So for the past week I've been trying to get back into the groove of PSU after being gone for 7 months. I've had a bunch of boards in storage just waiting to be made. I start checking the prices of 10* Materials, glad to see Catilium down to 60K from when it was over 300K, and other metals also around 60K. My main is a Guntecher and I look around for some [B] Cubo Tuma and I notice that they are REALLY cheap, 10K - 20K. I want to save some of them for grinding when we get a boost or even just 3* luck. I missed the whole event in which Mot Walna dropped in abundance. 10K - 15K each. So I'm off to buy Petanite... 75K each! I have 9 in storage... I need 25, I spend 1 million meseta on Petanite. I get 4/5 of Cubo Tuma ( 1 broke ) and I'm pretty happy.
For weapons that need Gemstones, forget that idea, I have 4 [b] Svaltus Sword and if I wanted to BUY 60 Goldania? That's 10 million meseta. The Sword would have to come out 38% or above to even be worht the materials put in. I met a cool PSO WORLD forum guy and informed me of the Mission: Innocent Girl. So I've been doing that mission ( which is Solo only ) gathering up Par Walna & Nanopolymers to make many of the boards that are just sitting in player shops and finding many of my own and stocking up Materials so I can make more in the future. Innocent Girl A is a great mission for a Gunner-type and those Badges I earn I use in the Lottery hoping for some 10* materials.
This is where the problem starts... I want Hapotite to make Battlestopper I need 35, so I start putting up some of the other won 10* mats to basically trade for the ones I need. I also put up my Nanopolymers, I'm not going to start naming people, but someone would buy all the materials and then re-list them in their shop at a higher price. This has been going on for as long as PSU has been out. But with the state of the game what it is... that it's rare if we actually filled up Universe 1, you wouldn't think that players that have 100's of million of meseta would still be like this? I mean I helped out some noobs this weekend just to have someone to play with... that was before meeting with some of the PSO regulars to do some runs.
I've probably mentioned this before in the years, but why doesn't Sega just make those mateirals available in the NPC stores? I mean if 10* Metals were 50K in NPC Stores you would stop the squatters hording all the NEEDED maerials to make the items we want. Then when said materials are in abundance we either save them or place them for lower than the NPC. Also this would funnel-out some of the meseta in curculation, when I buy from a Player-shop the meseta is just transfered not really "used" This way all those S-Rank boards in shops could actually be made... then grinded and the value of a Weapon / Armor would be in the board not the materials to make it... this way MAYBE people would stop spamming White Beast and start doing runs for the items they want.
I have another suggestion in this regard, why aren't there more "fixed" drops, if I want Petanite... let there be a Guarnateed Petanite in a specific boss drop on a specific Difficulty. Kinda like how that Diad is in White Beast S ( even though it's not 100% ) That way we can play said mission to farm the needed materials for that item... or offer A -> S Metal Conversion Boards ( As a Boss Box Drop, not sold in NPC stores ) because when I get that Terinate I'm really pissed off, I just did this run with low - moderate drops just for the materials and they DIDN'T DROP! I like how certain Gemstones have definite fixed drops, even though Innocent Girl is a bit random, I like getting those 3 Olpad / Copernia / Morbinia, when it's Rubinad or Arminia I'm a bit irked, but Gemstones in general drop frequently in that mission. There need to be more like it and as a multiplayer mission.
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