Thread: [3.0] Craftsmanship and Control bonus parameters will be added to Souls of the Crafte

Originally Posted by StouterTaru

Your assumption is that the "crafter's fee" that person C is charging for one specialist synth is higher than person A's profit from two different specialist synths, at which point it won't sell.

If you're a crafter, you probably know that the duty finder works for crafting too, and several crafters will do a synth for cheap if you can provide the mats.

Person A is not seeking a profit on two separate synths though. That's what you are overlooking.
Person A is not taking his Pterodactyls and seeing what profit he can get for making Pterodactyl Straps. He is taking his Pterodactyls, making the P Straps, then turning that into an Adamantite Francesca.

Person B is buying someone else's P Straps and trying to use the sale of the Adamantite Francesca to cover the cost of the P Leather, other materials for the Francesca, and make whatever profit he can. If Person B is lucky, he can find someone (Person C, or perhaps get in touch with Person A) willing to turn his Pterodactyls into P Straps for him, at a lower cost than the P Strap fetches on the Board, but it still increases his overhead. (Yes, I know, Pterodactyl Straps are not Specialist-Only anymore. They still get the point across.)


And the person hurt most by all of this is not A, B, or C - it is the BUYER. Persons A and B are trying to sell for the highest they can, while still actually selling their products. Lacking the need to pay off Person C, Person A can sell for less than Person B, often to the point that Person B cannot even make any profit. Person A is still able to make a profit, however, because he's not depending upon someone else to provide materials for him.

The Specailization system prevents other people from intruding into the markets that A, B, and C are operating in, however, for they lack the requisite Specializations. That minimizes the competition, the need, to reduce the prices they are putting them up for. This ends up hurting the market, by reducing the number of sales (fewer can, or want to, pay), thereby reducing the total profit the crafters are able to generate, which reduces the amount they can craft to put up for sale, in a vicious cycle.

The rampant undercutting was a result of too much supply, not enough demand, for any given item. The Specialization system does nothing at all to address the demand - it only cuts sharply into the supply. Specialist-only recipes are, and have been, bad for the market as a whole, regardless of how well a few individuals have been able to use the Specialization-Only recipes to take Gil from others and line their pockets with it.

Blacksmith IV book is specialist lock,they did it again !! The lock again whyyyy?!!

Originally Posted by vigioX-Sun

Blacksmith IV book is specialist lock,they did it again !! The lock again whyyyy?!!

All the new 3-Star recipes are Specialist recipes. Specialization is going to be pretty important now. It's not for Relic mats anymore, it's for most if not all of the high-profit, high-end crafts. Which are very difficult to HQ BTW.

Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder

Person A is not seeking a profit on two separate synths though. That's what you are overlooking.
Person A is not taking his Pterodactyls and seeing what profit he can get for making Pterodactyl Straps. He is taking his Pterodactyls, making the P Straps, then turning that into an Adamantite Francesca.

Company A is trying to sell a phone that they made from scratch at a profit of $50 per.
Company B is trying to sell a comparable camera for a comparable phone to Company C for $50 profit per.

Company B expects to make as much profit for doing half as much as Company A, and then cries because nobody buys their cameras. Then company D comes along and sells cameras to Company C for a reasonable price. Capitalism at work.

That analogy has literally nothing to do with how omni-crafting specialists work and their advantage over everybody else, and I would claim that is not "capitalism at work" at all.

So in the end, like or not, specialist system came to stay (at least now for couple months more).