Dev asked for possible resolution for the auction controversy, I provided one that I feel is the fairest.
If you disagree, present your own solution.

Around 2.5 BTC

An example for the second case, because it's a little more complicated.
Lets say that someone would have won two lots, 5 and 10, for 0.6 and 1.2. Thats  1.8 BTC total, but he was outbid with lot 5, and won lot 10 for 1.6 BTC in the overtime.

Without overtime he would have won 15 stakes, for 0.08 BTC per stake. With overtime he won 10 stakes for 0.16 per stake. You could give him 20 stakes for his money.

So essentially he would need to pay the same money he bid, but he would get stakes based on how much a stake would've cost his without overtime.

If his winning bid was less then what he would have paid without overtime, then do the above, plus offer him additional stakes to buy at that price.

Here are my two ... Nodes.
The overtime effected the various bidders negatively two different ways.
Those who lost because they were outbid in the overtime.
Those who won, because they also bid overtime, but would have won other lots and/or at a different price without it.

I think the most fair resolution would be allowing ppl from the first category to buy a lot that they would've won if no overtime for the price they bid.
As for the ppl who paid higher then otherwise would have, or got less stake, they could be compensated with more stakes for their money.

You would need to assemble a list without the overtime and compare them, it shouldn't be too hard.

I'm afraid it's not that simple. It's not just about the chance, but the stake amount, and the price.

My real problem is with Cassie to be honest. She took my investment when she were already fully aware of the problem with Justin. I invested (the second time) 0.75 BTC into the site that Justin said will be launched next day. Not in development, done. I even posted about this before investing.
Cassie sent a PM with Bitcoin address a few hours later. She did it this way, because she knew already that Justin scammed her. She knew she will not be able do deliver, yet she continued to collect money for a site supposed to be launched in days, without saying a word.
She sent out (probably not just to me) PMs to people who said wanted shares then presumable after they paid, she annonced that the site fall through.
Now that is the definition of scam.

Yeah, I just tried a few days ago. No dice.

koop4u themself stated that the timer was overrun. Any big after 161 should not count. As others stated, people timed this, and was counting on sniping. This is the reason I was insistent on a precise time for auction end.

I was in the shower when time come to bid, because forgot about it. But I set an alarm for 23:50, so I can bid.
But to be honest, I was sure this is gonna happen, when new bids come in over time, this is why I continued to bid.

I can live with this outcome, but to be honest, I'm not too happy, because it's not the most fair outcome.

BTW, devs, if you are about to launch anyway, would you accept escrow for the auction payments?
We pay it into escrow, you get it after launch. It would make me feel better for sure.
I'm willing to pay the escrow fee.

It should be.

It's funny. I'm getting the same amount of stake by accident either way, the question is for how much.

That would be the right thing, as was stated that the timer matters (not the betting system).
But we will see if self interest wins.

Countdown was till 22:55, not 23:00.

yep, there were some bets after timer ended.

You should sleep in.
Did you compair the other networks traffics at that time? Because I'm pretty sure that is the slowest time of the day in every cypto. It's beer run time on Bitcoin exchanges.

That's true, the forging calculator should include NSC.
It would be fairly simple to get the current price of NSC and add it to the calculations.

That is all true, but as transaction number increases, fee will be lowered. Fee will be 0.1 very soon.
I'm the first to encourage anyone and everyone to invest in Nxt, but doing it purly for forging profit is a recipe for disappointment. Classic miners mentality won't work in Nxt.

edit: I made a post about the forging for network security yersterday, I think it's also relevant here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=639819.msg7192186#msg7192186

http://www.mynxt.info/forging_calculator.php

Simply put, you will not make decent money forging, it's not what it's for.

yep. Well, some. Had one originally, bought 2 more, one more max at around 14000.

It's pretty pointless to even try to enforce the 2 stake rule, or even having it.
If only 2 stakes per account is allowed, people will simply transfer assets to another account before cashing it in.
If this is monitored, and forbidden, people will transfer nxt to another account and buy from different accounts. If Nxt movement is checked to prevent this, people will fund Nxt accounts from exchange, and use those to buy stakes.

The 2 stakes rule is incredibly easy to game, and very hard and time consuming (impossible actually) to enforce, therefore, pointless.

I think it was asked about four different time to provide a time when the auction ends, so far no reply. I'm not bidding any more until I get one.