Market Discussions

players with no patience.

builders that don't calculate there profits properly, when all they are doing really is flipping minerals using the product as a vehicle.

builders that don't spread out there orders out and place 2300 of an item at the lowest price & update it regularly. (creating a un-intentional blocking order, which generally tumbles there own market)

Centralization of the whole games economy around 1 system, 1 station.

This isn't my observation, though I'm forgetting now where I read it. It basically goes like this: EVE is unlike a real economy because an invisible bank holds all your ISK and makes it available to you no matter where you are. This renders any legitmate bank like businesses moot.

Now if ISK was an item, and you had to carry it on you, and risk losing it, then we'd see a lot of interesting, realistic economic phenomenon play out. It would make banks that hold your money and move it securely for you viable businesses. You would see things like the EVE equivalent of Western Union money transfer. You might even see financial entities slowly evolve to the point where they trade derivative instruments based on ISK deposits, and then we could have their greed bring down the EVE economy and go through a galactic depression and blame the space 1% for our troubles.

Something like that.

confirming Varius's dong causes major lag and screws up the economy.

In the end, it's all about lack of coffee.
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The initial method of seeding T2 BPOs was flawed.

The implementation of the cartel breaking invention mechanic is clunky, unfinished and long overdue an iteration.

But the existence of strictly limited edition, premium priced items that give a small but worthwhile advantage in a narrow area of industry is very much a good thing in my opinion. They are one of the few things that an industrialist can aspire to once they have conquered the basics of their profession.

I would like there to be a few more things like that, preferably with a little more thought put in to their implementation and distribution.

PLEX

There are no problems, only opportunities.

Hi, im market manipulation, have we met? im pretty sure that's a no.

Just to many people can do everything or just short of it is all. if you had specializations that took years (like in RL) you could make area's harder to get to and less producers of products etc.

In this sense you could create long barriers to entry through extensive skills required for niches and such, however all in all this would take years and just **** people off and make new players have a very difficult barrier to entry for producing

Either way its a trade off.

Trying to buy from sell orders and re-sell to buy orders, are we?