Tres Farmer
Gallente Federation Intelligence Service
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Posted - 2007.12.01 17:09:00 -
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 Originally by: Kiithnaras
Yes, this idea is entirely without merit and purpose. They should lynch the person that came up with this idea. Total open-market on illegal goods is a bid by someone in the SCC to make money.
I would say that the idea that makes most sense is to prohibit open sale of goods where sovereignty and security status would deem it "confiscated" by that faction, even if it is faction A's station in faction B's sovereign space. Also, even if a sovereign space considers an item legal to trade, it can not be traded at a station in that sovereign space if the faction of that station considers it illegal.
Best examples of this would be the hotly-debated Slaves and Boosters. Slaves would be legal to trade nowhere except in Amarr/Khanid space, and you could not trade them openly except in Amarr/Khanid stations. Boosters, on the other hand, would be legal to buy or sell on the open market in low-security systems where they are below the threshold for confiscation.
As with many of my ideas, specifics of this thought are open for tweaking and discussion, such as a deviation from the trade threshold.
Originally by: Laramon Questor
One of the things I love most about this game is the rich Roleplaying background of EVE. This is seriously a step towards metagaming and increasing the profits of traders instead of what it should be (as it already is). Black Market traders no longer will have the same experience they have now. As to was said before about not having to use the functionality, that is false. If the feature is there, then people will use it, and those who relied on the old system will have to use it or die off as a profession. This is unacceptable.
I liked what Kiith said about making items legal and for sale only if they're under the threshold of legality in the region you're in, and only if the foster station is okay with selling the product. No Minmatar station would sell slaves, no matter if it was in Heimatar or Domain.
Quit catering to the masses. I spent 3 years in this game learning to work with the systems that made EVE unique. You managed to pay the bills when you only had 20k people on at a time, you can surely do that now. If EVE turns into WoW, I'm gone; simple as that.
This!
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