Problem: Items are Worthless

[Xenor]

Easy to make items like the silver needle will never be valuable. If that needle required a rare mat sure it would become valuable but then no one would skill up on that. People will always exploit the cheapest and easiest recipes to skill up on.

I agree with some of what you say however, it's a similar idea to what I push where each item that is designed to be valuable includes one rare mat. Not every item or mat needs to be valuable and rare and I believe craft SP is too low not too high. It should be difficult to take a craft to the cap.

[Solipse]

Easy to make items like the silver needle will never be valuable. If that needle required a rare mat sure it would become valuable but then no one would skill up on that. People will always exploit the cheapest and easiest recipes to skill up on.

I agree with some of what you say however, it's a similar idea to what I push where each item that is designed to be valuable includes one rare mat. Not every item or mat needs to be valuable and rare and I believe craft SP is too low not too high. It should be difficult to take a craft to the cap.

Needles are one of the exceptions to the general rule, though.

When you compare needles to something like a Jade Hora, though, you can see the difference. NQ Horas aren't very expensive because people have to make 10-15 of them to get a +2/+3 version. Include the fact that pugilists aren't THAT popular and you can see the problem with excess items flooding the market.

[CoolBlitz]

SE, where is the solution on this?

[Dubont]

Think of it this way. You have say...500 crafter onry players in the game and only 100 battle classes in the game. If those 500 crafters are trying to get those 100 people to buy their stuff, the price is going to come down. Supply vs demand. There is too much supply and not near enough demand. Someone pumping out Crab Bows isn't going to sell them if someone is selling for just 1 gil cheaper.