Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.05.18 14:41:00 -
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We still need a Player to Player market for selling salvage
ISK and Items are stored server side.
 Problem: The UI is client side.
 Solution: Then donGÇÖt put the UI on the PS3. Put the P2P market UI on a secure Web site. Make an E-Bay/craigslist/kijiji for New Eden. This has the added advantage of allowing people to play the market when they are at work. 
Problem: With DUST mercenaries and their stuff scattered throughout the galaxy in 48 different systems, how do you handle transporting items when you buy/sell them?
Solution: Digital Tokens. You donGÇÖt own the physical items. You own Digital Tokens which gives you the right to use an item of a specific make and model.
Background on Digital Tokens:
One of the great advantages of the new immortal solders is that an experienced solder can be downloaded into a combat clone anywhere in the galaxy in an instant and be ready to go. But that leads to the question of gear, which is transported the hard slow way. The clones and gear have to be available on the Warbarge to be used in battle. Clones are standard, but gear is not.
Corporations did not want to pay for high end gear on top of what they were paying the immortal solders to do the job, and wanted to implement cost effective standard fits. But the Immortal Solders, these Mercenaries that took the CorporationsGÇÖ ground combat contracts, felt they knew better when it was appropriate to use expensive gear to get the job done. They did not like being told what fits to use, and many refused to take contracts that restricted their fits.
The solution was the Digital Token system. A Digital Toke gives you the right to use an item of a specific make and model from the inventory of any Corporation you are working for. The Token is exchanged for the item, and if you donGÇÖt lose the item, the token is returned when you hand in your gear at the end of the match. If you salvage and item, you hand that item in as well, and receive a Digital Token in exchange for that item.
The life cycle of a Digital Token starts and ends with item retailers. When a item is manufactured the Company then sells a Digital Token for that item (Adding a new item to the galactic inventory, allows you to also create a Digital Token). The Digital Token can be sold for ISK, but the physical item can only be exchanged for a Digital Token for that exact item.
When a Company stocks a Warbarge, they buy Digital Tokens (if they donGÇÖt have the Tokens they need already) for any items that Mercenaries might want to use, then they exchange those Digital Tokens for the physical items, which are loaded into the physical inventory on the Warbarge. This is a very large initial investment, but once the Warbarge is fully stocked the Company will not need to buy any more Digital Tokens, because every time a Mercenary used an item from the Warbarge inventory, the Company owning the Warbarge gets a Digital Token in exchange. When the Inventory gets low, these Digital Tokens can be exchanged for the physical items that need to be replaced.
If a Warbarge inventory ends up with too much of an item, due to that item being turned in as salvage more often than it is used, the Company can transport the item to a Salvage dealer and exchange the item for a Digital Token. The Digital Token can then be sold on the open market.
This system allows Mercenaries to pay for their gear ahead of time, and then have full access to any gear in the Warbarge inventory that they have already paid for, as well as insuring that the owner of the Warbarge gets reimbursed for any items you use.
It also means that you can buy and sell Digital Tokens instantly anywhere in the Galaxy without having to worry about transporting items. The Item transport is handled behind the scenes by the big Corporations, and is something that front line Infantry donGÇÖt have to worry about.
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Velociraptor antirrhopus
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.05.18 15:30:00 -
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That's gonna cost CCP money to set up a new UI. I think they're just about done spending money on Dust. I've been hearing about the "player market" ever since I joined the game last year, and I sincerely doubt it's going to happen. I even got my hopes up when the rumors spread around after 1.8 dropped and people were trying to sell me preordered blueprints.
And I think you're thinking too hard about the Eve side of things.
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
3402
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Posted - 2014.05.18 19:59:00 -
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It might cost too much to design this for DUST, except for the fact that it could also be used for Legion. Just because Legion will actually have a market in game, does not mean it is not worth being able to access the market when you are at work and can't log into the game.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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