7-14 day lock out on relisting GTN items

A lot of very naive people around here. Price fixing in the real world would get a person landed in jail. It's illegal, period. There's no possibility of any argument in favor of price fixing. Most of what has been posted to "defend" people's right to buy and sell however they please on the GTN is, in fact, in favor of the maximum re-selling constraints already described, if you can summon even an ounce of idea of ethical standards concerning the issue. And if you look closely and objectively, people claiming that the GTN market eventually balances anyway are proving the entire point in favor of maximum constraints (just reread the sentence closely until you understand).

A lot of very naive people around here. Price fixing in the real world would get a person landed in jail. It's illegal, period. There's no possibility of any argument in favor of price fixing. Most of what has been posted to "defend" people's right to buy and sell however they please on the GTN is, in fact, in favor of the maximum re-selling constraints already described, if you can summon even an ounce of idea of ethical standards concerning the issue. And if you look closely and objectively, people claiming that the GTN market eventually balances anyway are proving the entire point in favor of maximum constraints (just reread the sentence closely until you understand).

What we're talking about here is putting some kind of system in place to prevent price fixing on the GTN. Don't get yourself agape at how difficult that seems to implement... either they have a database whiz on staff or they don't. And that was just a once-through idea of how to thwart price fixers. They could alternatively add diagnostic systems that find price-fixers, and track the activities of blatant price-inflaters who choke the low-price supplies of goods on purpose in order to resell it all at ugly prices. Another solution is to make resources Bound To Legacy once purchased off the GTN or traded (now my favorite solution); it seems overly limiting but would guarantee that the resource bought off the GTN is an orginally-harvested item and not from a reseller who choked off all the lower-priced same resource. People would just learn to not pre-purchase large stacks of resources.

I know lots of people like the idea of an empire of wealth-building with no constraints, and even are of the belief that that is the American way; however at some point you have to defer to real ethics and fairness and honesty and all that somesuch that so many people like to discourage from entering real discussion. I could be more direct by saying "don't try to rip people off" but that just results in sniveling ratty arguments in retort to the reminder of their own conscience.

The implication is of course that price fixing is already going on in SWToR on a regular basis. And don't be so naive: if someone has 25M in credits saved up, they can choke the supply of any single item or resource indefinitely... and then charge exorbitant amounts of money for the resources and actually get people here and there buying it up. Don't even try to call that sort of low-down activity a free-market-economy; in the real world people doing that are landed in jail. It's a type of thievery - in any MMO, people who thieve have their accounts canceled, anyone caught price fixing in SWToR in a formal and sustained way should not be allowed to remain a subscriber.

Either you understand the ethics involved in what I'm describing, or you don't.

Say yes to Bind To Legacy for purchased/traded resources.

i actually kinda of like the idea of making everything you buy of GTM bind. Make it BoL so we can still buy on main and send to alts. It´s a better fix than a lockout imo. Ofc making craftet items with bop mats shouldn´t effect the items that are craftet.


The only "problem" with this is the people who play the GTM game.

Flippers are good for supply. Flippers stabilize prices and counter irrational deflation. I spent years making this argument in City of Heroes and people still didn't believe it and I doubt folks here will.