There is nothing saying that it couldn't be capped, something like "no more than a 25% increase/decrease per week" or who is to say that the inflated prices on the market increase the NPC corporations profit margins which allows them to increase pay somewhat?

It is far from a "complete feature" at this point, but there is no need for you to be such a negative nancy about it.

Just keep in mind supply vs demand.

So you're looking at one side of the equation... demand. As demand for an item increases, at a constant supply, its price would naturally increase. Your idea would, in theory, simulate this to some degree.

but... what about supply? In any market structure, EVE's included, if the demand for an item continues to increase then the market will react by (eventually) producing more of that item.

In fact, items with extremely high demand, end up saturating and the price goes very low as a result. People will produce for less per item profit if they can push massive volumes.

A good example would be the store we all love to hate... Wal Mart.

This idea goes the other way as well... as demand for an item plummets.. the price doesn't necessarily plummet as a result. Most producers will just stop producing it and the few that will, will produce in limited runs for high per-item profit at lower overall revenue due to lower volume of sales.

This is also why you have 'trade hubs' in eve and why the price for most items outside of those trade hubs is higher.

How would you simulate production changes and variable supply into this model? It could become very complex (and not worth the time to implement) or it could just be something a third year economics undergrad could write up in a day... hard for me to say/know... I'm not an economist.

The first thing we should ask is 'how does this affect new players?', they are the lifeblood of the game.

Most of us would simply shrug off the extra cost or just keep using aurum.

What about new players?.

What is the actual point exactly in implementing a mechanic that simply keeps vets cosy and screws newer players?.

The prices going up wouldn't affect new players?.

It wouldn't be a market either. Just a mechanic where x weapon is being used x amount, do therefore it goes up x amount.

It wouldn't be a market.

Except in dust, us vets would never care about a price rise so its broken from the get go.

I hear what you are saying but its only new/newer players that will be affected by this, we will continue spamming and directly affect those players with a slice of laughing at them.

Yeah, I don't think it should include aurum items. That would not go over well if they suddenly increased dramatically in price.

It would just come off as a money grab.

Besides, I think that the fact aurum is actually correlated with real money brings an aspect of risk that is not present with ISK transactions. I think part of what makes this idea great is that it would create much greater risk/reward as the most popular items will also be the highest cost items.

I see what you are saying aye.

I know a fair bit as well and none of this would have a negative impact on me ever, I just care about the newbs.

I guess it depends on how you look at it.

I have had hate mail from spamming proto aurum and going about 9/24 before lol.

They started in proto and ended up in bpos while I still mindlessly spammed their face.

Its relative though.

Iv spammed proto aurum since beta to never care about dying.

Lack of matchmaking is p!swing in my cornflakes right now though.

Hehe, I run my bpos for the beta swag effect lol.

I don't even know of that swag, that's how swag it is lol.

Exactly. From a very high level perspective everything you say is pretty straightforward, and its what you would expect of most players behavior sans environmental aspects (like certain raw material shortages due to x event).

But this next point is where I think, as neat as this idea might be, it no longer makes any sense. Finding a correct set of models numbers to essentially mimic the supply side of player/person behavior is not a simple task. There are much better things the few devs working on Dust can do to better impact player experience I think.

As neat as it is, I would say this type of feature just needs to wait for Legion, where a true player market (supply and demand) can be implemented.