Will we ever get the ability to sell stuff back to shops (components, ammo, etc.)? You know, when you buy something by mistake and then return it, you can sell it back, maybe even at a lesser value?
TL;DRSelling items back to shops is planned and partially possible now, but they'd wait for shop archetypes so it isn't done item by item, and it would act as a money sink.
Yes, that is definitely in the plans as well. It's partially implemented. Yeah, it's actually technically possible now.
Sort of.
I put it in a certain way, in case anyone tries. So right now, the problem lies with the way that we set up the shops; they are very specific to single items. And when I think of the sellback feature, I don't want to have to go, oh, I need to take this item and go sell it over here, and this item and go sell it over there. If it's a weapon, I want to sell it back to the weapon shop. If it's a ship thing, I want to sell it back to the ship shop, right? And we can't group them by item types right now, so just weapons as a full sale thing. And that's the kind of functionality that I would wait until we have, so we don't have to go through every single shop and add a bazillion items and "yes, can buy, sell." No, just, here's an archetype of a shop, and there you go, this is what you can sell back to them. And the way we kind of looked at it, at least in previous conversations, was that commodities are the profiteering, right? That's what you go out and make money with. Items are more of a money sink within a game. And it's true of most MMOs, right? You can go and sell it to another person for a profit. Free enterprise is always available there, right? And that's where the player trading system comes into play. But as far as selling back to shops, that's more notably a money sink in most games, and I think you'll see something very similar to that.