Atomos = Inflation...

[ShinodaMouri]

A lot of materials have sold on Ragnarok, what remains are the absurdly priced pieces that have been there for over half a year. The obvious complaints here are those from people personally feel their efforts are now devalued. Perhaps they are, but are not on any higher ground as you stated (great post).

I have been NPCing items for months. My method? I prefer to NPC items rather than live in the restriction of the market wards. What I do sell are melded or HQ items that I craft from mats that I gather. I fished up a bunch of fish, i crafted those crystals, i logged my lumber, i made the masks and I NPC'd them. Slow at first, super fast with hasty hand. I don't have to wait, and yes it takes a bit more time. However, I"ve leveled 3 jobs in that time and made a few million gil without stress or delay.

NPCing items for gil are a part of the way the game works. The problem, from my perspective, is not that of an exploit but the underestimation of players to sacrifice efficiency for guarantees. These points all covered by Ronin.

You want to know what DIDN'T help? The obsessive crying and moaning on this forums advertising the methods and procedures in a public forum. If you did that, you actually devalued your own time investment via some weird self-fulfilling prophecy. GMs may be worthless for most things, but an email, chat, or call would have been much more efficient in bringing to light the "problem" while not setting the damn thing on fire. These people shouted fire, and promptly handed out gasoline and matches.

Many of those "lazy" people you know who don't take a single step to earning gil, would have never had the intelligence or whereabouts to figure this out. Instead they jumped on a forum and found their recipe. Don't confused a lack of ambition for the absence of dedication in this players.

[Orophin]

I have been NPCing items for months. In my instances, I prefer to NPC items rather than live in the restriction of the market wards. What I do sell are melded or HQ items that I craft from mats that I gather. I fished up a bunch of fish, i crafted those crystals, i logged my lumber, i made the masks and I NPC'd them. Slow at first, super fast with hasty hand. I don't have to wait, and yes it takes a bit more time. However, I"ve leveled 3 jobs and made a few million gil.

I just wanted to emphasize the underlined/bolded part. You made a few million gil in a matter of months. People made 40 million gil in a week. There is no comparison.

[ShinodaMouri]

I'm totally with you, and I get that (even though it slipped by me as I wrote it). However, these are the same people who will frivolously spend their fortunes away like a young waitress who won the lottery. That gil, although created from nothing and directly injected into our virtual economy, will end up back in the hands of responsible crafters or farmers. Who in turn will hoard it just like they always have. It's like a virtual Bush/Obama (for those in the States) stimulus package. Everyone's gonna go off and either pay their bills or buy flat screen TVs. Right now, I'm just not too worried.

In any case these idiots (those who lacked initiative to build capital prior to this event) can at least get some stuff on them to make my remaining time in pick up PTs slightly--yet marginally--better. In the mean time, can we get some "hot-fixes" to the damn imperial invasion? No one even cares about the Northern Tribe and have been kicking stones for the last week. I WANT A HAT! The damn Dawn Drops won't get that for me, lol.

[ScorchyWorchy]