Market Options - Boycott and Alliances

[IraDei]

Fairly "new" to the game with only 1 week in Beta, 1 week in Demo, and 1 week in current release ... but here's a thought ...

 

- Add an additional filter or Organization buyer/sellers on the market.  As a player, I want to support my organization ... so rather than using the INSTANT BUY option, I would definitely opt to purchase from an Organization member for nominal amount more just to help them out.  Ideally, I would add color coding to the buyers/sellers (Green = Organizations you belong to, Blue = Organizations that your allied with, and Red for organizations you want to Boycott (which leads to the next suggestion)

 

- There is PvP for space battles, but the game seems also to be geared towards market domination from supply chain (ore harvesting) all the way through optimizing the final end product (fuel, engines, etc.).  Why not a political BOYCOTT option. Only Organizations would be able to Boycott another.  Anyone belonging to an organization "boycotted" by your organization would show up Red on the market. Anyone belonging to both a Boycotted organization AND an allied or subsidiary organization would show up as Yellow (a mix of Red and Green from above) As an individual you could choose whether to support or ignore the Boycott, but it would be essentially PvP on an economic scale rather than a ship vs ship scale.  You would need a UI page that only the senior Legate could enter the reason for the Boycott and only the opposing senior Legate could enter a counter for why the boycott is unfair, unjust, crazy stupid, etc.  Individuals could then review the arguments and decide for themselves whether they want to join or ignore the boycott.  It would be a way to keep "in check" any organization from total domination of a market/area and creating a monopoly.  

[Wolfram]

This is actually a nice idea. Having a way to at least know which orders are from allies or same org would already make market experience much nicer. Other option is setting up dispensers at a common place, not as great, but still an option.

[Wyndle]

The Aphelia market intentionally obfuscates seller names if I recall prior dev conversation on the topic correctly.  Orgs and individuals are capable of placing dispenser shops where the owner of the dispenser is visible.  Some may choose to have internal org only dispenser with discounts or even listed at cost.