Bajaratt said:
I don't remember that, what was your point?
To sum it up, there's a difference between buying bazaared Autumnstones and o. kotes.
o. kotes never decrease unless people drop them or the account gets banned. That means about 365 o. kotes gets added to the server every year, and that's assuming 1 drop every day, which is unlikely with a pop time of 24 hours. That means that every time someone sell it, the likelyhood that its a gilseller decrease aswell. Second-hand sales, no matter how much you argue that it helps the gil sellers, helps them in no way.
However, in the Autumnstone case, there's a set ammount of about 700 every year, assuming 2 drop every 1,5 days. That means that everytime an autumn stone is used, there's 1 less on the server. And since gilsellers have only been active in sky for about half a year, that's only about 350 stones that have dropped total. Out of those, sky LS's and gilsellers have popped Byakko and wiped. You can't assume that people hold on to all of those Autumnstones all the time, which you seem to do, as proven by this argument:
So out of those 700 stones, 10 which were bought by Kaizen, where are the other 690 stones?
You fail to realize that Kaizen isn't the only shell doing sky. