Wouldn't that be 90% less?
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Wouldn't that be 90% less?
At first people will try to sell for close to what they were listing before. So that relic double meld will still probably be listed in the 20 mil range. 1 or 2 may sell, but overall, prices will slowly drop and rebalance.
Good things to invest your money in now would be any mats that are always in high demand, materia and decent double melds. You could probably sell them for higher then their 1/10th conversion at the start. Think about all hq mats... Not everyone is going to know where to mine/gather/fish/killxmob right of the start, so all those hq mats will be in biggest demand at the start if there are any new recipes.
The difference is that an individual cannot generate ten million gil in sixteen hours NPCing masks or crystals. Not even close. Not remotely close. This is an aberration and a very serious one.
Also, I ask in earnest; what gil sinks actually exist in XIV? NPC Repairs, which virtually no one uses, aside from being in desperate need if you're wiping continually at Garuda, and Dragonhead's NPC repair price is not a deterrent to your immediate desire for convenience. What else deletes gil in XIV's current structure? I can think of nothing.
Additionally, the destruction of equipment and materia takes said equipment and materia out of the economy, but does nothing to remove the gil. The gil has merely traded hands - it is neither created, nor destroyed, merely transferred from one individual to another.
While this may be true, it is unrelated to the problem of the creation of vast quantities of new currency in a very short period of time. This would be what is known as hyperinflation. o.OQuote:
This is actually true. Get your botanist to 50 and go mine up half a stack of resin +1s (its not that hard to do), buy some leather and sinew +1 for about 50k total and sit down and belt out militia longboots +1. Put them up on the AH for 110k and you make a good 2.5 mil profit.
Who the hell actually has time and patience to turn in 10mil worth of crystals a DAY!??? I bought about 10 mil worth (for about 10 mil; 'cause I'm after the achievement), and I've been spending ALL my game time buying and selling dawn drops, and I've been at it for like 3 days straight now, and I'm only up to 6mil again. This is HARDLY anything to worry about.
Not to mention that in 2.0 they'll be reducing all our gil by 90%. So your 10mil will only be 1mil come ARR.
I concede this point, with the caveat that it will occur after the decimation of the current Gil. The damage will already have been wrought upon current player reserves and the colossal oversight of Atomos Free Gil Giveaway Extravaganza will already have wreaked havoc upon the economy. *~*
Considering this Atomos thing will probably end in November, along with the world, all it's doing is giving current players yet more of an economic head start. Not only that, it's letting us finish off whatever Grand Company desires we might have. There will surely be plenty of gil sink in 2.0 to take the money back out of the economy. I'm looking forward to buying luxury land.