Atomos = Inflation...

[Jennestia]

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.

This is how the mentality generally works -- People who benefited from it or currently using it are perfectly happy with it; Meanwhile those who aren't benefiting from it (purposefully so) can see the issue with it because they're not overlooking a flaw due to the profit they just made.

[Alegis]

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.

Its not even a bug. A bug is something not foreseen but the gil gain through seals was.
But yes, they should have made smaller rewards.

[Falcus]

It's likely just going to be temporary as the game has a lot of decent gil sinks in the form of multi-melding.

You can buy materia from NPCs now?
Buying things on the wards is not a gil sink... That's just moving the gil around the economy.
It would get rid of a small amount of gil but not much (the tiny % that is removed from each sale)

[Keyln]

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.

I dunno... Most of my money now a days comes from NPCing things that I get from leving. I usually get 3-10k per leve, and then about 50k just from the stuff that I NPC.

And really, no player actually needs to go to the wards for anything if he spends enough time doing things.

[Preypacer]

I did it, reluctantly, just to get a bit more change in my pockets 'cause I'd gotten down to 3,000 gil. I went up to 1 mil and that's it. I just needed a buffer to keep me going. Selling off random stuff to NPCs or quest/leve rewards should carry me for the rest of the way. For gear, I'd be getting much of it by killing of NMs and such.

Thing is, I'm not going to be inflating the market. For one, the money will either be used for repairs, or foods or whatever misc. gear I need. Also, I don't buy or sell things for ridiculous prices to begin with. So it's either going back out of the game via NPCs, or it's going to a player selling their merchandise at a reasonable price.

Making the money isn't the problem. The people abusing it with ridiculous inflation is. You can do one without the other.

[Elexia]

And really, no player actually needs to go to the wards for anything if he spends enough time doing things.

Fyi: You don't start with 99 leve allowances.

[Tranx]

I don't understand why people are so mad about the npcing the dawn drops, its the end of the game just relax and enjoy! btw still love how every patch is suppose to be the magic patch still xD

[Shougun]

I don't understand why people are so mad about the npcing the dawn drops, its the end of the game just relax and enjoy! btw still love how every patch is suppose to be the magic patch still xD

Would be true if we weren't carrying into the next game, but we are.

[Tranx]

Would be true if we weren't carrying into the next game, but we are.

if it is going be such a big problem why not just start everyone with 0 gil ? prices will continue to be high in the market wards anyway.

[Anakhu]

I for one will try and sell lower end items to noobs for rather cheap