Grand Auction - February 4th & 5th

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Grand Auction - February 4th & 5th

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We're having a grand auction this weekend.
First auction will be on Saturday at 22:00 shard time.
The second on Sunday at 19:00 shard time.

The Saturday auction will have most of the uber stuff, but there will be a few nice things in the Sunday one as well. The same list of decorative stuff will be sold both on Saturday and Sunday.

It seems that the Superbowl in the USA has been on the 2nd weekend in February last year and this year, so we can have the first weekend without it interfering with many of our players.

(Sorry for the late notice, last 2 days have been kind of packed)


Items that will be sold on the Saturday auction:
Ethereal Panda*
Vampire bat on perch
Deed for extra 20 spending points on a levelable weapon
Deed for a Totem Slot
Large BOD Of Your Choice
Ancient Composite Bow
Deed for a dolphin spawner at your house
Infinite Bandage
Ethereal Mount De-etherializing tub
Instanced Housing Area
Housegate style - blue vortex
Lower reagent cost deed
Personal Spawner (Various Creatures)
Heart of the Ocean
Ice rink addon*


Items that will be sold on Sunday auction:
Ethereal Drake
Ethereal Dye Tub
Grandfathered Personal World Teleporter
Change Weapon Specials
Night Sight deed
Deed make your house always-like-new
Ancient Titan's Hammer
Deed for a personal fairy spawner
soaked bandage
No-Resources Deed
Personal Spawner (Various Creatures)
Housegate style - red vortex
+12 Tinkering Suit
Weeping Angel


Deco items that will be sold at both auctions
BloodyAnkhSouth
FullBookcase
CannonWithAmmoEast
SarcofagusLady
Table With Cards
SandCastle
Wine Tub
SnowyTroughEast
gardenwell
Romantic Picnic addon
Valentine Hedges
Valentines Flower Heart
Heart Of Excelsior
HoleInTheGround
BenchesButterflies


*Note on Ice Rink and Ethereal Panda:
These were refunded at the last auction. Resold now, but they will not be elegible for re-auction.

Ice Rink caveat: if you have a sunken house, the trees will show up on your game window as semi-transparent, even if you are in your basement. This is just the way the game renders trees, no matter where you are. If you are going to bid on this item, please keep this in mind.

Ethereal panda caveat: like all ethereals, it comes with the ethereal effect (appears as translucent). If you want it to look like a regular panda, you also need to buy the De-etherializing dyetub (these are sold every now and then at auctions).


Re-auction will be available, 50% of the items from the Saturday-only and Sunday-only lists will be picked at random, those picked will be elegible for bidding. (Deco that is sold at both auctions will not be listed in the re-auction).
For re-auction rules see this older post:
viewtopic.php?p=80793#p80793
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:D aw3some news. Thanks again for the time. Any plans for the items to be displayed in advance?
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Items are now on display, some 20 hours in advance :)
(also updated the original post with lists of items, what's sold on saturday, sunday, and deco for both)

Btw I know that we have 2 threads going about auction ideas. In this auction I just included the +12 tinkering suit (we sold this before, but it's been many years). And the +100% LRC deed.
There's many good ideas there, just needs to be thought thru and then coded, so keep them coming.
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Incredible list. This is going to sink a lot of gold.
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what does the soak bandage do?
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Zanzi wrote:
Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:40 pm
what does the soak bandage do?
It heals in double amount.
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Thanks Cerrera. So then 1000 charges on it and once it is gone it is done?
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qbf wrote:
Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:10 pm
Incredible list. This is going to sink a lot of gold.
Thanks, hoping it will :) I noticed that the ED prices have been steady under 60k recently, at around 50k now.
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Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:01 am
This song comes to mind...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDcoX7s6rE
:lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxnlx7JoAP4&t=167s
(Start at 2:45)


Soaked bandage: well, I guess this is only useful for those under 220 dex. It heals double the amount, and when used to resurrect someone/something, it comes back with 100% life.
You can get them at a Fountain Of Life, somewhere in Ilshenar (Mistas, follow the path thru the mountains). But there's a limit to how many you can get per day.
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Auction Results

Saturday:
Ethereal Panda sold to Zanzi for 72,000,000 Gold
A Deed For A VampireBat sold to gilga for 3,300,000 Gold
Deed For +20 Extra Spending Points On A Levelable Weapon sold to Muolke for 100,000,000 Gold
Totem Slot Deed sold to ZeeeQi for 790,000,000 Gold
BOD Of Your Choice Deed sold to Zanzi for 570 Elven Notes
Ancient Composite Bow sold to Kairoz for 330,000,000 Gold
Personal DolphinSpawner sold to Kitty Hawk for 10,000,000 Gold
Infinite Bandage sold to Zanzi for 57,000,000 Gold
Ethereal Mount De-etherializing Tub sold to ZeeeQi for 21,000,000 Gold
Deed To The Instanced Housing Area sold to Celtarus for 370,000,000 Gold
Change Appearance Of Your Housegate (ID 13250) sold to culichi for 8,500,000 Gold
Lower Reagent Cost Deed (100%) sold to Nik for 51,000,000 Gold
Necklace sold to Cezzar for 8,000,000 Gold
Icerink sold to Kitty Hawk for 25,000,000 Gold
BloodyAnkhSouth sold to Nik for 2,500,000 Tokens
Bookcase sold to culichi for 4,300 Elven Notes
CannonWithAmmoEast sold to Blood Raven for 5,100,000 Tokens
SarcofagusLady sold to Nik for 3,700,000 Tokens
TableWithCards sold to Arrow for 1,000,000 Tokens
SandCastle sold to Luna Kartini for 1,600,000 Tokens
WineTub sold to Nik for 5,100,000 Gold
SnowyTroughEast sold to gilga for 5,100,000 Gold
Gardenwell sold to Kitty Hawk for 13,000,000 Gold
Romantic Picnic sold to Praise for 6,500,000 Gold
ValentineHedges sold to Kitty Hawk for 9,200,000 Gold
ValentinesHHeart sold to Mayunia for 7,000,000 Gold
Heart Of Excelsior Addon Deed sold to culichi for 3,000,000 Gold
HoleInTheGround sold to Praise for 24,000,000 Gold
BenchesButterflies sold to Neytiri for 13,000,000 Gold
Sour Grapes sold to culichi for 9,500,000 Gold
POV: +Kimane Studying For Exams sold to ButteryBiscuits for 3,500,000 Gold
+Colibri's Empty Mugs On The Computer Desk sold to Nik for 5,100,000 Gold
Personal ImpalerSpawner sold to Kairoz for 5,300 Elven Notes

