Gm Elrindonar told Momo to post here on a market board issue

[MihaelB]

What I don't get is what purpose do you have beyond 500Mil? Billion? Why?

The highest gil sink is mansions and that won't be accessible I assume on Balmung even if you pay a premium.

Besides that, pentamelds? Do that many players even bother?

And in regards to camping i250s, that's what you get for trying to engage in a hot trending market. Everyone will try to jump in on it and if you want to stay engaged, you'll need to take the 'insults'.

I think the majority of us happily float by 5-100Mil and don't really care enough about economic manipulation as it doesn't affect us that much. It's not like it requires much effort either to pump out 10-20mil if you really try and that's all you'll need to satisfy your spending for a patch assuming you don't splurge on minions/furniture/glamour in the very first week.

[alimdia]

What I don't get is what purpose do you have beyond 500Mil? Billion? Why?

Different strokes for different folks.

Some people enjoy seeing their exp bar go up, some people enjoy seeing their ilevel or damage go up, others enjoy seeing their gil go up, even if they never spend it.

[RyuSaarva]

Different strokes for different folks.

Some people enjoy seeing their exp bar go up, some people enjoy seeing their ilevel or damage go up, others enjoy seeing their gil go up, even if they never spend it.

I don't really care how high my gil mountain grows but that retainer has sold an item message makes me feel happy inside.

[Snow_Princess]

What I don't get is what purpose do you have beyond 500Mil? Billion? Why?

The highest gil sink is mansions and that won't be accessible I assume on Balmung even if you pay a premium.

Besides that, pentamelds? Do that many players even bother?

That is one of the issues I was trying to point out. Not many people bother in continuing trying to make gil though crafting because of this. There is tons of items from level 1-60 where only one to three people make. This includes top end items, though in some cases some top end items do have more competition then that, but for the most part (and I am guilty of this on some items) one person controls the pricing of any given item. With how this game gives you exp though leves and such, why is it so easy for 1 person to have all the specialists to control whatever they chose to control, giving them even more power?

Having a poor economic system has always been an issue with me since 2.0 and I am confused why this hasn't been addressed at all. It is just too easy for one person to control things in the current state.

Now because the people that want to collect gil have so little competition because of this, and with the lack of gil sinks, they move on with housing exploitation. (there is simply not enough things to do with your gil) SE clearly disagrees with such acts but people do that on the market boards too and on some servers control the market completely. Why is one case ok and not the other?

~~~Momo