butterfli Wrote:Also, it's not that people are "willing" to pay high for the things. It's because the marketers with connections won't bother lowering the prices when they know they're holding the very few supplies that a great number of people need.
Yeah, meso selling/farming and hacking in general mess it up, if you catch the economy at a bad time things never deflate because it's so easy for certain groups of people to just continue buying every single cheap item and jacking the price up. I mean look at when a guild literally bought out the entire supply of Onyx Apples on Bera. They went from 1.5mil to 3mil pretty much overnight, and there ended up being only a couple shops selling them, with 1000+ apples in each. It takes a hefty amount of mesos to do it, but once you've got a monopoly, you can set the price where you want. People need the items to participate in some aspects of the game, so they accept the price increase.
There's not a whole lot individuals can do, boycotting FM1-2 helps but a significant portion of the people on the server would have to do it for them to lose their grip on the economy.