How to increase Gas Used by Transaction

[vipulshah2010]

Hello,

I am using this library to perform transaction:

var transaction = {
data: xyz,
to: abx,
value: 0,
from: My_Address,
gasLimit: 450000,
maxFeePerGas: ethers.utils.parseUnits("500", "gwei"),
maxPriorityFeePerGas: ethers.utils.parseUnits("500", "gwei"),
};

My transaction is just using 9.94% of gas, and it fails.

I checked the winning transaction from another party, and I see his transaction uses more gas than mine.

How can I achieve the same thing in my code? I am new to crypto :). I am trying to understand. If I explicitly set gasprice, I get the following error:
eip-1559 transaction do not support gasPrice

Thanks in advance.

[ricmoo]

You are likely wildly overpaying for your transactions, and should read EIP-1559 and research the fee market a bit to determine the best way to prioritize your transaction.

The amount of gas used is not relevant. That indicates their transaction consumed more resources, which makes sense; if they won, there were probably additional values set, checks done and contract calls made.

I am not familiar with your contract, but the logic of winning is part of that contract; your transaction may have failed because there were constraints not met (insufficient value, unlucky timestamp, etc.) or because their transaction got mined first, possibly because they were part of a bundle, or because their transaction was picked up by a miner first.

It could be a million different things, and you will likely want to look through the contract and possibly the documentation of the service you are interacting with.

Does that make sense?