I'm throwing my hat in the ring.

It sounds nice Franken but file that under Easier said than done.

Sounds like you want to avoid the AH until you need to buy something that you'll
need. <read... time involved to wait on money to sell something>

But again if you make it easier to NPC items for money guess who that makes it easier
for to get their gil to sell? RMT.... No need to help them back on their feet so fast.. >.>


There are 4 ways to earn money using the normal functions of the game AH, Bazaar, Sell to NPC's and Trading. <technically 5 if want to count repeat questing but thats similar to NPC'ing items>

Of those 4 AH , Bazaar, and trading involve some time to wait on something to sell and get money for something farmed or crafted.

We've all heard the tired excuses for not farming ..... wont go there..

But NPC'ing for higher sale value would not make those who don't want to farm stop buying gil.

The question still is "How bout those players who buy it stop.. and try farming their gil legitimately?" They buy gil directly from the people that sell it back to them because of the revolving door purchases on items they <RMT> control"

Yes inflation will always be there. But were you here back at the christmas 2005 into 2006 season?

Inflation was rampant across all servers normal items were sky high <e.g silk stacks sold as high as 90K on Kujata> and that was not just Jeuno but everywhere in Vana'diel. 90k was good money to farmers then but didn't make a dent selling it that high when you had items selling for ridiculous 7 and 8 figure prices. And that was due to RMT running rampant with prices and gilbuyers feeding them their gil right back to them.

In the past 10 months prices are back to 2004 levels on most servers when you could actually buy stuff reasonably to level other jobs.

I'd rather deal with mild inflation than wild inflation.. <hmm that rhymed> :)

I'm glad they are banning the RMT and taking their customers with them. Only RMT have the resolve to come back. A lazy gilbuyer will just give up if they have to start over. I'm sure there
are some exceptions out there but let them tell their story.

But since you brought up WOW.. how bout this ... they revamp the Bazaar system and make it similar to Phantasy Star Universe's .... one where your Moogle can run the Bazaar for you while you are offline or online elsewhere in the game.. and others can search them and buy while they are in their Moghouse only and you can see who made purchases.. limit the number of purchases logged if they want to.. and give it its own inventory space, that could get rid of the need for mules.. and compete against the "Jeuno AH" controlled economy.

/ranton

Its not that i don't like the AH system part of selling things but Bazaars can be limited to view only in the home nations. And i hate that there are items that are never sold anywhere else but Jeuno.
/rantoff

Yes the programmers can change that.. but they have alot more to consider than just making it easier for the flocks of legitimate players. When there are wolves hiding among the legitimate flock.

Play on.. Franken.. get that gil.
And RMT and gilbuyers... well .. you know what you can do for me.. ;)
SE kill the RMT's let Altana sort them out.