inflation, you can have this

[user201108211515]

Ever hear the old horror stories of a few years back. SH@10m SH+1@50m. 50m strider boots. 90m thief knifes and so on.

Most people duno why it happened so allow me to explain.

It use to be that anyone that wanted gil could go to rabo and fish up rusty caps and sell them to any NPC for 3k ish gil. Sure it isnt much but if you fished all day you could make 1m easy.

So SE nerfs it. Once again se changes things to make them worse.

Now you need lv 25 ish smithing to turn rusty cap into padded cap and then you can sell it for 3k ish gil. Problem solved right? LOL @ SE.. Now light crystals are 12-15k a stack and people can still turn out 1m ish gill cauz by now we have mog enhancement furnishing that increase item bite rate.

So after about 18 mos of this. What do you see when you zone into rabo.. Shoulder to shoulder players all the way arround the pond. No joke you could not find a open space 99% of the time you just fish behind someone.

prices go crazy because by now the RMTs are all over this and people were geting gil for like 5/1m. SE nerfs this for good.

One would think SE would have learned something by now.. but no..

present day. Go out to beacu glacier and see for your self. Lots of fish bots there. Reguardless of who is or isnt boting... prices per fish is 10k to any npc. 80-100 fish a day easy. In another 6-12 mos or so im sure it will be packed with people fishing. Even if it was only 50 people turning out 1m a day.. that is still 350m a week. X 2-3 years it will take SE to wake up and realise we have a problem.

Start pinching those gilz.. Gonna need all ya can get soon enough.

Dont get me wrong.. I'm 100 fishing and after years of watching low LV fishers/bots get rewarded for being lazy at things like rusty caps and devil manta. It sure woulda been nice to have a $ fish for LV 100 fishers.. too bad SE caters to bots. Border line rewards them. I sure cant catch every one that bites my line even using an albatross ring. Bots dont even need the ring and fish them up in under 20 sec.

Am I the only one that feels like the people incharge know nothing about this game?

[Arcon]

Am I the only one that feels like the people incharge know nothing about this game?

No. SE goes to great lengths to show us that they know nothing about this game. Just look at any job specific forum (except WAR, SE loves them some WAR).

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[Rosina]

inflation happens when people got more gil then it needed. It is happening on ffxiv currently. People blamed it on the gil buyers and sellers. People are lazy and will buy gil. Pretty much people will put stuff up for prices that they feel they can get away with. LIke 200K-1mil for leaping boots because people could "afford" it. Controling an economy is actually pretty hard. You need to make sure their is a balance. Pretty much people need "just enough" gil on them not to much and not to little. Right now ffxiv is suffering from a wicked inflation because of the limited gil sink and people being self suffitent and to add gil "raining" down on them from guilleve. (which got nerfed a bit) you have gear in ff14 from 1-20 being 10-100K (currently as a newbie you can't buy these)

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inflation happens when people got too much money and not spending it decently and the sellers get away with high priced goods to get money from thses heavy purse players.

[Runespider]

Inflation was a big deal when the AH mattered, all the best gear is easy to get and r/e now. You can play FFXI with almost no gil at all quite happily, that was never the case before.

[Arcon]

Inflation was a big deal when the AH mattered, all the best gear is easy to get and r/e now. You can play FFXI with almost no gil at all quite happily, that was never the case before.

In a way you're right, in another way not so much. Yes, you can play happily, but you could "play happily" before too, whatever that means. If you wanna advance at a reasonable rate, you will need some gil. If you wanna excel, you need lots of gil. There's still lots of great gear you can get from AH, and quite expensive lately as well. And there's still the issue of relic/mythic. And also, there's new ways to spend gil popping up. People leeching their jobs, people buying pop sets or even buying rare/ex items/materials (just look at empyrean weapon trial items). Gil is still important, maybe less than before, but it won't go away. So inflation would still matter.

[Buffy]

I feel like this thread should be dated Christmas 2005.

[DebbieGibson]

Ya you need ebisu to catch those fish... this is nothing like padded caps.

[user201108211515]

ebisu isnt hard for bots to get.

introducing $ into the econ via NPC is exactly like padded caps.

[Octaviane]

OP needs to be banned just for his name.