The markets, stalls, price listing and undercutting. (A suggestion)

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You'd think most people are smart enough to understand basic game economics, but it does seem to be challenging to some people.

Two very frustrating instances I've had were selling Pearl Rings and two Broken Aeolian Scimitars. The pearl rings I was putting up for 50k a ring and was the only seller. I'd sell at least two a day and then I started to get competition against one person. Not only did this person undercut, they lowered the price by 60%. Now, I ask you, if you have only one other person as your competition, how is it smart to immediately go to your floor price? If it were blind pricing with just a history, people tend to not do this. At least, not as often as in FFXIV.

As for the Broken Aeolian Scimitars on my server, there were only a handful and they were decently priced. The first couple of sellers judged how much it should be by deducting the prices of the materials from the price of the completed sword and sold their broken part for what is left over from that. Until, that is, someone undercut it by 1.5million. What this then does is throw people into a sales person whirlwind and then they irrationally lower their price by 2million. The undercutting moron sees this then they too go into a sales person whirlwind and lower their price by another 1million. At this point it's not even profitable compared to getting someone to craft the sword for you and giving them a asinine tip.

We know people will lower as long as they still gain a profit, but for some items you have to also base it on the amount of time it takes farming the materials or object. A handful of ignorant people don't mind making what would be poverty level per hour in FFXIV, it seems. It's a fail system and relies too much on player intelligence. Something that is statistically not in the majority's favor anyway, in or out of the game's world.