Why no Plex system?

[Snow_Princess]

You do realize that Balmung had a FAR FAR larger population than it does now? at the best days prior to SB dropping, you still had queue times of hundreds of people. Now the highest queue i've seen is 30 people during prime time.Balmung congestion was caused by being Balmung. The server had such a heavy load on it already that anything that sparked peoples interest would bring hundreds of players online because of the allure of whatever it was. Most of those people aren't on the server anymore.. We're still full, but no where near what we were.

That being said, the game could use a lot more gil sinks, useful gil sinks; but this isn't an either/or situation. There can be multiple solutions to the problem that the game faces.. more gil sinks AND a plex system can work in tandem to spread existing gil out, reduce the likely-hood of people buying from gil sellers and then taking gil out of the system via gil sinks.

Can't do both at once. You would either have to give huge amounts of gil sinks that appear to the rich, while having some appeal to those that have less and wait for like a year?
Or if you want instant fix, you have to remove 75% of the gil and really tick people off.

It would be hard as af to fix at this point. If SE ever wanted a challenge this would be it. Making this mess into a stable and active econ without making most people mad be a huge achievement.

Also are you kidding me on the queue times? Even without change on the current pace of things it would be 5-10x worse when the new housing is released and if this system was to be released say 1 week or more before housing? you be seein queues like you did ending SB early release. Also balmung's queue times is off my point but SE made balmung's queue times bad for 2 reasons. 1. not having an official named rp server (2-3) and 2. not taking earlier actions to attempt to control the population growth. The current state of balmung is is what happens when you ignore problems/warning signs.

[frostmagemari]

Can't do both at once. You would either have to give huge amounts of gil sinks that appear to the rich, while having some appeal to those that have less and wait for like a year?
Or if you want instant fix, you have to remove 75% of the gil and really tick people off.

It would be hard as af to fix at this point. If SE ever wanted a challenge this would be it. Making this mess into a stable and active econ without making most people mad be a huge achievement.

Pardon my assumption.. but i don't think you actually know how the in-game economy works... or really understand what i said regards to solutions.

I never said "huge amounts of gil sinks that appear to the rich", i said useful gil sinks; gil sinks need to appear for everyone or they don't work. There just needs to be more of them.
And who said ANYTHING about removing 75% of the gil? Not me.. that's your own screwy idea that you just brought up so you can knock it down.

Also are you kidding me on the queue times?

No, i'm not. At best you have 30 people in the queue at 6-9pm central time, with it being less at times earlier and after. Balmung, despite being listed as congested is not a hard server to get into on a nightly basis anymore; and these queue times are WITH the people that have gone back to AFK'ing all day long.

Even without change on the current pace of things it would be 5-10x worse when the new housing is released and if this system was to be released say 1 week or more before housing? you be seein queues like you did ending SB early release.

Of course the server will get busier. It's what happens on content patches, but it won't be SB levels of people because so many people LEFT. They transferred and went to the servers that were classified as new. There are far fewer people on this server than there were, and while it will get busy, it will not get SB release busy.

Also balmung's queue times is off my point but SE made balmung's queue times bad for 2 reasons. 1. not having an official named rp server (2-3) and 2. not taking earlier actions to attempt to control the population growth. The current state of balmung is is what happens when you ignore problems/warning signs.

Neither points are relevant at this juncture. Balmung is now one of two major RP servers rather than it being limited to one (due to people leaving the server); and its population isn't getting any larger, it's only able to shrink at this point as people leave congested servers.