Not being able to buy single items from a stack on the marketward.

[Jinko]

The market should take care of this; as time goes on people will start selling smaller stacks for slightly higher per-item prices. Most people (myself included) are willing to pay a bit extra to get the items in a quantity we want. Heck, if you can't find anyone doing it already, do it yourself and make a killing!

This definitely isn't something that needs to be changed from a software perspective.

People keep saying this but I actually see the opposite happening on Excalibur.

Things like logs and ore are being sold in stacks of 99 now this is fine if you are levelling a craft and need a large quantity but if you only want to make 1 or 2 items you don't want a whole stack.

I don't see this getting any better tbh, clearly a lot of people don't care about the buyer, some of the comments in this thread is proof enough of that.

[TheRealBob]

People keep saying this but I actually see the opposite happening on Excalibur.

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Point well taken, although I think it's still early to make any clear decisions on the matter.

I was attempting to point out that this should go away with time as sellers realize that there is a market (and potentially more profitable one) in selling smaller stacks of items. If anything, perhaps increasing the number of items one can have up for sale at a single time would help alleviate this (I'm assuming that's the problem since I haven't played around with the market much yet). I imagine as the number of people leveling like mad dies down, the stack sizes people are willing, or able, to sell will trend smaller.

Like I mentioned earlier, sounds like there could potentially be a lot of gil to be made by selling smaller stacks--why not exploit the market yourself before things get more competitive?

[Besamel]

I don't see this getting any better tbh, clearly a lot of people don't care about the buyer, some of the comments in this thread is proof enough of that.

I've defended the way it is because I believe that the seller should be making a decision about how they use the market. i.e. not to disadvantage the buyer, but to ensure that the seller has some control and is not disadvantaged. As some have said, they sell singles for slightly higher prices and discount for bulk. That kind of dynamic can't exist when people can pick out what they want from stacks at the discounted price. It would actually result in singles disappearing from the market.

Sellers need to be smart about their wares and learn what products will sell in quantity, what will only sell in singles e.t.c. I expect that this will mature over time.

Everyone posting here buys things from the market as well.