Inflaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaation

[little ninja]

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I found out today my stuff I have is now worth in excess of 100 million gil. You know what? I don't have very many things either. Imagine what those top of the line HNM players have.



SE needs to do something about this and fast ... this is insane. T_T

i know what you mean, SCORPION HARNESS IS 20MIL (payed 5mil for it)HAUBERGEON is 18mil (PAYED 2.2MIL) AN HAUBERK is 15MIL ( payed 7mil) so thats a total of 53mil, an cost to buy it was 14.2mil, F'in insane.

[x1ang]

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how do people constantly afford these prices? >.>

[eriatarka]

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they buy gil omfg duh

[x1ang]

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i doubt THAT many people buy gil? >.>

[eriatarka]

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that many people DO buy gil, wouldnt be such a problem otherwise, would it ^_^

[Caspian]

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What? Are you sure that's not the +1? On Ramuh the regular is 30k, +1 is 3 Mil.

Positive, just checked it. NQ version hit 3 mil yesterday, 9 for sale atm, so hopefully it will fall. HQ is up to 10m at this point.

[Coinspinner]

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I remember checking IGE's site and seeing a lot of "Sold out!" after Christmas.

[eriatarka]

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thats there way of keeping a huge stock... then the next day their full stock... i always try to check how much money IGE gives you for 10mil every once in awhile, everytime its always not excepting due to full stock... i doubt they ever sell out >_>

[x1ang]

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well that's depressing =X i should've bought saplings before i left for winter break ; ;

[little ninja]

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how do people constantly afford these prices? >.>

firs off most armor ive had for over 2 yrs. my most recent being my haberk. that was back in the day were owning 2 sniper rings for 500k ment you were loaded. now its around 10mil for both rings an doesnt mean anything. hell if your lucky you can do 1 BCNM run an make 30mil with the peacock charm.

[JeanRC]

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lucky? i am never lucky in my ff life lol.
Camp n got nm for like 1001 times but never drop.
and when it drop, i die to link and the drop go into thin air and not my pocket lol
that is luck

[Kailea]

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yeah getting luck on BCNMs in not a goo dway of makeing gil :p

I for one am also getting sick of these prices.....I had stopped leveling DRG for a bit while I was leveling all my subs..and did not notice the prices untill I switched back to DRG. MY first though was WTF this is triple the price.......I have said it to peopel in my LS and I will say it here...the AH itself is to blame, make it like E-bay (or WoWs AH) and prices would be more under control. I played WoW and that was one of the only things I liked about the game what its AH lol.

[Kafeen]

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I played WoW and that was one of the only things I liked about the game what its AH lol.

The AH was one thing about WoW I didn't like. While it was more realistic it was annoying to have to wait to get your equipment, by the time you have got it you've levelled again and there's something better available, either that or someone out bids you while you're in the middle of nowhere and you end up keeping crap gear.

[Aeni]

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The AH was one thing about WoW I didn't like. While it was more realistic it was annoying to have to wait to get your equipment, by the time you have got it you've levelled again and there's something better available, either that or someone out bids you while you're in the middle of nowhere and you end up keeping crap gear.

Kaf,

It was only because in WOW, there's just way too many kinds of items and their variations. Very much modeled after the Diablo games, the items are randomly generated when a drop occurs. You could have a Bandit's Gun of the Tiger and then the next day, off of the same mob, a Bandit's Gun of the Whale. You can't even get the same item to drop off the same monster.

So, it's not the AH's fault. You misplaced the blame entirely. You should blame the game's random drop generator off of non-Named monsters.

The AH system from WOW would work perfectly in FFXI, only because there's no random items created on a daily basis, but rather the same set of crafted items with only new additions from expansions and updates. Players expect certain drops from monsters they fight, so this is a non issue.

Basically, what it does is it limits inflation to an item only, not to an entire economy system. I could've paid 5 mil for a D Ingot one day while another crafter, several hours after me, would pay 3 mil. I'd price my Haubu at least for what I paid, but the other crafter could price his much lower. Yet, his item might eventually sell for 8 mil while mine ended on the buyout of 7 mil. It's like a confidential buyer to seller system which should be the way it is. No history, no fuss, no muss with all the listed entries showing the price up front. I could choose to sell, from an HNM LS perspective, that D ingot for 2 mil while some random joe blow from a BC fight sell his for 5 mil. Both listed at the same time, guess who's going to sell theirs faster? If that joe blow gets anxious waiting for the sale, he's going to cancel his auction and lower it to 3 mil even 2 ... see how that works?


I also wanted to add this ...


SE should increase the rate of which items used to synth stuff more accessible. 100% drop rates on all non-Rare/Ex items.

If SE wanted to make something special, they should have alter versions of all crafted equipment and weapons which are much superior, but with very rare drop rates. For example, have Vclaw drop 100% of the time from several different scorp NMs, yet also have a 1% drop rate from those scorps a rare/ex Scp. Harness with superior stats. Same goes for Sea and Sky NMs. This will make available good items at reasonable prices, normal items will stay the same or even be a lot cheaper (so no tiring excuses of how some level 21 player still equipped in level 1 sets because everything was too expensive) and superior items only rewarded to the best of the best players that belong to the best of the hunters out there - AS IT SHOULD BE. These top of the line goods should not be made available to commoners and gil buyers.

[Blood Red Poet]

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Sorry guys, the inflation is my fault.

Couple days before Christmas, I was rushing to get some stuff done, and by accident I pushed FFXI and it broke. Don't worry though, I'll fix it soon.