Assembly Hall

I wish I could say that this was an original idea, but I can't. I actually thought about this after reading Mabrick's blog here: http://mabricksmumblings.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-carebears-need-isnt-protection-but.html

As in industrialists being able to set pricing based on a person's red/blue/neutral standards. I think this would be a great way to give Market PVP a new dimension, so long as there could be some identifier as to who the seller is when you are looking in the market.

Here are some (and only a few) theoretical scenarios:

Scenario #1: BillyBob Ice Miner mines ice out of a remote region of space. He gets ganked by Pirate Group A. Pirate Group A lives nearby and has a couple POSes set up for their own nefarious purposes. So, BillyBob sets them to red, and marks up all red ice costs by 200%. Because he is the only ice miner in town, Pirate Group A has to decide whether or not to buy at the higher rate locally, or transport it in. Pirate Group B, has many more POSes in the area, and decide about getting blue status from Billybob. Billybob like Pirate Group B because they don't harass him, and sometimes they help him out too. So, he gives them a 10% break.. he still makes a profit, but he figures he's getting a good deal. And they know they get that discount from Billybob because the market tells them that Billybob is selling that ice product to them at a 10% discount.

Scenario #2: Mr. Greedy, who keeps on buying everyone's items that are for sale at the only nullsec station in the area and boosts the prices up 300%, is suddenly marked "red" at the individual level by one of the local traders, Miss Conscience. Miss Conscience doesn't like the fact that Mr. Greedy is buying all of her low priced goods that she brings up to sell to her comrades, and marking them up, so she adjusts the rate for any red to 1000%. This puts Mr. Greedy in a bind as he has to decide if he wants to start moving product directly, or lower his prices to a more reasonable level, or to just leave.

Scenario #3: Mr. Bad 'Tude doesn't like Goons after they blew up his precious Retreiver back in '05, so he sets them all red and marks up all the goods he sells in a Goon frequented trade hub. Mr. Bad'Tude has a multitude of alts and because of some well done sales and marketing, is nearly as rich as Chribba (yeah, right). With those riches, he targets multiple NPC null-sec, low-sec, and High-sec stations used by Goons and begins to buy up all the ammo and gun modules and resells them for 20%+. The Goons, seeing that the prices of items have gone up substantially, must decide to either manufacture their own, truck it in from somewhere else, make piece with Mr. Bad'Tude, or kill him over and over until he lowers his prices.

I'm sure there are a multitude of possibilities and options.. something just perfect for a sandbox game.

I like..but on the whole I think it could seriuosly cause complications with the system already in place.

But being able to restrict the marketpalce to say..your corp...or the alliance...would be a major boon.

+1 major support regardless.

+1

Nice idea, but may make it a little complex, but it does make sense. Like Drake said the best idea so far is to be able to sell to Public, Alliance, Corp or standings, that would be a nice thing...

Well, that is a good point. A neutral alt could purchase the local goods at the standard price, getting around the red mark, or..even better, a blue could purchase them at the blue price and sell it over to the red at the reduced cost.. plus a fee..

What dastardly friend would do such a thing? Really? In a game like Eve?

Still, I think as many posters noted, it is certainly something to discuss. If there is a better option LF9000, please feel free to elaborate.

the point is "clearance" to purchase said items requires extra effort/status.

In 0.0 allainces...this is a major benefit to staving off the ####heads who love to frak the market over.

this is overkill compilicted.

If people want to use alts to get around things...so be it...point is this propsoal makes its bloody difficult without extra effort.

Just keep it simple...standings permissions much like PICO's.