Sunday:
Ethereal Drake Statuette sold to Lion for 39,000,000 Gold
3x Ethereal Dye Tub sold to Faruk for 13,000,000 Gold
Personal World Teleporter sold to Paroxysmus for 21,000,000 Gold
Change Weapon Specials sold to Muolke for 170,000,000 Gold
Deed Make Your House Always-like-new (prevent Decay) sold to Kitty Hawk for 43,000,000 Gold
Ancient Titan's Hammer sold to gilga for 510,000,000 Gold
Personal PixieSpawner sold to Kitty Hawk for 28,000,000 Gold
1000 Soaked Bandage sold to ringthane for 3,900,000 Tokens
Reduced Ammo Consumption (100 %) Deed sold to Lion for 110,000,000 Gold
Personal Flesh RendererSpawner sold to ringthane for 4,900 Elven Notes
Change Appearance Of Your Housegate (ID 13244) sold to ringthane for 39,000,000 Gold
+12 Tinkering Suit (4 Pieces) sold to ButteryBiscuits for 80,000,000 Gold
Weeping Angel sold to Lion for 17,000,000 Gold
BloodyAnkhSouth sold to Faruk for 3,300,000 Tokens
Bookcase sold to Blood Raven for 480 Elven Notes
CannonWithAmmoEast sold to Blood Raven for 4,500,000 Tokens
SarcofagusLady sold to Lust for 2,100,000 Tokens
TableWithCards sold to Hermitor for 1,900,000 Tokens
SandCastle sold to Blood Raven for 1,500,000 Tokens
WineTub sold to Faruk for 4,800,000 Gold
SnowyTroughEast sold to NME for 9,800,000 Gold
Gardenwell sold to Kitty Hawk for 12,000,000 Gold
Romantic Picnic sold to NME for 2,700,000 Gold
ValentineHedges sold to NME for 6,300,000 Gold
ValentinesHHeart sold to Faruk for 4,000,000 Gold
Heart Of Excelsior Addon Deed sold to ButteryBiscuits for 3,700,000 Gold
HoleInTheGround sold to Wil for 24,000,000 Gold
BenchesButterflies sold to Starfire for 5,400,000 Gold
Night Sight Deed sold to Que for 30,000,000 Gold
Palm-to-shoulder Potion sold to ButteryBiscuits for 11,000,000 Gold


Poor man's item:
Totem
Damage Increase -50%
Dexterity Bonus -5
Hit Point Increase -5
Intelligence Bonus -5
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Thanks Wil, I find these lists much more user friendly than the history on the stone. Grats to all the winners.
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If you're wondering how I make the list, it's super simple. In my uo.cfg, I have the following:

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JournalSaveFile=e:\journal-excelsior-wil.txt
This makes the UO client (not any of the scripting engines but the client itself) log the journal contents to a text file.

Before the auction, I log off, delete that file and then log back on. That gives me a fresh journal log just for the auction. After the auction I log back off, flushing the journal to disk. Then I copy the file to Linux and run:

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grep -i auctioneer.*sold journal-excelsior-wil.txt  | sed 's/^Auctioneer: //'
That's it. If you get a hold of grep and sed for Windows you can skip the Linux part and just do it in powershell.
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Thanks for sharing! I would have used Notepad++ and then kinda copy-paste the results of any line containing "sold to". But the regex and the grep is more robust and easier once you have it set up.
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Wil wrote:
Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:37 pm
If you're wondering how I make the list, it's super simple. In my uo.cfg, I have the following:

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JournalSaveFile=e:\journal-excelsior-wil.txt
This makes the UO client (not any of the scripting engines but the client itself) log the journal contents to a text file.

Before the auction, I log off, delete that file and then log back on. That gives me a fresh journal log just for the auction. After the auction I log back off, flushing the journal to disk. Then I copy the file to Linux and run:

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grep -i auctioneer.*sold journal-excelsior-wil.txt  | sed 's/^Auctioneer: //'
That's it. If you get a hold of grep and sed for Windows you can skip the Linux part and just do it in powershell.
Wow! That's a really clever way to do it... congrats! =D

P.S: If you were using Orion i could just write a script for you to do exactly that
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Nothing like having multiple items sell for over 1/2 a billion at auction to drain some gold.

I was pleased to see another Totem at auction. I've had mine for a couple of years now but clearly the demand is there since it's selling a 3/4 of a billion gold now.

Overall very good auction results. I'm personally very pleased with my purchases :D
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