I'll keep it Short and sweet .

Basically im suggesting that CCP adds the ability to sell your items that you have, Such as the stuff you get from the battlefield .
Add a feature on the side bar under market called Scrap yard, Salvage front, Black market , shadow market or even somthing as lame as the Bargain shop.

They could allow players to sell the weapons gained and salvaged from battles for half the market price

Basically it's very complicated ... but giving us the option to sell stuff back into the void would leave us with only the assets we actually use ... and then when they open up a player trading market in DUST (not connected to Eve yet) nobody would have anything they wanted to sell ... As it is now, we're all building up stockpiles of things we'll want to sell and we'll be able to populate a market properly when it's implemented.

6th: The blueprint naming convention should change for Dust equips. I like that BPO's provide unlimited items and BPC's are temporary, but if Eve pilots will manufacture Dust goods, then make BPO's and BPC's unusable by Dust (though still sellable to other corps or to their own eve pilots) and have them be used by Eve pilots to manufacture the Dust goods. Make BPO's a really rare salvage and make BPC's as a common salvage item for all item types or a battle reward for winning. Possibly make these blueprints only drop in PVE contracts or FW contracts. As far as Eve side manufacturing goes, make each production run produce 100 (or whatever number is best suited) of that particular item. Make the resources required be planetary products or minerals that are not too expensive to use for manufacturing in EVE. If a member of your corp gets a BPO rare drop, then I guess consider that corp to get a nice sum of isk or be permanently set in that type of item.

some kind of industry could be a little fun, but not something I'd honestly look for in a FPS.

I can't see that ever happening with the fact they've sold BPOs for hard currency for the very specific purpose of infinite item-use for players.

Also,


This fact it's just a FPS is part of the problem, because it's a horrible FPS and it can't compete with other ones. If it had some variety of PvE missions, industry/science management, etc. - then the game could actually be set apart from it's peers that don't aim to do anything like that. Whether or not you personally would want to participate in gameplay outside of shooting people is ultimately irrelevant, much as people playing roles you're not interested in in a game like WoW or EVE would be.

If the game is sold as a "larger world" sort of deal, but the only part of that world we touch directly is "shoot people...LOL", then this game should be buried now. Things like economy, exploration, factions, etc. can differentiate this game from other online shooters. It's a bit silly to suggest that "you need to be the kind of clone wired for a capsule not a dropsuit-user" to get involved in an economy as well.

We need to be on the same level as EVE players with capabilities as far as social/economics go to be relevant as something more than a mini-game. The basic difference between the two should be: one fights on planets, one flies in space. Obviously, we'd need to add trade/industry based skill trees for any real parity.

I'm exited by the possibilities of Eve-Dust market interaction, and allowing players to set buy-sell orders would be much better than direct trading. With direct-trading you have to expect excessive local spam - and worse, team chat spam - "Hey, can anyone hear me in team-chat? Do you want to buy some Thales?" You'll still get that with an integrated Eve type market, but the incentive for public advertisement would be significantly reduced (I hate advertisements & salesmen).

There are lots of problems with the Eve economy, and those problems will spill into Dust 514 when they are linked. With all of the media excitement and rhetoric regarding the professional economist - they produced some fantastic economic reports (always worth reading) - but CCP stopped it, and stopping it was a fail on CCP's part. I think it was due to some knee-jerk worries that honest statistical reporting would be a PR problem if it showed something 'bad' like negative growth. It may have also showed that the virtual economy had fundamental flaws, and exposed direct manipulation by the creators (its a game after all) and the players (just like the real world - not all actors are logical).

A free market can be ruined by bad actors. Obvious problems, like the sacrificing of Eve wealth to permanently finance your own Dust MERCs have no obvious solutions. Hundreds of billions of isk would definitely break the feeling of isk profit and loss that adds significance to your MERC's choices and actions. Alternatively, Eve traders with vast wealth may decide to buy out all DUST market goods - literally cleaning out the markets and cornering Officer weapons - not for honest free-market price-jacking, but simple trolling.

This is all to say - the free-market is complicated, but linking them doesn't have to be too complicated. If I was assigned to find a solution, I would compare the average Eve player's ISK/hr income and Dust player's ISK/hr income. I would then scale the DUST player's income up to match the Eve player's average ISK/hr. Increase all other Dust market item prices by that same factor so that everything basically costs the same in terms of ISK/hr. I would enact some rules to prevent griefing - keeping NPC suppliers (like now) to set a base price for goods, major taxes on Eve ISK to Dust ISK transfers - 95% or higher, and isolating Dust 514 Officer goods to Dust Merc buyers only.

ISK should flow out of Dust and into Eve, because Eve is a natural fit for production and sale of consumables.

Edit: There would also need to be some mechanism to prevent economically broken sell orders posted as a means to circumvent the ISK transfer tax - so 1 million ck.0 suits don't pop into the market for 0 isk in the middle of the night. A minimum sell order price set by the devs.