RIP SPARKS!!!

How many real players are farming enough Sparks without botting for this potentially hurt them so badly? We don’t know the numbers yet but it’s not likely to be some super low max like three maxed out trades a week or something.

It really depends on the cap to determine how it hurts. 10+ mil? 5 or less? At current prices, how much do YOU think is fair or not, or effective or not. In reality, they should nerf it entirely if they wanted to go this route. Real players adapt, but are also irritated that yet again, *** RMT bots have ruined a decent way to make Gil.

That is the complaint. So half nerfing it is even more annoying because it doesn't do anything worth a ***. So all those bots still crammed in the same exact zones, business as usual, are still behaving like *** the nuisance they have always been.

All the while, the normal people just trying to make some gils for various goals, are now time gated even further based on a cap rate of making said gil.

And here is the best rub. RMT buy more copies of the game, and pay for more active subs over any given period of time. So SE gets to profit, RMT get to profit, all off of the players backs.

IT'S ***.

FYI, I'm still gonna play the game, so before the cliche crowd drops in, IDGAF I'm still going to PLAY the game.

You actually need to run the mules through ROV until Qufim access and buy a warp ring.

It's also very tedious to log out and log in multiple chars.

I'm pretty sure a brand new sparks scrub can cap out 5-6 times in a 4 hour gain xp window.

Legit I think that, just gonna hoard up rema mats and ***and not even bother worrying about Gil at all tbh.

RMTs dont need to do this. They can just buy a semi ready char and start from it. Someone else do all this investment and sell.

In the same place people are buying/selling gil they also sell those chars half made. As it was said, there is bots to run a char through missions. This bot exists solely because its being mass producted to sell.

Not difficult, at all.

1-Qufim access is VERY early RoV. The most tedious part is the pollen/dewdrops.
2-RMT bots dont even do their work in escha, I see most of them in Yahze/Ceizak/Cirdas
3-Warp Rings are also easy to get. Theyre a rank 1 item and cost 5000CP to get. Depending on the month, the first Deeds reward is 7x copper vouchers, turn those into CP and get a ring. Alternatively, death warp out.

A few questions I'd ask SE if they'd answer legit:

1. Is your intent to HOLD the economy in its current state, or make adjustments in one direction or another?

2. When such alterations are made, what is the process to make such decisions? Is this something that comes from the very top, or just a list of suggestions made by developers that are just implemented?

3. Obviously they have an idea of how they want their game world to operate, and between RMT and we players looking for shortcuts we muck up their plans. I'd love to know what THEY consider acceptable market values for high-volume sale items- give me YOUR ideas of ideal prices for: a stack of sublime sushi, a crocea mors, a jinxed doublet?

Partially because I'm just curious about what they have in their minds, partially because I want some kind of picture of their timeline.

That would be an incredible interview. Actually, now that you peaked my interest, I tried to get them to answer a question about sparks in the last AMA.

....its really fun when Draugo "likes" your post- its like you get a personal "OOOO!"

Usually I'll throw down a + for something I agree with, so being upset that I agree what your statement, seems dunno, like you're insulting your self?

Didn't know I carried such negative weight around but whatevs.

Lord help you if you happen to + something I have said, yeesh.

oh no! I literally meant it as a funny compliment of how your avatar appears when in the "like" position vs in full form.

Ah IC.

Have capped copper vouches think should I use them on sparks before update?

Maybe half of them lol.

Save the rest for what ever flavor of the decade currency is next.

What is the cap on coppers? Jebus?

If it is like 30-40 mils worth, might be worth cashing out, but vouchers are very handy for other currencies too, so.

cap is 999 vouchers

26m ish

I would cash them out to zero, while they have other "uses" if you don't cash them now, you will never be able to cash them for sparks. You'll never use 1 million conquest points, or assault points, or imperial standing etc. Worth considering for Obsidian Fragments for ergon progress though.

Acheron Shield still best or is something with unity better?

Theres no unm item that sells for 100k per piece (10:1) Shields still optimal. (optimal = fastest)

(tolba shells sell for 100k but not 1.2m / stack)

been dumping prize powder with accolades since it came out, i asked for it to stack to 99 on forums 4 years ago

again to be abundantly clear for the math challenged:

acheron shields aren't some magical item worth MORE, they're just worth the MOST sparks in a single item, meaning FEWER to purchase, you're not making more than someone doing a different item.

nothing is difficult, just take more time. The more time it takes the less gil/hour you get.

Remember its tedious for you log in and out doesn't mean its tedious for them. Not saying point is wrong but whats tedious for you may not be for others.

Worth more then selling shields?

Worth about the same. Shields come from sparks though

ok, one last time:

ALL sparks and accolades item that sell to NPCs sell at the exact same point:gil ratio of 1 point:10 gil. So if something buys for 10 points, it sells for 100 gil. If something buys for 2755 points, it sells for 27.550 gil. Adjustments after this equation are made for the "fame bonus" of selling items in home cities where your fame affects it.

So its NEVER a question of "what's best to sell". Its only a question of "what's the fastest way to get rid of all these sparks/accolades and turn them into the gil that's absolutely identical no matter what I buy."

POL is pretty old because it's on dial-up. If you have like 4-5 accounts you will start to feel the slow down unless you start using a fair bit of time skipping stuff. By the time you reach 15~17 accounts, even the time skipping addons would feel slow.

If it's annoying enough, they would be better off just selling JP bots, crafting bots or other bots.

Oh my bad I knew sparks were all the same thought maybe accolades was different

couldn't they just stop gil distribution by keeping stock up server side for all the lower priced items RMT like to abuse for gil distributin?