The "Saving the Economy" Super Thread! (ideas to save economy)

[chrillix]

1) Remove all crafting related items from NPC's. This forces gathering of all kinds of materials, and players making gil instead of NPC's. Find a gil sink to replace this that doesn't take away from gatherer's making profits.

2) Make all crafts harder to HQ. For any crafter with most jobs leveled (which is also now way too easy to do), there is a combination that literally lets you HQ 2-star crafts 100% with NQ materials. As someone who does this myself, I literally never buy HQ materials because there is no point for me. The HQ material market needs to be made viable again.

[Dorin]

1) Remove all crafting related items from NPC's. This forces gathering of all kinds of materials, and players making gil instead of NPC's. Find a gil sink to replace this that doesn't take away from gatherer's making profits.

This.

Also, give more uses to the "very rare drops" like ADS plate, vortex feathers etc. like, for example, ilvl 90 crafted armor that requires those. Infernal armor from ifrit, Storm armor from Garuda... you know, that sort of stuff. This would make people spend more gil and would add something extremely rare for players to strive for.