Reopened: How can Empyrean be better than Relics?

[Alienmonkey]

Who doesnt have an alt to begin with?
And the amount of time it takes is not important because well....... [Removed by Moderator according to the FINAL FANTASY XI FORUM Guidelines.] And this along with the other method that was previously mentioned by someone other then me is how 90% of relics were made. So lets see here, which is harder, not playing ffxi and having a ton of gil and buying a relic, or going out and fighting some NMs, no matter how easy.

Yeah most people have an alt nowdays, but not everyone.
A quick /sea all on valefor shows 1800 people online. There are 2000 ebisus across all servers. Split by 16 that's 125 per server. We know from the census that ~10% of players have fishing level 100. Ignoring the fact that 1800 on valefor is just what is online now, and not the actual active playerbase, 7% of currently online players would have an ebisu rod.

You are saying that multiple ebisu = easy relic. So you need at least 2x ebisu to make it worthwhile. Let's be generous and take 2% of that 7% and give it to another 2% of players. So we have 5% of the playerbase with ebisu rods and 2% of those that have multiple ebisu rods. So 2% of the currently online playerbase(the real amount is lower) have an easy time making a relic. That doesn't seem like a lot to me. Two percent. How does that make relics easy for the other 98% I wonder?

And on top of all that, we are also assuming that all of them are willing to cheat and risk the banhammer, which I don't think is the case.

EDIT: I also clearly said you make the gil by fishing then selling the fish to an NPC, quit saying I wont be able to find buyers.

Then you're just plain wrong. You can't make 3m/day fishing with vendor to npc.