Market Discussions

First MMO was SWG, got into crafting, it was amazing, items all had different stats so the "Brand" of the item was very important. You put your name on everything, everyone knew if you got a Malice weapon it was a top tier quality.

While all items are the same in EVE it would still be interesting to have a player name or possibly even a corp attached to a specific item. I am not a programmer, I am a project manager, and I know it's always easier in our heads than what it actually is. All it would take is a unique ID on an item and a name, especially if you just did it on ships. That couldn't make the DB run any slower right?!

As a long time crafter in MMOS, yeah I may not care about 95% of the things I build go. Lets be real, we build for profit, but it also becomes a labor of love. When you build your first battleship, capital, super, titan etc it means a lot. While you know who initially buys your stuff it's almost impossible to find out where it ends up. I mean how awesome would it be to see on a killboard WHO the ship was built by. I want to know if one of my beautiful ships goes down.

I've just never seen any discussion about this so I was wondering if no one else had this wish.

It is sad indeed, I believe even WoW has the crafter stamp on items.
It's because in EVE, the ships are repackaged to be sold in stacks in the market. They lose their identity and any stats they would have had in theory, at that moment they are repackaged and stacked.

We do however now have killmarks on ships (kills that the ship has done), since about a year ago. Someone else can maybe state if killmark-ships can only be sold on contract, or else they lose their marks. I suppose that is how it is.

It totally could. Items are packaged when sold on the market, anonymizing them. That way, items can be traded with few elements attached to the transaction : item type, number, price, seller, buyer.

If your idea is implemented, then each item must be tracked on the market on the database, and suddenly you're not selling a pack of ammo, but a thousand different items, each with their own property. Speaking as a database engineer, it would be a nightmare.

The benefit isn't worth the trouble.

Would not make sense in EvE, where things are build, transformed and destroyed continuously. All stuff is like ammo, build to be used, destroyed and replaced.