Player Features and Ideas Discussion

A simpler solution that would achieve most of the OPs goal would be to simply add corporation and alliance market tabs. You wouldn't be able to list the same thing for different prices, but you could list one stack on your corp market at a reduced rate and another on the public market at a higher rate. Perhaps people involved in faction war could have a separate faction market.

Of course, this doesn't fix the spy problem Lyris raised, but nothing really will without making funamental and game wrecking changes to EVE.

to the OP

What stops me, your enemy, from creating an alt and getting him into your militia, and buying all your cheap stuff.

what stops me, your good old friend in the militia(not an alt of your enemy) to buy out all your cheap stuff and melt it, either myself or with my alt.

you *assume* that everyone blue to you is your friend. it might be the "general" case, but that makes spies even more uber dangerous.

an alliance has a stockpile of ready-to-use cheap mods and fits for anyone with standing 10.
all the spy has to do is get comfy enough and get that standing, BAM, you clean up ALL the market orders, make a HUGE markup profit to fund your ongoing(or future to-be) war.

So now you need roles - the ability to buy from market orders done by your corp.
and to limit the amounts of transactions you can do at a cheap price. either limited by volume of isk or items.

for example- you might want to sell only to individual users, not to bulk buyers - so you can now think about limiting the amount a pilot can buy to 4 per day(that's a HUGE hassle, impractical and broken).

this is all fun and games on the meta level of jita, but on smaller alliances/corporation wars it can be a mess.
The amount of micro-manage on said orders would have to be insane to make sure no one "accidently" gets the standing to do so.

And again to the OP - you're playing the market game all wrong, the enemy keeps buying all your stock? good, dump loads and loads of ships into said station with various alts at various prices, you MUST BE ABOVE MINERAL PRICE, or anyone and i mean anyone would just buy and melt it. if the enemy wants to drive your ship prices over 50% of their regional average, that's fine. you're still making money. it would be much simpler to just give isk to the people who buy ONE thrasher from your alliance at the inflated price as compensation.
when your enemy is stuck with 1000 overpriced ships he can't sell, you won the market pvp.

*unless you think all your militia members are one big happy family - in which case. meh.*

And I've no clue why you keep rambling about selling above mineral price. I am doing so. So stop bringing that up.

I do not think you understand the proposal. We should be allowed to deny sales to certain individuals or entities as we see fit. As it currently stands, you just throw something up on the market and only find out who's buying from you after the fact. Let us use the anecdote of a lemonade stand. If I am selling cups of lemonade for $1.00 and you buy five units, I gain by $5.00. Excellent, great. But say I only had five units to begin with, so I'm now out of stock. Next you set up your own stand and resell at $1.50. You suddenly profit by $2.50, and you weren't the producer of the product! Now, this is a smart move on your part. However, now that I have observed this activity I would logically no longer sell to you so I can secure my place in the market.

In EVE, you can't do that. You cannot choose who to sell to, or rather you can't decline a sale to a competitor/enemy.

Today the Rens manipulator miilla bumped Hurricane prices up to 65 million isk. She has also manipulated the drake, stabber, tornado and hulk prices. Again, this is a needed feature for a free and fluid market. This is a common sense solution to the problem of total market control of the ridiculously rich.

Sounds like a good week to ship 'canes to Rens for a profit, but I still like the OP.