Reward Crafters Please!

[Zourin]

Because they got to 50 before everyone else?

Most of them are omnicrafters. They don't need gear anymore except for their combat classes, and that all comes from dungeons anyway. Anything they can't get otherwise, they can make themselves or have one in their FC make it for them for free. 90% of the gil made by these 'multimillionaires' are in iL55 crafting equipment and selling it for a premium to 'new' 2.0 players and old 1.0 players that didn't stick around a sh*t game to hit L50 and bypass the 2.0 marketplace entirely, as well as in the L4 and L5 materia markets where they could quickly reprocess easily soulbound rings for a lot of gil before server seniority caught up to them.

They aren't a part of the marketplace economy. They don't even really craft for profit more than they have to. They don't buy anything, so the money just accumulates. Rapidly, in the case of the 2.0 economy.

Now, because everyone shat themselves in sticker shock from the 'hidden surprise' with FC housing (and rightfully, scared sh*rtless over the BS to come with player housing), everyone on the server is now making a concerted effort to power level, farm like mad, and dump every rock, twig, and dead animal on the market to make a buck.

So.. the only ones who will be able to afford housing on a Legacy server are the people who already can. The only reason nobody's buying is because the price was set SO high, that Yoshi is being forced by threat of mutiny (He's losing me and anyone I can take with me to Wildstar already) has to lower the price. They're just biding time to not pay more than they have to, defeating the purpose of the sh*tpants pricing scheme in the first place.

[Aniforani]

It's time to give up on the idea of crafters simply making BiS equipment.

To combat the slew of people that are lvl50, create a specialization system where you need to choose 1 DoL and DoH. Crafters and gatherers need a reason to rely on each other again. For DoL, give them an action to obtain new Rare materials/crystals they can harvest only on their chosen profession. Make the new action require some sort of player interaction that could not be accomplished by a typical bot.
As for DoH, they could then take these new rare crystals/materials and enhance any current gear, crafted or dropped, but only in their specialized class. Give the equipment a generic stat boost, but make it temporary, like a fade on repair. This type of gear enhancement would be ideal for players who are stuck on certain content.
To help remove gil make a recharge npc, that would require a portion of the original mats plus a fee to recharge.