Actually, no, I meant that by 24 cards, the bid is overkill enough that the biddee should have auto-buyout. See Dragoon#'s thread to see what I mean.
It shouldn't be up to the biddee
at all. That defeats the entire purpose of being auctioned off.
If players were allowed to choose whatever Element they wanted, it would be vastly different from the way War works -- and that would be fine. But then there would be no auction.
And even though that's not how it works, it's already unnecessarily possible for players to choose sides by being a Loyalist. But the fact is that there's no guarantee of which team one plays for -- and there shouldn't be. The 24-card rule completely undermines that.