Quote Originally Posted by Meatdawg View Post
So if I can mine for the same amount of time Player A was farming Atomos and make just as much money as they did by selling hq ore and crafting the nq ore into HQ ingots is this also "exploiting" ?

The only thing a new server has going for it is you all start at the same level. If i level a Miner/Fisher/Botanist to 50 first and make a fortune am I "exploiting" ?
if you get that money by vendoring them, yes, then its an exploit, if you get that money by selling to other player,s then no, not at all. Selling to players and infinite vendoring for money is quite different.

you cant make a fortune from selling +1 ores if noone has the money to pay ten times their worth. 90% of the gil on most of the servers has currently been made from exploiting and then gone between players, why do you think their making gil sinks? to get rid of the gil that was made this way of course :P main reason materia was added, so the wards would make the rich pockets less rich, and less gil going around. but vendoring from atomos kinda destroyed that :P