EVE General Discussion

simple thought, adding an option to your buy and sell transactions, to only buy and sell to people with standing you choose. a way to end some of the high sec issues from ganking and wardecs. people will change on their oan if they can no longer buy ships, ammo, and modules from the people they have bad standing with. and if they cant sell the stuff they stole from gate camps and hicg sec ganks.

I support this, I'll happily sell to those you won't.

poor wardeckers and gankers!
they have families too!

how can you deny them some rice not wanting to trading with them
you're a monster!!!

This seems like a lot of programming time for something that won't have much of an effect. My Jita alt isn't in corp, so anyone who hates Horde with a vengeance will still be selling to me.

really, are you that narrow minded you can only see your point of view, people make alts all the time for many reasons, it does not mater, you cant see the point of a 100 man or more corp not selling to people there at war with, supply is half the game, if you have to do all your buying with an alt and fighting with another, i was thinking of a creative way to apply more control from the supply side. an option for others. or you can go back to your insults if it makes you feel better.

I'm a high volume forum poster that regularly shares fits and tactics for mission running, yet no one ganks me, no one war decs me, no one tries to ninja salvage me, no one tries to disrupt my LP markets, or seems to bother me in any way that I've noticed. I'm also an active trader and builder. I'm very much in the group you are describing, and imo it is probably the easiest it has ever been.

The reason why no one bothers to bother me as far as I can tell is that I let people know I don't care if they do these things. If someone ganked me I'd probably send them a mail saying congrats on being the first. It also helps I keep my fits to be of a low enough value that it just isn't worth their time to come gank me. Also I can run all my business ventures from a station with the use of courier contracts so I really don't care if I get wardec'd.

i don't care abut loosing stuff, it's only stuff. i was thinking of raising the importance of the builders and miners, just a new aspect where the small corps and the larger corps can make a difference without relying on combat, some people like to pvp, that's fine, some enjoy high-sec ganks, that's cool too, it is a group activity, the game is meant to be played many ways, i just see the value in this idea... would just add a new strategy is all i was thinking.

I know a few "hardcore" builders and miners, people whom have no interest in PvP (of the explosive kind) whatsoever....They wouldn't touch this idea with a ten foot pole.
They take selling stuff seriously. They sell to whoever is willing to pay.

I honestly wonder who in their right mind would use such a mechanic? I very much doubt there would be enough takers to justify the development time tbh.

I think that, assuming it was well implemented, this would be very interesting.

It doesn't matter that it can be bypassed - that's just an example of BAU "EVE anti-logic": for some reason we have a game with an average age wikipedia claims is over 30, yet a collective belief that "if it's not perfect it's useless" is a sane argument ...

... or maybe they're not irrational at all, but forum-saboteurs using "dirty tricks" in an attempt to shut down a discussion that doesn't suit them.

Of course people would prefer not to sell war materiel to their enemies, and should be able to make that choice. This reflects RL practice reasonably well. Similarly, in EVE as in RL, there will be individuals or organizations that sell to both sides, and individuals who are formally aligned with one group, but are prepared to sell to their enemies.

And since it's always possible for a powerful "combat-biased" Corp to align with, or build internally, an effective manufacturing organization, there's no chance it leads to the "merchant princes" shutting down PvP in EVE. It does, however, have the possibility of simulating (to some extent) interesting real-world interactions between economics and military power. Anyone who cares could take a look on wikipedia at the history of the Hanseatic League to get a feel for one side of that interaction.

It's up to CCP to decide if t would be difficult or expensive to implement, not a player. Back in Real Life, you start by doing lightweight assessments of everything - the idea, its possible benefits, technical costs, marketing implications, etc - then you have enough information to decide on whether to do a proper "feasibility study" or not. Nobody serious in IT gives the "code-monkeys" an early veto on new features - it's guaranteed commercial suicide.

You can already do this. Set up a structure with a market module and use the access list to allow only people you want to trade at your citadel.