simple way to drain a tiny bit of money out of the system

make a SUPER-EASY way to get hold of clusters...

people would make more implants = spend more money = happy customers & happy devs

mmm I wanna be able to buy refined clusters...

Its like any store you go into: they all have catalogs of their products. Chain stores also have different inventory at different shops, and if what you want isn't in the shop you're in but in another, they'll either transport it to the store you're in, or you can go get it.

You want to set up a similar arrangement on Rubi-Ka. You want a catalog of all available products (with prices and specs), and you want to know in which shop(s) the particular item(s) you want can be found (i.e. you need to be able to search this database). If its not available anywhere, you want to be able to special order it.

Not a hard problem.

Once you have such a system in place, then you can add catalogs that players can post their stuff on and sell. You can have yellow pages for services, etc. etc.

This is just the skeleton. Lots of other things you could do if you were interested in doing it. Apparently, Funcom isn't.