I think that the auctioning ability should be open to everyone, if you think you've heard everything about this argument, just listen to these reasons to allow everyone to be able to use /auction. It would bring in more players, the ability to auction is a soul property of skyblock, it is nearly the only good way to get money aside from voting. Plus, most people who are looking for a skyblock are looking for a place that will allow them to sell stuff for good prices, or auction, and AEM happens to have niether of those things. I can understand that you are trying to get people to be social by lowering the sell prices to get people to sell to others, but an easier way to do that is auctioning. Don't just think of the benefit of the server, you also have to think of the quality of the games, it's not possible to have a bad server and be successful, there's only one of my friends who joined aem for the skyblock, and he still complains to me about auctioning and the low sell prices combination, but he stays because he's built such skyblock. Also, It would raise server income, if you're wondering, "wtf, how will giving everyone auctioning raise server income?" Well, here's your answer. since it would bring in new player, it also means new donor, just replace auctioning with another perk, like Selling and buying items for better prices, which would also lure in more donors and bring in more money for the server, allowing you to hire better and more developers to improve your games. It would also widen your horizon of games that you could create and claim them as aem originals. That is all
As much as I like your arguments, AEM runs on donations. If we made the auctioning perk public, less people would donate, because most get elite mainly for the auctioning. Plus, there would likely be too many auctions going on at once, since everyone is gonna want to auction stuff.
I appreciate and agree with all of the arguments that you have presented, but I also have to agree with enderlink in that, it would cause a flood of auctions. I have seen servers that only allow players to run 3 auctions per hour. Maybe that would help that issue. Aside from that though, you have to think of all of the people who have already spent money on the server just for this option. If auctioning was to become public, the server would need to create new perks that would be exclusive to the donors that would either be greater than or equal to the ability to auction.
A flood of auctions really isn't something to be worried about, the plugin comes built in with an auction queue, plus, the server can add an auction cooldown for non-donors, allowing them to auction, but only once about every 5 minutes or so would be a reasonable time, donors would have a zero second cooldown and could queue an auction right after theirs ended instead of waiting. Also, the auctioning feature being donor only is causing a lot of the new players that I have tried to keep on the server to leave right away and try and get me on a different one. I am simply thinking of the good of the server as a whole and how much I can provide towards the profit of the server, and I'll stand by my claim that making auctioning public would be a huge benefit to the server. Making auctioning public could draw in more potential donors, and AEM is already strong in donors, but bringing in more would never hurt. I realize that making it public is a gamble, but the odds are in AEM's favor. Making this commonly public command public in AEM Skyblock would widen AEM's horizon so much, and I'm all for the good of the server, and I personally think that making this command public will allow the server to increase profits and prosper even more
