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Rebellion Against Big Irreversible Dinks
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Posted - 2009.07.14 17:03:00 -
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 Originally by: lacretia
The system isnt broken. The eve marketplace inst modeled after ye'Olde auction house in WoW/FFXI/LOTR...nor is it modeled after Wal-Mart.
It is modeled after Wall-Street lined with barbed wire and land mines.
The problem is on Wall-Street if someone comes to you and you quote him 5 times more then what someone else is offering, the broker doesn't turn around and say - Here take the amount I quoted you and go to this guy and buy them there for the quoted price I gave you.
Because that is exactly what happens here.
I've always disliked this "feature" of EVE because in the toted "Free Market and Economy" this is the single most controlling feature of them all.
Imagine if the market in EVE was converted to real life, there would be all hell breaking lose all over the planet within minutes.
How the devs justify it is out of unspoken pure laziness rather then any real reasoning behind it. Because it certainly doesn't stop ISK seller that's pretty clear so why have it this way.. You simply don't.
You know the ONLY thing, the very very very only thing that make me change my mind is even a more simple market system based off EVE's concept.
"I want to buy x number of items and my high limit is y price, and/or z amount spend"
I want to buy 50,000 standard missiles, I'm willing to go as high as 35,000 ISK per unit, but I only want 50,000 of them, buy all my missile at whatever price you can (Go from cheapest to highest) and stop when I get to 50,000 units.
It then goes out and pays from cheapest to highest 50,000 missiles but I only pay what they are selling for.
Personally this is more n00b friendly so it reduces that steep learning curve, and it makes it considerably more simple and easy to use all the way around.
The system they have in place doesn't even benefit scammers in this way, it benefits the "Cheapest" seller. It's probably the most contributing factor to 0.01 ISK Wars in the game. Why CCP have a system in place that forces market campers to camp heaps of orders every 5 minutes loading up the database with useless records is beyond me.
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