Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I dont understand this at all...........how is this different from manufacturer selling to buy orders?

Would make sense if eve items/ships would differ in some way from each other, like quality/stats, durability or visuals, so u can actually establish a brand and brand related marketing and brick&mortar retailing. As long as all produced items are 100% the same, fracturing the market by shops will only increase the shopping hassle, since all u want to find is the one shop that sells the cheapest. U would than simply use out of game tools/websites to find the cheapest shop.

Shops will work if the items actually differs and the shop owner has special deals with certain producers or simply specialize in cheap/low quality or expansive/max quality items. Shops could also sell exclusively brands like "Apple Stores" as example. In addition a more complex advertising system is needed for stores/products so price is not the only deciding factor anymore.

The only "working" examples of virtual stores i heard of are the shops in Star Wars Galaxies and Second Life, but like noted those only worked because items did differ from each other.

bye Andy

I would like to set myself up as a shop owner and gank everyone in the area who supplies other shop owners.

I'm not 100% sure but i guess the OP idea is to reduce the cut-throat market competition and reduce the price transparency or maybe she likes the idea of having to run her own small shop. Basically the same in reverse happens in the real world, small tech shops and larger shop corps, now directly have to compete with extremely transparent online shops and price compare engines. The only way the local store can survive is by diversity itself from a "price dictates all" policy/thinking, but like i noted no such thing is possible in Eve.

Yes, but adding advantages or incentives to smaller style shops wont collide with a sandbox idea :) I like the general idea to actually build deeper business and personal relations to my customers. The eve market is a extremely sterile and faceless area, its basically all about volume/price. I miss some more mechanics so it actually makes sense to build more business relationships, but this only works if we can diversify or products from each other.

Um, i was under the impression that one "M" in "MMO" stands for "multi-player" so my assumption is that more human interaction is desired in those games, but i could be complete wrong. There may be some rare kind of players out there who value human interaction, immersion and lore/story higher than efficiency and stats, but i guess than eve is not for those *pitty*.

I heard there is this crazy game out there called "Real Life", in this silly game people actually go into so called "physical" shops to buy things and i even heard they pay more than on the global market called "internet". They even speak with other humans to get those exact same items, while wasting there precious game time. So what can we do about those "stupid" peoples, since its obviously that they have no clue how this game should work?

I also heard the strange rumor that shop owners in big malls have to pay something called rent/fees and that this rent is higher at those big malls, compared to some out of the way local store.

Of course u could not add something similar to eve, common this would be just silly, why would i need to pay rent/fees to sell goods in a advantageous central trade-hub.