Market Discussions

you mean having a npc entity buy/sell goods near a new patch/expansion to keep a stable price on something?

if so, yes? there is always that ability, but why would they want to? one of the stated goals that CCP has, is a player driven economy. and as such they are moving more and more things entirely into the players hands. Creating another NPC entity that sells things is counter to this goal.

Player driven (PDE) and generic brand economies (GBE) might be more plausible as a single philosophy if the PDE fell below a particular level. The GBE marketplace generally would become an auxillary market that deals strickly in discounted indexes of both PDE and GBE bid activity. In essence, the corporations would supplement the GBE while CCP tax incentives would be offered to corporations for participating.

CCP is an impartial entity. CSM and ISD would be procured to do the actual manufacturing and official business. Both of these entities would provisioned to participate in market campaigns but with the condition of generic brand exclusivity; they would not be allowed to compete against PDE corporations. Product indexes and ISK would still fluctuate, but not be totally depleted for more than 48 hours without a direct matriulation order from CCP. Regional and ethinic productivity would be credited based upon GBE volume and other incentives.

Either way, the concept is viable under regulated conditions and the tax incentives for alliance members would defray any question of ethics. Price stabilization is not the argument, stimulating market growth is.

You might find the Market Discussions forum is more appropriate for such a thread.

Having not taken any econ classes for more then a year, can you use smaller words?

Would not having any ISD or CCP brand be pde competition?
Any non player seeded markets are opportunity for players too seed, would not then the ISD or CCP brand goods be competition for anyone that wanted to open these markets?
Or as it seems to apply to established markets, you want a npc entity to buy and sell goods to create a stable module/item pricing?

I am still not sure what exactly this influences.

Either way you are not clear in what you are attempting to discuss.

Generic branding isn't an economic term as such it stems from marketing - a generic brand of anything does not have the "value add" created by an established brand. A brand being, loosely, the "mindshare" that a company has for a product in a market.

For example, Coke is a brand. Pepsi is another brand. Cola, is generic. This becomes even more clear for generic drugs versus branded drugs. Typically, generic drugs are much cheaper than branded drugs since they are, usually, a reverse engineered duplicate of the original.

Given that you are mixing up terminology and are trying to use big words (using them incorrectly I might add) and in the process aren't saying anything I am failing to follow what you are trying to do here.

As such, please provide some clarification on what it is you are trying to say.