Market Discussions

Even if you only concern yourself with market functionality, without contracts you haven't got anything close to the full package.

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I am guessing I am space poor compared to most people here, and due to having a more casual schedule I like to trade in secondary hubs. I feel that this change will cause absolute carnage to my monthly income. I cannot see a Citadel taking over trade hubs, regardless of asset safety (hauling and relisting my orders sounds horrible).

Today, secondary trade hub players will sometime drive margins to smaller than Jita with many times less volume. These items are usually "ruined" for a while until some massive order comes through at an unpredictable date later. Based on this precedent, after these changes I have a feeling it will take months for the trading to adjust in these secondary hubs.

I am not sure why they don't see how the player's adjust to having Citadels, first, before they feel the need to introduce "sticks". I completely agree with Bad Bobby that feature parity needs to occur first.

I have no evidence to back this up, but I am guessing most trader's, like me, are fairly casual. Basically, I am not so entrenched in trading that I could possibly entertain the idea of doing Incursions on an alt instead (or setting up a bear hole, doing missions, etc). I would be taking my income from a pure sink to a faucet as part of this process.

If inflation is such a huge concern, it seems like they could lower the faucets through increased LP/items instead of liquid ISK.

I'm sure I've read somewhere that the un-anchoring of a citadel would take something like a week, I don't remember where

It will be a total mess anyway, I don't know how they are going to handle the fact that you can dock to some citadels but not some others, how will that works with couriers ? so many questions !

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Guild Wars 2 has combined listing and selling fees of 15% and market trading is a very active form of gameplay.

Needless to say that there is a lot of market manipulation involved both from whales and ArenaNet themself.

It depends on the broker's fee that the citadel owner sets. And that depends on competition from other citadels and even the potential for competition. Also, the prices themselves will likely change as well, most likely upwards...but the quantity purchased will also likely fall, so the net effect on citadel revenues would be ambiguous.

Might as well ask, how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

And that game had a barter economy when I used to play it. Small transactions used the auction house; large ones were done via its equivalent of our trade window.

What would they do, make taxes higher than Jita npc station? Hardly :)

Let me see, just playing with numbers here. 1% of 10 trillion is what?

How much ISK do the "major" powers earn off of things like moon-goo, POCO taxes, and so forth?

Can one group capture all of the HS trade?

Even if they did capture a large chunk would they raise prices? Might that not invite more competition and a new round of fights?

If such a "major" power is busy defending their HS income....wouldn't that leave some openings back home for an enemy to exploit?

These very same predictions were made for POCOs, that one group would take over a big chunk of them in HS and make tons of ISK and break the game, ruin the ecoonomy, etc.

Yet here we are.

Why is it there whenever there is a change to the economy the typical post is:

"You'll kill the game!"
"You just wrecked the economy!"
"You just handed [insert the villain du jour] an unbeateable advantage!!"

And yet....they never come to pass.

Do carry on with your predictions of doom and gloom...they eat it up on the forums just as they do in real life.