Two Complaints from lower level players

[myahele]

Most dungeon gear loot is unsellable, but I agree that they should be worth more than the suggested price if you sell them to npc.

I agree, you needing to be lv 25 just to post in thier forums is a bit too much, new players can't posts asking questions, etc.

Lastly, you have a limited amount that you can post per day based on level. Yes! There's even lockouts to how much you can posts daily based on your level..

The good thing about thier forums is it the thread is popular enough we may get dev responses/aactions.

[TouchandFeel]

IMO and with my experience of going from from level 1-50 on my first class, having large amounts of Gil is a non-issue at that point. I pretty much never needed to buy new gear since I would get everything that I needed through quests, dungeons, levequests, class/job quests, etc. Selling old gear didn't give me a lot of money but it was usually enough for repairs and such and since it was pretty much free as a quest reward it wasn't like I lost out on money. This coupled with the money you get from quests and the like you should have more than enough money to get you to your first lvl 50. Money only really becomes much of an issue at higher levels, at least IMO.

As for having items that you are sitting on and don't want to NPC vendor, your inventory should have enough room to hold most of everything. Most mats stack to 99 of them and its only really when your are leveling multiple crafting and gathering classes that you really experience the item bloat in your inventory.

Level 20/25 is very quick to get to and you should be able to reach those within a week or two of pretty casual play if you are following the story quests, job quests, etc. If you are trying to level by grinding mobs, well that doesn't work in this game.

As for the level limit requirement for the forums, I would guess that it is meant to be an attempt to prevent trolls from just creating accounts to troll the forums because you know people do actually do that a good amount in online forums.

As for the 1000 character limit for postings, yeah its sort of silly but has an easy work around.

[Bixby]

Inflation starts at home. Any change they make to vendor prices would have to be balanced by a change to the costs of gil sinks. Net effect would be bigger numbers with no change in purchasing power. And there's no need to buy anything from crafters before you get your retainers. Everything you really need is available from vendors, and you get plenty to cover that from quests, leves, hests, etc.

The forum restrictions are weird. New players can post all they like in the New Player forum, though. And contrary to the warnings and stickies, off-topic posts (in any forum) don't tend to get any form of moderation (exhibit A: the website feedback forum, which is like 90% not website feedback), or at worst, moved to a more appropriate forum.

[Noxifer]

Level 20 unlocks retainers. It doesn't take long to get there.

Well, not exactly. A level 20 main-story quest unlocks retainers. That doesn't mean you'll necessarily be there by the time your character hits level 20, not if you like to explore content or (for example) try out other classes (especially gathering/crafting classes) as you go along. Me personally, I dislike being 'railroaded' from A to B to C, which means I try to seek out any other things I can do before heading on to the next step/area, wanting to see how much the game will let me get away with before grabbing their cattle prods to get me back on track. On my first character (now sadly relegated to being an alt), I hit 50 well before doing the level 35 story-line quests. Sad? Probably. But that doesn't mean I'm the only one. One of the people I now and then play with on my current main character has hit lvl 50, but is still on the delivery quests to Costa.

It's true, if you focus on the main storyline it doesn't take too long to unlock retainers (and shortly thereafter getting your own chocobo to ride). The only thing I really objected to was the misleading "level 20 unlocks it" bit ^^

[CrystalRainbow]

Use that low level gear convert it and turn it into GIL.
That's what you need to be doing with all the gil that seems to have no value.

[Niamh_Rillemaugh]

The market board economy is absolutely horrible for new players right now. The prices are absolutely meant to gouge players who already have a level 50 class and are working on other ones. And we could set our crafts to lower, more reasonable prices, but you'll never see them anyway; other people will buy them up and relist them and the original price.

[Ilitsa]

Am I the only one that thinks it's funny they set a level 25 requirement to posting, but refuse to set any form of level limit for chat ingame to push back against the RMT's?

[Kiroh]

I'm surprised you're having this much of an issue finding a crafter to help you make some gear, Balmung is just lousy with crafters that have nothing better to do.

[Galliano]

You don't even need to worry about gil at low levels. Just get out there and do quests, FATEs, the main story and dungeons and you'll soon be leveling up and making gil on the side. Once you get retainers you can start selling things you get that you don't need on the market board.

Gil is worthless in this game, even at level 50 it's not needed to complete any of the battle content.

[Shneibel]

@OP : it doesnt screw up honest player, you just dont know how to make money or to be correct, not at the right lvl to earn money. As a lvl 28 DFR low lvl should open up and you get money from there

ps: the game give you gear, you WILL NOT need to buy any gear until you are 50 (if you want to do ifrit Hm right away), the game even give you starter armor set at lvl 50 too ._.