Hey all,

I've played a little and been reading these forums and had an idea to solve the smithore imbalance / price fixing that has been bugging people.  What if the store's buying price for any commodity changes mid-auction as that product is sold?  Because, really, who needs 300 smithore at 230-a-pop?  Rather, as items are sold to the store, it's offering price gradually drops.  Given that the smithore market is a closted market, and ostenably all the ore gets used planetside (as the market price is completely affected by the local situation), this would make logical sense as well as perhaps improving balance.  There would be a more limited use to smithore hoarding and price fixing as a result of this.  The same could be done for food and power, although I doubt that would affect much.  Because the chrystite is mined and sold off-planet (to a presumably much larger market) the sales of chrystite may not undergo this mid-auction price deflation, and thus the balance would tilt back somewhat in chrystite's favor.

Just a thought.

-Nikolai

Edit:  As an aside, there is no reason the inverse could not also occur when buying from the store.  It would make the store act more like a real entity.