wow new thief trait and doing something about gil-sellers= very happy day for me.

"The Old Sabertooth in Sauromugue Champaign will no longer drop any items."

Aww, so you mean people won't have any motivation to ***** other people who are trying to do the Ranger flag quest? Where's the fun in that? I thought the challenge of that quest was enduring the frustration of watching some gilseller kill Old Sabertooth for the 5th time right in front of you while responding to all of your tells with something along the lines of 'I DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH PLEASE.'
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Edited, Sep 4th 2006 at 9:02pm EDT by Zebraplant

I always that it would be easy to track gilsellers/buyers by looking at even amounts that are repeatedly delivered from a certain account.

For example, if there is a pattern of an account delivering 50k even, 100k even, 1000k even to different random accounts, it's pretty safe to say that person is probably a gilseller.

Then if they took that name of the gilseller, they can see who these even amounts have been delivered to, and check them for similar patterns. Maybe they are repeat buyers and will have numerous large, even amounts sent to them from different people, or perhaps even from the same gilseller suspect.

Seems to be that by doing some database parsing, they could get a pretty nice list of who's involved in the gil trade.

The questions is...Are there any players out there that legitimately deliver the same even amounts of gil for any other reason?

I do realize SE would have thousands of transactions per day, maybe more, to sort through to look for these kind of patterns. But, that's what they make computers for. A simple program for database extraction and sorting could actually do this in minutes.

Does this theory make any sense to anyone? (looking for recurring even patterns).

They need to make this not just on the last sale price, but on the average of the last 10 sales, or if theres less than 10 sales, on the average of those sales..... otherwise, when someone accidently bids on an item the wrong amount (ie... they pay 1million for a 1000gil item) the next person selling is going to have a huge tax to pay to sell it...)

and what happens to the items that have never sold before? no tax??

all i can see this doing is pushing the prices up EVEN further in jeuno.... 5k tax on stack of food?? add 4k to that price....

Very easy to catch a gil seller if you ask me. Most likely the website you need to go to, to buy the gil is registered under the same person that the Final Fantasy XI account is. Go to the purchase sites, research the name of the owner. Check the PlayOnline archives for an account registered under that same name. BAM! Cancel Account.

This is a Prayer to Altana, since SE has most likely closed the new items - section in developement, or more likely just a whim wish;

Please add a decent Bow to Rangers. It is frustrating to see that between War Bow+1 and Shigeto/Master Caster there is only Sarnga with crapload of delay and Euryto's Bow to choose from. Actually placing Ebow as rare/ex would do wonders too, seeing that the Eastern Shadow is heavily camped for gilmaking purposes only. Considering that this is the only real upgrade to Bows 50+ before 71 it would make a huge impact on Ranger job actually adding Bow as a good main weaponry throughout game. I'm a Bowranger, the reason I play RNG is bows. Othinus' Bow is rare/ex, while it remains the best Xbow throughout game, add something similar to Bow category as well and I will be eternally grateful ^^;

Can't wait to see the new outfits, last update gave us some real classy ones like seer's, noct, shade and kampf to name a few. More please.

Sidenote; Thanks for the Spirit Link upgrade, hate to wait for the counter to recast right away again because of poisonga, diaga etc. that affects the wyvern as well. Since we can't heal our wyverns and can't summon them again right away seeing it's our 2h ability, this status effect disablement with SL is really a welcomed improvement. Thank you SE for making the game a bit better again ;)

Indeed undercutting the AH fee where its a certain amount of the sold item would be a great help for getting those Items and if people farm items such as a kraken club and its AH fee is like 3mil they might consider not farming it anymore giving people a chance to farm it themselves.

the NM idea i think is even better introducing similar items or making them obtainable in quests, crafting, ect would be excellent and seriuosly hurt gilsellers. and making an item even just rare can put a serious thorn in a gilsellers side.

There will be several new quests and events added to the Promathia areas.
not that excited about this, have yet to really find much point to the new areas as of yet... except pure farming purposes

New quests will also be added in Non-Promathia areas.
^_^ i like quests. i really like quests that dont involve killing dangerous mobs T_T 58BRD/29WHM has trouble killing ANYTHING

New monsters (including notorious monsters) will be added.
fun ^^ i just hope these new mobs make more areas viable for leveling parties

Over 15 new "orb battles" will be added.
new BCNMs!! yay!! i still havent been able to get a party together for the last batch of BCNMs that were added!!!

