Quote Originally Posted by Gillionaire View Post
I think it'll be the exact opposite.

Instead of having a conglomerate of kingpins controlling the MB as a whole loosely. You'll have to face just the one kingpin controlling his own little section with an iron grip. Because he can focus his efforts better than a group can.

A couple weeks ago, I noticed a price war between 2 people on the mcD market on Jenova
where the prices just plummeted from 400k earlier that day down to 150k in the course of about 2 hours.
That's probably because those two were "specialized" in that market and didn't have any other diversification and hardly any competition, it was literally just the two people undercutting each other to hell. When all was said and done, prices went back up again to 350k so it didn't really do much for the buyers.. It just made it harder for other sellers.

Do you think you can compete in that kind of hostile market?


Maybe my concerns stem from the size of my server, most end-game items only have 3, 4, or maybe 5 sellers. If there were more crafters, all my concerns may be alleviated.. But I just don't see Jenova's population problem changing any time soon so there's really no point getting into that discussion..


Oh and also,
if you have 3 lucis tools, you're not a mid-tier crafter :P
You may happen to compete in mid-tier products because there's more demand and it's more lucrative.. but you're still pretty high up there
I make 4 star LTW and WVR gear (very little BSM). I guess I consider high end as every craft at 4 star and full retainers all the time. I have 4-8 pieces up at a time and I'm too lazy to play all the markets. Maybe that's why specialization doesn't bother me too much - I already specialize for the most part. The guys who give me the most competition are the omnicrafters who, like you said, look at the market board as endgame or just play the game so much, they can both raid dungeons and the MB. I guess I'm hoping that maybe specialization would give me a reprieve from those sorts because it would make cornering every market more tedious.

I feel like I already compete in that market you describe. A lot of the crafters I mentioned above already do that in EVERY market. I feel like all they do is camp their retainers to undercut. You're right that I could get stuck in the same speciality and they'd be even more relentless, and I concede that would suck.

I think Adamantoise is similar. There's not a ton of big crafters but the ones that are there are pretty dominant. That said, I'm fine with the current system. I'm very rich by most players standards even just getting the scraps of the tycoons. I'm just not particularly scared if it changes.