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The taxes in MTS contribute a lot towards profits. Trade room not as much. Still would love to see cash trade room though.

MTS has allowed merchants, high levels, anyone who knows what their doing to work towards free NX for years. The NX comes from somewhere, but those people would have otherwise had to buy the NX if we had cash trade room instead. Trade room accelerates trades as cubes and other useable items would be traded for fast meso. Both systems are profitable, but MTS has way more far reaching effects to overall gameplay that are inevitably disadvantageous to Nexon. Cash trade room does not.

I buy my jewels, plates, etc. from MTS in bulk. It's far cheaper than what I've seen in free market even with MTS rates. I had a nice deal this morning of 50 mithril plates for 1k NX for example.

Jewels and plates are a bit different because of scarcity due to Nexon removing their drops. They're going through a bit of inflation at the moment because players think they will inflate even more after chaos. Still, using NX on plates and jewels isn't as effective as buying WGs for quick meso, and buying them in bulk isn't really necessary for anything right now anyway except stockpiling, which is only smart if you plan to actually make something with it. Stockpiling for merchanting reasons is dumb since plates and jewels are more easily made. It's just going to be the same as when maker was first released. Everyone stockpiles and then releases everything onto the market at once, resulting in dirt f'ucking cheap ingredients.

I won't disagree with you there. Getting potential and enhancement items compatible with MTS would be great. My previous statement was in agreement with yours about how MTS sucks for current equips.

And what i said before implied that if potential/enhancement equipments were normalized for the MTS database then it wouldn't be such a useless feature right now. I was kind of agreeing with you to begin with. Buying equipments now is stupid.