EVE New Citizens Q&A

Does anyone else think people camping on items with ridiculous buy prices is nonsense?

E.G. 500K Isk item sell price and "campers" with buy prices of 1000 Isk or less

At least put in a floor limit of some kind to stop this practice.

This isn't the case in trade hubs like Jita, Amarr, etc. You have a few options. You can create sell orders at whatever price you think is competitive, you can hold on to it and haul off to a trade hub, you can refine the stuff and use the minerals to create ammo or something. Any one of these choices will require specific skills to be trained if you want them to be profitable in the long run.

There's also nothing stopping you from putting up ridiculous buy orders. Perfectly valid.

Nope.

If I want to attempt to sell something at an inflated price I can, if someone wants to buy it for that inflated price more fool them. The same goes for buy orders, most of my income comes from reprocessing modules that sell for considerably less than their mineral value, if people are daft enough to sell them to me for the price I offer then that's their lookout.

Which part of the words sandbox and player driven market did you fail to comprehend?

You kidding? It's not just a feature, it's a selling point of the game!

(pun not intended)

Too bad, would have been a great pun.



WTB pun for 0.01 ISK

Why should the floor price be set at the recycle value?

You completely fail to understand the market system.

A floor price set at recycle value means that CCP would be forcing a bunch of players to BUY at that value, from you. I sure as hell wouldn't create market buy orders at the recycle price.

NPC buy orders, you say, to buy your junk, like every other game has? That just injects ISK into the economy, and they specifically got rid of all the NPC buy orders 5 years ago (it used to be like that), because too much ISK in the economy. That's why a PLEX costs almost a billion by the way. PLEX used to be 300k, but everyone has too much ISK nowadays. Just not you, sorry.

As a second point, I love getting crap for 1000 isk and recycling it and making a few million. Took the initiative to set up the orders. Nobody else took the initiative to 1001 isk my orders to beat me. So why shouldn't I be able to make money off the laziness of those who click the sell button without looking, or those who don't care and sell anyway?

NO to bottom prices and NPC orders to buy junk. I want to profit by setting those orders myself.

Seriously?
You are either trolliing ... or this is definately NOT the game for you. If these things make you so upset that you need to post on the forums about them you are probably not going to enjoy the game much.
I thought you were informed by the community what kind of game this is? Or, that you did your background research on what kind of game this is. Or both.

Is it not true that the NPC has a market and it manufactures items??

Is it also not true that these items affect the buy and sell prices??

Why hasn't anyone talked about that?

Is it not also not true that if someone didn't camp on an item then you can sell at the NPC price?

Price griefing??

Hmz,

I'm already looking forward to your next thread about why a sandbox-feature should be turned into a themepark-feature.

NPC's only have a "market" in that you can buy things from NPC's with loyalty points (LP). Players then either use those items or sell them on the open market for isk at player determined prices. Also, as mentioned, skillbooks and BPO's are another NPC market, but that is also manipulated by players moving those items from areas where they can be easily bought from NPC's and selling them for a small profit.

NPC buy orders were removed a long time before you and I got here.

You've only seen the tip of the iceberg in market PVP.