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In eve a single player can sell an item on the market, it is only required for him to have the following item and to make a sell order. Now Image your corporation, most corp in eve are small. But some good corporation can have a medium of 100 to 200 players, and some even goes up to thousands.

Now what is the main goal of a corporation?
On my personnal opinion, it is a group of individual sharing a similar opinion and that wishes to help each other. You can ask much veterans they will tell you a good corp need good trust between the players.

Now that I have made an introduction to the subject lets head on.

What if EVE would allow any given role (or rank) player to place items into a specific corp hangar slot, and give each item a price.
-A skill book that you would buy on market at 1'000'000 Isk, could be processed by your corp for half the price and then sold on that sub market at 500'000 isk.

-A Cruiser that could cost around 20'000'000 Isk, can be processed by the corporation for much less and then resold to 7'000'000 Isk.

(Of course theses prices are false, I do not know the exact prices)

Using this tool, it can allow the corp to sell their manufactured product at a cheaper price inside their very own Corporation,

Now come of you might think, It is up to the corporation to make a system and distribute theses items throught out their members,
- First, on a corporation that as over 100 members it becomes difficult for the directors to coordonate everything and make it a fair price,
- Second, if a corp is realy small then it becomes even harder for the director to distribute their items, as many players wont be connected at the same time, for the same amount of time.

An other scenario would be a corp mate to buy everything at a cheaper price and then resell it on the market for a bigger price, Of course it is up to the corporation to controle their members, and as I said above, trust is the most imporant part of a corporation.

Also, Other might think, corporation will stop selling their items on the general market and only place the loots into their corp sub-market as it will benefict their corp and them at the same time.
- First, I believe that it is not true, the main way of making profit into EVE is my trading items for Isk, it is the base of the system, if an american buys something at is local shop, lets say he buys for 20$ how much does the US make profit? 0$. But if an european goes to the US for vacation and buy for 20$. The country make 20$ profit as this money was not shared between them, but brought from an other source.

The way I see it, the only way of making corp profit is by taking players item and selling it to other members of other corp.

I hope you didn't falled at sleep while reading this, and I give you my apologies for my bad english, as french is my first language.
Tell me what you think!

I believe you meant "INTRA" Corp (i.e. "within the corp") market, rather than inter-corp (i.e. "between corps").

anyway, you can already do this ... it's just more outside of the game mechanics to be setting the prices and such. Corp I'm in actually runs services to this effect for the people via contract. Yeah, it costs us 10k ISK per contract ... but it's a pittance really.

Apologies Velicitia, my english is not very good. But yes I did ment within the corp.

I have though of contracts, but there is a problem for them,
- They cost Isk to be done,
- You cannot make an "infinite" amount,

As for the outpost system, I like the idea and the concept but it cannot be applied to all corporations, and also to the corporation that does more low/med/high sec stuff.

And I do not believe it would be much work to be done, as far as my knowledge in programmation brings me.
CCP would have to do a simple category or group, within the current market, this group would only be shown using a certain feature separated from the regular market, pretty much like a shortcut on your desktop, but that shortcut is the only way to acces one file from the market folder.

Then the corporation could have to spend fees to have a hold into the market, pretty much the same as getting an office.

For the corp who gets the market, it is then created a space for them into the corporation category, a price could even be fixed by CCP or even, CONCORD taxes that would be applied on the items since no taxes can be applied from the corp. This would add a little more to the RP of EVE.

In general, there are realy many ways to modify and adapt this concept, but the only main purpose is to simplify large and small marketing into ones corporation.

I am definitely in favor of this. It'd be great. At the very least, CCP could add a new column in the market interface to tell you who you're buying from before you buy it. It really sucks when you go to buy that nice expensive battleship, only to discover that you just made a rival that much wealthier.

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