Market Board Tax Changes

[Reinha]

I kind of like the fact that selling in a different city than Limsa is a thing again. Checking the city taxes when selling is a nice replacement for teleporting to different cities when buying.

Undercutting hasn't really changed. You still want to be at the top of the list but now you don't have to undercut by more than a teleport cost. It makes a difference for the smaller sales.

[Elladie]

I'm amazed people actually go to the trouble of porting somewhere else to save on taxes. Then again I don't often buy from the MB, prefer to make things myself if possible.

I also struggle with the idea that it's hard to make money. I make a few hundred thousand a week without trying, just by selling the stuff from Quick Ventures. If I actually try to make money, I can make a couple of million a week, no trouble. I bought a new house a couple of weeks ago (haven't had one for a while), it cost me around 3 mil plus the cost of building the house. I was back up to my pre-purchase savings last weekend. All I did was have my venturers farm high level mats - just basic 70-80 mats - and then I quick synthed a few stacks of ingots, lumber, cloth and sold those. 3.5 mil back in less than 2 weeks

[TwistedTea]

I'm amazed people actually go to the trouble of porting somewhere else to save on taxes. Then again I don't often buy from the MB, prefer to make things myself if possible.

On the big ticket items or huge stacks of items like crafting mats, tping to the city where the retainer was selling from could save you huge amounts of gil. For example 5% of 500k is 25k.

Vet players might think it's little but for sprouts it hurts.

But yeah, it's easy to make gil although I will add the caveat, with crafting/gathering being casualised and everyone and their aldgoat being a crafter/gatherer, it's harder to make sums like 100m a day/week that crafters used to make in previous expansions during the initial few days of patches.

There are other ways to make gil which do not involve crafting/gathering but these 2 are the most consistent gil makers.

I think many sprouts see vet crafters who have gil capped, wonder why they can't do the same as they have to deal with aggressive undercutting thanks to the increase in number of crafters/gatherers and World Visit. Additionally, now they are being slapped with additional MB fees.

[Nedkel]

I kind of like the fact that selling in a different city than Limsa is a thing again. Checking the city taxes when selling is a nice replacement for teleporting to different cities when buying.

Undercutting hasn't really changed. You still want to be at the top of the list but now you don't have to undercut by more than a teleport cost. It makes a difference for the smaller sales.

Everyone now is in crystarium or ishgard.

[janTesi]

As a new player who never dealt with the prior system (and got here while looking up what purpose the tax served), I kinda wish the game kept track of your taxes paid per region and did something with that information. Being that it shows a grand company logo on my screen, I figured it would have something to do with my relationship to the grand company. I'm no fan of creating a class structure out of how much business one does, but it just seems like it would be interesting information to keep track of.

[AlwaysSunnyInEorzea]

Like others have said, it’s a Gil sink for the most part. I’m not a fan of it and I hope they reconsider implementing the old system back.