Sector "Avarice" auction?

[Sarvi]

I keep getting messages that Avarice (former Unknown Sector east of Montalaar) is up for auction, current price 50,000,000 Cr (now up to 75,000,000). I had a look at the sector and it has a Pirate Base and Teladi Trading Station and thats all. No asteroids. Went to the trading Station - nothing unusual happened.
Anyone know what's going on? And why would you waste your credits on a useless sector, even if you could join the auction?



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[softweir]

If you won the auction then you would be able to rename the sector to suit yourself - and that's all there is to it! Not many people have won it as you might have guessed. If you don't win it a character called BurnIt! wins the auction.

[Dartje]

When does that auction happen ?

Thats a GREAT way to get my own sector!

[Mad Jock McMad]

Does the auction come up on the Bulletin Boards? Lot of money, but could be fun (The Python may have to wait!)

[fud]

I'd gladly pay 75-100M for my own sector.

If only...

[hobi]

The auction game starts after 7-9 days in game time. The starting bid seems to be 50MCr and it is going up gradually. It has been reported for patch 1.2 that the end bid is 1.5GCr (in number 1.500.000.000 Cr) by BurnIt. And BurnIt bought it .
The question for me is, has anybody found a way to participate yet? In BBS I can see only the current bid for the sector but no offer to place a bid. Also talking to that guy on board of the Transing Station doesn´t help, there is no way to place a bid.
Does this change later on in the auction?

Hobi

[henkbein]

...if you could join the auction?...

Afaik you need version 1.3.1 Beta or 1.3.2 Beta before you can actually make a bid.

[anima36]

would the teladi trading station disapear if you won because i want a sector to build a massive factory complex, was gonna use an unknown but a sector i could name, now that would be cool, but i probs dont have enough credits only a few million at the beggining of game day 7.

[bugatti]

...if you could join the auction?...

Afaik you need version 1.3.1 Beta or 1.3.2 Beta before you can actually make a bid.

wrong!!
in the german forumpart we have also the discussion about the auction and how it works.
3 guys got the sector until now, stormtrooper was the first with patch 1.2.1, dodafu and edgar playing with 1.3.
- you can make your first offer when the auction reach the 1.000.000.000
- you have to dock at the trading station in sector avarice.
- you must have a high trade-ranking (not sure how high)
that's the facts we know for sure, all other things about the auction and the renaming of the sector are still unknown.

[Lethal Mitch]

There was this post where Hardin managed to buy it.

http://forum2.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php ... ht=avarice

He was using the 1.3.2 beta patch I know but don't think thats neccessary.

[Stevo Primus]

So that means that you don't actually gat to name the sector! The max credits you can hold is 2 biliion so spending 75% of that on a sector you can't even name after yourself... bah! Perdition's End is a name that's already in X3 a la........

<t id="20000">Avarice</t>
<t id="20001">Perdition's End</t>
<t id="20002">Redemption</t>
<t id="20003">Legend's Home</t>
<t id="20004">Gaian Star</t>
<t id="20005">Prophecy Fulfilled</t>
<t id="20006">Magrathea</t>
<t id="30000">Spires of Elusion</t>
<t id="30001">Clarity's End</t>
<t id="30002">Weaver's Tempest</t>
<t id="30003">Senator's Badlands</t>
<t id="30004">Vestibule of Creation</t>

Better of running the Sector Takeover script, waging war, claiming space as your own and then renaming it like this...http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2254 ... ace8rz.jpg

Much more like it!

Stevo

[teki]

I can't find the trading station in this sector. Will it appear later i the game, when I have progressed further (new plot start 1.3)?

Is this common, that from the start of the game the trading station isn't there, or is this a bug in my game?

[SieurNewT]

Hello

What will change after buying the sector, will it increase the incoming attack or something similar, pushing the player to defend like with the sector takeover script or is it only for putting his name on the "sector owner" ?

[softweir]

So far as I know, the only difference is that this one sector will change name and that's it. No other change in behaviour!

[DoHi]

And I'm going to spend all my hard stolen credits on it because...?
(I really will)

[bendyspex]

Stevo Primus, I have been using the sector takeover script, but how can you change it's name and description?

[rizzo420]

Sector Takeover is much better, but you still can't name the sector. It's nifty to see that it's yours, though...

[thoggarth]

Not sure if it is any help or not, but I seem to recall that BurnIt! was a modder/moderator on X2. I guess that he must have provided the software given that he seems to be the default winner - perhaps someone should ask him what you get for it!

[EARTHWALK]

So now what? Spent 720 000 000 Cr in auction for Avarice sector... Is this really worth it? Got my HQ long ago so that not movable right? Is there any clear benefit from owning your own sector, except having to defend it constantly? Can some bot advise me please.

[pjknibbs]

Please don't resurrect old threads. (As for the answer to your question, owning your own sector is an achievement in itself--it doesn't offer you any particular benefits once you've got it).