Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Let's say that you want to have in-house manufacturing and sales of those goods, with a reduced price for your alliance/corp. You know that the one neutral guy hanging around is going to swoop in, grab the goods and re-list them for much more. I propose that you can set a minimum standing for the people that can see your goods when you list them.

What if people in my alliance/corp do the old switch-a-roo anyways? Well, since you can see who bought the goods, it's enforceable.

Opinions? Advice? Harsh realities? Has this been suggested before? Tell me what you think?

Yeah, but it isn't really as convenient as using the market. You'd have to make individual contracts for each item that you want to sell instead of making a bunch available to more than one person at once.

I think a better kind of solution would be to use some of the kinds of contracts that CCP are currently working on. There are some that would do exactly what you are talking about.

Say you want to sell ammo to your corp only at a special price, you can create a contract and make it available to corp and then corp members can purchase ammo at per unit prices specified in the contract, when you make the contract, the ammo goes into "escrow" and when it is exhausted, the contract is expired.

Essentially it allows you to have a secondary market via per/unit escrow contracts.

I think they talked all about it in the CSM minutes.

i think the OP is gunning more along the lines of coalition level marketing. as contracts have a possibility to be public / alliance / corp / personal. i think he's looking for a new level between public and alliance that can hitch hike on standings with which to propagate itself.

In lowsec and faction null you cant control who docks. A blue market would be a really good thing in my opinion because this creates a way for lowsec and fac null industry to better thrive. As someone who lives in the enviroments that this would be most useful, +1

meh...