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Azure77
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Played a few years , but the market crashed on my server , prices were 1500x beyond normal and climbing , we waited it about 2 months but silk was over 2k , so was most crafting materials. I moved and dont have the PC disk (I got the PS2 disk but no PS2 here).
I was wondering if the market came back down , and how the new expansion was...
Quick question .. it says in the Final Fantasy press release that the logitec controlers are working now , better than ever. Would it be better to get a game controller and would this one be too cheap?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00030AX3Q/ref=pd_cp_e_title/102-4101869-7097768?ie=UTF8
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YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ECONOMICS!
When the economy goes into inflation, prices on everything rise. You can still do the same things to make money, but your money is in a ratio. (You only get burnt if you were hording gil). The only time I can remember the economy getting excpetionally bad was last christmas (Prolly what you're refering to). Where everything went up in price 1000% (10x). While everything was more expencive... everything was more expencive (Understand?) Everything you wanted to buy cost more, but everything you sold you got more. Its all in a Ratio. Yes, you got burnt if you were saving up for a scorpion harness when they were 3mil, and they went up to 10mil throughout the month, But the Silk thread you farmed for 20k/stack is now 60k/stack (Do you see the ratio? 3:3)
Thats how the economy works, if you don't understand that you'll just quit the game shortly after starting again. Sorry, but I feel no simpathy for the ecnomy compaliners.
Dont know what server you were on , but on Rahum (spelling) , the entire Mirtha town was flooded with people farming silk. High lvl items jumped from 3 million to around 20 million , (yes this was after christmas), I spent 8 hours a day farming silk and other stuff that sold at a decent couldnt keep up with the increase in armor and weapon prices.
we had a stockpile of made goods , from weapon to armor , to quest , items had to sell 3 characters worth of stuff , to even get my gear. And the price for silk was dropping and rising daily .. people towards the end were buying armor and putting it back for a profit.
I think it was lvl 23 boots exact same as Leaping Lizard boots , went from 20 to 40 million in a few hours.
It was impossible to farm that much , and keep up with the people who bought gil.
Now I would write a big counter arugment, but I really don't care if you come back or not. And I'm late for Dynamis Bastok as is. But I will say, Its September, And ya know what that means? Christmas is 2 months away! So if you havn't learnt anything from what I said, or in your many, many, months away from FFXI. In 2 months when inflation hits (And it will...) You'll quit again.
Did Beehive chips , did Silk , Did helmets , did everything that sells. We played for a little over 2 years , most of the Old School linkshell had 75s+. My thief (my fourth class) was 30 at the time , did all the quests to get warp , warp 2 , and all the black mage scrolls , had a ton of high lvl mage scrolls. Uncut prices by 30% couldnt even sell them. People where just too broke. The ones who could buy them were the gil buyers.
Keeping only the assholes are less and japanese.. Last reports show 75k players at peak hours. It was over 230k last christmas. The peak was 500k+ , now the old schoolers are saying only the Japanese are left on some servers.
If I had to guess, 30% of the players are NA, 10% EU, 45% JP, & 15% Chinese. There may be more chinese from server to server, but thats a pretty good estimate. Anyway, Go to ffxiah.com Go through your server, or other servers. Since you've played before you'll have a clue what everything means. Find out your Item to Item ratio, how fast they're selling, what to farm etc.. That'll give a good estimate of the economy. But keep in mind what I said about Ratio's, as almost everything stays pretty accurate. (Unless a new item pops out, then the first few weeks its really expencive)
Lastly, the AH website is for the Jeuno AH, It gives an average of about 21,000 diffrent people on every server, But some of those are Jeuno mules (obviouslly), So there's prolly 13k-16k people on each server. Which, most of the time gives you a minimum of 2k online.
also, check out ffxiah.com
that'll show you current market values for lots of stuff. it's a sweet page.