EVE New Citizens Q&A

Well if you need the attention

A very limited amount of things are sold by NPCs, primarily skillbooks and BPO's. They also trade in low value commodities of no real use or value to players.

This is by design, NPCs used to buy and sell a whole lot more stuff but CCP have since put that market segment into the hands of players

In the strictest interpretation yes, in reality? Not really.

Outside of skill books and BPO's NPCs have no effect on the market.

Very few people trade in the items that NPCs purchase, because those items are worthless.

Hahah no, taking advantage of people with too much money or no sense isn't griefing, it's good business practice; ask Apple.

No.
With the exception of skill books, BPOs and some trade goods (like soil, seeds and the like and some tags), every order on the market is created by a player.



Probably because they don't exist.



Since there's no such thing as an NPC price, no.

I put up a 1000 ISK buy order for items because there are no higher orders and people are willing to sell me the item at that price. If people didn't put up said orders, you wouldn't be able to sell the stuff at all, as there would be no one to sell to.

Also, those 500 000 sell orders may be too high. The fact that people put sell orders at 500 000ISK doesn't mean that items are being bough at 500 000 ISK.

Honestly OP you are either a troll and if so need to stay out of the new player Q&A section of the forums or don't have a clue as to how to post constructively.

I will say from this and your previous posts I don't think that eve is the game for you. I recommend that you go play something where the game designers will hold your hand and walk you through stuff and put soft padding on all the sharp corners so that you don't hurt yourself.

If you have a question post it as a question. The original post was uninformed and off base. However instead of asking a question so that you could better understand the market you just bitched about how the market was not even knowing how it was.

CCP has no interest in softening up this game for you. Players set the buy orders on stuff so that each player can determine what is "worth it" for them and what is not. If CCP put a floor on buy orders on stuff that was equivalent to the reprocessed value then no one would put up buy orders for the majority of stuff on the market as there would be zero profit in it for them. Also if they put a floor of say 20% under for example then places out in the middle of nowhere would not have any buy orders as the margin would not make it worth the effort.

I recommend that you read this CCP Falcon post and watch this HTFU video so that you can get an idea of what kind of game the devs want to make. Then I recommend that you log out and cancel your sub and go look for a softer game.