SE Making Crafted Items Wear Down?

In my opinion, the problem with this game is that EVERYTHING is centered around money. I play WoW and FFXI and the comparison in economy is far off. NPC values are drastically better and drops aren't easy but they are abundant. Crafts are still very important but the flooding of certain items isn't as bad as FFxi. My point is crafting should be fun and not "Omg how can i *** someone else over to get richer than everyone else??" It's like coming from real life to game economy and you ask yourself why do we have to come out of a crappy economy just to go into another one because of capitalism? If anythign is taken from my post, this game relys too much on the AH and too much on the gil. And i agree with Trollox, the developers could give a damn about this game. From one of Jaerik's post he even included code on how certain things could work properly and why certain things aren't even in the game and why? (i.e. why does the auction house only have 7 slots, why are drop rates horrible, why are NM 24-72 hrs when the opening msg says"we don;t want you to miss out on family...etc.) It's just little things liek this that make you really think about the development team and wonder why and what you are paying for every month. If you do your own homework you can see where i'm going with this.

The prices look like that because cheaters crashed the market, I'm not sure it will ever recover considering the games age and SE's lack of action.

It was fine before the cheat was discovered, imo.

Geez...no need to be nasty about it. I wasn't even talking about half the stuff you were saying anyway. And why is crafting not glamorous? Is it not nice to make someone happy if they shout for help on a synth or help an ls member craft somethign they need for dynamis for example? Has it not lead many to be rich? (the JP population, for example, when NA and EU were leveling? They exploited the market completely and had the prices inflated etc. The gilsellers DO NOT and DID NOT control the market; players do. They only follow suite. AND if you do not know this; THEN YOU'RE AN IDIOT.) All I'm saying is that crafters are the life blood of the game and WE make items, and consumables for the players to use. Sometimes, players can ONLY get certain items from crafting. I am also a heavy crafter and also know too well that it's disappointing to level synths to a high level and all that hardwork is for nothing because all of the items sell for little to nothing. Too many of the WRONG people control the market and drive the prices down to non-sensical amounts (like you stated where the mats cost 2x to 3 x the HQ.) If you read what I was saying, you would understand that crafters are gettign shafted and everythign in the game is revolving around money. EVERYTHING. I would think that the developers would understand that people see that they were lazy in doing a lot of things especially a player controlled economy and shitty npc sell back as well as other things. Even knowing the economy is this bad in you would think the developers would at least give crafters a chance to make more money back instead of having to rely on the AH alone (NPC sellback.)The NPC sellback is horrible. I think it's like 1/6 or 1/8 of the npc selling price. Maybe give higher level crafters higher returns when selling to NPC's?) Bazaars don't necessarily always work either. I mean the "average player" would assume to only look in bazaars outside in Batalia downs for sky trigs, dynamis coins and etc.)So you can't even rely on that area for good, continuous money. But my thoughts were jumbled up when i wrote my first post so let me put it this way:
The whole system of money and economy in this game needs to be revamped. The economy is controlled by the wrong people (and many people follow because they don't have a choice.) In turn, this damages the effort we as crafters worked for and poured our money into for simple reasons like HQ rates being diminished and items are way more than the HQ item itself. For example, Adaman hauberk on my server I've seen in bazaar's for 100k and the hauberk itself is 169k. But what's worse is the haubergeon, used to make hauberk, is only 210k? Yeah, I can agree that the math is completely off. So in closing, be careful and read the whole post next time, if you can please, before making a semi-nasty post and get the full facts of what I was saying next time. Thanks

