That sounds like a load of work, but it'd...Work. What if you made it something similar to the Grand Exchange on Runescape?
First, leave the Grand Exchange (name pending?) completely empty. Players can place an item up there as a listing, and another player can buy it. If it goes successfully, then the price paid for it is logged. Over time, all sorts of items will have their prices logged, and eventually an average would be met. That average could constantly update; - Say, a Suffering Famas sold for 4,000 Coins, then another sold for 4,100 coins. It'd average at about 4,050 coins for a price. But a week later, two more sell, one for 3,500 and another for 3,700. The price would be slightly lowered to match this new "Average" (Meeting it halfway between both averages?)
You'd have to make sure that there's a way to differentiate between a Suffering FAMAS with minimum positive and maximum negative stats and one that's the opposite, so its a foothold right there.
It'd give it a "Player controlled" market that would still have an open-air option. Of course, this could be abused (People listing something for one coin or something), but even if they did that they'd lose their gun to whoever bought it, so I doubt they would.
Anyways. Your idea sounds better though, I have no idea how mine would even work. Just rambling.
First, leave the Grand Exchange (name pending?) completely empty. Players can place an item up there as a listing, and another player can buy it. If it goes successfully, then the price paid for it is logged. Over time, all sorts of items will have their prices logged, and eventually an average would be met. That average could constantly update; - Say, a Suffering Famas sold for 4,000 Coins, then another sold for 4,100 coins. It'd average at about 4,050 coins for a price. But a week later, two more sell, one for 3,500 and another for 3,700. The price would be slightly lowered to match this new "Average" (Meeting it halfway between both averages?)
You'd have to make sure that there's a way to differentiate between a Suffering FAMAS with minimum positive and maximum negative stats and one that's the opposite, so its a foothold right there.
It'd give it a "Player controlled" market that would still have an open-air option. Of course, this could be abused (People listing something for one coin or something), but even if they did that they'd lose their gun to whoever bought it, so I doubt they would.
Anyways. Your idea sounds better though, I have no idea how mine would even work. Just rambling.
