Materia System

[origamikitsune]

As long as they address the inventory issue at some point, having R10, R20, R30, R40, R50 Catalyst makes sense. A simple mechanic of catalyst used must be higher rank than the item receiving the materia, and it might just be simple enough to be elegant.

EDIT: Also, given the speed at which a person can rank through the lower levels, making the lower ranking catalyst more common with the higher ranking catalyst being rarer and rare seems to make sense. This would provide something for lower ranks to do and sufficient supply will keep the costs down for them. Likewise, if its cheap and easy, it won't keep people from avoiding socketting lowbie items because the cost isn't justified for such a short time period (after all, who will pay 5mil to socket an R10 weapon that won't be used in two hours?). Like wise, keeping the supply low at higher grade catalysts keeps the prices on par with what higher ranking players can afford. Obviosuly, it would need to be balanced in such a way so that low level DoL aren't totally SoL. Honestly, I'm not sure if that balance could be reached at all at low ranks.