Viewing post #1026129 by Weedwhacker

Horntoad said:

That still doesn't make since. Let's say someone joined my swap on day 5 of 7. My dibs increase by 4 per day, so it would be, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 for a total of 60 by day five. The person that joined on day 5 would get 60 tickets but everyone that was there at the beginning got the same 60, but had 4 days to pick over the better seeds before the late person. As far as coming in with only a few packs, unless controls are added to the host control panel the they can do that now from the beginning of the swap. I'm not sure how hard it would be to code be it could be done so that anyone joining late would start with that days number rather than the total. So using the above example someone joining on day 5 would start with 20 not 60.

I seem to be having trouble getting my mind around this tonight... but actually I still am not all that keen on having the incremental daily increase in the number of dibs. Does the setup allow a host to specify a certain number of dibs daily -- say 5/day -- that just stays constant? Maybe I'm just overthinking the 'possible' ways to abuse the system, but it seems like having such a large number of dibs after just a few days somewhat encourages people to go through the list of available seeds at that point and scoop up everything that's left, which, while fair according to the rules, somehow does not seem right to me.