...If enough people get their heads outta their asses the inflation will go down.

credits is a standard...having item for item removes the standard how does the game know you were outbid if someone puts 50 nanos over your 75 restorers or any other artifact?

It would be a "buy it now" standard for item-for-item by default, but I suppose a bidding standard for items could work too. (e.g. someone outbids you by 5 nanos by putting in 70 nanos)

But since the game itself can't know the values between various goods (they change especially when new missions come along), items can only be outbid by greater quantities of that same item.

It would have been so much nicer if instead of an auction house, we would've had an exchange. That would somewhat limit inflation and allow faster selling and buying of large quantities of smaller lots.
But that's way harder to implement of course. And would be a much more interactive feature.
Still, since we have an auction, not an exchange, I would love to see common features like a buyout price (would limit inflation) and extending the deadline of the auction for bids in the last minute (would actually encourage inflation, but as it stands, getting to an artifact that a lot of people are fighting over comes down to dumb luck)

How about you just don't buy stuff at hyperinflated prices. If enough people get their heads outta their asses the inflation will go down.

Darth you need to be reasonable!

Yeah Darth.. be reasonable !!!