Please Undercut Wisely

[Astarica]

It's pretty incredible that people can play MMORPG without realizing the price of goods always tend to crash with few rare exceptions (usually involve stuff that are dropped).

The bulk of your profit is made from other crafters, which makes the whole thing a Ponzi scam. Ponzi scams are not sustainable, and add to the fact that most MMORPG decline on a server level after launch, the pool of suckers to make your money from is ever decreasing, so you have to be very aggressive. If you're playing on say WoW when it was new, you could afford to be less aggressive because the game was clearly growing so you figure there will always be new suckers to buy your stuff, but you can't do that here.

Right now the only reason why people can even make some money off market board is that because gil is useless, guys who can destroy your profit have no particular reason to do so. I can sell something that goes for 5000 on market board for 500 gil and still turn a profit (as a note, 1 star items have very low time-to-gather due to level 50 nodes yield multiple per gather). I don't do that because I have no reason to need more gil so the only reason I'd do it is to see you suffer, and I am not that bored. If there was a legitmate use for gil, then someone will take 500 gil over nothing and the items will crash spectcularly.