I am woundering why do we all blame SE for this problem.We i mean the one's who have played this game. Took a good thing and destroyed it.I am talking about. In the past when people bought gil and lvl a craft wit it.Se desighn the game if played rite.There was no way a person could have 1 or maybe even 3 craft 103+ and a lvl 75 job to. I know this because i lvl my craft from 1-100 the rite way took me a yr plus and only had main job of 50 because the time it took to get it to 100.Then befor I knew it 100 every where. Friends I play the game wit no names. They went from 0 craft to 90 in a month or less.So we should blame no one but are self the one who cheated to get ahead.Se did what they could wit the money problem there is nothing they can do about the people who should not be 100 plus.Just the way it is and we have to deal wit it. But dont blame the people who made the game.Now we are all crying for them to fix the problem that we caused.When i say we u know what i mean more than 80 percent of people wit high lvl crafting should not even have it.

eh if they are not bothered enough to fix the fact that asshats can equip 16 torques and t3 any synth in the game i doubt they're gonna do *** all with anything else

Are you aware you are replying to 9 years old posts?

Are you aware you are replying to 9 years old posts?

... You don't get the show!

... You don't get the show!

Should stop bumping this till SE sees and gets ideas on how to ruin their game.

FYI, you guys are missing the real problem. It's the army of bsts on Siren server Yahse hunting grounds. They have multiple characters on each account (18 accounts in total) that they bot for sparks -> archeron shields and not sure what they do with the merits, but basically that's 18M per round of 99k sparks being injected into the economy. That's the reason these people can make the price of HQs so low, it's just a money laundering scheme in game basically. Also, there are no 16 torque hacks, that was just a ruse by left wing players that try to distract you from what's going on, my guess is that people who post stuff like that are the ones botting an alliance of beastmasters.

FYI, you guys are missing the real problem. It's the army of bsts on Siren server Yahse hunting grounds. They have multiple characters on each account (18 accounts in total) that they bot for sparks -> archeron shields and not sure what they do with the merits, but basically that's 18M per round of 99k sparks being injected into the economy. That's the reason these people can make the price of HQs so low, it's just a money laundering scheme in game basically. Also, there are no 16 torque hacks, that was just a ruse by left wing players that try to distract you from what's going on, my guess is that people who post stuff like that are the ones botting an alliance of beastmasters.

LMAO just was looking at old seraph character and was seeing if it was a necro bump.

veb2277 said:
FYI, you guys are missing the real problem. It's the army of bsts on Siren server Yahse hunting grounds. They have multiple characters on each account (18 accounts in total) that they bot for sparks -> archeron shields and not sure what they do with the merits, but basically that's 18M per round of 99k sparks being injected into the economy. That's the reason these people can make the price of HQs so low, it's just a money laundering scheme in game basically. Also, there are no 16 torque hacks, that was just a ruse by left wing players that try to distract you from what's going on, my guess is that people who post stuff like that are the ones botting an alliance of beastmasters.

Odin.Drakenv
Americans and their left only or right only mentality when they are both controlled by the same lollol




Actually, I don't care for either and I know they are both corrupt and the same party, not trying to make it a political thread. Just saying comeatmebro has an alliance which he bots with and spams sustainability crap plus magical 16 torque crafting mule stories. You can report all you want but SE is lowmanned, probably won't do much good.

Still trying to figure out this nonexistent exploit plus SE stated it's not possible even now. The most popular crafters on Odin is me,professor,meowmeow and slide all craft outside in adoulin. So weird I don't know Ieno though he keeps lowering prices on everything and HQing a lot.

Funny... I've never run into a problem with selling items because I don't craft crap that gets replaced every update. If you haven't noticed, SE releases new crafts almost every update, especially every other, and there is more gil to be made. If you aren't making any gil off your crafts, choose another craft, or just quit crafting period. You don't become 'RICH' just becoming a crafter, you usually barely make enough to keep going unless you get lucky and end up with more HQ than you expected. The only majorly profitable synthesis are expert and authority level synths, most which are t0, so if you're not messing with those, you're just plain ol' wasting your time. No one is going to spend 250M on some piece of armor that's going to break every day, that will take time and money just to repair. Some people can hardly remember to check their Gobbie boxes, or do their guild points. How many are going to remember to repair their armor before going out and what will it reduce in stats as it dies or will it just BREAK and all stats go out the window. Just...no.