Why you need extra retainers

[Aeyis]

Your servers market is very interesting if you can sell full stacks of HQ steel ingots and horn glues with such regularity.

Why anyone would need large amounts of those items in HQ puzzles me.

PS: Considering the amount of time required to craft that many HQ items, I think its fair to say that the complaints regarding markets being dominated by the top 1%~ arent entirely baseless.


On the plus side, its a great way to get the required amount of crafts for the luminary achievements.

[GenJoe]

Well, if you check out the steel ingot prices from 10 days before, you can see that the price fluctuates, a LOT.. But even at that low price, it's still mostly profit.
As far as why anybody needs those HQ items, I have no idea.. I just know that if I sit on it long enough, it will sell.

Thing with horn glues is.. I seem to have a monopoly on them now, I didn't force anybody out, but I guess the thought of earning a profit of 2-3k each craft (25 sec) doesn't appeal to anybody else. But that's still ~300k/hr in profit.

It's certainly not the most time efficient method to make gil, but all the crafting can be done semi-afk with macros which is what I do with a dual monitor and playing another game at the same time.. I can churn out a decent chunk of stuff to sell.

[Niqote]

Well one reason could be they are not on your server.

Masamune (A Legacy server where most people sustain themselves and ''no one'' buys RMT Gil)

Stack of Steel Ingot HQ - 34k (470k~188k for your server)
Stack of Horn Glue - 38k (280k for your server)
22 HQ Rose gold nuggets - 30k (104k for your server)
99 Granite - 10k (47k for your server)

And your prices show the Net Profit, mine are still the Gross prices.
(But when housing was introduced my server was in the most expensive bracket!)

Also... when people complain about not enough retainers, it's because they lack inventory space. It has nothing to do with Gil.

[ElHeggunte]

Your servers market is very interesting if you can sell full stacks of HQ steel ingots and horn glues with such regularity.

Why anyone would need large amounts of those items in HQ puzzles me.

Doesn't seem so unusual to me. There are plenty of reasons why someone would buy a bunch of HQ mats.

[Aeyis]

Doesn't seem so unusual to me. There are plenty of reasons why someone would buy a bunch of HQ mats.

Those are very large amounts tho. High level crafters dont actually need or want low level HQ mats (because they are more expensive), unless its needed for a specific 2* (for use in macros, if the price is similar enough to the NQ) or higher.
Low level crafters dont have any use for HQ items of those amounts.

As a result on my server those kind of items typically sell in stacks of up to 10, while rarely in increments of 20-40.

Also... when people complain about not enough retainers, it's because they lack inventory space. It has nothing to do with Gil.

Pretty much, yeah. Altho + 1/2 retainers can help with selling if you go through large volumes of different sizes.

[SarcasmMisser]

Your servers market is very interesting if you can sell full stacks of HQ steel ingots and horn glues with such regularity.

Why anyone would need large amounts of those items in HQ puzzles me.

It's not regular though, that sales volume is pretty bad and we have no idea what the actual margins are. If anything he is proving a point by saying even if you do this horribly inefficient way of making money, one of many you can do without being a 4 star crafter, you will be able to make whatever you need.

Also as with above, Japanese servers actually have competitive prices since people tend to gather and craft their own stuff a lot more. The prices are closer to equilibrium, NA servers are a turkey shoot to make gil in comparison so I don't know what people are complaining about.