Problem: Items are Worthless

[Solipse]

That sounds about right.

It may seem that this system and the current system are 6 in one hand and half a dozen in the other as far as work to get a +3 item, but there is a very fine point to be seen, there:

In another thread I went through and figured out that currently it takes about 12 million gil and over a thousand combines to have a mathematically good chance of getting a +3 iron plate. This is just for one part of one material of one item. You could spend a billion gil to get 30 of each +3 sub item for a thermal alembic and still not end up with a +3 alembic, currently.

So, this system would virtually guarantee that, with enough effort, you can make a +3 alembic, while still having all of the other positive downstream effects on the economy.

[Xenor]

In another thread I went through and figured out that currently it takes about 12 million gil and over a thousand combines to have a mathematically good chance of getting a +3 iron plate.

Or you could spend a few hours farming one from a mob... Do people seriously try to synth up Iron Plate +3s? I think I'll start farming them and listing them for 5mil each.