Stablizing the market(stop undercutting everyone people!)

[MicahZerrshia]

So wait, if I produce cars for a living, I should start by branching my company to mine its own ore and smelt it? I shouldn't make any money for forming the metal into the various parts and then assembling?

If I did mine my own ore, I would surely have a greater profit than if I bought it. But I shouldn't not make a profit because I bought it. DoL items should be worthless to the consumer. Do you buy iron ore frequently when you want a computer? There's an important step in-between that's just as important and deserves decent pay.

I know you said "in this game right now," so I hope you're saying that you think it should work differently.



I'm not sure how your server is, and I can't speak for Besaid, but the trend seems to be that lower-leveled gear is worth more than higher-leveled gear that's mass-produced for SB.

Thats a completely unreasonable comparison, as is using almost anything real-world to compare it to gaming lol

Car makers contract out with other production companies to get a fair price. Unless you want to start contracting out with other DoH and DoL this analogy does not work. Esp since even then there is not a fair trade market and other crafters you would agree to buy all their ore from is going to still rely on the markets since they will be able, in alot of cases, get a better price for their merchandise from these markets than from you, thus causing you to pay higher prices and reduce your profits again. Viscous cycle when its not real life with things like quality control and international trading laws to worry about

Anyway what Im saying is as a leathercrafter I can farm up enough skins and sinews to mass produce gear in an hr or so. Alumen, that I need to make skin to leather, is cheap so doesnt cut into profits and if I want it I can spend another hr farming that and come back with a few stacks which will last me forever. So all I really need to do is buy ingots. If I had to buy the leather and the sinew and the alumen and the rubber and the ingots, no I would not expect to make much of a profit, if any at all. And to boot the farming also earns me shards which I can use to make the stuff again saving me more precious gil and raising my profit margins.

And yes lower lvl gear is worth more but at the same time it sells alot slower which causes alot of crafters not to produce it. They would rather sell 5 20k high lvl gloves a day than 1 100k low lvl pair a week