ARR Gil Cap Reduction

[Raikki]

I expect that for psychological reasons this is going to loosen up a lot of money that's been hoarded so far. It's hard to swallow 30mil for an M2 (sticker shock), but 3mil sounds a lot more reasonable even if you have 10 times less gil and make gil 10 times slower.

[Raagnar]

How are we not losing anything exactly? Just because the game is lowering prices does not mean players are forced to as well. This is just a nice way of saying we are deleting billions of gil.

[HiirNoivl]

Raagnar,

Let's say you had 7 mil and need some smoked Raptor. Currently smoked Raptor is around 100-120k a stack. No biggie for a millionaire.

Cut to ARR... you have 700k... someone is selling smoked Raptor for the same price... are you going to buy it? Or are you going to make your own?

As the item stays on the market without selling... more and more people will come along as start undercutting. The price will fall until people start buying again.

10k-12k a stack.

[darkstarpoet1]

Raagnar,

Let's say you had 7 mil and need some smoked Raptor. Currently smoked Raptor is around 100-120k a stack. No biggie for a millionaire.

Cut to ARR... you have 700k... someone is selling smoked Raptor for the same price... are you going to buy it? Or are you going to make your own?

As the item stays on the market without selling... more and more people will come along as start undercutting. The price will fall until people start buying again.

smoked raptor sells for 1k each on my server. after the gil decrease on everyone it may drop to selling for 500 gil each, but things like that i don't see going lower. sure the price cut in half, but the profit margin increases by 500%. you will technically be spending a higher percentage of your gil buying items like that one you mentioned later on

[Req]

Raagnar,

Let's say you had 7 mil and need some smoked Raptor. Currently smoked Raptor is around 100-120k a stack. No biggie for a millionaire.

Cut to ARR... you have 700k... someone is selling smoked Raptor for the same price... are you going to buy it? Or are you going to make your own?

As the item stays on the market without selling... more and more people will come along as start undercutting. The price will fall until people start buying again.

10k-12k a stack.

That is in the ideal world. I just have a bad feeling the prices are probably going to actually have shot up by about 30-50% for many of the lower end items when all is said and done converting for the gil reduction. It won't surprise me if we see the smoked raptor you are talking about going for like 20k a stack instead of 12 which would be 200k now.

[Platinumstorm]

There has been an economic problem since game launch at Atomos is only making it worse. I'm not sure this change will be enough to really fix the economy. So much of the economic problem in this game remains hidden because of incredibly low item demand.

[HiirNoivl]

Yes, that could be true Darkstar... smoked Raptor probaby won't drop down 90% because gil will still be added to the system (how fast is the X factor!). But I think that's the whole point tho. Gil will be worth a whole lot more (gath joke) than it is now.

[Meatdawg]

Yes, that could be true Darkstar... smoked Raptor probaby won't drop down 90% because gil will still be added to the system (how fast is the X factor!). But I think that's the whole point tho. Gil will be worth a whole lot more (gath joke) than it is now.

This is where the smart\proactive will make a killing. Sell early, while prices are unstable =p

[darkstarpoet1]

This is where the smart\proactive will make a killing. Sell early, while prices are unstable =p

yep. it only takes a few minutes to look for items just like this before each major change and make a killing after. this is also how alot of the super rich became that way.

[HiirNoivl]

I'm hoarding mats even as I type.