How about a PEA50 Index?
(just like a stock exchange index)
This would be a weighted sum of the top 50 (or 100 etc) most traded items, normalised to be 100 on the start day (but could also be backdated).

It would also be interesting to have a (L)imited Index, or a weapons index or a ingots index or a...

Cheers,
Paul

This is actually not such a bad idea. Like with real economies it will give a more acurate indication of inflation over the perod of time. Unfortunately like with most thing implementation is always a sticking point so were going to have to ask travis and see how hard something like this would really be.

I don't see this really working because the economy of EU isn't stable at all its EXTREMELY volitle... if it was stable this might work but otherwise I think that it won't show any good data. After all if you look at the amp market it took a massive dive when the amp update came but now its up higher than ever while high power guns before took a massive leap and are still going up.

I have been thinking of something like this as well. It would be good to see the market sentiment for different types of items, as you suggest we could use a ore index, enmatter index, natural materials index, ....

But we must think of what indices are really needed and define such a set that does give relevant info back.

I think we need this especially because the economy is volatile. +k

hottygurl Wrote:I don't see this really working because the economy of EU isn't stable at all its EXTREMELY volitle... if it was stable this might work but otherwise I think that it won't show any good data. After all if you look at the amp market it took a massive dive when the amp update came but now its up higher than ever while high power guns before took a massive leap and are still going up.

That is exactly the sort of information that I would be interested in seeing, and I think a PEA Index would usefully show this.

This agregate Index would be less volatile than the 50 (or whatever items) that go to make up the Index.

hottygurl Wrote:I don't see this really working because the economy of EU isn't stable at all its EXTREMELY volitle... if it was stable this might work but otherwise I think that it won't show any good data. After all if you look at the amp market it took a massive dive when the amp update came but now its up higher than ever while high power guns before took a massive leap and are still going up.

Im with plandon an index like this would be very usefull to show exacly the effect that changes can have on the value of your items. It would also be helpfull in showing what % the changes had and what % may have just been underlying trends anyway.

What are the suggestions for the Indices?

PEA Top50
All Metal Ingots
All Refined Enmatter
An Uber Equipment Index
(L)imited weapons and amps
and a non limited weapons and amps to compare with it.

Any more?

I will scratch my head for the exact formula to calculate it.