Destroying Server Economies

[KageTokage]

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

I wish SE cared enough about people using their game as a source of income to start filing lawsuits, because pretty much all of the most popular botting programs are sub-based and thus profiting off of their product.

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.

Unfortunately, they can and do regularly bot those games to farm MGP already.

Can't say how efficient they actually are at it, but I'm fairly convinced at this point that if people want to bot something badly enough, they'll find a way to do it.

Not even mendacity mats are off-limits for them, as people are known to actually form parties of bots that spam instances for the sake of farming such.

[KageTokage]

I honestly almost never see the bots on my server trying to sell crafting materials or shards.

If they're gathering, they're either funneling the mats to a DoH bot or they're gathering them for their own crafts.

That said, they aren't always doing new crafters a favor.

[Shougun]

I honestly almost never see the bots on my server trying to sell crafting materials or shards.

If they're gathering, they're either funneling the mats to a DoH bot or they're gathering them for their own crafts.

That said, they aren't always doing new crafters a favor.

Not sure at how many but it seems they're a bit better at hiding these days, sometimes if you have the auto camera thing up (sort of pans around random things near you, makes a fun screensaver sort of experience) you'll see them talking to NPC under the ground lol.

[RareItems]

Players wont check all servers for the cheapest, they'll prob just check 1 server aside from their home world. And currently that server is Balmung xD.

[Aurelius2625]

Bruh, if I can server hop to get rep. dreadwyrm or primal weaps, or RAID FOOD AND POTS which cost millions of gil... I will...

[Destati]

As someone with alts outside of Balmung, I'm all for it. I hate how expensive things can get on other servers when they're much cheaper on Balmung, so it'll be nice to see things balance out if they do.
Until then...
Come to Balmung my wandering friends, buy my things... Au Ra has wares if you have gil.

[gumas]

should be like this for a few week, after that things should balance by itself. once people know that (let say) balmung has cheaper stuff, either they will increase the price itself or other server will lower it down.

in the end things should back to normal after a few week

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

im glad this happen, now everyone has afford to buy anything on the market, keep it up!

[Lersayil]

As someone from a cheaper world I welcome our price gouged brothers from less populated servers!

For anyone that doesn't do MB flipping or omni-crafting as a main activity, this should be a good news. I am of the opinion that the non-crafter, non-gillionaire population shouldn't be exluded from the majority (non rare / exlusive side) of the market. Hell, judging by the average wealth of our lvl70 non-crafter FC members, even the 300-500k per crafted armor / weapon is a hefty sum... and thats good. They should be affordable, but should still sting the wallet of the average Joe.

As for the bots thats a whole 'nother can of worms, but I sympathize with the number of non-price gouging crafters they might demoralize.

[Jaywalker]

I'm not really up on the crafting and gathering game, but I grind out all my gil doing dungeons, hunts, stuff like that. It can take a while to earn and don't think I've ever had more than the 400,000 gil range. Most of my world's market board gets unbelievably expensive and it can be near impossible to get stuff.

I was just able to get a glamour I've really wanted using the world transfer system. Still had to grind for it, but I got it. My home world originally had a way pricier one and then that got snapped up before I could get near it.

Idk if this offers any perspective, but for me at least the world visit system has been a relief. I wouldn't necessarily feel the need to world hop scouring for the lowest price if I had millions of gil and this was just a drop in the bucket so to speak. It's just if there's something very specific I'm looking for and struggling to afford.