Ability to Downgrade Elemental Crystals into Shards.

[Sylkis]

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Greetings,

There has been a lot of discussions and feedback regarding shards and I’d like to respond to what I can.

• Shard yield
  The development team understands the shard yield amount to be an extremely delicate issue. They are very carefully looking into whether they increase the amount of shards yielded and how much they would increase it as they give consideration to the economic effects.
  
  
• Methods of obtaining shards
  Looking at the current shard yield and the amount of shards used in recipes, we are currently looking into new methods of obtaining shards; however, we will not be making it so they simply drop from monsters.
  
  
• Crystal and cluster breaking
  There have been some comments about the feature in 1.0 where you could break down crystals and clusters, but we do not have plans at the moment to implement this. The concern is that it will become difficult to control the prices of individual shards if they can be produced from crystals and such.
  
  For example, in the future if there are requests to increase the cluster yield, being able to break these down into shards would overflow the market, and as a result it becomes much easier to use clusters, but the prices of shards would drop.
  
  
• RMT issue
  We understand that there are RMT issues surrounding shards and the STF is after them every day.
  
  We’ve mentioned this many times already, but if you notice any suspicious activity it helps us a lot if you could make a report by going to [System Menu] -> [Support Desk] -> [Contact Us] -> [Report Cheating].

[Grimmel]

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• RMT issue
  We understand that there are RMT issues surrounding shards and the STF is after them every day.
  
  We’ve mentioned this many times already, but if you notice any suspicious activity it helps us a lot if you could make a report by going to [System Menu] -> [Support Desk] -> [Contact Us] -> [Report Cheating].

And yet the RMT we report for this exact behavior are still up and running months later from the day we've reported them. It is also increasingly difficult to report the bots that tend to hide underground.