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How do you envision player to player sales in the PU? Will other players simply browse my goods through their MobiGlas, or will there be an opportunity for a storefront?asked by Tools

TL;DRChris Roberts says the longer-term goal is player-owned storefronts and probably a local classifieds-style system for arranging sales, with some goods possibly regulated for realism.

That aspect of how players trade is something we've been discussing. Longer term the goal would be to allow players to start or to buy their own store-front, so there might be "Chris' Store of Curiosities" where other players can come to buy stuff. So we definitely want to include that sort of stuff in-game, it's also one of the biggest ideas for the Banu MM, so you could fly around buying and collecting things, then sell them in your greeting/trading room on-ship. There will probably be some version of a local-system based version of Craig's list, where you post things for sale, then people can browse them then contact you, before arranging a meeting place, then while you're both there you'd transfer the goods. Typically, depending on what you're selling, things might need to be regulated just like things in the real world, say, ship sales and the like. This is one of the things we're trying to go for realism with in the PU.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 51 (2015.01.26)·
Published on this date.26 Jan 2015