Good ideas :)

Although I agree and disagree with the discount on bulk purchases, just think a lot more people would be running proto because they could save isk by buying in bulk

1. Nope. It doesn't add anything. It'll just make people buy in bigger stacks.
2. No reason not to do this. It should be a relatively easy change too. Just a little UI tweaking.
3. You want to buy in game items (suits, weapons etc.) from the website? That seems unnecessary and would take significant Dev time to achieve.
4. Nope. The idea of the daily login is to get people playing the game. Not to mention I could easily write a little bit of software to automatically log in to the forums for me.
5. I don't object to this.
6. I'm not sure about this one. Why not make it an option to have it either way though?
7. I personally wouldn't use this.

Alright, but the discount in bulk should not be enough to change buying habits from say militia to proto or even advanced to proto, the idea behind it is that you are ordering say 100 units of a product from a company. You have much more buying power and leverage then if you are buying just 1 unit. Examples of this in real life are, free shiping on Amazon when you order enough items to get over 30 bucks. Even local grocery stores use this, such as if you buy 5 or 10 of 1 item, they give you a discount, this is buying in bulk. Similar to if you buy a single soda can, it will cost you for a 1 dollar roughly, if you buy them in the 12 pack will cost you roughly 5 dollars (the not on sale price, usually they got for 3-4 dollars). By this example we can easily see the power of buying even in small bulk amounts, compared to buying items in the single amounts. If you want to get further down in the weeds, you can buy a 3 litter of soda for a dollar at times as well, which is in bulk but in a plastic version.

With people playing in proto that is going to happen anyways, due to the fact that a lot of them play in PC where they can make literally millions of ISK for playing 1 match. Saving a few thousand isk to them isn't going to matter at all, who it will matter to are the players that are trying to get into PC and those starting on the game or those who have isk problems.

I think it really should matter to anyone. If a corp has a single district there can be one to 3 matches (if the attacker moves in enough clones) on that one district in a day plus however many battles they buy clonepacks for. Now if the PC player loses too many suits he has a larger cost, one not easily replaced by running Pubs in between PC matches. The whole bulk buy idea isn't about what people would like, but rather the ability to lower the cost buy trading their guns/suits/equipment to the rest of New Eden. This would provide competition which can both drive prices up and drop the prices as well. The cost of the suits being set by CCP is the issue not the fact that there are a lot of people that can use them, and would during any pub match in addition to their PC matches.

Saying that saving a few isk wouldn't matter is not a well thought out statement, (1000 isk * 200 suits=200,000 isk) as we can see it wouldn't take long for the reduction in cost to show the reward of buying in bulk. Unfortunately this is not how New Eden's markets are setup. I expect you will never get this portion of your request (discounts) until we are able to set prices ourselves.

Actually the secondary market will work exactly like Eve Online's secondary market once it's fully implemented.

Sorry, no... there are no discounts for bulk purchases in Eve Online unless you know a friend who has a friend who deals with production guys.

Eve also includes PvE content which we do not have, many different markets in which to buy and sell, battles that can go into the hundreads of ships or more, actual meaning to nullsec, and many other things that Dust simply does not have currently. Maybe it's time that Dust has things EVE does not, considering you don't have one of your ships die every 1-5 minutes you can often times keep a ship alive for weeks if not months or more. Try keeping alive and actively playing for 2 weeks in Dust without dying more then 5 times. In short Dust begs to have a bulk sale market, where as Eve really doesn't, when based solely on how many ships will die compared to clones (not factoring everything that Eve has to offer....just to much to mention)

No. This is a New Eden economy we are talking about here. Once Dust fully integrates with Eve Online's economy, almost everything in the market will have its price dictated by the players only. If I don't want to give you a discount for my 30+ Gastun Forge Guns because I don't like you, then too bad. Deal with it. The only way you will get any discounts in the New Eden economy is when you personally know a friend who directly sells what you need. If not, you can try a different tactic... negotiate. If you can't negotiate, too bad. Deal with it.

That's a fact of life in New Eden... which you just stepped into. Just because you want a discount it doesn't mean everyone here has to give you one. Players in Eve Online have full reign on the prices and so shall we as Dust players. By the way, we'll have PvE content eventually as well. Those missions will likely involve fighting endless hordes of Rogue Drones that are the size of an HAV.

Welcome to New Eden. The harshest universe the MMO industry has ever seen.

If you disagree with the bulk discount, that's fine, but there are 8 other ideas up there, and all I see you doing is back seat driving and saying what can't be done and what will come out "soon", choose one to comment on and expand upon it or make up your own idea, and I understand that "eventually" this will integrate with Eve, but for now Eve and Dust are two exclusive games and will continue to be so for probably another year at least. The faction war changes might help, but till they basically add another half or 2/3 of the game the day that Eve and Dust have anything really in common are very far apart.

If you completely disagree and can find no common ground with me on any topic or make a suggestion of your own, please go comment else where.