Suggestion for Auction

[Rick]

One of the problems with the auction this time is that it wasn't really
an auction. Since no one wanted to be left with the most money, whoever
had the most money just bid enough to beat everyone out on each item.
There wasn't a lot of actual bidding in the traditional auction sense.

Someone on one of the podcasts suggested that at the end of the auction
there should be a coin toss to determine whether the person with the
most money or the person with the least money should lose their vote.
Problem with this is that there might be ties for person with least
money since more than one person could have zero left. A better idea
might be to have some kind of challenge at the end between the person or
persons with the most remaining money and least remaining money. Loser
loses vote. Maybe this is where they pull out that gross larvae eating
contest or even the fish eyes - last person to swallow loses vote.
Anyone refusing to do it, even if more than one, loses vote.

[Brian Smith]

Post by Rick
One of the problems with the auction this time is that it wasn't really
an auction.  Since no one wanted to be left with the most money, whoever
had the most money just bid enough to beat everyone out on each item.
There wasn't a lot of actual bidding in the traditional auction sense.
Someone on one of the podcasts suggested that at the end of the auction
there should be a coin toss to determine whether the person with the
most money or the person with the least money should lose their vote.
Problem with this is that there might be ties for person with least
money since more than one person could have zero left.  A better idea
might be to have some kind of challenge at the end between the person or
persons with the most remaining money and least remaining money.  Loser
loses vote.  Maybe this is where they pull out that gross larvae eating
contest or even the fish eyes - last person to swallow loses vote.
Anyone refusing to do it, even if more than one, loses vote.

In the New Era it's not really an auction anymore.

I would be totally against forcing people to eat gross things as well a
coin toss. This is how I would change things. I would make the scramble
to find money even more important. The person who finds the most money
would automatically be safe from losing their vote. If someone found no
money they would would automatically lose their vote. During the auction
people should be allowed to work together by giving each other money.
This would make the auction a lot more strategic and possibly expose
and/or create new alliances. There would no more getting money back when
buying an item. Players shouldn't get screwed over by randomness. At the
end, the player who bought at least one item and spent at least 50% of
their initial money and had the most money left, would win an advantage.
So instead of rewarding wild spending, I would like to see them reward
strategic spending. My ideas are probably too complicated for the show
but I think they would make the auction a lot more interesting from a
game point of view.