Market Discussions

Manipulate the market so tgey have to pay twice as much for everything and sell stuff to pirate hunters for cheaper. That is how you pvp without firing a shot.

But if you trade in really poor quality lead, the bullet might not kill you.

Or you might just die poor ;).

Oh god here we go down the rabbit hole. Ok so then the guys that make T2 stuff black list everyone but there friends.
They gain a total market control of T2 goods. Really you want to give the goons that power?

Are you actually capable of deeper thoughts?

Let me explain, why i believe you're not.
At least not when you're pissed about something.

First of all, your mind completely ignored that this would mean that everybody can ban everybody else.

So ... as i gank people, more and more people will ban me from the market.

The end result, which is inevitable, will be that i can't buy stuff anymore. (unless i use an alt)

So, instead, i start building stuff.
Lots of it.
I can use alts to push this.
You can't ban me from mining or gathering salvage, you know.

I start building stuff and undercutting people on the market.
"Minerals i mine are free", although wrong, can be put to good use in this case,
so i start undercutting competition and ban you from buying my goods. (unless you use an alt)

Bear with me, this gets better. :)


So ... now i have pissed you off (again), because less and less people buy your stuff.

I can keep undercutting forever, as long as i can fund my alts.
Catch ? No.
I can easily PLEX any amount of alts by ganking haulers, (as i have alts, i have lots of cheap firepower)
preferably those who move stuff from the competition. :)
Stuff i gank with i can build myself easily.

In the end, i would ruin the economy completely,
because i keep selling stuff for under market value,
which leads to you trying to undercut me at a loss,
which will keep pushing prices downwards,
until you realise that although wrong,
"Minerals i mine are free" so i keep undercutting until you give up.


The explanation, why i believe that you're incapable of deeper thoughts,
(might be influenced by you being a baby that gets mad about losing stuff)
has nothing to do with the above story. At all.


TL;DR:

People can use alts. Although possible to ban characters from the market,
it's completely pointless to put in such a mechanic, as people can simply
use a different character to buy everything needed and hand it over.


This is *so* obvious, i guess i have blown up your mind.

Dont sell your stuff in lowsec :)

Then you wont be selling to -10 ebil piwates, you will just be selling to their alts

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The problem here seems to be knowing who you've sold to, so the most expedient solution would be to have the game not tell you.

Simply will not work, sanctioning people or corps won't work in an open market like eves

Okay, here's the real answer: You did not sell the goods to the pirate. You placed the goods in escrow with a brokerage service that handles the sales & returns the proceeds to you, minus their own fees & applicable government taxes. Said brokerage service is merely interested in making as much money for themselves as much fast as possible, which means moving as many goods for their clients as fast as possible, which means they're not interested in limiting their market by blacklisting people.

That's just how it works, and there's no mechanic otherwise, and as was illustrated by a few posters in this thread, such a mechanic would be pointless and ineffectual anyway.