Quote Originally Posted by Roaran View Post
So I would just like to state again, this thread is about Improving the Game through the economy. The market wards are inexorably connected to the economy and have far reaching effects on how well the market functions. My suggestion to improve the market wards does have economic impacts, but the sole purpose of suggesting it is to improve the game itself.
I don't know why you're stating the obvious. Of course improving the economy is going to improve the game.

Anyway you just don't appear to get it. My post was about preventing the massive deflation that is occurring for crafted items while preventing massive inflation of the super rare items. Super rare items being the equivalent of a Kraken club in XI. Gil is a problem, if five billionaires want an item and only one of them exists you can expect to pay hundreds of millions for it. Did you not learn anything from XI's economy in 2005? You're making the assumption that nothing in this game will be as rare as that.


Quote Originally Posted by Shampooo View Post
maybe its because these people take the time to farm stuff to sell or take the time to skill up a craft and make stuff to sell... if there wasnt profit in making items to sell, no one woulda been a crafter and we would have people crying about there being no items to buy. Also the ones making all this money isnt the average player so they're the ones who should be able to buy the expensive +3 gear.
Your post doesn't make sense. I am one of these crafters you talk about, yet it's my idea to fix the economy in this way. I think most crafters who make a lot of gil would agree that items need more value and there's too much gil in the economy.

You got goldsmithing to 50 (kinda funny how similar our classes are haha), are you happy with your jewellery being worth 10-20k a piece? Or would you rather the gems be rare so that you could sell rings for 200k each? Does a high end ring that costs about 10k to make being worth 15k sound like a healthy economy to you?

Surely you can see the economy is broke. I might not have the best ideas for fixing it but some big changes need to be made and I can't see any flaws in what I propose.