Materia System

[Peregrine]

I don't know why you guys are getting up set over crafters making money, they're supposed to in control of the market. Hell even Yoshi-P said he wanted the crafters to have a more active role in the economy. If you're worried about crafters having too much money just add items that require advanced synthesis to be made, also have it where you fail every time unless you have have synthesis access.

It's not that crafters have money. It's that the battlers will end up doing 90% of the work, but crafters will retain 90% of the profit from this new economic activity and that is not right.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

It's not that crafters have money. It's that the battlers will end up doing 90% of the work, but crafters will retain 90% of the profit from this new economic activity and that is not right.

We don't know how it'll actually work though, for all we know you just gain affinity points by wearing armor and standing in one area for 128 hours. Also if we gained affinity points by battling, most battlers wouldn't see it as work because they're either doing leves to level up or going through dungeons to get Rare/EX gear, so they see it as something they normally do, nothing extra.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Also by your logic, a gatherer can charge 120 million gil because they're the only ones who can collect the catalyst. Which may or may not take a lot of time to do, so they could end up doing less than the crafters and battlers. Also the gear that battlers may get in the dungeons may be way better than any thing the crafters can make, so why not let them have a little power? Most of their money is probably going to come from the materia system anyway.

[Peregrine]

Also by your logic, a gatherer can charge 120 million gil because they're the only ones who can collect the catalyst. Which may or may not take a lot of time to do, so they could end up doing less than the crafters and battlers.

Does not matter one iota what the gatherer charges for the catalyst, or the battler charges for the materia. The crafter owns the title to their houses. No one can start materia without paying a crafter something. No one can use materia or catalysts without paying a crafter something.

The gatherers and battlers pay back every last gil what they charged crafters for, and more once that crafter is done with them.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Does not matter one iota what the gatherer charges for the catalyst, or the battler charges for the materia. The crafter owns the title to their houses. No one can start materia without paying a crafter something. No one can use materia or catalysts without paying a crafter something.

The gatherers and battlers pay back every last gil what they charged crafters for, and more once that crafter is done with them.

Unless you find a cheap crafter.

[Peregrine]

Unless you find a cheap crafter.

Once again, it's not about individual circumstances. It's about global power and position of each of the disciplines as corporations.

I already said I will do all inlaying in 2 of wutai's crafting spheres for FREE. I will sabotage those crafters who aim to make billions on this because it's not right.

But I can't inherently stop inherent imbalance from padding every crafters' wallet.