Asura Inflation - What's Going On?

I mean anecdotes are anecdotes and people who were banned are not the most reliable source for information about why they were banned. SE doesn't tell you why you were banned and even if they did, there's a pretty obvious incentive to cover up why. Nobody's gonna come out publicly and say "I got banned, I buy gil, bot, use Tako, use Cureplease, buy ML, merc, and use JA0 wait." Much more likely, they pick the least offensive thing they've done and go with that.

Small sample size, but among my friend group there have been fewer bans/suspensions in the past few months than there were last year.

Maybe the RMT have realized that they can just con idiots out of their gil and they don't need to actually put in any work anymore, so they stopped bothering with in-game activities.

Also worth considering that these "RMT" who are stealing gil from people and pretending they're gonna do EP or Gaol clears could just be regular *** players who created a mule.

Except don't cuss at JP because that is naughty.

Bro you played on Gilgamesh, you remember Beer's bazaar comment?

NA PLAYER IS SHITTTT ********* *** NA PLAYER SHITTTTTTT

I know a lot of people reported it, and it was never changed.

Lets not forget how quickly SE caved to fixing Stage 4 sortie only when it was the JP community who complained about it. If you truly believe that SE doesnt favor the JP community, idk what to tell you.

I mean anecdotes are anecdotes and people who were banned are not the most reliable source for information about why they were banned.
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Small sample size, but among my friend group there have been fewer bans/suspensions in the past few months than there were last year.

although part of me wonders if it was related to overuse of speed/warp tools

There's also no reason for people to lie to their friends about why they were banned, it's not 2005 where you will be shunned for using tools by most people. Everyone I've known was upfront about what they did and what they used.

I keep hearing of people being banned for "buying Mlevels".

I know more people who were banned August-October than I have in several years combined.

There's also no reason for people to lie to their friends about why they were banned, it's not 2005 where you will be shunned for using tools by most people.

SE has never been consistent about banning

some were multiboxers who had 1 or 2 accounts banned, others had their entire multibox crew banned

I have heard of more bans the last few months than for a couple years prior. I think Tako is definitely involved for some, but the "I was just buying mlevels" seems to have become a common claim. Not sure if it became a meme while I was gone.

ask yourself legitimately: "is it easier to make gil today or 5 years ago?" and then ask "do I have more or less to buy today than I did 5 years ago?"

ask yourself legitimately: "is it easier to make gil today or 5 years ago?" and then ask "do I have more or less to buy today than I did 5 years ago?"

ask yourself legitimately: "is it easier to make gil today or 5 years ago?" and then ask "do I have more or less to buy today than I did 5 years ago?"

For me personally, easier. Between AMAN Trove and multiboxing dyna, I make more than enough gil to feed my REMA addiction. AMAN typically adds 50-100m a month for me (sometimes nothing too though). This month I got a crep knife (gave to LS mate) and an O. sash that sold for 110m. Knife probably would have sold for 100m. Couple months ago I pulled 2 crep cloaks the same day, gave both to LS mates but I still see them sell for 200m.

Relics are the oldest and one of the easiest to create so most people who want one already have one, not to mention sortie horn and shield made the 2 most popular relics kind of redundant.

neither of the primes completely replaces either of the relics

The supply was cut by probably 95%. If you don't understand how that drives prices up, I don't know what to tell you.

I think you're underestimating the scale of the economics here.

Why would someone buy into that market NOW when there were multiple years where they could've for a fraction of the cost.

I'm no tank but the prime shield looks already pretty good after the first upgrade. Are there many occasions where you'd be lost without the extra -35% magic damage taken II from aegis over duban?

1 dolla now buys 5-6m which means that buying capped gil went from the 1000 dolla of a few years back to 200.

The Inflation is happening on Bahamut also and in weird ways. A Peacock Charm going for 3 million is super dumb as ***when you can simply farm the Rare/Ex version of the same damn thing.

Spike Necklaces are 100k a pop as well. I know people are lazy but this is beyond stupid.

Is it against tos to be passive in botting ML or not?

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