A few days ago, I tried to buy out a Cadillac Limo at a auction early in the morning…It said I was successful and then the money returned…like nothing happened…is it possible someone bought out the auction at the same time and got the car instead of me or did the Auction House cancel the auction…is that possible…I have no screen saves or photographs of the incident…I had cars bought out or someone bidded when the screen flashes Ending Soon without giving me a chance to bid again or buy out …I am not that upset because I really want the Monte Carlo SS …not the Limo but I will take it if given the option.
I’m a games programmer, and it shouldn’t be possible to buy a car at the same time as you, that would be terrible coding, you would have to ignore a flag for that to happen. What you might have saw was that you were winning a bid, but hadn’t won the car yet then someone bid, and the bidding ended.
It can happen if you take lag into account. It takes time to register that someone else has bought it. Even if it microseconds, to a computer that’s a long time. So yeah, you could have bought it at the same time or slightly after someone else and took the system a second to catch up.
If lag were the cause everyone would buy cars at the same time, my XBox can go from 3 minutes to auction over in one step.