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Posted - 2009.01.15 01:02:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Explorer
Originally by: Rodj Blake
I'd like the ability to ban my enemies from buying my stuff whilst giving discounts to my friends.
If they can put that sort of functionality into Storefronts, I'll be a happy bunny.
To give you more insight into why we pulled Storefronts:
Two of the initial goals of Storefronts were to allow players to easily get expert fitted ships, all in one place. In the analysis we determined that the "expert fitted" part would not have driven traffic to Storefronts since players could have just viewed the offers to get fitting ideas and then bought everything on the market, but there was no real dissemination of ideas. So we are working on other ways to solve the "how should I fit my ship" part. The "all in one place" was valid but we were not happy with the implementation and there are other ways to address that part that would be more elegant.
What we discovered in the development process is that players wanted more something along the lines of "members only" stores for corps and alliances. For example, being able to not sell to their enemies, or sell corp or alliance members ships at mineral prices (possibly even in exchange for minerals and not ISK) but to others at full price.
The first paragraph reads like a Flavour of a month fit that would probably get nerfed 5 months later, and the second paragraph is like...you think, or you've had replies that imply corp members don't talk to each other.
As a CEO (not the best or the smartest but I have a great team who enjoy playing the game so it's nice to log in) - Storefronts represented the ability for a small corp to display their wares and rare finds. This could lead to two things obviously war decs but apart from that it was where empire "only" corporations that didn't have alternative characters in foreign parts to fund the chance to promote themselves to any party that wants to buy e.g researched bpc's or a pve fitted command ship or whatever.
In brief - Storefronts COULD allow the new players to see which corp was active and clued in on the goings on in EVE, be it those that sell stuff and those that buy from the same few corps/alliances.
Damn wall of text, I'm sorry and it may be wordy but I needed to write it, hope you take it on board and realise the fullest extent it COULD be used for. Yes a public purchaser list why not? |