EVE General Discussion

I voted yes, but to keep it on the forums, as selling characters helps to increase forum traffic. I'm sure that there could be some way to improve the bidding mechanic within the forum software.

I doubt you would be shut down as long as the actual trade was still conducted through the forum. The rules around the actual transfer of characters would need to be as strict as ever but an external site to help finalise a price would be fine.

http://www.evecharactersearch.com/ is fantastic for anyone looking for a character btw.

The character bazaar is a cluster f*ck. Using a forum section as a market? What genius dreamed this up? Then, a spam rule...don't "bump" your post for ever so many ... I tell yah. I put a toon on it. Endured it for three days, then derezzed the toon.

Even if the Character Bazaar was done away with, I am pretty sure the ability to Transfer Characters between account for a price would remain, thus allowing for something bazaar themed to rise from the ashes

I believe I saw something mentioned about doing that from a CCP source, but I don't see it happening any time soon.

From a purely pragmatic perspective, CCP would be shooting themselves in the foot by removing the hundreds of thousands of dollars in transfer fees that they currently get. And from a player perspective, pre-made characters will always be cheaper than the equivalent made with injectors.

There's the long route to gaining SP using only time and implants. The instant but expensive route with injectors. And the middle ground of letting someone else train for you and buying that character on the bazaar for a reasonable price.

They all have their place, in my opinion.

Mr Epeen

I am glad this topic was brought up. The system that i am coding is very limited in what you can actually do to modify the data. Other than a Ad Title and Description, and the starting bid and buyout prices, the users will have no interaction the actual data. Actually, those four values will be the only data that the seller will be able to write to the database except for the API Information for the Char being sold at the beginning of the process. The ability to scam will be almost nill. The validation will be tight, you must be able to provide a very specific API Key in order for the system to work. This rules out former Corporation CEO's from using you Full API Key to try to scam the system. We do not accept full API Keys. The system does not use Eveboard either so that CEO trying to use that method has be X'd out as well. I wrote a script that does the same thing that Eve Board does utilizing a very specifically formatted API Key because I do not want ANY suspicion as to what we are trying to do here.

As for the trading of real world money. I have no control over that. The system will not be coded to accept real world money at all except for possible donations for the maintaining of the hosting account. That is all.

These are just few of the things that the system has the capability of doing. I will be request Tester within the week for some dummy transactions to see what the overall opinion of the system is. From there, we will see what happens.

If i have not addressed something, please let me know. Thank You

Since prices have rose to parity with SP injectors it seems useless now.

I suppose for very large SP trades there will be a small market due to less diminishing returns.

Way late on tools for the Bazaar I'm afraid.

Thank You. I do not have any experience with skill injectors right now, but from what i have heard, it is a lot more expensive to the go the skill injector route. The ONLY benefit I see from that route is you still have a pick over the name and look of the character as opposed to not having those options when purchasing a character

Hi David,

Please note below is purely my personal opinion on the matter and not reflective of ISD's and/or CCP.

As a prolific historical user, abuser and multi user of the CB both in my gaming career and now in a moderation position I believe there are many aspects that could certainly be improved upon but given the current systems inherent link to character information and forum we are in a bind as to possible improvements to make.

It is certainly an interesting idea and would love to see what could be done but i would highly recommend that you fire a support ticket a GM's way and get a feeler for an official CCP response here! (note rule 10. "Posting of private CCP communication is prohibited.")

Best of luck!

I'd wager character bazaar will stick around as a cheaper way of selling a large amount of skill points. Moving 100m SP via extractors is a whole lot of $$$ on AUR to CCP. I've never used the bazaar but I believe the transfer cost is 2 plex, which is much much cheaper than all those extractors.