Quote Originally Posted by Cynric View Post
Gatherer Sells to Crafter, or Crafts themselves, Crafter then sells to fresh story player or other crafters, Crafter buys Materials from endgame 50's, Endgame 50's then send the gil to the void with repairs. And it just continues like that. There has to be some incentive to give a Crafter money after you start getting tomes. Otherwise. Yes we will drain gil from servers without even trying.
Finally someone who actually understands the crux of the problem. All of the crafters that keep spouting off with "get a gathering profession" or "play the auction house" just don't get it. If battle classes can't make a reasonable amount of money (ie profit) then they have no money to SPEND on your crafted items. So at 50 all of the battle classes that are raiding will just horde their money to pay for repairs...so that 300k that everyone has after leveling to 50...repair fund. Just wait until more than 10% of the player base is at level 50 and see what happens.