Destroying Server Economies

[Krotoan]

Large houses are the biggest meaningful investment you can make with gil and you'd be surprised at how many people can't afford a medium still.

This is going to be especially relevant with a new housing district being introduced in ShB.

25 Mil is hardly a mountain anymore though. it's been standardized and is a known quantity. If I put my mind to it I could easily build up that money in 2 months, crappy economy or no and with a minor investment of play time. Ignoring the fact that a large house for a single individual is.. excessive.

People who want to amass wealth are still capable of it, but people who just need mats/gear aren't going to have to pay exorbitant amounts for that gear anymore.

[KaijinRhada]

Normalizing prices is fine. I haven't been on to see what the system looks like, but if it works the way I've (so far) been informed, I would have wished that the MB was datacentre-wide instead of server-based. Such a thing would probably be too out of reach in terms of technological capability, but I still pine for it.

I'm not going to look forward to server-hopping to see what competitive pricing there is for everything I sell.

[Barraind]

You'd be surprised at what the cost of goods is on different servers.

Balmung is not the cheapest on Crystal for an overwhelming majority of things, and wasnt when the day started. I've spent the last 12+ hours compiling lists (and spending a lot of gil) figuring these things out.

Instance servers wouldn't have any barring on what your current world is. This wouldn't save us from a Raubahn Ex again.

Its, at best, a horrifically low chance this saves us from having those problems in the first few days of shadowbringers.

EVERY MMO has these problems on the first few days. Splitting the population but using the same base resources to support them doesnt significantly lower the problems we're going to have, and if they DID expand the infrastructure, they could have done that as we were with only slightly worse results.

[ElazulHP]

Honestly, if they're going to do this they should just let the MB share across the entire data center. That would bring true parity. I honestly don't think people are going to bother server hoping when some people are so lazy they won't even go to a vendor to buy something that is cheaper.

[DamianFatale]

Your economy will be affected within a couple weeks. Be patient.

[supergiz]

Have a feeling they are working towards systems in the expansion that make botting much harder to do especially with Crafters. They hinted at an endgame crafting system that's the equivalent of raids. Will be interesting to see what they come up with.

[KageTokage]

Have a feeling they are working towards systems in the expansion that make botting much harder to do especially with Crafters. They hinted at an endgame crafting system that's the equivalent of raids. Will be interesting to see what they come up with.

I'd like to hope, but I seriously doubt it if they can't even tell that someone who literally never logs off and is always crafting and/or gathering is botting.

[supergiz]

I'd like to hope, but I seriously doubt it if they can't even tell that someone who literally never logs off and is always crafting and/or gathering is botting.

What if they took a system like those mining minigames in the gold saucer. I imagine it's pretty dang hard to bot those successfully. Even harder if they combined it with timed nodes. Just add something very active on high value rare nodes that makes it very difficult if not impossible to bot.

[Maneesha]

What if they took a system like those mining minigames in the gold saucer. I imagine it's pretty dang hard to bot those successfully. Even harder if they combined it with timed nodes. Just add something very active on high value rare nodes that makes it very difficult if not impossible to bot.

it is not hard, they simply do this 24/7 with a huge amount of bots and don't care about how much they get, they will simply always do 1 run and never go into "all in/double the amount"(or come up with a script that helps helps them get the most amount possible) like in the gold saucer games and still accumulate enough over time to drive the prices down. this would just make it harder on normal players. even if bots have to sell to npc, its still lucrative for them, ofc they sell on the mb because it works and they can get more gil faster.

ppl saying rmt doesn't effect normal players... why do you think publisher/developer are constantly battling them and banning them, because its healthy for the game economy and normal players aren't affected?

as to destroying the economy, i don't think it will really be destroyed or as bad as some imagine it to be. it always sux when the prices drop for what ever reason, but it also means that crafters will be able to also get some stuff much cheaper and wont need to invest the time to gather it themselves.

i must say i find it a bit amusing that non crafters/gatherers are so happy about dropping prices, even thou it also means they will make less of a profit from their own things they try to sell on the mb and will even need more time to accumulate the needed gil to afford the really rare stuff which is expensive on all servers (rare glamour,furniture,mounts, etc).
also the fact that a lot of ppl care so much about the economy on other servers, especially if they don't even play on those servers.

[Krotoan]

ppl saying rmt doesn't effect normal players... why do you think publisher/developer are constantly battling them and banning them, because its healthy for the game economy and normal players aren't affected?

Because companies don't want other companies profiting off their investments without a share.