Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Again, I'm not seeing the problem with having excessive gil. In fact, the people I usually see having problems with "undercutters" are usually people who would have enough money anyway. So much so, that one common solution is to buy out the competition and resell at higher prices, which would seem to exacerbate the problem of having "excessive gil" if it really was a problem.
As long as I've been playing the game, people have claimed that the way to combat undercutters is to buy what they're selling and relist it at a higher price.

I have never EVER EVER EVER seen that be effective.

It may have been effective years ago, but nowadays the people who are undercutting are crafters who are doing little else, and bots. Both are just going to replace what you bought at the same price. Because the MB now is a place where certain accounts spend literally all of their time.

And of course the people complaining about undercutters have gil; the people complaining about undercutters are other people trying to sell on the MB in enough quantity that undercutting is an issue. Someone trying to sell a single high priced item is barely going to notice they're being undercut. Someone trying to sell a bunch of different items, and being undercut on all of them by the same people/bot every time, are going to notice.


Instituting a gil cap will do one thing: it'll cause a dramatic influx of bot/alt accounts, which SE has already proven they are largely unwilling to do anything about. They aren't going to stop selling so much, they're just going to find new places to put their money.