How to Undercut

[ReplicaX]

I miss the old XI system of showing what people paid for an item but not what the ones on the board were selling for.

Just another case of #XIdiditbetter

Hate to say it, even that system had its weaknesses. Undercutting was very active as ppl wanted to move stuff. At any point in time you could unlist and relist at lower prices if someone undercut.

Also it was horrible for the consumer, you had to guess bid until you met the lowest listed price. Unless you were lazy or didn't care it created stale market. Gil also had more weight and power to it in XI. In XIV, not so much as you can acquire things much faster and easier without gil.

[AnimaAnimus]

Hate to say it, even that system had its weaknesses. Undercutting was very active as ppl wanted to move stuff. At any point in time you could unlist and relist at lower prices if someone undercut.

Also it was horrible for the consumer, you had to guess bid until you met the lowest listed price. Unless you were lazy or didn't care it created stale market. Gil also had more weight and power to it in XI. In XIV, not so much as you can acquire things much faster and easier without gil.

Honestly I usually only tended to drop the standard sale price by a few hundred, or in the case of large ticket items, a few thousand, and things were constantly selling. Rarely did I have to change a price or have something on the market for 3 months before it moves. It's primary weakness imo is that you could only put 7 items on the market per char at a time.

And when it came to buying, if you bid in smart increments instead of clutching your purse strings you only really had to bid a handful of times and could still save a ton of gil.

Here the fix:
Bring back retainer wards 1.0

omg I still have nightmares about the v1 retainer wards. Every time they play that tune in the game it gives me shivers