I was honestly hoping this post would get a bit more attention. I am not sure this type of idea is even on people's radar when it comes to the growth of this game. A lot of people are more concerned with how poorly the game is put together to even think about this type of content being added. Or, it could be that they are so used to seeing the quality of product we have had to endure that something like this is just a pipe dream.

I really think this idea has a lot of potential to help the game in may ways. It would be interesting to read some other opinions pertaining to this subject.

What about you CCP? What thoughts do you have on open market and Industry? Let me guess...we are working on it...or coming soon TM? I'm just messing around. Seriously, some feedback would be great.

It depends on who your trying to reach. Quality or quantity ? I find it interesting. In fact I'll bring it up on my show tomorrow night in which your welcome to join. Mostly Longstride

First I would start with manufacturing nodes that can be used by the corporation and individuals. Skills could be created that allow players access to a certain amout of manufacturing nodes within a station. Stemming from that could be skills that effect the manufacturing times, the materials needed for productions and the amount that can be made in a single production process.

Corporations in PC could benefit from having their districts set for a specific structure which would add manufacturing nodes their members can use to increase their production or the corporation could produce items for their membership. This of course would most likely require the addition of corp hanger access in Dust 514.

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I was honestly hoping this post would get a bit more attention. I am not sure this type of idea is even on people's radar when it comes to the growth of this game. A lot of people are more concerned with how poorly the game is put together to even think about this type of content being added. Or, it could be that they are so used to seeing the quality of product we have had to endure that something like this is just a pipe dream.

I really think this idea has a lot of potential to help the game in may ways. It would be interesting to read some other opinions pertaining to this subject.

What about you CCP? What thoughts do you have on open market and Industry? Let me guess...we are working on it...or coming soon TM? I'm just messing around. Seriously, some feedback would be great.

These type of features add so much to the game. It is very true that something like manufacturing is extremely complex. especially when looking at the Eve model. One thing more then any other is that the game needs content outside of the everyday grind of the lobby match system we currently engage in. Adding content like PvE and starting with a simplistic form of item development are points of growth into new areas this game can be involved in.

We already know the potential this game has to expend to great heights. There just needs to be a focus on things outside of the normal routine. We as a community need to think outside the box of an FPS game and see what Dust 514 can really be. That all being said, a project like this and PvE could bring new life into the game for new and old players. The concepts I am suggesting are simple enough to implement fundamentally. In conjunction with an internal Dust 514 open market and manufacturing items from salvage picked up through matches or PvE content it could turn the tide of this game in a very positive way.

This caught my eye. CCP should stop with the isk generation and start with the item generation. No waiting game on pc districts to make billions.

Take over a district
Make dropsuits/guns/modules
Sell it
Supply and demand will determine prices.

If they leave the regular market... then obviously the player made items will be sold for cheaper or used for their own corp. (Leaving the default market is probably essential as we don't want ae controlling 100% and controlling who gets guns and who doesnt.) But if you want cheap guns? get up and make alliances. meet people, make deals. If your too lazy. The regular more expensive market is there.

I think there should be benefits such as dust mercs being able to find more rare materials easier than eve pilots but eve pilots can manufacture things twice as quick so it encourages integration.

I'm being very vague as I'm really high, I think for getter integration we need dust and eve to rely on each other a bit and to gain more out of it than otherwise. Players need a reason to integrate, merely having it as a more time consuming option isn't reasonable.

I also like where the ops idea is going.

One additional benefit of expanding the Dust economy like Eve Online is the implementation of a niche gameplay that not that many people know in the FPS genre. Marketeering.

In Eve Online, due to the flexible nature of the free market, there are players who make hundreds of millions of ISK every week or month (depending on how good they are) without ever undocking from their station for months at a time or almost never. You'll usually find these people in systems like Jita, Amarr, Rens, and Dodixie. But mainly in Jita and Amarr.

Imagine seeing this in Dust where players make massive profit without even leaving their merc quarters. But keep in mind that marketeers is a HIGH RISK with HIGH REWARD gameplay by itself and it doesn't need CCP to manage it when market forces alone will keep in check. This niche gameplay is why it's called a niche because only those players with a very good marketing skill set can pull it off like that while trying to do their best to avoid the high risks I'm talking about.

I have dealt with marketeers for months and I can tell you that's not easy at all especially when you need to invest a lot of capital (between 300m to 500m ISK just to start) and train up a boatload of trade skills to cut down on broker fees, taxes, and expand your reach on remote buy/sell orders. You also have to try to gauge the market on which items are the top movers and which are not and that requires investing in commodities that can potentially end up being nothing but junk to you and you can't make any profit with it later on. The value of the commodities also fluctuate from day to day so your top movers might one day end up being junk the next day or week so you have to constantly be on the lookout and diversify your portfolio.

Is this basically like day trading stocks IRL, or is there something significantly different about it?

One additional benefit of expanding the Dust economy like Eve Online is the implementation of a niche gameplay that not that many people know in the FPS genre. Marketeering.

In Eve Online, due to the flexible nature of the free market, there are players who make hundreds of millions of ISK every week or month (depending on how good they are) without ever undocking from their station for months at a time or almost never. You'll usually find these people in systems like Jita, Amarr, Rens, and Dodixie. But mainly in Jita and Amarr.

Imagine seeing this in Dust where players make massive profit without even leaving their merc quarters. But keep in mind that marketeers is a HIGH RISK with HIGH REWARD gameplay by itself and it doesn't need CCP to manage it when market forces alone will keep in check. This niche gameplay is why it's called a niche because only those players with a very good marketing skill set can pull it off like that while trying to do their best to avoid the high risks I'm talking about.

I have dealt with marketeers for months and I can tell you that's not easy at all especially when you need to invest a lot of capital (between 300m to 500m ISK just to start) and train up a boatload of trade skills to cut down on broker fees, taxes, and expand your reach on remote buy/sell orders. You also have to try to gauge the market on which items are the top movers and which are not and that requires investing in commodities that can potentially end up being nothing but junk to you and you can't make any profit with it later on. The value of the commodities also fluctuate from day to day so your top movers might one day end up being junk the next day or week so you have to constantly be on the lookout and diversify your portfolio.

Note: It is extremely likely that the vast majority of Marketeers doing this are either real-world economists, accountants, brokers, daytraders, etc. who just so happen to have a keen eye for tracking money.

if ccp were smart, since eve pve is so terrible they would start by overhauling that system and integrating it with dust pve and then slowly introduce dust to the pvp side of eve in a manner palatable to the the eve player base, creating lore and mechanics that could eventually give dust mercs true power on the ground and make them vital to eve corps economic bottom line.

I just want to bump this once. I really wish there could be some sort of feedback from a Dev.