Would it be possible to put some sort of Artifact Auction House in the game? Say i have 20 flux probes, a common artifact but very useful, but not going to get 60 flux probes worth out of it anytime soon, vendoring is not even worth it. It would be awesome to be able to sell it to the highest bidder, or even trade other artifacts for it.
Say im selling a subspace seeker, i can either say i want 2 million for it or i want 4 crimson obelisks. I guess you could also have bidding and buyouts too. subspace starting bid 2 milllion credits/4 crimson obelisks buyouts: 8 million credits or 10 crimson obelisks with bidding inbetween. I really like the World of Warcraft auction house, i think a similar version could be implemented in GL. And yes im saying you can have 2 different types of bids/buyouts going at the same time, snooze you lose! hmmm if theres 2 bids that are going on at the end of the auction, id say the seller gets 12 hours to decide which offer to take.

Also i was thinking about Diablo 2 trading. join up in a chat room kind of gig and offer up artifacts for artifacts. i want 5 shield restorers for my 2 nueral interfaces, but...if i want those now i have to play the long game of chance to try to get the artifacts i want

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Also i dont like the fact that artifact trading is only available through friends. i just dont even bother because im too lazy to go through facebook and message all my GL buddies if they want to trade.
Im still having plenty of second thoughts about this, but its worth some discussion i believe. like someone was saying in an earlier post, kaos i think, once you hit 150 you get about a 100 million a day with the right planets. could be interesting. Might have to up the Scrap prices a bunch to even this out.