Make materia inlaying a NPC action, not a crafter action

[Sorel]

I think thats wayyy to steep, as compared with guaranteed success, keep in mind you have to make the materia and obtain a catylyst before you can even see the dude, then you have to obtain the item. Your talking about tripling the cost of an item just for what will probably be like attack+4 or so (unless you get an HQ materia) and that doesnt include the time of making the materia or getting the cataylst.

Only advantage i see to the pricing system you suggest is sucking out money by the millions. keep in mind, if the inlay cost is 4mil, and the item cost 3 mil, and the materia to get it came from an item thats 1mil and, thats a 2+3+4 mil item, base cost not inculding catalyst cost, now if it has a 25% fail rate, that multiplies its base worth by 4, people are going to want to double their risk at least for such an item, so you going to 40 mil if it takes you 4 tries, and you looking at 80 mil on the market. and thats probably not even with good materia.

I think you are def increasing the base cost too much

I don't believe so.

The item retails for 400K.
The Double Inlay cost is 4M (10x400K).
The materia came from in item another item that retails for 400K. Since you need 2 for a Double Inlay, that's 800K.

Not including catalyst costs that's 5.2M gil. The real gil sink is the forbidden Double Materia Inlay, not the items or materia themselves.

[Physic]

I don't believe so.

The item retails for 400K.
The Double Inlay cost is 4M (10x400K).
The materia came from in item another item that retails for 400K. Since you need 2 for a Double Inlay, that's 800K.

Not including catalyst costs that's 5.2M gil. The real gil sink is the forbidden Double Materia Inlay, not the items or materia themselves.

ok, even if the item you made the materia out of is 400k, your still not figuring the high risk factor, if failing destroys all mats, your looking at 20 mil, if its a 25% rate. and thats the break even cost, how much profit do you think some one is going to want totake for that risk?

so lets see

item materia 400k x2 800k
item to put materia into 400k
cost of first inlay 400k
cost of second inlay 4 mil
total 5.6mil
If failure rate is 25% and all items gone
22.4mil is break even point.
and this is talking bout a midlevel item, since i rem level 26 items going for 200k


basically you are going to turn this from a cool system for customization, to a super rich only endeavor. how much money do you think a new player makes? sure you ve been sitting on money for 9 months, but do you think a new playeror a battle class can afford 40 million gil for a level 35 item?

your making it into a high level only pursuit, and only the richest players, i dont think this is meant to be like relic eq here.