Hi everyone!

As promised, we’re releasing two more Glowing Changingshrooms in a nugget-only auction.

Last auction we had, we used a Second-Price Vickrey Auction model. A significant number of people found this confusing, so this time we’re experimenting with a Sealed First-Price Auction, which is as simple as it gets: enter your bid, and if it wins you pay it :)

So if you’re interested in another shot at a Glowing Changingshroom, head over to the auction page and place a bid!

Wut a second price vickrey auction sounds cool I wanna do one D’:

/is too poor for any form of auction xD

*Gets back, checks page eagerly, chokes rather violently on the soda I just attempted to drink*

50k Minimum bid? Holy cow… *cough, sputters* Here I was hoping I’d have a chance to at least TRY since I’ve been saving up a while, but NOPE! Jeebus… *cough, headshake* Good luck everyone! Guess we’ll get to see who some of our resident millionaires are on here with this one. XD

/Aether shatters at the prices

*EDIT* I found that I can bid 60k on it, but I won’t have the money when the time comes, so naw. But still. YOU CAN BID EVEN IF YOU DON’T HAVE THE MONEY. You’ll just be in major debt xD
Also the max bid amount is 2,147,483,647 nuggets. Who comes up with these numbers?

Sylver / Skye: it is an auction for the whole site. If it would make people happier I can remove the 50k minimum bid, but it isn’t going to make a whole lot of difference to the outcome. The min is just there to add some reasonable expectations: given that a standard OotS goes for 36,000 and a regular Changingshroom goes for ~45,000, a Glowing Changingshroom going for 50,000 is on the very low end.

Still, I do get that this is somewhat inaccessible for a lot of people, which is why we had the free raffle for two of them just now.

Aether: 2,147,483,647 is the eighth Mersenne prime, and is in fact one of only four Double Mersenne Primes known… it was also the largest known prime number until 1867, so yeah it’s a pretty cool number. More importantly, it is equal to (2^31) - 1, which is the largest signed integer that can be stored in 32 bits of memory. If it turns out we need bigger numbers I’ll start using 64-bit numbers (maxing out at about 9,200,000,000,000,000,000) but we are pretty far from needing to do that any time soon ;)

It’d be sites where the currency in the millions/billions is the norm that would need that kind of increase =P I know the richest user on subeta had a risk of passing the Mersenne prime at one point if I remember correctly.

I do not see that happening on Mycena though. XD

I have to say, that is neat information :o :o

Millions? I’m pretty sure there are users with that on Mycena. I know at least two were over a million when the bank interest calculation changed. Probably more, since not everyone always wants to say.

I expected something about that pricey for a bid XD that would be…all of my nuggets, if I’d bid the minimum.

though I am curious on how much some of y’all have saved. I slacked on my saving for the past few months but at one point I had enough where I’d consider actually bidding on this auction. The interesting part will be seeing what the highest bid is…if I were to predict any outcome of this it’d be, whatever price is the winner will be a baseline for user auctions of this item, if there ever will be any. I have no predictions for what that price will actually be. The limits of my imagination tend to be on the modest side when it comes to what other people will spend on stuff.

Yeah nooo… I don’t have anything after getting the OotS this month aha xD
Good luck to everyone entering!

Yeah Jingles but that isn’t average on a site like mycena :P And I dunno how likely it’ll be for a user to have 2.1 billion nuggets saved up.

Though kudos to anyone that ever does.

Woah. O_O

Well, good luck to those taking part in the auction!