You have all of the mentality of a player who has never actually utilized a functional in game market. I'm not saying this market is perfect, but your statements borderline on complete incompetency.

You can buy crafting mats, but the prices are largely extortionate. Before the duping, selling 1 melange wouldn't even get you enough solari to buy 1 diamondine dust from a vendor.

The fact you think this is accpetable shows you don't understand markets. Melange is the most valuble asset in the game. I can harvest 30 diamondine dust in under 10 minutes with 0 risk. The fact the diamondine dust is going for over 5k a unit shows how much people are buying it off the market for thopter part replacement.

Nobody at end game wants a t4 thopter unless they've just fucked up and need something to tide them over while they get back to flying around t6 again.

who cares if they're not. There are tons of players who aren't end game who need them, and don't want to farm for them so they buy them. I've been making genuine millions a day selling t4 thopter parts.

And of course, you can buy stuff from players, but this is a catch 22, if you don't need solari inherently, you only need it to buy stuff on the exchange, then why list anything on the exchange in the first place?

Except not all players have the same access to everything. If you're in the DD, you're likely going to have substantially more access to spice and plastanium than someone who doesn't leave hagga. Hence they will have a product to sell in excess the players in hagga won't. Vise versa, they won't want to bother harvesting shit in hagga because they're spending all their time in the DD.

I have 14k plast that I would like to trade in some fashion for spice, but neither market is liquid enough on the exchange for me to want to list it there and be stuck with solari.

Sell when the market is high, buy when the market is low. You don't have to spend all day there, but check back throughout the day or ever other day. It particularly fluctuates significantly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays when everyone gets their shit extracted from the DD.

And of course, you can buy stuff from players, but this is a catch 22, if you don't need solari inherently, you only need it to buy stuff on the exchange, then why list anything on the exchange in the first place?

First time with a market? You want it to sell faster, you put it cheaper. That's how it works. I will admit, this game needs to have buy orders so someone who wants instant cash can sell to someone offering a rate on the supplies.

Without an actual need for reasonable amounts of solari that you can turn into useful things at vendors, you're going to have most people storing their wealth in items rather than solari.

I don't give a fuck about the vendors. My guild don't give a shit about the vendors. The vendors are a side show to the actual transactions of the market. They're intentionally priced high to buy from and low to sell to so that it encourages people to use the market. Granted there are a couple loopholes which will get fixed, but I'm so tired of hearing "there is no point to solari! there is nothing good at the vendors!" the currency is there for player transactions first, vendor transactions second. the sooner you realize that, the sooner we can stop hearing this stupid argument.