Stablizing the market(stop undercutting everyone people!)

[Jashynvald]

Let me give you a basic rundown of whats happening using a fictional example(since i cant give you numbers cuz i cant check servers yet)


A log cost 5k

The lumber cost 3k

The item 5 of those lumbers make(which cost 15k to make) sells for 5k too....


so this is what we see

selling raw mats: 25k
selling the material it makes: 15k
selling the item that they make: 5k

the further down the line you go the more money you lose out on because only the raw materials sell for a profit at that point
and why make anything when you lose out on what you can earn by selling it raw

So, effectively, exp = gil.

Part of the value of the raw materials is the simplicity it has in starting up a craft to be done to gain exp. When the potential for exp the use for it in grinding is used up in the first rounds (log becomes lumber) then the price drops because, to get the same amount of exp, you would have to find other things to combine with it and the subsequent synth after the initial one (like lumber being used for a bow) is more expensive than the original log and entails more hassle with managing different items (sometimes for different DoHs).

In this case, most people don't like what they're going to use for the lumber, instead sell the lumber to make some gil back, and then buy up more logs with disposable income to continue grinding.

So not only is exp = gil, but convenience = gil. When one of those is reduced, then the item's value suffers for it.