Fix a problem...by making it worse!

[Raist]

In order to stimulate the economy and drive down the price of high-level materia, a system is being put in to place where you may increase the level of materia through Bonding. All materia will now start at Tier one and through Bonding, increased in level. A new catalyst is required for this process (Called Aether Soaked Matter) that can be gathered as a rare item in unspoiled nodes. To increase the level of the materia it must be Bonded with another materia of the same Tier. Success rate is determined by the Tier in the following manner: Tier 1: 80%, Tier 2: 50%, Tier 3: 20%. Failure results in the loss of one or both materia as well as the catalyst.

Call me crazy... but I kind of like this idea, maybe if it were a little more restrictive somehow it may actually be something worth considering.

Remove the Tier 1 starting point for all materia, so people can still follow the Spirit Bonding route if they choose--the goal would be an alternative path for the less dedicated.

As the tiers go up, require more materia: Tier 2 needs 2ea. of Tier 1, Tier 3 needs 3ea of Tier2, and Tier4 needs 4ea of Tier3.

It could be something that is quest driven to unlock---could be some outlandish quest requirements to complete it, and afterwards it has to be done through an NPC as well.

Just little oddball tweaks like that to put the brakes on it so it doesn't get abused to the point it completely breaks the market.

[Teslo]

I get replies like his in like every thread I post. XD I should stop being "edgy."

Personally I thought the idea of this thread was genius. :P I really wanted to make my entries into something that were actually totally plausible, but clearly not good over all. That way, if a dev does happen to look at my ideas here and use one, or were planning on doing something similar, they'd already know that at least I, and likely much of the community already feels it's a bad idea. :P Most of the entries I've seen in here are so obviously bad that I think it goes beyond the point of the thread. lol

Plus, I do have a tendency to think like an evil, maniacal game developer... lol

Call me crazy... but I kind of like this idea, maybe if it were a little more restrictive somehow it may actually be something worth considering.

Remove the Tier 1 starting point for all materia, so people can still follow the Spirit Bonding route if they choose--the goal would be an alternative path for the less dedicated.

As the tiers go up, require more materia: Tier 2 needs 2ea. of Tier 1, Tier 3 needs 3ea of Tier2, and Tier4 needs 4ea of Tier3.

It could be something that is quest driven to unlock---could be some outlandish quest requirements to complete it, and afterwards it has to be done through an NPC as well.

Just little oddball tweaks like that to put the brakes on it so it doesn't get abused to the point it completely breaks the market.

I actually think this isn't such a terrible system either, just needs a lot of tweaking to make it worthwhile! The way I presented it really isn't much different than how it is now. Obviously it's worse because you have such a high rate of failure (We all know that an 80% success rate in this game fails about 60% of the time...), and the rarity of the catalyst is just asking for RMT exploitation!

[Violyre]

Personally I thought the idea of this thread was genius. :P

I get that a lot too. Some people just don't like fun.

Let me add something before I drag this too far off topic.

To allieviate concerns that people could be too well geared or under geared, armor has been removed from the game.

To address the situation that players may sell runs to people, and in an effort to stop FMS (see OP :P), all raids now cost 500K to enter per attempt.