For those who don`t get the problem with red scrips...

[Aeyis]

Very true. However, variety comes with time. They are simply building the foundation to this new system they implemented ever since Heavensward. As a foundation, I believe it's great from a business standpoint and a playing standpoint. Heck, I calculated how long it would take if you knew what you were doing and out of an entire week, it would only take about .08% of your total time to max out your 450 red scrips for both gatherer and crafter. Once you are capped out, go do something else. There's a reason we have multiple options and avenues to explore in this game.

....You dont know much about red scrips do you? That is strawman mathematics by the way.
You calculate over the entire hours worth of a week, when you should be calculating over the time people spending playing this game.

By the way, how many of these do you have? Whenever I ignore one another shows up..

Bad analogy is bad.

For gathering, it takes less than 1 minute per 36 minutes to obtain 16-32 red scrips.

Bad analogy is indeed bad, and I see you gave a perfect example. Gathering does not take 1 minute because you also need to save up time for GP regen.You also need to fly to the node. You also cannot do a dungeon untill right after the node spawned. Better not make any length crafts (or any with food) near the spawn time either.

In addition gatherers need to spend 11 hours to actually obtain their materials for the week. Thats 11 hours of pure grinding. This on top of about 6 or 7 hours red scrips. (less with fishing so I hear)

I dunno about you, but I dont need anywhere near 18 hours to cap esoterics.

168 hours per week, 16.8 hours = 10%

Therefore 11 hours = roughly 6.5%.

If you figur 8 hours sleep, 5 days of 10 hours for work/school, and maybe a couple of hours a a day for basic nutrition and hygene you quickly see that you dont hav 168 hours, you have about 40 hours for things other than the essentials. 11 out of 40 is 27.5% of your 'free' time. Seems more significant than that 0.06% you mentioned.

Im quite bad with math. So it always surprises me that people cant see the proper (basic) equations.

Lets say someone plays FFXIV 4 hours each day. That would be a total 28 hours per week. Lets be generous and say he plays twice as much on saterday and sunday, adding another 8 hours for 36 hours total.

Now then, consider that he has to grind favors for 11 of those hours.


That means he would have to grind favors for 1/3 of his total playtime in the week. If you add in the time it takes to meet the gil requirements for red crafting scrips, and the time spend on gathering red scrips. Well. I dont think there would be much time left to enjoy the game.

You can however gather more items needed for scrips in a week than you actually need. And need to do less work the next week.

Random comment I see? The items needed are unique. They will take up a lot of space if you hoard them. They are also from unspoiled nodes so you cant exactly grind them.