Ok yeah the RMT on my server, (Remora) isnt as big of a deal as it used to be. The only real problem i ever see anymore is those stupid casinos where people dont really ever pay up for when you roll 999.

I would have to say my only complaint is the goblin bounty hunter. I was pling a friend of mine in the dunes yesterday, and they kept getting aggroed by the guy. The bounty hunter needs to have its stats altered alot. First it needs to move slower, and only aggro to people fishin. Cause I was tired of every ten minuntes casting flash on this thing cause it aggroed to that pt.

No matter what they do, no matter how they do it RMT in the game (or any mmo for that matter) WILL NOT stop. Kill the buyers, the sellers go away and you lose hundreds of thousands of customers. Kill the sellers new ones will come back. Its really just a waste of time, What I suggest they should do is 1) put a cap on each and every item or 2) Sell the more uncommon items on vendors that adjust to your rank to keep the prices in check.

RMT are always gonna be there. They run sky on some servers. They fish bot every day, camp the NM's that noone else will fight them for and sell it all for pure profit. People are gonna buy gil. You cant stop them and SE wont ban the buyers so whats the point? Dont ban the buyers then RMT is just going to find a way to resell that gil. Duh

RMT are not the only reason for a falling economy in this game. I'll list the things that I've noticed causing economy failure.

1. First of all the banning of RMT have not hurt more than 10-15% of AH prices. It's mostly the prices of Rare/NM drops that have fallen do to RMT changes, but even banning hasn't hurt so much as the change in aquiring these items. Look at Emp Pin versus Alky Bracelets. Bracelets dropped because aquiring it became asaninely easy if your patient, whilst emp pin increased because it was inserted in a BCNM that isn't easy.

2. The removal of gil from circulation probably has the biggest impact from the RMT bans. While their gil was dirty, A person who would buy gil say, to craft, would pump millions into players who farmed crafting materials to powerlevel their craft, who'm then would use the gil to purchase say a rare item from the gilsellers. What you had was a cycle of sales that is impossible to get. So now people farming put there stuff up for sale, but not everyone can afford the inflated prices, and so the prices drop.

3. These next two example I think have a MUCH bigger impact on the economy then any of the RMT issues. This one is the introduction of ToAU. ToAU was made in response to the complaints of people having difficulty accomplishing the goals of Zilart and especially CoP. The difficulty of obtaining most ToAU items, and killing most ToAU mobs, as well as the mission cap, is severely toned down from other areas. On top of that items obtained from ToAU, especially gear, is substantially better than a lot of gear found in other areas, in some cases even better than end game gear. Their are little gil rewards, all item rewards in ToAU as well, so there is a lot less gil being created on the server, while people spending gil to get the ToAU gears.

4. Lets take a look at the crafting items. lvl 40+ you see people wearing mostly gear that is ToAU oriented. Either rare/ex, or even crafted from ToAU items, the gear is cheap cause materials are easier to come by, and it's better than most gear you see around. So the expensive materials, like Gold ingots, Mythril Ingots, and such are much more USELESS because they are unnecassary (I just threw those in as expensive items, they probably still have uses although i know mythril has become a lot less usefull). Less use equals less need equals lower prices because crafters trying to get rid of their stuff.

5. The last thing is the fact there are a lot less newbs on the server. As much as we all like to laugh at the newbs, new players means people still needing the low end stuff. They buy cheap gear to start out, so crafters could still sell their wears, they have to lvl crafts so they will still buy crafting items, and they still do the gil missions, like rank missions and stuff with pump around 300k per nation per person into the server. do a /sea all rank 10 on the server then do a /sea all rank 2. I jsut did on caitsith, there was 678 rank 10's and only 68 rank 2's.

With that said, should they stop banning RMT due to failing economy? Obviously not. The lowered prices on some of the RMT monopolization is a good things, cause many items were grossly overpriced, and because of the tendency to not only camp 24/7 but bot made things difficult for any camper. Some of the things that SE should focus on is introducing new recipes for old items, expanding on rank missions to bring in more gil to the server (rank 20 reward 500k would be awesome and there is plenty of room for expansion) and marketing the game to bring in newer players, especially on the nex gen systems.

That is all I got to say.

I know I'll probably get flamed for arguing this...
But in a way the bans have hurt the economy. With the RMT's gone though I believe it will eventually right itself and be alot better than before. Right now probably about 98% of items have their price dropping on my server. The other things though are mainly the expensive HQ gear. It's much harder to get that stuff now because it's harder to make gil. But I believe and hope that eventually if SE keeps hurting RMT, those will eventually go down too when noone can afford the high prices.

Believe me though, I cheer everytime I see something like this. I despise cheating and I consider buying gil to be a huge cheat. Not to mention it seems easier for people who need to camp something have a better chance of it. There needs to be a way to find and punish the buyers as much as the sellers though. The IGE getting sued is a good start and I'm hoping others follow. Speaking of, does anyone know any updates on that or is it still too early?

I'm also with the posts suggesting SE needs to focus on other ingame troubles too. But all in all I have to say Good Job SE. Keep it up.

There is a warrior in inner H. Ruins that kills gobs there for the gil round the clock 24 hours a day 7 days a week. I log in a few times a day to check to see if hes there and he is every time.

I went to inspect the area, when I found him it looked as if he was on auto-pilot while killing the gobs. He would run around and get stuck on objects and it would take a few seconds for him to right him self.

A GM was asked to look into it a couple of months ago, but the person is still there. I just know hes up to no good. Gobs dont drop a lot of gil but If someone got 1200 gil an hour killing them with some type of bot then they would have 28800 in a day. Now hes been there for atleats 3 months or more round the clock so thats close to 2600000 gil.

If he isn't using a bot to do this, then he has a squad of people farming for him or he an android that dont need sleep.

THANK YOU!!!

I hope SE reads this. I've got a PC that can play the latest games with good graphics. PCIe 8800 Vista, Dual Core CPU but yet they're too lazy to convert the graphics engine from the processor base(as in the PS2) to a graphics card base for PC.

Yeah well, they are still shouting in Whitegate for sky gear. So whatever, SE fails. They said they would be banning those people soon and they didn't. They even gave us a place to report to the special task force, and we have, yet the most blatantly obvious people are still there.

i agree and disagree about the lowering dynamis cost, as far i know the price has always been the same, meaning when the game was new as was dynamis, it still cost the same even before the mass rmt insurgence. i would like to see the cost droped, but thats more out of a personal greed so my ls can get to letting money free drop sooner.

great job though se, now if we just rid of nanasii nanasi roxy and the like shouting to get ppl god gear permanetly

Once again SE is on the attack, continuing to take out the ones that damage our playing experience. Startin to think of SE as a group of bounty hunters o.O

I think this is the first time I have seen them report banning ppl for using auto-casters. Ah, life is good.

Much as I love to see gil sellers hurt, the economy is obviously affected as well. How about you lower the price of Dynamis like you did Limbus!

Gil prices are going through the roof!

Gilsellers are hurting like a fly in a pre-heating oven ^_^