Proposal: HQ mat-to-HQ mat conversion of 100%

[Solipse]

Okay. Yet one more douchebag I'm adding to my ignore list right now. This dude just rants and cries like a baby.

Holy crap, there's an ignore list. You are my hero.

What it does is create multiple markets. It adds depth to the economy and encourages people to play the way they like to play. And this is game. People play to have fun and do what they LIKE. The system accommodates this with the multiple markets and makes It makes it so that a crafter - ANY CRAFTER - is equal to every other crafter. It makes it so that a gatherer is equal to every other gather.

That's my problem with the thing's he's saying - he wants to penalize people for not playing the game how he likes to play the game. That kind of thinking is almost never valid and usually amounts to self centered statements that are essentially meant to reward the person making them.

I think, at this state in the game, with the massive development that SE is doing, the only sane and logical attitude to have is to focus on the problems that plague _everyone_ - as you said, and as I've been saying, the largest economic problem right now is that nothing ever leaves the economy; that means that nothing ever really goes up in price, only down. If you can get 6m gil for an item this week, you better jump on it, because you'll probably only get 5.5 next week, and so on.

To use an analogy, imagine that cars did not actually consume the gasoline in their tanks. Once everyone had a full tank of gas, they'd never need to buy another until they bought a new car. After a long enough time, with people pulling billions of gallons of oil out of the ground, we'd hit a point where consumption would drop down to a low level (never quite zero, though) and the gas stations would have to fight constantly to undercut everyone else so that in the rare case that someone, somewhere needed some gas, they'd surely buy from them.

In a game where crafting is such a huge deal and huge part of the fundamental system, that kind of setup is almost counter intuitive. Essentially, unless you're one of the first to max level, you may as well not bother because you're going to invest in a massive money and time sink with no hope of reward on the horizon.