Why do we have seemingly odd currency caps in game?

Wolf marks cap is 20,000 (Some items take the whole cap to buy)
The bi stones from the 5.X fate areas we have 1,000
Older tomes we can hold up to 2,000
Scripts for crafting/gather caps at 2,000
Tomestones are also capped at 2,000
Hunt seals/nuts cap at 4,000

Many items we can get with these in game take up a LOT of the currency we can hold, if not out right taking pretty much the whole thing (Some mounts/cards/ect), and I'm just wondering why we're not allowed to hold any more.

I personally would LOVE if currency was doubled with how much we could hold of each. It would be a lot better than what we have currently.


And I'm not including grand company seals in this, since we can hold up to 90,000 of them, which is pretty nice. Would love if other currencies could get some better treatment.

Probably to limit purchasing power.

If you could save up 20k poetics, thatd be huge for buying old gear, etc. Poetics are used for a lot of things and they probably don't want people to be able to blow through things.

Same with previous tomes tones, and buying mats for crafted gear

I agree, in fact I think wolf marks and Poetics need to be tripled.

You do realize they keep adding stuff to buy with poetics? New relics, and changing relic stats. They added materia VI last expansion. No way they want you to hoard and sit on poetics for years.

Wolf marks too, since PvP is getting additions come 6.0. No way they'd let you get all of it for "free".

There is nothing odd about preventing hoard and logoff for the week behavior.

Yoshi-P defended the caps on tomestones in the past, saying they are extremely important and that he could write a book about it. Without them too many vets would be done in the first week and there wouldn't be enough people doing content the following weeks. You could argue that caps motivate you to actually spend them too.

Speaking of odd currency caps, whoever thought the chest and hand pieces should costs. . . 855 X-currency when the weekly cap is 450 (then raised to 900). Yeah, there's a special place in the underworld for you.

Or that weapons should cost 1000 when it's 450 / 900 weekly cap.

Just make the damn weekly cap 500 and upgrade it to 1000 you animals! (/s)

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

Yoshi-P defended the caps on tomestones in the past, saying they are extremely important and that he could write a book about it. Without them too many vets would be done in the first week and there wouldn't be enough people doing content the following weeks. You could argue that caps motivate you to actually spend them too.

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He says that, but I simply wouldn't feel sorry for someone who spent massive amounts of time to get geared in as little as possible and then claim there's "nothing to do".

Lets be honest. We all know the reason is that it pads playtime and drives monthly subscriptions.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

Lets be honest. We all know the reason is that it pads playtime and drives monthly subscriptions.

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Even if they only stay for the first week, the subscription lasts a month so it doesn't change a whole lot. Spreading it out has a lot to do with there being enough good players to carry the casuals.

DR is a great example. You see the criticism about it taking 15 runs for each relic but because the people doing all relics are not casuals, this caused there to be some good players to carry the casuals without essences who just do one relic.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Probably to limit purchasing power.

If you could save up 20k poetics, thatd be huge for buying old gear, etc. Poetics are used for a lot of things and they probably don't want people to be able to blow through things.

Same with previous tomes tones, and buying mats for crafted gear

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I mean in a way you could argue that about MGP, which caps at 9,999,999 if I remember correctly. I have over 3.4m MGP with nothing left to buy really (Got all cards/mounts/music rolls/minions)

Wolf Marks are kind of weird to cap at 20k. There's chocobo furniture in the PvP shop for some weird reason, that costs 5000 wolf marks each. That's 1/4 of your cap for a table or chair. There's mounts/minions that take nearly all your marks. It rarely gets updated too so what's the point of keeping the cap so low there? When you have to buy a mount for 20,000 you're gonna miss out on some of the wolf marks, which feels kind of mean since it's pretty hard to get exactly 20k without anything going to waste. I'd suggest for those to be increased to 30k, so you don't have to waste anything when buying the most expensive items

With poetics not much of anything gets added to those shops no days, the only thing I can really remember is the fact that you need 4 items for the 5.X relic that in total costs you 1000 poetics. It'll be old content pretty soon as well. With how much they give out for bonuses and the like, and the fact that it's ALL old content, why not increase the cap of them? I didn't suggest that we be able to hold up to 20,000 poetics (That was me listing how many wolf marks we can hold btw), just that the current cap should be raised of them as well as some other ones. If not doubling what we can hold right now, then why not make it 3000 tomes for the Poetic cap?

