Economic Depression. : FFXI General Discussions

sandwhale wrote:so the consequence of deleting RMT gil, the price goes up and no one wants to buy them eh?

now tho we're facing new problem. more and more armies of RMT levelling up taking over all the normal exp camps. its getting real annoying.

some of those RMT armies are starting to hit sea access now. They couldnt possibly need 30+ ppl to farm limbus coins only.
Think were gonna see them selling lotting rights on SEA rare/ex items real soon, they do it alrdy for gods and kings on most if not all servers. for a gil or paypal payment. If ppl start paying directly RL$ for the items the RMT wouldnt have to worry about economic deafaltion. PPl pay thousands of rl$ for an acnt why wouldnt those same ppl pay for really good/rare items. Thats the future of RMT in this game IMO.
I wouldnt expec to see a SEA items section on IGE as i think if the RMT are gonna do this im sure they would know who to go to, to sell these items.

I can't see them forcing a paypal payment, or any real life payment of such. For one they'd be banned on spot if someone were to check a log and see them telling them to do that. For 2, the lot pool is timed. It'd be insanely hard to see the drop, and then pay for it and make sure you get the item, and them to verify they were paid. Especially if you don't use windower, log out pay, hope you can log back in to lot the item?

The only way I could see them doing it, and I wouldn't trust it, is pay in advance of them killing a god.

Then you have to worry about them actually killing it (why do they care they have your money) and/or, said item actually dropping for you to lot on. What, do you just pay real money to get screwed by a drop rate? Do you pay more if their THF has THF3 or 4? Do you get refunded if it doesn't drop?

I could easily see them selling the item lot for gil. If it drops you pay then lot, if you lot and don't pay, they kick you. Simple as that. They do this already, so it's not too revolutionary. Also AF+1 items suck, anyone with sea can get the items pretty easily with any rinky dink shell anyway. You need 1-7 people total to successfully get AF+1 items, more if you want the Proto Omega/Ultima pieces. I certainly wouldn't trust the RMT with advanced payment for the win on that though.

I currently run a small service to people for AF+1 also.

Bigt i wasnt really sugestion paypalpayment as it drops but more like a pay in advance / waiting list where only thing you are told in game is when they gonna pop the jailer. As for trusinting the RMTs with advance payment, ppl do that everytime the buy gils/acnts really.
Not trying to argue but i do think there up to more then just limbus coins this time around.

the economy will continue deflating, until people return to farming actual gil. delkfutt's tower comes to mind.