Guys, I know this might be a pain to build, but the players would pee a little if you did it: player interaction on the marketplace. What I mean is selling materials, data, modified modules, modified ships, and player services ON the GALNET marketplace itself.
For example, you sell your cargo at the marketplace and it goes into the background sim as usual but you can also sell your materials as if they were cargo. That's easy, here's the fun part, OR you can put them up for sale where they stay posted until a player buys them, and the credits get transferred to you. Same with modules, or even ships. If I land at Lave and look at the shipyard, for example, I'd see new ships but also some customized ones that players built. If I buy those, the credits go to that player. Or I look in the materials section on the marketplace and see 10 units of Tin for sale, I buy it, and the player who found it on his SRV gets the payment. It opens up the world for new jobs for players, prospectors, mechanics, used car salesmen. You can even open the mission board to players to do things like ask for a specific material, which a player can fulfill just like the background sim does now.
Please consider it.
For example, you sell your cargo at the marketplace and it goes into the background sim as usual but you can also sell your materials as if they were cargo. That's easy, here's the fun part, OR you can put them up for sale where they stay posted until a player buys them, and the credits get transferred to you. Same with modules, or even ships. If I land at Lave and look at the shipyard, for example, I'd see new ships but also some customized ones that players built. If I buy those, the credits go to that player. Or I look in the materials section on the marketplace and see 10 units of Tin for sale, I buy it, and the player who found it on his SRV gets the payment. It opens up the world for new jobs for players, prospectors, mechanics, used car salesmen. You can even open the mission board to players to do things like ask for a specific material, which a player can fulfill just like the background sim does now.
Please consider it.