Thread: Fresh Start will ruin 2.0

My friend this has zero to do with anything. The #1 issue? Stop being retarded and stop overcharging for simple shit lol. Why is Store TP materia 3-7 million? Why are low level gear 50-80k while level 50 gear can be as low as 10k? People are retarded is the #1 problem in this game.

when you have all that RMT gil you can afford to buy that 100 million gil equipment and lock the price into the sale history. guess what new players have money to buy that stuff and i wonder how??

Originally Posted by Elexia

The thing that kills me is how would you know if someone bought gil or not without them saying "I buy gil?" Unless you're stalking them every second of every day it's impossible to know, even with stalking their status on lodestone or even pads.

I have heard people say that they bought gil before. However, by the same argument do you go around assuming everyone who has millions of gil bought it? That argument is a bit of a stretch considering how expensive it is. You really think that people are spending hundreds of dollars on gil for their characters? I don't, I consider that type of behavior quite extreme and so I'm willing to wager that most people do not do it.

Now if gil was suddenly maybe as difficult to come by as FFXI, while at the same time being relatively cheap on RMT websites and you had a bunch of new(ish) characters running around with E-bows, Scorpion Harnesses, and Brigandine armor then I would be suspicious of them. This is what happened in FFXI. It hasn't happened in XIV to my knowledge since there is not currently any way that RMT/botters can vastly outpace legitimate players in earning gil enough that it causes a shift where suddenly earning gil becomes a big challenge and buying gil is cheap enough to entice people who wouldn't normally go so out of their way to cheat.

Whether you are downloading a bot (given the well known risks to account security/hacking etc.), or paying hundreds of dollars for in-game currency you are taking such extreme measures to cheat that most people are likely to just stick to legitimate methods since they work and have a good enough return for their time.

Why would the new servers needs to reach old servers amount of gil? you dont really purcharse anything from NPC and price at wards/AH will adjust accordingly.

Originally Posted by Chardrizard

Why would the new servers needs to reach old servers amount of gil? you dont really purcharse anything from NPC and price at wards/AH will adjust accordingly.

She's running off the assumption that when SE adds anything economy related, they will have to base it off one of the economies, either the old pre 2.0 or the fresh start servers.

Which is completely idiodic considering the players control a majority of the economy anyways.

Originally Posted by Azurymber

In order to maintain an economy SE needs to develop a balanced system of gil outputs (gil exiting the games economy via airship travel, npcs, etc) and gil inputs (gil entering the economy via leve rewards, mob drops, etc)

I dispute you! Prove it.

In the end, the new "fresh start" servers (if there ever are any) would do exactly what we did two years ago. Start with nothing and work your way up. Hell, they may even have an easier time of it.

Originally Posted by Alerith

In the end, the new "fresh start" servers (if there ever are any) would do exactly what we did two years ago. Start with nothing and work your way up. Hell, they may even have an easier time of it.

It already is easy in the current old servers for new players to catch up, because gil is rarely an issue.