Quote Originally Posted by Zephy View Post
Do you think they already succeeded in curbing the supply of higher tier materials in the 1.17 update? It seems to me like it's not possible to reliably gather in g5 until r43 now (when all of the sweet spots in the approach phase get nailed down), maybe it's a short term band-aid.
Nope, restricting it by rank is not a good way to restrict items. There are more than enough R45+ miners that can easily glut the market without the hordes of R20and 30's out there. No one is rare. No one is excellent. The only way to make mined materials rare is to make THEM rare and excellent. There are too many of us, no matter what level.

I have heard that the sweet spots are way more chaotic than they used to be. Our other shell's goldsmither says that he's losing a lot of gold becuase it's all over the place even with way more vitality than I have. It was never all over the place for me. About a quarter of the time it was just in "the other spot" if it wasn't where it usually was.

But still, there are enough R45+ miners to glut the gold market themselves, even if you take gold away from everyone under45.