Community name "Gathering Fatigue"

[Akumu]

Hello fellow adventurers!

To clear up your questions, we have checked with the Dev. team and found out the following.

As a countermeasure against RMT activities, the probability of gaining items through gathering will start to decrease after repeated attempts over a long period of time. After a certain number of attempts, items will no longer be obtainable through gathering.

To explain a little more on what goes on behind the scenes, there is an internal counter which measures how often a player has attempted gathering activities. Players will start with a maximum pool of 2,500, which will decrease by 10 each time a gathering attempt is successful and yields an item. Once this number decreases to 1,000, players will find it harder to obtain items. At 0, items can no longer be obtained through gathering.

Stopping gathering for some time will bump this number back up. The recovery rate is currently set at 100 per hour.

If you have ideas and feedback on this topic, please don't hesitate to let us know.

Please let SE know this. The best way to slow down the RMT is by not making gil hard pressed to obtain like it was in XI. a RMT can easily get 15 different people and gather a load while the legitimate players won't go that far. You're hurting us more than the RMT as of now. Just keep gil not that hard to get and a majority of people won't feel the need to waste RL money to prevent being uber gimped(with some gil sinks so we all don't have a trillion gil in a month). Please take off fatigue. If I want to excessively grind then let me. I don't need anyone telling me how long I can have fun. I could be having a blast leveling a class then BAM fatigue hits and already knowing the outcome the game gets really boring. It's like having your mom come to your room and saying you only have another hour before bedtime. It's an instant buzz kill for anything you was doing. I love to excessively grind if I have the time because I don't know how long before I get that luxury of freedom again.


I hope you pass this off or inform SE something similar. Its hurting XIV legitimate base more than it is for RMT.