Black market.... to buy stuff we cant find easily.

[tiga76]

Traditionally the black market's of our world are places where we can buy hard to get for whatever reason... legitimacy, rarity etc. We dont have that in Elite Dangerous, what we have is a place we can steal stuff and sell for half the price.... admittedly pure profit(was stolen after all) but the title above the office says black market not FENCE.

Thought to myself wouldnt it be lovely if(especially with the engineers and they're normal{per module generation} requirements been sometimes hard to come by requiring lots of grind.... normally i dont mind a reason to go shoot something especially if it means getting something even better from the wreckage they leave behind but i thought because of the random nature of the drops that the black market would be a good place to look for such rarities like it would be in the real world.... ED isnt a game per se but a simulation after all, we are always complaining of the break in immersion because of the background simulation detracting from what might be termed common sense of human existence... all through time, there were always dodgy procurers of rarites witha arather visible presence for ease of customer access/availabity..

Anyway before i bore every one to death tought i'd run a survey

All ye who think we should be able to buy odites and rarites from the black market(probably at a premium but available nevertheless) say aye.

 

[verminstar]

Good idea...I tried gathering the stuff needed fer engineers but...I gave up after a couple days of nothing. The money isn't an issue, but I'm rubbish at the combat aspect of this...I just don't get it. Perhaps if there was another source that meant I didn't have to stay in the bubble fer intolerably long periods, then perhaps I wouldn't feel the need to stay in solo in that wretched place.

FD won't do it though because they want us grinding as much as possible and a black market is a nerf to grind ^^

 

[Adhock]

I've always thought the Black Markets were always a little lacking. In many cases you go to a station where a commodity is supposed to be only to find it isn't.

It would allow you to find goods that are normally available but for some reason are unobtainable. Perhaps due to goverment type or even because the economy doesn't support the production of that good.

These goods may or may not trigger an illegal cargo status due to be illegal in the system or perhaps stolen from a shipment that was supposed to be going somewhere else.

 

[goemon]

it might be by (game-)design, that those things "sometimes hard to come by" are, well, hard to come by.

being able to buy them on a black market would make them, well: not hard to come by.

otherwise a great suggestion.

 

[Ca$hback]

I can't see it being sold on the black market unless it's illegal. It they had what you were looking for and it was legal they'd sell it to you in the regular market.
I think the black market should only sell commodities that are illegal in that system, usually:
-Nerve agents
-Narcotics
-Bootleg liquor
-Tobacco
-Combat stabilizers
-Various illegal salvage
-Slaves
-Imp slaves
-Battle weapons
-Landmines
-Personal weapons
-Rare Goods that are currently illegal

I doubt they would be produced at the station otherwise they'd be on the regular market so they would cost a premium.