Kitsune9tails

Although this is a legitimate point, there is also value to having zones that are smaller 'grid-wise' so that players encounter each other more often. This makes the area 'feel' populated so that the players aren't motivated to move to more populous servers or more populous games.

I agree that the more severe the consequences, up to a point the more effort to warn the player.

But where do you draw the line? Most players don't read the dialogue boxes that pop up and obscure your vision most of the time. Should such a box pop up every time you click the market interface? If a player is not even going to log in for 60 days, where are they going to read a warning anyway? On the forums?

It's not a simple call, is all I'm saying .

Something like this would certainly help me.

Not what I was trying.

I'll let the devs decide how much the two are related, since only they (probably) have the tools to make that determination.

Well the idea isn't to get everybody to choose to fight bosses, just more/enough people. And the total inf doesn't have to meet or exceed; some people will be plenty happy with more frequent money.

Works for me just fine, thanks (I fight Bosses too). Of course, my standards for drops are probably not the same as yours. My entire beef with the current system is when one of my inventories turns red while I'm in the middle of having fun.

My vote would be for completely random, perhaps weighted a bit so the average price isn't 1 Billion inf. Just about anything else than random would lead to accusations of 'Dev price fixing'.

Not that I would be against that per se.

We don't want to take gameplay options away from people in order for them to feed the market.

People avoid Bosses because they are perceived as a nonoptimal investment for inf/xp. Perhaps they should drop Recipes more frequently, so that they are perceived as a more sound investment for drops and to make fighting them more competitive with spending Merits (but not so much that they are farmed)?

Of course, the players can solve this problem themselves by simply choosing to fight Bosses more often if they want to support the market.

Ah, I had indeed missed this point about things that only come from the Merit system.

1: This is only true to the extent that everyone trashes the same stuff. If the same items are trash to everybody and the same items are gold to everybody, that indicates an issue with the diversity of drops. Granted, you are correct to some extent, but I think there would be a lot of valuable items that otherwise would be deleted mid-TF (or more importantly not drop at all due to full slots) that should end up on the market. I don't think that most players keep an empty slot and when it fills during a big battle, call a timeout to go actually evaluate it. Marketeers probably do, but the average player?

2: My idea was that these things would drop to the market at a random price for no listing fee, but would take up a marketeering slot (if all slots are full, or if the item was previously 'randomly marketed' they could go onto the market 'anonymously' or actually be deleted). When you actually get to go to the market later, you can reorganize that stuff and delete it then if you like. You may get back to the market to find the stuff you would have deleted has already sold for a little inf: win-win!

I don't think inf sinks are the issue. Sure, people have too much inf, but if they have more inf than they should, why aren't they spending it on those expensive items (Merits is one answer, but then if they got what they wanted, they aren't in these threads complaining...or are they)?

Supply is the issue. Sure there are things that sit on the market because no one wants to pay the prices, but (I'm told) the bigger issue is things you can't get any any price because they've already sold. Get stuff onto the market that would otherwise have just been deleted/never dropped, and people will spend the inf on the items.

Sure, there are trash items that would sit on the market forever at ridiculous prices, but who cares? Certainly not the non-marketeers that aren't bothering to clear those slots out. Since those items would never sell at those prices, no one would ever even know they were there.

Sure, there are trash items for which the price would be driven even lower, but I fail to see how that is a bad thing if they are truly trash items.

This is likely a large part of the problem (if there is one; most of the expensive things in markets are things you don't necessarily need to get inside of, say, a one month timeframe).

Level 50s play what is essentially an entirely different game than everyone else in terms of earning and challenge (debt is meaningless and can top a million inf per play hour); yet they participate in the same market.

It's kind of like assigning Donald Trump the job of deciding the price of bread (horrendous exaggeration to make a point).

I respectfully disagree.

Another way to reduce inflation is to increase the supply of the items being purchased.

Players can do this by simply placing on the market a larger percentage of the items that drop.