EVE General Discussion

Hey, I played a game called Endless Sky. Its singleplayer (and free open source), but it has an amazing trade system where you can buy and sell commodities at any station. They are different prices at different stations, so you can make tons of money if you find a good trade route and exploit it.

I know eve has trading already, but not in the way I described. I'd like to see a new market window, where you can buy different types of commodities (plastics, food products, clothing, etc) which have no use to the player other than to sell at other stations and attempt to make a profit. This could open up an entirely new play-style, where players get the largest cargo hull possible and trade between stations, no player contracts required. Maybe lowsec could have higher prices than highsec, encouraging players to go into more dangerous zones to sell their goods. At the same time, these new players would make excellent targets of pirates, and areas where things sell the most will become heavy pirate territory. So corporations will evolve to form massive merchant fleets that trade between star-systems, with several military ships for defensive purposes.

Wow thanks for the constructive criticism!

*facepalm*

I see. Wire in a cash cow to gin up that much needed ISK PVP seems to just DRAIN out of the wallet. No need to mission. No need to mine/manufacture/market. Just collect up an ever growing pile of seeded items .. like plastics or, Fedo furs ... and in a matter of an hour or so, PRESTO! You've got that billion you've always known was
out there waiting for you!

Now you know what "Uhhhhhhh.....No" means.

Trading to get higher prices is doable if you know how and where to seed things, obviously move away from hubs, there are many systems that are under stocked with basic stuff, ammo, drones, even shuttles, mining stuff, etc.

If you seed in the region that Jita is in and your definitely over 5 to 10 jumps from Jita they can see their prices so price accordingly to be competitive yet higher to make a few more ISK cause most don't want to make lots of jumps, some need the item quickly, while others cannot step foot into Jita because of the camps.

Anyway, you can in general price your stuff about 15 to 20 % higher and it will sell because of those reasons I put.

Back in good old days before planet mining. There was such a solo npc trade system i made my first billion hauling on routes like that.

Today is much better you have the same option but on a player driven platform., you Can manipulat the prices or Take advance of the lazy quick selling persons out there

Must be noted that the EVE forum is filled With "persons" that failed kindergarden and lack the skills to behave properly