Atomos = Inflation...

[Orophin]

I have been NPCing items for months. In my instances, I prefer to NPC items rather than live in the restriction of the market wards. What I do sell are melded or HQ items that I craft from mats that I gather. I fished up a bunch of fish, i crafted those crystals, i logged my lumber, i made the masks and I NPC'd them. Slow at first, super fast with hasty hand. I don't have to wait, and yes it takes a bit more time. However, I"ve leveled 3 jobs and made a few million gil.

I just wanted to emphasize the underlined/bolded part. You made a few million gil in a matter of months. People made 40 million gil in a week. There is no comparison.

[ShinodaMouri]

I'm totally with you, and I get that (even though it slipped by me as I wrote it). However, these are the same people who will frivolously spend their fortunes away like a young waitress who won the lottery. That gil, although created from nothing and directly injected into our virtual economy, will end up back in the hands of responsible crafters or farmers. Who in turn will hoard it just like they always have. It's like a virtual Bush/Obama (for those in the States) stimulus package. Everyone's gonna go off and either pay their bills or buy flat screen TVs. Right now, I'm just not too worried.

In any case these idiots (those who lacked initiative to build capital prior to this event) can at least get some stuff on them to make my remaining time in pick up PTs slightly--yet marginally--better. In the mean time, can we get some "hot-fixes" to the damn imperial invasion? No one even cares about the Northern Tribe and have been kicking stones for the last week. I WANT A HAT! The damn Dawn Drops won't get that for me, lol.

[sylvestew]

Things appeared to skyrocket on Gungnir, but what I suspect really happened is that everyone bought up the normal priced stuff and, since everyone was farming atomos instead of restocking the wards, all that was left was the overpriced items.

It doesn't really matter in any case. Prices will go back to normal in short order.

That is a good point i think that is what happened. This effect can be seen in hamlet on my server. Yes prices are the same cause people still make stuff here, but hamlet has been phase 1 for like the past 4 days cause no one is turning anything in cause they are busy doing atomos.

[ScorchyWorchy]

[Majidah]

I don't understand why people think if you didn't exploit you are left in dust.

Go spiritbonding. Shit sells really high now. So you'll make a lot of money from anything you sell now.

We don't have set salaries. So inflation doesn't do anything at all. Want money? Make items out of thin air, sell them for what they go, buy shit you want.

[Enma]

Gil won't be rerolled. It's been a problem, but fortunately they fixed it (finally D.
They did other mistakes of this sort in the past:
- Power Level months ago
- Garuda
And waited to much time before fixing them.., I hope that in ARR they will be faster or more careful.

Thank you anyway for the fix.

[WHS]

While it's about time they nerfed the gil gain from Atomos what are they going to do about the people who abused the crap out of it for the last week? Everything on Balmung has SKYROCKETED in price. Items that were 200k before this event are 4~5mil now. 25m items are 50m. Basically unless you /did/ exploit this, you are left in the dust which is wrong because those of us who DO NOT exploit are getting punished in the economy

Wrong this is already been established it was not an exploit which is a form of cheeting but rather not working as intended. Please watch your harsh tone on something you obviously don't understand.

[Jennestia]

I don't understand why people think if you didn't exploit you are left in dust.

Go spiritbonding. Shit sells really high now. So you'll make a lot of money from anything you sell now.

We don't have set salaries. So inflation doesn't do anything at all. Want money? Make items out of thing air, sell them for what they go, buy shit you want.

Inflation doesn't do anything? Why is it such a hard concept to understand that it does affect people -- If you're a new player and just starting out, how will you afford basic things when people are selling for 120-340k more than it's worth? SE reduced guildleve gil which doing even your initial set will still leave you unable to afford anything; You can tell them to farm but if you don't know that your gear actually matters at lower levels now that it will be very hard for someone to farm as a DoW/DoM if they can't afford gear.

"Level Botanist/Miner" -- If you want to maximize your returns you need the gear and in order to do that you need to buy it or make it. In order to make gear you need materials which if people end up selling for 26k a pop due to inflation rather than it's usual 3k, guess who's hurt? Not the players already with gil or means to an end. So yes whether you want to admit it or not inflation does have an effect on things, mostly in the spectrum of newer players who can't sustain themselves yet.

[AngelicBeing]

Removal of the monsters summoned by Atomos in low-level area ⇒ Adjustments intended for lower level players

Nice to see that the dev team gets it, unlike a lot of the people on these boards intent on killing this game by driving away new players.

[Causidaux]

There is a new player in my social shell, they have one class at lv 50 and yet they have made 50M + in the last week, how anyone can think that this is not totally ludicrous is beyond me. Ok it was a bug, not an exploit or a 'cheat' but it has just the same detrimental effect on the game.