Ability to Downgrade Elemental Crystals into Shards.

[Meier]

Lets not forget in 1.0 shards, crystals and clusters dropped off every single mob.

[mbncd]

Lets not forget in 1.0 shards, crystals and clusters dropped off every single mob.

They also came with the things you gathered instead of being the thing you gathered. "Oh, you timed your swing correctly and got a copper ore from the minigame (basic minigame, yes, but still not QUITE so mindless...)? Take a couple of freebie earth and fire shards with that!"

[Grimmel]

RMT is already the reason we can only mail people on our friends' list, as well as the reason we can't send friend requests to offline players.
Anything that has to do with pricing automatically has to take RMT into consideration upon implementation.

And yet RMT still find a way around the sending mail issue by having multiple accounts tied to one computer.

Honestly, and no offense to the development team in charge of seeing to RMT counter measures, But all of these counter measures are ineffective and only seek to hinder the legit players. If they really want to get rid of the RMT blight, they'd do what they did in FFXI and block the country where most of the RMT IP addresses stem from for the NA/EU and JP servers. It was a tough decision to make on their part when they did this, but when it was first announced and after the first week of this decision being made, there were zero RMT tells and zero advertisements being made by RMT bots.

[mbncd]

[SNIP] block the country where most of the RMT IP addresses stem from [SNIP]

It may have cut down on them (which is a great thing, don't get me wrong!) but I doubt it destroyed them.

For one thing, it's INCREDIBLY easy for people who aren't even tech savvy to use VPN software that can mask their country of origin.

For another, not all gil/gold sellers come from a single country. They often hire out of the NA and EU (I used to know a girl in Canada that worked for a WoW gold selling group for instance) and to block their countries would block the bulk of the legitimate player base as well. Before you know it, us Aussies would probably be the only ones left able to play XD

[Grekumah]

Unlike in Version 1.0, each type of crystal has been re-designed to be their own unique and individual item. Shards are shards, crystals are crystals and clusters are clusters. As such there are no plans to add a feature to downgrade from one type to another.

[chocomaid]

Unlike in Version 1.0, each type of crystal has been re-designed to be their own unique and individual item. Shards are shards, crystals are crystals and clusters are clusters. As such there are no plans to add a feature to downgrade from one type to another.

How about a shard trader in every major city then? It will still adhere to the "individuality" and "uniqueness" of the item but can simply be traded, like with gil for armor. No need to downgrade/breakdown, simply trade, no need to be disciple of hand. Water to water, fire to fire, etc, to prevent trading for more in demand types.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

Unlike in Version 1.0, each type of crystal has been re-designed to be their own unique and individual item. Shards are shards, crystals are crystals and clusters are clusters. As such there are no plans to add a feature to downgrade from one type to another.

i don't think you realize the redundancy of what you just said.

shard
noun \ˈshärd\

: a sharp piece of something (such as glass or pottery)
Full Definition of SHARD
1
a : a piece or fragment of a brittle substance <shards of glass>; broadly : a small piece or part : scrap <little shards of time and space recorded by the camera's lens — Rosalind Krauss>
b : shell, scale; especially : elytron
2
or sherd : fragments of pottery vessels found on sites and in refuse deposits where pottery-making peoples have lived
3
: highly angular curved glass fragments of tuffaceous sediments

1crys·tal
noun \ˈkris-təl\

: a small piece of a substance that has many sides and is formed when the substance turns into a solid

: a clear hard mineral that is either colorless or very light in color and that is used in making jewelry

: a special type of glass that is very clear
Full Definition of CRYSTAL
1
: quartz that is transparent or nearly so and that is either colorless or only slightly tinged
2
: something resembling crystal in transparency and colorlessness
3
: a body that is formed by the solidification of a chemical element, a compound, or a mixture and has a regularly repeating internal arrangement of its atoms and often external plane faces
4
: a clear colorless glass of superior quality; also : objects or ware of such glass
5
: the glass or transparent plastic cover over a watch or clock dial
6
: a crystalline material used in electronics as a frequency-determining element or for rectification
7
: ice 7; broadly : methamphetamine in any form when used illicitly

1clus·ter
noun \ˈkləs-tər\

: a group of things or people that are close together
Full Definition of CLUSTER
: a number of similar things that occur together: as
a : two or more consecutive consonants or vowels in a segment of speech
b : a group of buildings and especially houses built close together on a sizable tract in order to preserve open spaces larger than the individual yard for common recreation
c : an aggregation of stars or galaxies that appear close together in the sky and are gravitationally associated
d : a larger than expected number of cases of disease (as leukemia) occurring in a particular locality, group of people, or period of time

we should be able to go both ways.

[kyuven]

Unlike in Version 1.0, each type of crystal has been re-designed to be their own unique and individual item. Shards are shards, crystals are crystals and clusters are clusters. As such there are no plans to add a feature to downgrade from one type to another.

Can you clarify this statement? Are clusters a different item mechanically and in the lore and not just a large collection of crystals? Do they lose their power when smacked with a hammer and no one can figure out why?
...an in-game justification would be nice.

[Ellatrix]

Unlike in Version 1.0, each type of crystal has been re-designed to be their own unique and individual item. Shards are shards, crystals are crystals and clusters are clusters. As such there are no plans to add a feature to downgrade from one type to another.

Then can you add a feature wherein it is possible to obtain shards yourself in a reasonable amount of time? Buff the DoL ability to harvest more?

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

How about a shard trader in every major city then? It will still adhere to the "individuality" and "uniqueness" of the item but can simply be traded, like with gil for armor. No need to downgrade/breakdown, simply trade, no need to be disciple of hand. Water to water, fire to fire, etc, to prevent trading for more in demand types.

this... i see nothing wrong with this. and shouldn't have a significant impact on the market.