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:
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Hi :) Just wondering if it's possible to get a config set up to where people can't cancel an auction once someone has bid on it? (Or if it's already there which one it is)
I'm using version 3.0.4 and I set broadcast-bid-updates to false in the config. Bidders are not being notified of bid updates when they are bidding or are the previous highest bidder, even though in the config explanation it said it would.
@karatechopninja
I'd be happy to address your concerns if you'd kindly read the FAQ first.
@Done84
Version 3 had that altered with the introduction of auction scopes. Players cannot change auction scope when auctioning. Please read the config help for information on setting that up.
@TheR3ktor
Honestly, I don't know. If YAML supports those characters and Minecraft also supports them, then it should already support them, if not, I don't think there's anything I can do to change it.
Can you add Æ Ø Å support?
Isint there an option to disable world change wile auc / bid anymore ??
@Butterxz
Like I told you in PM, read the FAQ.
It wont let my members Auction or either bid, THIS POPS UP : You do not have permissions to start an auction, and You do not have permissions to bid.. And Opt out of auction participation and announcements. THESE ARE THE PERMISSIONS I USED : - auction.start HELP!!!!!! I have Groupmanager...
- auction.bid
@pookeythekid
Players must have the funds available. floAuction won't put a player in debt.
@NathanWolfu
If the items have a unique item id and data id you should be able to use WhatIsIt to add the items name.
Hey, I really enjoy your plugin, but I branched into a pixelmon server and wanted to know if its possible to add in modded items to the item list
Hey, I've had a question on my mind recently: Does floAuction allow players to be in financial debt (negative money), or does the plugin not allow them to receive their items at the end of the auction if they bid too high?
Thanks.
Edit: Haha, just realized that this is the 1111th comment. Woo! xD
@incredinex
Okay sorry, Sometimes I just don't read everything. Enjoy your simcity (through I hate it)
@samueli5750
Oh, thinking back to this comment. On huge servers, it can be a bit spammy, but there are a ton of features to limit spam. Probably the most effective of these is the auction house, making it so that people have to go to a location to participate in auctions, but read the config help. Lots of options to accommodate pretty much any server.
@JackzMc
I'd have found it much more entertaining if you'd posted the video, but this works, I guess.
EDIT: Sorry, was distracted because I was playing SimCity. "a bit more seeable" That's clever. I have instructions to read the FAQ before asking questions as number one under the header of "Important Notes and Disclaimers" and it's in bold. In the FAQ, I actually have a question, "floAuction doesn't do anything!" That tells you these plugins are required. Also, in the FAQ, it instructs you to look at your console, where I have written a lovely condescending mocking and I think all capital letter chastising for not having WhatIsIt installed. Number 2 under "Important Notes and Disclaimers" is that these plugins are required. The first line under the section "Setup and Configuration" is LITERALLY "This plugin requires Vault and WhatIsIt." If you click on the links to the specific version setup, the first sentence of both of them is, "This plugin requires Vault and WhatIsIt." Under "Notable Features" the first entry includes a reference to WhatIsIt. Most of the videos about floAuction mention WhatIsIt being required (albeit some in a negative light), especially the ones that include how to set up the plugin.
So tell me, should I add a huge strobe light banner above the logo that says, "VAULT AND WHATISIT ARE REQUIRED!" I already crossed the line of being obnoxious with the message on your console. I've already put it on every relevant page. It's audible in the videos, you don't even have to be able to read to know these are required. Do you have other ideas on how it can be more, "seeable?"
Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go back to playing SimCity. Apparently I need more industrial and residential. I hope you have a good evening (or morning, or whatever time of day it is where you are).
@incredinex
Oh I didn't see it required "WhatIsIt". Now it works,
Maybe make the requirements a bit more seeable?
@JackzMc
Can you take a video of this where I can see your Minecraft window as well as the console? If you could start the video when the Minecraft server is starting up and end it after you type "/auc" that would provide the most useful information.
@samueli5750
BarAPI only allows 64 characters. There's no way I can shrink the auction info to fit inside 64 characters reliably.
IT WILL SPAM WHEN starting auction. can you add barapi ? use the BarApi to show message?
For me, when I install this /auc just does nothing, no message at all.
No error code at all, using latest version.
@Eria8
The "auction.bid" permission defaults to on for all users. Unless your server has disabled it somewhere, I'll be positive they have it too. floAuction doesn't interact with GroupManager (or any other permission setting plugin) in any way whatsoever. Please read the FAQ before continuing this, especially the question, "How do I report a bug or issue?"
@NumbrainNetwork
The FAQ almost always helps. I haven't the foggiest idea how it helped you, but I'm glad it did.
@UchiaKurt
Maybe you should read the FAQ too. But before you do that, you should consider the consequences of what you are asking. Do you change the prefix of MultiVerse, McMMO, or dynmap? No, of course you don't. Having those things attracts people who like them and gives the players easy access to help specifically designed for them via simple google searches. Sure, I'm not in the top 10, like these, but I'm above (and by I, I mean this plugin, of course) uSkyBlock, SilkSpawners and probably a number of other plugins I'd highly recommend (and more if they were listed on mcstats.org). Personally, I wouldn't even play on a server that didn't have 5 out of the 6 listed here (if I include floAuction) and more if, again, they were listed on mcstats.org. Frankly, I don't see a reason to change the prefix. If you could give me a convincing reason to change the prefix, I might be more direct to just cut/paste the section from the myriad of things I've already typed into the description, config and faq for this plugin.
How to you add your own prefix for the auction such as [ACAUCTION]