Several new weapons, types of equipment, and items will be introduced.
please reference in the item look-up: Kosshin, Magical Mitts, Chaos Fife, Death Harp (im sure there's more, but im a bard... dont care about Great Katanas ^^;;

The difficulty of selected Promathia missions will be adjusted.
have yet to try any of the non-cutscene missions X-o

Tavnazian Archipelago supply quests and regional teleportation will become available.
have yet to get here at all, so doesnt affect me yet

Chat filter options will be expanded.
YES!!! im hoping for some way to: Ignore all player characters not in your party or alliance, Ignore the actions of monsters not engaged in combat with a party or alliance member

A new Gobbiebag quest will be introduced.
ummm still havent done GB3 >_< <Bard> = <No money!>

Shortcuts into Promyvion - Vahzl for those who have partially or fully completed the Promathia mission will be added.
[i]umm.. again, i dont care XD

"Temporary items" found on the Balltista playing field may now be stored in one's inventory for the duration of the match(es). Also several previous "special" rules will be implemented permanently.
never played ballista

A new point system for rating Ballista participants on their performance will be introduced.
see above.

The stack number for several select items will be increased from 12 to 99. In accordance with the adjustments, players will be unable to put items up for auction for a short period of time. Details on this temporary maintenance will be provided soon.
99 mithkabobs anyone? >_> probably wind up being the rediculous conquest arrows or something along those lines XD

Several previously unstackable foods will now be stackable.
as much as i would like juice to stack, i'm leaning towards several of the unstackable HQ versions of normally stackable foods becoming stackable

The duration and effect of certain foods will be adjusted.
maybe one of my pet peeves will get fixed... and teas will count as drinks instead of food >< also would appreciate it if there was some way to make Tuna Sushi more available on my server T_T

The Old Sabertooth in Sauromugue Champaign will no longer drop any items.
it drops items right now?! O_o

The variety of items that can be dug up using the "Scavenge" ability will be increased.
yay!! more "old" "rotten" crap >_>

A new thief job trait will be added.
my guess: Gilfinder II, lvl 70

The potency of etudes will be adjusted.
raising stat boost, <Yes, please.>... lowering stat boost, <No thanks.>

"Spirit Link" will now heal a wyvern's status ailments.
havent even unlocked dragoon yet ^^;; just doesnt interest me that much

The accuracy of "Blood Pact" attacks during magic bursts will be adjusted.
i use smn to <death> <warp>... what do you use? ^^

The strength of "Blood Pact" attacks will not increase as much when fighting weaker enemies.
see above response

The order of messages that appear when using the /nominate, /vote and /propose commands will be adjusted
i have never seen anyone use these before

The fee collected when placing items on auction will be determined by the current auction price, not the store/guild selling price.
O_O wow... this could be a serious change in the system wide economy... i mean... are you really going to want to pay 10k to put ANY item up for sale?

In addition to the changes mentioned above, many other adjustments are being made. A complete list of all changes will be available on the day of the update.
Also, we are planning several new events for the end of the year, so keep your eyes open!
my guess is some sort of new year's event... didnt those wands with "damage varies with moon phase" have something to do with the chinese calendar? ^^;; dont yell at me if im wrong, just what i heard ><

Another issue being addressed during this version update is the monopoly over certain monsters and items by a number of players.
The development team is currently working on several methods to combat these types of actions.
Some methods include the introduction of similar items, and new ways of obtaining items.
HALLELEUAH!!!!! there really does seem to be a big push to end the scourge that is Gilsellers in the game, and i am all for it ^_^ anything that will make the game more fun for those who are playing it to have fun (remember, even tho we can get married here, it is still just a game ^^;;) plus, i've always said the equips with the best stats/abilities for any job should be ra/ex anyway... :P

What do you guys think on this one?
Would it be a good idea to make all Notorious Monster Drops EX or Rare/EX? that way the items cannot be sold and there would only be a purpose to camp the NM once, and yes i know that would require changing alot of items and stuff but what does everyone else think?

Bravo, Linkshell: Valor on Midgradsormr love to camp Lizzy, Emperor and other big NM's its hard enough to make ends meet on a populated server as that. I still wish that you'd add more SAM Abilities.