Being able to sell materials has clearly already ruined the economy and the RNG and scarcity and materials pyramid that is the AGS solution has ruined crafting.
Selling things is not necessary at all to the game, especially if harvesting and crafting are both made reasonable.
That said, private nodes is also certainly a possibility. FFXIV for example has completely personal nodes that are completely predictable. What they don’t have is unreasonable materials demand due to RNG results or a crazy materials pyramid for refining high-tier materials.
FFXIV does have a bot problem, but they don’t have any of the issues we have here though possibly because their customer service is better. Every report has a 24-hour turnaround time and someone reads and respond to you. Issues are promptly resolved and they do right by legitimate players.
As for their bot problem, I’ve only ever seen bots at the bank making deposits, never out in the open world, so I don’t think even that is a very bad issue.
This is because people who suggest PvP-related solutions are not interested in anything except looking for ways to force players to play with them. Whatever the problem, they will just say PvP is the solution even when clearly it is nonsense or has already been tried elsewhere and failed.
Unless there are still duplication exploits around, or they are leftovers from the previous duplication exploits. Yes yes AGS said they caught over 90% of the dupers – but honestly that’s probably nonsense. If they know they caught 90%, they must know where the remaining 10% is – otherwise how can they even get a figure of 90%? That’s how percentages work – you need to know what 100% is before you can make claims like that. So why didn’t they catch the remaining 10% and get rid of all the duped goods?
The point is those people with immense amounts of resources may not even have actually harvested them at all.
The 5% always seem to run IG/FS, this is purely my experience but I’m always weary of anyone with a staff when flagged. Usually do it when I’m gathering, drop ice storm, shower etc.
I try to be aware of who’s around, but not always going to cover it.
Yes, FFXIV has a dedicated team to handle RMT and third-party software usage reports… and yet there is not a single time that I could enter Limsa Lominsa, Gridania or other “starter” towns without having to report (and block) RMT chat spammers.
I wasn’t aware SQE’s STF team responded to individual reports… I was under the impression they do not due to the high volume of reports.
You don’t see bots in FFXIV open world that often because there are speed hacks and underground teleporting.
NW economy doesn’t work because is not fully player controlled, in other words, there is a lot of ways to generate currency and not a lot can be done to remove such currency from the market once it have been turned into a crafted item
I’ve played FFXIV for over 3 years. I had all crafts and gathering to the maximum, I know how it works. And yes, FFXIV has bots, lots of them and out in the world. I’ve played on Primal and Aether datacenter.
Being able to sell materials does not ruim economy…
In theory this is possible but as long as you have farmers and bots (legit and non legit) you will always have a fluctuating priced market. You can guy out all of the goods today and sell your stuff for double but I promise you, as soon as you do, someone will ALWAYS come and backfill and prices will be lower than yours. The prices will always adjust to whatever farmers and bots are selling for. IF there is a market, there WILL be plenty to keep the price at whatever they deem.
Just taking a wild guess here but it sounds like you killed everything around you while someone else was obviously coming to try to get a few. Then you declared them all yours. I’m sure you were no saint in the situation your wrote about.
I agree. It sounds like the OP killed several animals and proclaimed them his. That’s a dick move in itself. I always kill one skin one…rinse repeat. These people that kill all the animals in a given area thinking they get all the skins are cancer.
Nope. I was killing them one maybe two at a time since someone was there before I was then left because they were done so they were spawning at different times. If I had killed a whole group of them and someone comes along and skins them that would be on me and hence wouldn’t have created the post in the first place.
OK if this is the case and you were doing one at a time the person that was steeling your skins is a true asshole and you have a very legitimate complaint. My opinion is this game with it’s countless design flaws and grossly lethargic path at fixing those glaring flaws simply breeds pure cancer. I am the type that will stop and actually help someone kill a tentacle or group of mobs in the crack by an orichalcum node. And since they were there first I will not make a move on the node after killing the mobs. Sadly there are an extreme minority of people who do the same. Most will just go up and take the node while I dispatch the mobs. On top of all the boneheaded design flaws I also think this game has attracted way too many players from wow. So what we have in general is a very cancerous playerbase.
