A return to Eorzea

[sgosky]

The problem is, you can get to rank 20 with 5 leve's, if you 5-star them in a group, i.e. one level will get you to rank 8, being rank 1 with mobs at rank 13, then rank 23 mobs. So, might as well buy or craft the r20 stuff out of the gate.

In regards to economy, due to the lack of any sort of auction house, players randomly put items up for random prices, so attempting to put an item up based on the prices of the other items of the same type (which you would have to meticously grind through in order to find all the prices, through the slow-loading menus) usually returns a flawed price decision.

The best way to fix the monetary economy is to consider how hard it was to farm the items, how much time it took, and then calculate in how much gil you receive for quests or leve completions around that items r-level, and then you have a solid price. If we could convince people to use this economic system, we could slowly fix the economy, as players will no longer be able to put prices up for the ridiculous 200mil gil prices that you see. Sure, you'd be selling for less, but think about the future, would you rather an inflated system, or an affordable system, that you too, will eventually need to use.

[Catapult]

In regards to economy, due to the lack of any sort of auction house, players randomly put items up for random prices, so attempting to put an item up based on the prices of the other items of the same type (which you would have to meticously grind through in order to find all the prices, through the slow-loading menus) usually returns a flawed price decision.

*aims a shotgun at the argument*

Learn to use the item-search feature. It's a pseudo auction-house without removing all opportunity for impulse-buying.