{"id":18,"date":"2025-12-21T12:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bad-neighbors.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/auction-true-bidding-auction-wallet\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:39:00","slug":"auction-true-bidding-auction-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bad-neighbors.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/auction-true-bidding-auction-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"Auction: True Bidding, Escrow, Auction Wallet, and Economy Controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Player-facing flow<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Players can list items from locked auction containers with !auction sell.<\/li><li>Bidders use !auction bid, with funds escrowed until the auction resolves.<\/li><li>Players can check active listings, watch auctions they are participating in, review auction history, cancel eligible auctions, redeem won or returned items, and withdraw auction wallet funds.<\/li><li>Help topics are split into sell, bid, withdraw, history, and watch so the system is discoverable in-game.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Auction wallet<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AWallet is auction-only currency handling. It tracks the auction currency item, supports wallet checks and admin adjustments, and keeps auction payouts separate from the regular bank\/wallet concepts. Seller proceeds can sit in virtual auction funds until the player withdraws them.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Admin and economy controls<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Configurable listing fees, cancel fees, max auctions per player, allowed durations, active-listing rebroadcasts, and help reminders.<\/li><li>Anti-sniping can extend auctions near the end, with a cap on extensions.<\/li><li>Admin commands can list, cancel, close, inspect outstanding claims, and report auction economy totals such as listing fees, cancel fees, and tax.<\/li><li>Won or returned items are deferred into redeemable auction claims instead of relying on fragile immediate delivery.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4a525d;font-size:0.98rem;line-height:1.6\">Credit note: Bad Neighbors is working from the great work of earlier 7 Days to Die mod builders, including the people who built and maintained the original ServerTools ideas. Some of these additions are new experiments; others are updated, more refined versions of ideas that have been circulating in the modding community for years. 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