Does anyone else feel like the CX market is nearly dead? And that this might be threatening the game?

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This topic has been discussed many times. The problem isn’t too many CXs, or corporations vertically integrating, it’s simply that there isn’t much demand for higher tier products. See example here:

Introduce Economies of Scale to stimulate market activity

The CX is used a lot. It’s just mainly used for beginner products. The reason for this is game balance - there is no trading of higher tier products because nobody is making them because there is not much use for them in game. Basically, unless you are going to make ship components, there is no reason to move much beyond tier 2. Let’s look at an example. WIN is one of the highest tier luxury consumables you can make, and DW is the most basic and easiest consumable. DW is kind of boring, you ju…

At this point I believe the devs are aware of the issue, and have several options for how to address it, so we’ll have to wait and see what they do about it in a future release.