[3.0] Craftsmanship and Control bonus parameters will be added to Souls of the Crafte

[FoxyAreku]

A healthy economy is one where things become affordable, eventually. This won't happen with specialist crafts. People will buddy up and form crafting communities so they don't have to pay crafting fees, while the ones crafting for the marketboard will always keep the crafter's fee on the crafts.

So you agree that the current economy is healthy then?

Because when everyone has something to sell, there isn't anything that is unaffordable. As I stated you can just sell your specialist recipes in order to afford the things you can't make.

Unless you don't craft at all, but being poor and not being able to afford much is kinda expected if you don't craft.

[Mindy_Macready]

So you agree that the current economy is healthy then?

Because when everyone has something to sell, there isn't anything that is unaffordable. As I stated you can just sell your specialist recipes in order to afford the things you can't make.

Unless you don't craft at all, but being poor and not being able to afford much is kinda expected if you don't craft.

I agree that the current system is providing a short-sighted "fix" that will not pan out in the long run.

[FoxyAreku]

I agree that the current system is providing a short-sighted "fix" that will not pan out in the long run.

I don't see how, as it seems rather clear that they are doing their best to make every specialist useful.

[Mindy_Macready]

I don't see how, as it seems rather clear that they are doing their best to make every specialist useful.

People will buddy up and just never use the marketboard, instead colluding to keep their craft costs down while keeping their craft purchase prices high. Or the hardcore-est will just create alts. Then you're back to square one in regards to "true" omni-crafters, except now the barriers-to-entry are much higher, and "casual" specialists will never be able to compete with their prices.

[MomomiMomi]

People will buddy up and just never use the marketboard, instead colluding to keep their craft costs down while keeping their craft purchase prices high. Or the hardcore-est will just create alts. Then you're back to square one in regards to "true" omni-crafters, except now the barriers-to-entry are much higher, and "casual" specialists will never be able to compete with their prices.

Buddying up is a part of trade, and is part of a healthy economy. Before, there was no reason to do so. Now there is. This is an improvement.

[TaleraRistain]

Coming from other MMOs that didn't allow you more than one or two crafting classes on a character, I always liked how Final Fantasy was unique in allowing for the possibility of omnicrafters. One thing some of those other MMOs didn't do that FF does is have so much interdependence with basic materials. For those that did, I saw massive price-gouging especially if one class had more highly valued items than other classes. There was also competition for nodes in that game, so it made things even worse. I am sad to see the specialist system bring this sort of mentality to Final Fantasy.

[Mindy_Macready]

Buddying up is a part of trade, and is part of a healthy economy. Before, there was no reason to do so. Now there is. This is an improvement.

Collusion usually doesn't lead to a healthy economy.

[MomomiMomi]

Collusion usually doesn't lead to a healthy economy.

It isn't collusion, it's trade. And if they're keeping their costs down, then prices are going to go down because things won't be selling, down to the point where they will sell. Which is... exactly what you said is a healthy economy?

[Hermaeus_mora1]

Buddying up is a part of trade, and is part of a healthy economy. Before, there was no reason to do so. Now there is. This is an improvement.

We call that cartels. Great for healthy economies.

[Mindy_Macready]

It isn't collusion, it's trade. And if they're keeping their costs down, then prices are going to go down because things won't be selling, down to the point where they will sell. Which is... exactly what you said is a healthy economy?

Well for one, it totally is collusion to buddy up to avoid competition. Second, prices will remain artificially inflated if there's no competition, due to collusion.