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Posted - 2008.08.26 20:03:00 -
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 Originally by: Ammon Skycloud
The eve online economy is by far the best MMO economy out there, but there is one thing that really irks me, undercutting warsą
DonĘt get me wrong undercutting your competitors in a free market economy is every ones right, but when it boils down to a bunch of traders sitting in Jita 4-4 refreshing their market view every 3 or 4 minutes and undercutting the other guy by 0.01 is it simply becomes ridiculous, and this simply because some traders donĘt have the patience to wait more than 5 minutes for a sale.
The fact is that there is more demand than supply of most items for sale in the eve universe and in essence the whole undercutting wars are not necessary at all, everything you put on the market will sell as long as your prices are reasonable, and I can say that because I do not take part in the undercutting nonsense, I post my sale orders, make sure my prices are within what is considered average, and wait. And everything always sells, some things take longer than others, but thatĘs fine I donĘt need the ISK that very minute.
So my suggestion is simple.
1.Increase the minimum time between market order changes, make it at least 24 hours and apply it to every change, i.e. if you change your price now, you can only change it again 24 hours from now.
2.Charge a fee/tax for changes to your market orders, this can be a small percentage 0.5 or 1%
3.Introduce a minimum change so that 0.01 ISK changes are no longer possible, make it a percentage of the total price or value.
This should be enough to put an end to so called traders undercutting by 0.01 ISK every few minutes, and stem the very slow but constant downward spiral of prices that EVE economy has experienced, face it when itĘs more profitable to sell the minerals you just mined than to build a ship and sell that, thereĘs something wrong.
And maybe this will have a slight effect on Jita, when you no longer have pilots sitting there refreshing he market view every minute or two
Tl;DR version:
Market PVP needs to be nerfed, itĘs silly at the moment and has broken manufacturing and production.
1.Increase the minimum time between market order changes, make it at least 24 hours and apply it to every change, i.e. if you change your price now, you can only change it again 24 hours from now.
2.Charge a fee/tax for changes to your market orders, this can be a small percentage 0.5 or 1%
3.Introduce a minimum change so that 0.01 ISK changes are no longer possible, make it a percentage of the total price or value.
Couldn't disagree more.
Competition is good for consumers. Manufacturers that cannot profitable make and sell goods should leave the market. Only the efficient survive. For most items, no one has the ability to exert market power (i.e., raise prices or restrict output).
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