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!
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Posted Oct 12, 2013Why when players set their max bid using /bid [minimum] [maxiumum] are people able to bid exactly on their maximum? E.g. someone bids /bid 400 500 and then another player seems to be able to bid 500 as well, should they not have to bid 10 or more (set in my config) to bid over that person with the max bid of 500?
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Posted Oct 10, 2013@wildex999
That is a fantastic list of questions. I haven't the foggiest idea what the answers are. I've fixed every significant error I've been made aware of in all my plugins vs the vanilla bukkit perpetually. The backward compatibility is because of new data structures prohibiting stating further.
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Posted Oct 8, 2013You mention on the changelog for 2.9.0 that it also works for 1.5.2, is this still true for 2.9.1? Why not add this to the "Game Version"?
Also, since you are also the developer of WhatIsIt, is version 1.3.6 compatible with 1.5.2?
Thank you for your time =)
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Posted Oct 1, 2013FloAuction still going strong for me, 200+ players. No issues.
Thank you again for your hard work Incred!
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Posted Oct 1, 2013@thisaznrawr
I could see a possibility that you're confused. The money is taken at the time the bid is made, not at the time that the the bid is placed, not when the auction is finished. If someone else outbids the person, they get their money back at that time. Check to make sure this isn't just confusion about when the money is removed and get back with me.
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Posted Sep 30, 2013@incredinex
The plugins working fine its just it wont take money from the winner of the bid. i am using the latest version
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Posted Sep 29, 2013@thisaznrawr
Console errors? Version numbers?
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Posted Sep 29, 2013FloAuction isnt working when you bid and you win that item you bid for the player who started the bid gets the money but the player who won the bid doesn't get any money taken from them please fix
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Posted Sep 26, 2013@deaddude22
I'm sorry, that may have been worded poorly. The most recent error log you sent (and I appreciate you doing that) was indeed in 2.9.1, but the previous one (where the npe was on line 866) was from an earlier version. I had published 2.9.1 before reading that error, but not necessarily before you posed the error, so was confused by looking at a line of code which can't cause an npe.
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Posted Sep 23, 2013@incredinex
It was the latest version (2.9.1) i confirmed it. Also thank you hopefully a beta will be out soon so you can work with more stable code.
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Posted Sep 18, 2013Sorry about the delays, life's been busy.
@deaddude22
Okay, that would happen when someone tries to cancel an auction but there is no auction running. Even though I'm categorizing it as very low priority because it isn't inhibiting any functionality (except telling a person there is no running auction when they try to cancel nothing), it was very simple to fix. When I get this item crap worked out, it'll be in the next update. The other error on line 866, I figured out was the same error in a previous version. In the current version (2.9.1) line 866 is "} else {" which cannot throw a null pointer exception.
@FatsackTony
The error that deaddude22 posted couldn't occur when starting an auction because it's not in a routine that's accessed only when cancelling an auction. Admittedly, if it's a null pointer error, it probably looks very similar but would occur on a different line. I'd be happy to look at it, if you could pastebin your error message too, and if you could get me more info about what magic crops won't auction that'd be great too. Thanks.
@Bimmr
I think the old jars are still on my server, but they won't be compatible with Minecraft now.
@FKNarwhal
@MadeBySaints
Thanks, dude or dudette (whichever the case may be).
@pannduuh
Check your server log for console errors. Also, be specific with, "nothing works." If you're typing "/auc" and don't get a message from the server, there's going to be a console error.
@TFCrysis
WhatIsIt is a customizable names library which was written so any plugins needing readable item names could have a central library...as far as I'm aware, floAuction is the only one using it. It's basically required.
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Posted Sep 18, 2013@deaddude22
Yeah, having that same error on my 1.5.2 forge mod server when trying to auction certain items. I just update the names.yml with all the names too. Specifically items from the magic crops mod wont auction, as well as miscellaneous other ones from other mods
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Posted Sep 15, 2013@incredinex
Here it is again: http://pastebin.com/bi1GVUGf
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Posted Sep 10, 2013@incredinex
Do you have any of the gBay jars that still work? Or are they all older and that server manages it themselves.
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Posted Sep 9, 2013For some reason, even if I give them permission, nobody can start an auction. Yes I have WhatIsIt installed. As owner of the server I can start and auction which is really weird. Did you guys change the permissions? If you wouldn't mind please tell me what permissions to give them in the config file. Thanks!
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Posted Sep 8, 2013Awesome Plugin btw :P I changed the string to display my server name followed by eBay, and people started blowing it up :D I plan to donate in the future!
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Posted Sep 8, 2013@pannduuh
it sounds like you and i are running the exact same kind of server. i also use essentials, and group manager, vault, and whatisit. if you want, you can come on and i will give you some one on one help :D i have it and it works perfectly.
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Posted Sep 8, 2013nothing works. i have vault and what is it. i also have essentials and group manager. everytime i try to sell something it says you dont have permission. i changed the configuration and everything. i am even op and gave the op the auction.admin perms and gave the ranks the /bid and /start permission. but nothing has worked. the op cant even sell anything
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Posted Sep 7, 2013@TFCrysis
you need Whatisit for floauctions to work.
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Posted Sep 6, 2013When I type /auc or /auction nothing happens, no "Unknown command" or nothing. Please help! I don't have "Whatisit" idk what that even is.