HOLY SHIT STOP BIDDING ON THINGS ALREADY
THE BIDDING IS ALREADY TOTALLY RETARDED. 100% DERPFEST. PLEASE STOP.
Why the hell does it matter if scum get doc? Essentially that just means they spent their points on something that really isnt that beneficial to them overall simply to deny it to the town. It costs them something (points) which I'm sure they'd rather be spending on disruptive or just plain strong abilities like bus driver or roleblocker or extra nightkill.
Ok, let me explain the setup a little, since it seems people dont understand and are already making really poor decisions that could ultimately cost us the game. We have, as town, a collective pool of resources that we want to spend to collect as many abilities as possible. What we ultimately want is to utilise as few points as possible to get as many abilities as possible. What that means is outbidding a townie as a townie fundamentally weakens the town, forcing the prices up to no net gain for the town. In any sane mafia game, town outnumber scum, which means that chances are you are outbidding townies with each bid and actively hurting the town. Now, if you had information/reads that made you think that a particular bid was made by scum, then it would be good play to outbid them - but most of these bids are being made a) without you knowing who made them and b) at a point in the game where it is totally unreasonable for you to have any solid reads at all.
There are things we can force - in particular, its extremely powerful for us to
know
that an ability was taken by scum, as we can use this to force favorable situations in endgame. If we veto bidding on certain abilities for townies, we can take them out of the pool of abilities and thus strengthen the town. Abilities that are powerful for scum and weak for town we can save money on (not have to outbid scum for them) by taking them out of the pool entirely. If the scum bid on them, we know it is a scum bid and can either outbid or let them have it knowing that they have spent points on a certain ability. As such, I propose that no one should buy the Bus Driver ability (no one should have bought 100% nightkill on day 1 either, but that ship has sailed).
TLDR: STOP THROWING MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN RANDOMLY OUTBIDDING EACH OTHER.