EvE Financial System

[Sienna_Massilia]

@Sienna_Massilia

@stefnia_Freir

Then you need to have a fixed material cost, eg with NPCs buying stuff.
At this point, you can also have fixed cost for all things. Then YES you can have meaningful collateralized loans

Lots of things can be done towards it if there’s a will.

@stefnia_Freir

Also the “item material cost” depends on a lot of things. base BPO ? ME10 BPO ? ME10+rigged structure in FW area ? ATM there is no intrinsic minimal mat required (even though there is practically one) so this kind of process could lead to later abuse

There is abuse in the game now. I don’t think that’s a good excuse to dismiss something out of hand because someone somewhere somehow may abuse it.

@stefnia_Freir

That’s actually why I made that proposal

Off to reading it

@stefnia_Freir

Price randomisation

This is the same problem as above, but a different approach. Instead of adding a tax, we make the price of the order be changed depending on near other orders.

Idea

The main goal is that if you try to cut, then you may fail.

The goals are :

• The more other close orders there are, the higher chance of variation
  so that placing a second order to cut has more chance to fail.
• The closer we are to other orders, the higher the chance of variation
  This means that if you are on the edge of “being close” you have lower chance to be have a change
• The bigger the other orders, the more likely yours is changed
  This avoids small orders spamming

So I read your ideas and I admit I only understand about 70% of the post, not enough to have constructive criticism, but I do like the idea quoted above.

Things would have to be shuffled for sure in order to work out Collateral based on game items for isk so we could have somewhat of a logical financial system for N.E but again, I have absolute certainty that if CCP wanted to do it they could.
EvE’s financial system as it is today isn’t the result of organic exchange between the empires, capsuleers and pirate factions ( I assume they build and sell as well otherwise why would they have mining fleets? besides the fact that the game developers manipulate the ecosystem to benefit their bottom line ) but purely the result of real-world economics and business practices. It takes away immersion and castrates the Lore.