it's new.
I was wondering if you had a solution for people silently upbidding an auction and scamming people out of money, have you looked into this?
@stgram
I'll take a look. Sneaky of you trying to fool me into thinking you didn't put the version number...I found it in the pasty. Well done.
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I looked and found that the line in the onDisable using the normal message sending has been replaced with a call which doesn't rely on floAuction's normal log function. I believe I replaced it in the most recent 3.alpha.1.0 which contains a huge message system rewrite, but it's possible I noticed before and fixed it in 3.alpha.0.4. Either way, it shouldn't pose a problem when I finish 3 up and take it out of alpha. Thanks for helping test this stuff.
@incredinex
Hey, check this out. http://pastebin.com/Ak0dMrna It has appeared just recently. Sorry if it is already fixed.
I uploaded what I'm calling 3.alpha.1.0. Take a look at the Development Participation section for more info and don't forget to read the updates. There are very heavy updates to the language.yml file so you'll probably want to just delete or rename your old one if you're participating in the alpha (really it's dev) testing. Just a reminder, don't use these files as reliable production quality versions.
@CrueIdog
I thought it did, but looking back through the code, it doesn't look like it does. Honestly at this point, I'm so into the version 3 that I'm not even sure. You could try it, I guess. ... ... Yeah, I tried it and no apparently that doesn't work. I'm doing my best to get the new version 3 out and I'm going to add the ability I described to the next version 3 update; yeah, it's still in development, but it's something, right?
@incredinex
Does auction.start mute auctions for that group? So they can't hear anything auction related?
@Adnan2000
Glad to hear it.
@CrueIdog
You can use permissions to disable it. Killing all users auction.start permission in the world should do it. In the version 3+ (Which is still in development) you can also use the auction scopes to do this, but it's more complex and I haven't documented that part yet.