Suggestion: Restrict Leves to "Self-Made" HQ Items.

[CianaIezuborn]

You're an idiot. Now I'm going to tell you why you're an idiot.

No, I am not a "kid". I have not capped any Craft yet. I just want people to have to actually do the work and put in the time to level crafts.

Ok, you want this restriction so that people have to actually do the work. You have a very narrow definition of work, you're defining "the work" as the final combination of the components into the HQ product. However as you don't have a problem with people buying HQ sub components, I'm assuming you don't consider that to be "the work". This would also preclude gathering components and gearing your crafting class, there seems to be an implication that that is also not "the work".

Also anyone that gets offended at being referred to as "kid" is a kid. There's gotta be like a pie chart to how offensive it increases until you hit your mid to late 20s, realize you were a kid and then offensiveness drops to zero.

I believe it is an exploit that encourages gil buying and I am against buying levels in general. Even rich players should have to do the hard work.

Here's where you throw in your WMD argument, where you try to label people that don't agree with you as gil buying sympathizers who are letting the terrorists win. I'll come back to the "Even rich players should have to do the hard work." comment in a bit.

Except that you may very likely be selling to gil buyers which is not a good thing. I guess everyone wants to get rid of RMT activity except when it affects there own profits.

If you're that concerned with accidentally selling to gil buyers, then you better completely refrain from selling anything on the market board and start doing credit checks in person. Also more gil buying sympathizer bullshit here, trying to shame people into agreeing with you.

It matters if it is promoting Gil Buying which I believe it does. I admit I have no evidence and all of this is pure speculation on my part but I am 99.9% certain this is being done.

More gil buying sympathizer bullshit here, and complete admission by you that your argument is invalid. I love the 99.9% certainty that something has happened at least once at sometime somewhere by someone. I'm 99.9% certain that at one point in history, someone bought a candy bar with drug money. I'm also 99.9% sure that taking Babe Ruth's off the shelf isn't going to win us the war on drugs.

Also, I just don't like "Buying Levels" even if the gil is legit.

This is really all you needed to say, and it's your opinion and I would have respected it if you had just kept at this. But then you brought in your gil buying sympathizer bullying tactics trying to shame people into agreeing with you, which made me realize how much of a moron you are irl.

Back to the earlier comment though, let's make sure you understand how money works in a game and in real life.

Even rich players should have to do the hard work.

You see, back in the old days, people used to have to barter services between one another in order to make best use of their respective specialties. This worked some of the time, however it was inefficient especially when dealing with services that weren't exactly equivalent to one another. To solve this, people invented a way to measure how much work was worth and then represent that worth with tokens. They called this "money".

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/money

1mon·ey noun, often attributive \ˈmə-nē\
: something (such as coins or bills) used as a way to pay for goods and services and to pay people for their work

The name for "money" in FF14 is "gil". You see, when someone spends a lot of "gil" on HQ trade stuffs he's cashing in "the work" that he/she already did to make that "gil" in the first place. This flow of "gil" for services over all is what we call the "economy".

So you may think that fat cat buying up 9 HQ tradeskill goods to turn in is a lazy scoundrel, but they already did the work to make that gil previously and if you can't spend your gil, well then what's the point of being a fat cat?

If you have to do "the work" for the HQ combine, then hell you should have to do "the work" for the HQ components. Buying gathered stuff? FAT CAT! You should do "the work" gathering like the honest man. Purchased crafting gear? GIL BUYER~ Real amurcans craft their own hammers! Gil is for teleporting and repair bills, ya hear?

No. I reject your idiocy, award you 0 points, and may god have mercy on your soul.

Kid!