Alberio
Lone Star Exploration
Lone Star Partners
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Posted - 2011.11.18 00:09:00 -
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I was thinking about Player-Owned customs offices earlier, and realized that it could be expanded to something more:
Player-owned store fronts.
My initial idea is a customs office like array which basically acts like a local market hub. The owner/corp loads it up with items, and players can then purchase goods (or sell goods) directly from there into/out of their cargo holds. Rights could be assigned, to control who can purchase from it, and maybe further taxation can be assigned. The market array may be set to 'visible' or 'invisible' on the market browser, allowing either a public storefront, or a more secret, black-market front for those in-the-know.
Like customs offices, these could be attacked and destroyed by hostile parties.
Another way to do it might simply be to make it a POS array, and only people with the right privs to access the POS can use it.
The way I see it working is something like this:
You anchor the store front.
Set it up to be 'hidden' or 'visible' on the market browser. Also set up the access privs, and tax rates.
With items in your hold, you set up sell orders. You may set them up as 'personal', 'corp', or 'alliance'. Items leave your hold, and are stored within the array.
Accessing the array opens up the market browser for the array. Purchase your item as normal. The item is moved to your cargo hold.
Set up buy orders, if you want. If they are filled, they are stored in a private hold, similar to objects stored in a customs office.
Buy and sell orders in a "Hidden" storefront are only visible at the storefront itself. "Visible" store fronts appear on the market browser as per normal.
I feel this would be useful for setting up corp-level stores for reimbursements, ammo, etc that corps usually sell to their players. It also could create a small market within distant areas, like deep null or WH space. Furthermore, it could be cool to see some seedy, black markets appear in Empire, of some pirate corp selling boosters and pleasure slaves out of their POS.
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