ARR Gil Cap Reduction

[Matsume]

Like I said, your scenario can be done right now. With no change. It has nothing to do with the change to gil denomination. That hypothetical scenario is one of an insanely rich person using his resources to monopolize a market. It has absolutely nothing to do with a redenomination.

Stop posting for a bit and think it out. Go wiki redenomination as well. It should help.

Look I fully understand the economic principals involved. Matter of fact your comment about me using the term gil cap had nothing to do with the situation i was proposing. Yes, you are entirely right that the situation I am purporting can be done right now, and is being done right now. Yet, you don't think the gil reduction could exacerbate the issue?

All these people who say, oh this will be just like FFXI where gil was hard to come by. Well as a max lvl leathercrafter in FFXI I also remember a number of oversights that led to gil producing exploits (bot fishing for rusty caps for example). I undestand how much easier it will be to work with smaller numbers from a developers stand point over the long term but the question remains:

what will SE do to prevent this from happening again? Do you honestly think SE wont include some sort of oversight wherein players will take advantage of npc buyback prices leading to a flood in gil? I know they are planning all these gil sinks but I am weary, Noctis. This happens every time. At this very moment, for example, I know a special someone buying a NQ item on the wards, crafting it, and npcing the result at no less than 1mil gil profit per hour. On two accounts at the same time.

So if all goes well in lala land, all gil vaues are reduced by one digit. If players follow through accordingly, this friend of mine still makes 100K per hour profit (per account) just npcing an item he buys off the wards. Oh and for those of you who will say "you can make way more than 1mil an hour farming mats for relic weapons" I know this very well, but the money you would get by doing this comes from another player, not from an npc.

Essentially SE's main problem is the fact that more money is going into the game than going out. It's that simple. This is all a big bet on wether or not player housing and other forms of gil sinks yet to be implemented will balance gil in/gil out. If gil sinks > gil generators then giland items will maintain value. But if gil sinks < gil generators then hyper inflation is inevitable.

All we can do is wait and see.

[Antipika]

wall-o-text

Need that much text to explain what's inflation oO? That's a completely separate issue.

[Matsume]

Need that much text to explain what's inflation oO? That's a completely separate issue.

lol go back to reading tweets and txt msgs, child