Quote Originally Posted by Mindy_Macready View Post
I have no idea where you're going with this at this point. If person A has all specialists available to him via alts, and person B doesn't, person A will be able to craft any specialist craft requiring specialist mats at a lower price than person B, because he's not carrying specialist crafting fees with him. Person A could just price out person B, to the point where he can't compete, and will thus not buy person C's mats.
And Person A continues to sell for no profit just to be a jerk? What happened to all the collusion leading to artificially inflated prices?

Where there is a profit in the synth, there will be competition. If nobody is willing to buy for more than the cost of materials, the market will be stale. Specialist lockouts won't change that. If person A is willing to spend several hours a day crafting top level recipes for no profit, they might be able to keep everyone else out.