Economy Metrics

[Zedrackis]

This is one for server Admins. Now that we have trans-galatic automated trade, we could use a way to track what is being bought and sold at various levels. Say a metric of trades in/out of npc shops, pc shops, and a way to track those trades on a per galaxy or trans-galaxy basis.

I'm NOT talking about tracking individual trades, but say, we could look back over a week and see how much of block X was bought and sold in a given galaxy or the whole universe. Its average buy/sell price based on actual sales, and listed sales. Also we could get a metric of how many VU's were bought/sold by players/npcs on univeral/galatic levels and which galaxies were doing what percentage of the business compared to the total gross product of the universe.

 

[jstenholt]

I actually like this a lot. Limiting it to admins would be lame though, all players being able to see information on trades would be really neat, and lead to some interesting gaming of the system.

 

[Comradecolonel]

Maybe you can only see the metrics for systems that you have some connection to. This could be represented by some sort of station, block, or even just a ship parked in the relevant system.

 

[nightrune]

I'm always looking for ways to add to the factions interactions. Would it be neat for the trade guild to facilitate this data? I mean it would be kinda awesome to get mail from them every week with statistics, but I could also see the sense in making it a menu.

 

[jayman38]

I don't think tracking a whole galaxy will be useful since most interactions will take place within the starting galaxy on most servers. Therefore, you'd rarely have a usable difference between a galaxy count and a universe count. I think the data would need to be stored in a database with sector coordinates. Maybe also store the central "system" or "star" coordinate, so that you could track numbers by solar system. That might be a more usable metric. Also, sector faction ownership should be stored, so that only faction-owned systems could be tracked by non-admin players.

 

[Erth Paradine]

I was actually suggesting the development of a weekly trade activity "report" for our server earlier today, as a lot of the trade information is already logged, so its mostly a matter of capturing/recording, and aggregating this info.

 

[spunkiethefirst]

Don't forget to make it postable on a display module for keeping an eye on certain items.