Quote Originally Posted by Almagnus1 View Post
It's because it's was a driving force behind a lot of RMT and all the problems that comes with it (namely the gilspammers and botters)

This is something that should be suppressed until SE gives us some way to exchange gil for game time (and then a token that's tradeable on the market like what we've seen in several other MMOs at this point).
Yes, and I'm having a change of heart about allowing free market of it, because it would ultimately become unfair as you say, and the only way SE could battle that unfairness is to put a bunch of money and time into anti-cheat software and hardware locking houses, and even then it would not really stop people from profiting off it. Profit isn't exactly a bad thing is really what i wanted to express, but when the supply can be disrupted by tycoons so for the whole world is when you have a problem. Unfortunately the only other option is what hey have done, which is basically punishing everyone. A 24+ hr invisible timer certainly stops black market dealing but it also hurts everyone else, I think Jojoya or Themarvin have the most elegant solutions; ie reducing the invisible timer to 3-4hrs (still works against black market dealing and an easy fix) and/or reducing the number of clicks per hour on the placards (harder to implement but still not a bad idea)