Craft Skill Limitations

[Kari]

@Camate, I'm sorry, but we're never going to see an increase in things being sold on the Auction House unless MAJOR changes are made.
As-is, nobody will sell anything on the AH that doesn't make a good amount of money, mostly due to the 7 item limit.

As much as I'd love to put up all the random things I obtain that are worth ~1k on the AH, I'm not going to waste that space for the many things I have easy access to that are worth 20k.
You'll almost never see low level gear, spells, etc on the AH because there isn't a market for them. However, plenty of people do get these scrolls from monsters and such, but they usually go straight to the NPC because the amount of time it takes to sell such an item isn't worth wasting 1 of their 7 AH slots. Not to mention, even if it did sell, you wouldn't make a whole lot of money.
However, if it was possible to put many items on the AH and also not have them get sent back in a few days, you'd likely see people putting these things they find on the AH, and eventually some noob who needs it will buy it. The noob gets their hands on a spell that otherwise could have been annoying for them to obtain, and the person selling the scroll got a random small amount of Gil.

Adding new synthesis recipes is cool and all, in fact I'm quite excited, however you can't really even mention such a change having any effect on the AHs.
All it will be doing is creating a new market on new items, which is nothing new.
I'd really like to see an update to the AH, to allow us to put a LARGE amount of items on it at once like other MMOs, but I don't think it would be doable because of PS2 limitations. =/
Every other MMO I've played with similar AH-type systems allowed you to put up AT LEAST 50 items, if not infinite. This allowed said games to have an extremely large economy, and a huge variety of items for anyone shopping around.
I can only dream of FFXI getting such an update, it seems.

[Vold]

@Camate, I'm sorry, but we're never going to see an increase in things being sold on the Auction House unless MAJOR changes are made.
As-is, nobody will sell anything on the AH that doesn't make a good amount of money, mostly due to the 7 item limit.

As much as I'd love to put up all the random things I obtain that are worth ~1k on the AH, I'm not going to waste that space for the many things I have easy access to that are worth 20k.
You'll almost never see low level gear, spells, etc on the AH because there isn't a market for them. However, plenty of people do get these scrolls from monsters and such, but they usually go straight to the NPC because the amount of time it takes to sell such an item isn't worth wasting 1 of their 7 AH slots. Not to mention, even if it did sell, you wouldn't make a whole lot of money.
However, if it was possible to put many items on the AH and also not have them get sent back in a few days, you'd likely see people putting these things they find on the AH, and eventually some noob who needs it will buy it. The noob gets their hands on a spell that otherwise could have been annoying for them to obtain, and the person selling the scroll got a random small amount of Gil.

Adding new synthesis recipes is cool and all, in fact I'm quite excited, however you can't really even mention such a change having any effect on the AHs.
All it will be doing is creating a new market on new items, which is nothing new.
I'd really like to see an update to the AH, to allow us to put a LARGE amount of items on it at once like other MMOs, but I don't think it would be doable because of PS2 limitations. =/
Every other MMO I've played with similar AH-type systems allowed you to put up AT LEAST 50 items, if not infinite. This allowed said games to have an extremely large economy, and a huge variety of items for anyone shopping around.
I can only dream of FFXI getting such an update, it seems.

Personally I'd like to see a MH addition called bank or whatever where you can put items to be sold, choose the price, items are updated to the AH system. Tax is taken out once items are sold. I guess just like bazaar except it goes through the AH. But I bet that's an idea that is surely is impossible to come true for some reason or another. Just seems like a simple way to bypass the AH problems. Key word seems.

I also really wouldn't mind tax having an overhaul. I'm all for the bazaar system but it would be extremely helpful if people could just put high end items on AH to sell them without some silly tax taking out unreasonable amounts of gil from the sale...