What auction strategy can get me the item with the least rupees spent?
Auctioning in this game is weird. You have to mash A to fill up a bar that will let you bid. If you bid high enough, it looks like the other bidders are stunned for a time. Is the best strategy just to wait until there are 5 seconds left in the bid and stun everyone? Will that make you get the item for the cheapest amount of rupees?
What is the ideal auction strategy?
Best Answer
According to recent speedrunners of TLOZ: The Wind Waker, the bidding works as follows:
- If the price is below 20 rupees, no amount of rupees can stun the crowd.
- If the price is 20 rupees or greater, a bid 50% higher than the current bid will stun the crowd.
- If the price is 40 rupees or greater, a bid 10% higher than the current bid will stun the crowd.
Stunning the crowd is almost always the most effective way to keep the price down, as the NPC's usually bid 3 each time and usually happens 2-4 times in the amount of time that a stun would have lasted for. Bidding enough to trigger the stun ends up costing less than the raised price would. Once the price is above 40 rupees, make sure you mash the meter almost all the way to the end to prevent bids completely from the townsfolk.
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