Industry's not broken beyond repair but it needs some much needed fixes:

1. Remove Tech 2 BPOs
Nobody can compete with that guy that has an uber researched tech2 BPO and can produce stuff without the need for a pos, pos fuel, laboratories, invention jobs, datacores, a vast number of BPCs and other consumables. If you can compete, you will gain far less for a way greater effort. This removal is needed because players that have joined eve since 2006(?) can't obtain these tech2 BPOs via a game mechanic.

2. Ability to create a shopping list in-game
Please add this so we don't need to create a google docs spreadsheet with what we need to buy, etc. If it can be corporation shared that would be great.

3. Embargo
Let us see who we're selling, from whom are we buying. If we don't want to help a corporation/alliance, so be it.

4. Ability to buy/sell from a specific market order
The current mechanic allows bots to do the 0.01 isk games. You put the item up for sale at 100 million isk and some bot puts it in the next 5 seconds to 99.999999 million. If i want to buy from the 100 mil guy, let me do it.

Markets are not entirely anonymous; especially on the retail level. Sony can charge a premium for the electronics because those items have a higher utility to a larger segment of the market; even though Toshiba has ta very similar QC record. The same holds true with their stock. As for raw materials Bethlehem steel is better than AHMSA , they both stamp their stock and charge accordingly.

Maybe Eve markets should be anon, but your argument about RL materials being anon is not entirely true.

And the function of markets is to maximize utility not value. Utility is a subjective valuation that varies from person to person. If someone is bothered by decimal pricing they may well be happy to pay more for a similar product, hence utility has been maximized.

If the idea of non anonymous markets in Eve bothers you it might be better to just explain why it bothers you personally. Rather than misrepresent easily verifiable facts in order to try and support a position.

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real market isn't exactly anonymous.

Maybe what should happen is that the consumer markets in eve should be separated from the investment markets. As it stands now they are the same interface. But it would be kind of neat if there was a difference; consumer markets could be set up to simplify and expedite the process of fitting ships and gear while the investment markets could be be given more tools for estimating things like future costs or transport expenses.

Regardless of the homogeneous nature of rl commodities those items do list source and transfer points for purposes of transparency and safety. Eve goods are also homogeneous, that fact in no way precludes the individualization of those items with specific information about source and history. In fact it would make the game a richer more interesting place. That by itself is enough reason to consider implementing such a thing; but the added bonus of allowing traders and manufacturers more options for interaction and conflict makes it a great idea that should be implemented.

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