cap max amount of gil you can carry at a lower rate, tho i like the capping AH prices better, the game is for fun, the economy is too much like RL for it to be any fun. I mean its like Exxon Mobile screweing us all over again. All of the high ticket items should be rare/ex, and the ones that arent, around the 100k-1million range, should be sellable at AH at a maximum 1million. In the end, the people playing are the true ones to suffer, i know we've all had or have been that guy/girl who couldnt afford the huabby or erase, and so our pt's suffered, we suffered, for that. But don't you agree that its in SE best interest to make things cost more, higher price=longer time to attain, in turn 1 more month of saveing gil, another $13 in SE bank account.

Cal, I don't know about all of them, but I know that one of the event item storage NPCs is in Port Jeuno and he's (I believe) next to the wall between the Bastok airship and the gate outside. Already gave him that beautiful orange gilet and trunks set.

Edited, Tue Feb 21 10:37:56 2006

BCNM/KS/Splits etc
easy to just trade in person, and that person can't lie and say they never had their gil sent.

Trade gil in person, i have to do that with dynamis currency to my mule /sigh

sorry for double

Edited, Fri Feb 24 21:46:22 2006

I thought this update was going to be killer!! Finally things like demon or armored arrow heads arent so bad for 100k a stack, WRONG!!! S/E is getting better, but how are you going to make arrow/boltheads still yeild 6 a synth yet stack to 99??? Now you cant even affoard a stack of heads just to make for exping!! Come on S/E if it stacks to 99 it should yeild 33 on a synth, this makes me feel like woodworking has its own gimpy version of tsurara.

The good:

-Capping the amount of gil that can be sent out will make it more difficult for RMT companies to distribute their gil between multiple mules and multiple accounts. When SE bombed RMT activities by banning 800 accounts and deleting billions of gil, they basically knocked out the characters and the accounts with massive gil pools and long histories of making block transactions (1 mil, 5 mil, 10 mil, etc) with complete strangers by delivery box or otherwise.

-The obvious defense to this measure is to have storage accounts and chars that are only used internally and don't interact with the gaming public directly. These types of accounts are less prone to being uncovered by SE from their trading activities, so it is safer to keep inventory on characters in these accounts and minimize the amount of gil carried on the trading accounts.

-Capping the amount of gil that can be sent by the delivery box system will make it less convenient to move the gil between the storage accounts and the external trading accounts. So the next time SE gathers enough data on their external trading accounts to justify deleting them, they are more likely to delete substantial quantities of gil.

The Bad:

-Obviously this is a major inconvenience for people who trade high value items for gil.

-It will have little or no effect on actual RMT activities. {Gather together.} {Lower Jeuno} {San'doria South} {Bastok Market} {Windurst Woods} <pos> {Trade} {You can have this.}. Gilsellers and RMT companies are already in the game 24/7 making gil and conducting transactions. What is it to them to stick a gil mule in Lower Jeuno to make trades? Heck, it might even be faster than the delivery box because there's no hassles with what was formerly the 8 slot limit.

-Rumors of sting operations following the update are unfounded.... SE already knows all and sees all. Every delivery box transaction is recorded, and so is every trade. They use database searches to sift all the information, so I don't see how it makes any difference to SE if the RMT activities are done face to face or by the delivery box system.

The Ugly:

-Still no fix for the BST "Leave" JA. BST is my favorite job...come on SE...how hard is it to reprogram that JA? All ya have to do is make it so that the mob just walks back to its spawning area with its aggro functions disabled. The spawning areas for all mobs are obviously clearly defined already. Just turn the aggro back on when it gets back. Sheesh.

I think the 1 million is kinda small but I'm all for it! I've always played on Asura but what I've heard is it's one of the worst inflations. And already were seeing price drops! Go SE Go!

Also, as the leader of BastokanWarriors Ls, I would love to give my other char a sack.

Can't wait for TAU! Red/blue! Purple Mage! w00t!

*sigh* and still no fix to bst. oh well, I still have till april to comeback w/out losing my characters.

What is up with most of the posts here. Everyone assuming that this delivery box change is the second coming of Jesus Christ in terms of knocking out gilsellers.

Listen, people. This hardly changes anything. Speaking from the experience of seeing how RMT groups work in other MMORPG games such as EverQuest 2, RMTers sometimes don't even use delivery services. In fact they never use them at all in games such as EQ2.

Gilseller names already pop up as to who sent someone gil when they send via delivery boxes, so the claim that "Now we can bust them in person and see their names!" doesn't hold water. As it stands, you already see the name via the delivery box regardless of who is sending you something.

The only real change that'll happen is RMTers will now request people stay inside of a main city to link up with a gil mule, so they can initiate direct trades. It's no different from delivery box gil, save for the face-to-face interaction.

Yay! SE has done quite a bit of things that I approve ^_^

ok, i know we all have mules, but mules are one of the things that SE allows but doesnt specifically approve of (can't remember where i read this, i think in the instruction manual).

So anyway, any nerf that affects mules is gonna mean very little to SE, but it is nice that they are nerfing gilseller capabilities - and also, sending taht much gil between mules wont be too hard since u can send one mil, receive on mil, and keep doing that until u have what u need - it doesnt take that long... even though it might get annoying

XD double post ftl XD

Edited, Mon Feb 20 14:08:48 2006