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    Quote Originally Posted by Xatsh View Post
    If anyone can level a 1 craft and make as much money as someone with all crafts the markets will crash.

    NO barrier = way too high of a supply + law of supply and demand = everything being near worthless.
    But then you don't need as much money to buy things, so the less money you get from selling means you can buy things cheaper.

    And there's the added effect of things being cheap enough that people don't see the value in leveling a craft and just sell mats.

    It all balances out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sephrick View Post
    And there's the added effect of things being cheap enough that people don't see the value in leveling a craft and just sell mats.

    It all balances out.
    If things become so cheap that the value of selling them at the wards is decreased, people will vendor them, removing the mats from the economy entirely.

    A balance in the mechanics is needed to keep this sort of problem from snowballing; Inflation is bad, deflation is worse. In any economy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duuude007 View Post
    If things become so cheap that the value of selling them at the wards is decreased, people will vendor them, removing the mats from the economy entirely.

    A balance is needed to keep this sort of problem from snowballing; Inflation is bad, deflation is worse. In any economy.
    I do think it's important not to devaluate people's hard work. Just trying to look at it from another angle is all.
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