RIP SPARKS!!!

Should really consider whose really "naive" here, since you tend to believe most things you "hear." Not trying to be an "***" or so you deem it. I was just testing the water to see how gullible you are.

How was gil farmed before sparks & accolades then?
Best methods aside from gain xp are selling the materials from dyna D, delve, vagary, odyssey, etc. However these methods of farming gil do not result in the creation of gil, merely its circulation into your hands.
Previous methods of creating gil were fishing, cruor (blinkers), and npc'ing various garbage too cheap to bother putting on AH.

My whole thing with selling materials for gil is that it is counter productive when it takes so many materials to upgrade armor/weapons. There's 22 jobs in this game, I don't have fully upgraded gear/rema for any of them. All those areas you just named are areas you farm to upgrade gear/rema. So if I am not selling these mats for gil where do I get gil from to buy armor out of the ah?

I am not sure why anyone is behind them nerfing the only method to create gil in this game. I just don't understand it.

If mats aren't being sold, where will I get the materials to make your armor?

You farm them just like I did lol.

For years now we have been able to make tens of millions of gil per week for little effort. Current generation gamers were still complaining about the grind and still buying gil and items like mad.

I'm struggling to rationalize how this change does anything else but make it easier for RMT...

it entirely depends on where they put the cap if it will only be a annoyance for bot users and RMT or if it will interfere with regular players.
if they make the cap for example per month and its generously so that you could attend for instance 1~2 full gain-exp RoEs befor capping it probably wouldn't disrupt most legit players cause they'll burn out quickly.
it will prevent legit power farmers who choose to attend as many gain-exps as they can for a week or two but there aren't many of those cause they usually end their farming spree with /slitwrist.

however if the cap is reachable by legit players and they do so early on in the cap cycle they'll lose out on all the sparks/accolades ppl used to gain on the side by just playing the game.
this in turn could lead to ppl selectively avoid farming early in the cycle and therefore to congestion of all the good camps late into the cap cycle.

You meant 10k right? I can make like 1000 scales a day if I would care enough. 100M gils per day would be fun XD There are people out there that can probably make 2000 or 3000 having more accounts than me ( I "only" 3 box) :P

I'm expecting the 99k Accolades/Sparks to be exchanged once per RL week per character.

The game has a few Gil sinks we all know about, but what sources can even come close to replacing sparks items for NPCables?

You also get Gil created via certain ROEs, direct mob drops, chest drops (AMAN) and other ways etc. They know what they are doing I'd hope because there are ways to create gil, we need more ways to remove it like the AF mats but I would assume they will continue that with AF3.

It's 100% going to be 99k cap per week, per character. it's the most obvious and easy method to create a cap and that's exactly how they will do it.

Botters will just cap out an account with characters and swap between them 2-3 times a day, which is probably the intention.

my guess would be 2x99 week.

Because thats the minimum you need to purchase 10 ch(1-5) + 8 ch(6-10) solely with sparks.

So, in theory the cap is that you can reforge one piece weekly without resorting HTBF or orbs, which should be the case for very new players.

I'd guess 10x or 999,990~1m per week.
I'd prefer 25x, as it'd allow a full sparks + accolades gain xp + a 2nd gain xp of mostly sparks only. (double accolades campaign should also be set to double the weekly cap as well)

This reduces quantity enough to stop 3x full gain xp by certain groups each week, so it's easier for casual players to find a camp during their easiest time slot. Also reduces the gil/hour the rest of the time from certain bots. This should leave gil creation high enough to only slowly reduce the gil supply instead of creating a massive shift.

If that's how it is, it won't do anything to RMT since they'll just cycle characters. It will just screw average players such as myself who don't bot and manually farm these. That comes to little over 2M per week for sparks and accolades. I guess that's fine as long as the price of most things bottoms out.

That would be 20mil a week.

99k Sparks or accolades is worth a flat mil.

You say its easy to make 1$ mules on account, but if you make 15 mules and then that account got banned then rebuilding it would be a pain no?

999,990~1m sparks/accolades per week.

Yes it would be. The problem is they don't ban quickly enough to make it a pain enough to stop.

Baning once a month or more, would put a dent in these. Banning once every 2-3 years isn't anything.

With the way that people are talking they can bot anything, including missions, it's not that much of a pain.

Hell, I just started a new character, within the 1st 2 weeks it had access to the zones these guys like to bot, and was 99.

A bot that went non stop spamming missions would be up and running in a few days at most. And or they could just buy an account that has been preunlocked already. They are a dime a dozen.

First of all I seriously doubt it will be shared cap for both. It will be 2 separate. Its 2 different NPC and 2 different points. 500k each sounds ok.

Oic sorry misinterpreted what you had written.

This just means you could casually make 2m/week playing the game and not worry about grinding gain for gil!

Realistically you could spin up a new character that has access to Dyna-D/Omen in a weekend. Maybe China will get creative and farm omen and flood the market with astrals!

At only 2M per week... dad won't be AGing anything for a long time :(

First Niobium Ingot or Khoma Cloth you buy gonna sink 3 weeks of cash generated if you just can make 1M per week.

We gonna quickly go to severe deflation with this low amount.

at most, in a big picture players need to make as much as its sinked from NPC stuffs. Or just cut down those relic reforge mats, whats fine too.