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Hi Tom,
Complex event pricing is pretty well supported with the "Price Sets" feature. There's built-in support for registration-date based (early-bird) discounting. Discount rules based on membership can be implemented using a custom module + "hooks" - check this blog post for some information on this approach:

http://civicrm.org/node/566

Membership upsell probably also requires some extension via custom module code. If you're interested in learning a bit about options for extending and customizing CiviCRM to handle your requirements - check this chapter in the brand new version of our online book - Understanding CiviCRM: http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/DevelopIntro

On-site registration can be done via the back-office interface.

One way to get a sense of different event registration examples out there is to do a Google search on the 'civicrm/event' - this will give you links to a large number of CiviEvent public pages and a sense of who's using it and how.