Quote Originally Posted by Tiraelina View Post
If there was ever a game to follow for an economy it would be EVE and nothing else.
You & Hamster can say this and be right, but without explaining how or why this system is superior - or more importantly, how SE could incorporate the positive aspects of this system into their game - it's a pretty meaningless sentiment. I'm not about to go look up the historical analysis of EVE's economy. I could (and if I were developing XIV's economy that might be responsible of me) but I'm not and probably no one here is about to.

I know what little I know about it from the links Hamster provided. I played a 2-week trial of EVE but I don't think I really got into the depth of the economy that I've read about in afterward.

I got to say that Renta has come closest to expressing why an Auction House would simply be better than the Wards, but your reasoning is based entirely on assumptions. No one outside of SE can know 100% whether or not implementing an Auction House would be faster or easier for their systems to handle than the Market Ward. If you knew this for 100% certainty than your side of the argument would have the advantage. You don't, though. You can only make an educated guess which I happen to disagree with.

I think it's easier to fix a current system than build one from scratch. That's simply based on how long the battle system is taking and I don't even know how much different it's truly going to be. Do I think (and agree) that a battle system is more integral and complex than an auction house? Yes, I think I can agree to that, but I can't quantify it. Battle System takes 6 months to start implementing... AH takes... 4? I can't know that. I also can't know what difficulties they face implementing an Auction House. No one can unless they publish it.

So you may be correct, but there's no evidence.

I'm still waiting to hear why an Auction House is better rather than why the Market Ward is not as good as it could be. It's as if Renta is saying (and forgive me if I am mistaken, but that's the point of a paraphrase) if the Wards could meet all these expectations you've put in bold then it would be the same as an Auction House and thus acceptable, but an AH would be "easier" (not sure how you quantify that) so just do that.

Am I inferring your meaning correctly?