Somethings with EVE vs Perp... In 2003 when EVE was new. The market was very similar to how it is in Perp. What made EVE's market what it is today was thousands of players selling the junk they got as loot. The beginner school stations had basic T1 stuff... talking civilian shield boosters, shuttles, but what you could get were the blueprints to make your own modules. From the BPOs players got smart and first sold there T1 stuff at there home base which was a starter school. To speed up the process of populating the market, mission offers of 1000s of ammunition or  100s of modules would be rewarded to players. Naturally a player would not need 100 inertia stabilizers so they were sold on the market by the player.
Perp players need to take an active interest in populating the market. Why has it not been done so already... I think the costs involved are a major factor. Its very costly to research a prototype module. Or that a CT gradually decays and gets worse the more used it is, and as a double hit, new players lack the skills to get a good CT from the start. So the CT made requires extra waste materials that a new player has to spend more time harvesting/mining. Furthermore the refining waste increases the cost for a new player to build... This is where veterian players have to step up and build up the market. Meanwhile new players think the game is broken and quit. Thanks for allowing the disguntled veterian players a means to sabotage the game.
But the markets are seeded to an extent... some items show infinate supply, mostly the items needed to aquire construction materials; mining charges, geoscan charges, T1 modules for harvesting/mining, and even basic weaponry for hunting killing basic spawns for the salvage materials needed. So newbies, we have the tools just not the extentions to make those tools useful for us. This is where assignments could pick up the slack and carry the new player. How so? Well, why not reward the player with crafting materials for doing industrial missions. Mine 2500 units of titan ore, why not get rewarded with the perfect refine quantity of titanium from that titan ore? Mine HDT, harvest Helio, gather a few other items and then get the reward for some more crafting materials. Ok we're sent to recover some artifact, and get a decoder rewarded in the process. Now the new player can do a combat mission to get a module to reverse engineer and by doing "gathering assignmets" get the crafting materials to build that module, waste % included. What's to stop a player from doing the same assignment over and over like we can do currently... make the assignment random like the missions are in EVE. EVE mission are not predictable, there is a % of types based upon agent but even for a 100% combat agent, players can't predict if its "worlds collide" next or "downing the slavers" or maybe "angel extravaganza". What will force a player to move is increasing difficulty of assignments. Want a player to progress then force them to build that kinetic armor hardner so they can complete the assignment but providing a challenge. And maybe give us the "*HINT* you may need a kinetic armor hardner" in the assignment details. More to come later about this...