For the seals/sacks of nuts if they're no longer on content stuff, why not increase them? You can only do so much with them. On current content I understand the limit, since you can eventually buy upgrade items for current tome gear, but the older ones don't get anything added to them anymore from what I can remember.

For scripts you get yellow ones from older content, and white ones from the most current stuff (Let me know if I'm wrong). If you do well on a fishing trip you can get around 800 yellow scripts, which is almost half your cap. Anyone can get them at any level as well. They hand them out like candy. And again the ones used for on content stuff I can understand them having a lower limit, but if anything is an older currency, why not increase how many you can hold? You'll get the same amount of scripts doing whatever you were doing.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Probably to limit purchasing power.

If you could save up 20k poetics, thatd be huge for buying old gear, etc. Poetics are used for a lot of things and they probably don't want people to be able to blow through things.

Same with previous tomes tones, and buying mats for crafted gear

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What's the difference between actively bying anything each time you have 2k poetics VS actively bying when you reach 20k ?
If you're interested in spending your tomestone each time you cap, 2k or 20k, you'll just get more item at once with 20k but that's pretty much it.

I'm not sure about the other caps, but I'd like to be able to hold onto enough poetics to buy a complete set of gear for alts.

Then again, they probably want to limit that so I'd be tempted to craft/buy parts of a set.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

DR is a great example. You see the criticism about it taking 15 runs for each relic but because the people doing all relics are not casuals, this caused there to be some good players to carry the casuals without essences who just do one relic.

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That works regardless of how many runs are required. If it only took one run per relic then the people doing all 17 relics are still carrying the people who only do one.

Also I don't think being a "hardcore collector who does all the relics" has any bearing on whether they're a skilled player.

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Originally Posted by KDSilver

What's the difference between actively bying anything each time you have 2k poetics VS actively bying when you reach 20k ?
If you're interested in spending your tomestone each time you cap, 2k or 20k, you'll just get more item at once with 20k but that's pretty much it.

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It does affect how quickly you can gear up once you hit a new endgame phase – eg. completing Stormblood and gaining access to the level 70 vendors. As you approach the end of Stormblood (around MSQ 68-70) you've long outgrown anything that the level 60 vendor can offer but you can't spend it on 70 gear yet, so you have to wait and save up. And I don't think you can buy a full set of gear with 2000 poetics when you get there.

(Making the vendors available at 68 like Idyllshire is available at 58 would help, but that's a separate issue again.)

While there is a point to the caps, I do think there are some that could afford to be increased a little.
Poetics could afford to be increased to 4,000 or 5,000 without drastically affecting things, especially considering that what you want to spent Poetics on usually consists of entire gear sets, or 20,000 poetics worth of mats for HW relics.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

Speaking of odd currency caps, whoever thought the chest and hand pieces should costs. . . 855 X-currency when the weekly cap is 450 (then raised to 900). Yeah, there's a special place in the underworld for you.

Or that weapons should cost 1000 when it's 450 / 900 weekly cap.

Just make the damn weekly cap 500 and upgrade it to 1000 you animals! (/s)



He says that, but I simply wouldn't feel sorry for someone who spent massive amounts of time to get geared in as little as possible and then claim there's "nothing to do".

Lets be honest. We all know the reason is that it pads playtime and drives monthly subscriptions.

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Those numbers are very intentional. First of all, unless you're absolutely racing through Savage, you can't buy a weapon until week 7 anyway. Second, you have the prices wrong. Hat, hands and boots are 495, accessories 375, chest and legs are 825. The process are based around buying as you progress through endgame. And when they become poetics gear next expansion they become cheaper.

Poetics are a poor example tbh because anything you can buy with them is largely irrelevant. Who cares if you can buy 10 old alt sets? Even the stuff they add with patches, like Relic re-rolls aren't much advantage if you can buy a big stack on release day and Grade VI materia was overpriced and hardly worth it from release. Poetics could easily be bumped to 20000 or more.

Scrips, current tomes and Hunt nuts make sense since they keep adding patch relevant items to them.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

DR is a great example. You see the criticism about it taking 15 runs for each relic but because the people doing all relics are not casuals, this caused there to be some good players to carry the casuals without essences who just do one relic.

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No, most of the good players went to PF speed run groups.

I can't speak for others, but I'm tired of the expectation that as an experienced player I'm supposed to pay a sub every month to carry players who can't be bothered for no thanks or benefit, while harder endgame content is either cut or outright denied to us. Hell no. Casuals can enjoy their 1 hour DR's if they don't want to buy Essences.