Ruffles
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Posted - 2003.07.07 13:35:00 -
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Sadly the market isn't truely player driven, like any other game you can only get better items from killing mobs/pirates/etc.
DAoC was a little closer to the mark, making player made equipment have a higher quality value, which then effected damage, armour, etc. This did give the player made items a more unique element to them which was an advantage. Sadly, more and more cries for free drops from mobs of better quality negated that effect.
If player manufactured items had an advantage over dropped loot, then there would also be a demand for it. Hell it even opens another potential research skill option.
I still think if player made stuff had a quality difference, not just a price difference (after all free, even though those people don't perceive the cost of the ammo/dmg from a fight, still wins over buying an item on the market).
When there is a demand, not just NPC's, but real player demand, then things will be better. Also, when trade routes, and supply and demand flow cross regions, things will also be more interesting. The lack of market information across regions, and the lack of longer haul runs being more profitable then short runs does tend to lead to similar trading patterns.
I agree with another post. Very high reward trade routes should come with runs into 0.0 space. But there also needs to be something out there to deliver to, even a very very basic space station with next to no services. It still provides the element of risk.
Sadly, until space stations are buildable in a resonable time, it will still be months before enough exist in those regions of space to warrant trade. Even then, thought come to mind, that if the corporation can afford to build it out there, then won't they have their own traders doing runs of required items. Hell will there even be consumables for space stations to warrant a need for trade? Would smaller space stations not be more useful to the market in that more people can build them, but also that means perhaps all resources were expended on doing it, that trade requires out-contracting?
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