Atomos = Inflation...

[Jennestia]

I don't understand why people think if you didn't exploit you are left in dust.

Go spiritbonding. Shit sells really high now. So you'll make a lot of money from anything you sell now.

We don't have set salaries. So inflation doesn't do anything at all. Want money? Make items out of thing air, sell them for what they go, buy shit you want.

Inflation doesn't do anything? Why is it such a hard concept to understand that it does affect people -- If you're a new player and just starting out, how will you afford basic things when people are selling for 120-340k more than it's worth? SE reduced guildleve gil which doing even your initial set will still leave you unable to afford anything; You can tell them to farm but if you don't know that your gear actually matters at lower levels now that it will be very hard for someone to farm as a DoW/DoM if they can't afford gear.

"Level Botanist/Miner" -- If you want to maximize your returns you need the gear and in order to do that you need to buy it or make it. In order to make gear you need materials which if people end up selling for 26k a pop due to inflation rather than it's usual 3k, guess who's hurt? Not the players already with gil or means to an end. So yes whether you want to admit it or not inflation does have an effect on things, mostly in the spectrum of newer players who can't sustain themselves yet.

[Keyln]

Inflation doesn't do anything? Why is it such a hard concept to understand that it does affect people -- If you're a new player and just starting out, how will you afford basic things when people are selling for 120-340k more than it's worth? SE reduced guildleve gil which doing even your initial set will still leave you unable to afford anything; You can tell them to farm but if you don't know that your gear actually matters at lower levels now that it will be very hard for someone to farm as a DoW/DoM if they can't afford gear.

"Level Botanist/Miner" -- If you want to maximize your returns you need the gear and in order to do that you need to buy it or make it. In order to make gear you need materials which if people end up selling for 26k a pop due to inflation rather than it's usual 3k, guess who's hurt? Not the players already with gil or means to an end. So yes whether you want to admit it or not inflation does have an effect on things, mostly in the spectrum of newer players who can't sustain themselves yet.

I dunno... Most of my money now a days comes from NPCing things that I get from leving. I usually get 3-10k per leve, and then about 50k just from the stuff that I NPC.

And really, no player actually needs to go to the wards for anything if he spends enough time doing things.

[Elexia]

And really, no player actually needs to go to the wards for anything if he spends enough time doing things.

Fyi: You don't start with 99 leve allowances.