Are all BTN stupid or is it just on my server?

[Vickii]

Oh it’s fine that you don’t want to stabilise the economy. But by undercutting by so much and actively destroying the economy you effectively hurt yourself, hence my saying it was stupid. It is.

Put it this way.... pretend we’re talking about real money here. You have made something that you can sell for £8000. It may sit in your storefront for a few hours but you make £8000 profit. Or you can put it for £50 and the first person to walk past your shop will bite your hand off for you.

This is the situation yesterday. There was no supply and demand issue, just a time it takes to sell issue. So effectively they valued an hour or twos wait as 7,500. It’s stupid, there’s no justification unless they really desperately needed 500 right that moment.

Also to add to this, you can literally obtain 70 percent of items on the game, undercut them on the market board to make 500 Gil.

This item is a 3 star item that comes with the highest level requirement, gear requirement and requires you to have grinded for a book to be able to obtain that item. So why are you going to sell it for less profit than a piece of leather you randomly obtain? Makes literally no sense besides the fact that it’s a game, not real money and you don’t really care.

But you’ve put an awful low value on your time and effort to be able to get that item. May as well just keep it and let others do the reading.

[Gemina]

Also to add to this, you can literally obtain 70 percent of items on the game, undercut them on the market board to make 500 Gil.

This item is a 3 star item that comes with the highest level requirement, gear requirement and requires you to have grinded for a book to be able to obtain that item. So why are you going to sell it for less profit than a piece of leather you randomly obtain? Makes literally no sense besides the fact that it’s a game, not real money and you don’t really care.

But you’ve put an awful low value on your time and effort to be able to get that item. May as well just keep it and let others do the reading.

This is basically why I stay far away from the first come/first serve shark waters that is patch day. Trying to compete with the masses is a complete and utter waste of my time. It's not that my items would not sell; I just know they are going to sell for much less than when I initially look up the going rate, and trying to monopolize anything with the time I can put into the game is futile. I don't even consider myself 'economy savvy', and I know that when value depreciates as quickly as the afore mentioned items in this thread do, it is probably not the best idea to invest time and gil into them.

The game's currency might be play money, but the value any individual places on it can and will bleed over into the real world as the majority of us play the game at the cost of RL time and money. By this, I mean that every player has to determine how best to spend their time in game, and I am just not sure if those whom are frustrated are looking into if they are spending their time in a manner that is really worth it.

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This is basically why I stay far away from the first come/first serve shark waters that is patch day. Trying to compete with the masses is a complete and utter waste of my time. It's not that my items would not sell; I just know they are going to sell for much less than when I initially look up the going rate, and trying to monopolize anything with the time I can put into the game is futile. I don't even consider myself 'economy savvy', and I know that when value depreciates as quickly as the afore mentioned items in this thread do, it is probably not the best idea to invest time and gil into them.

I didn't even bother doing any market research, just crafted a bunch of items. Most of them turned out to sell for around 2 million apiece. Unfortunately I have IRL work to do as well, but may I'll still have time for another crafting round before the prices are completely deflated.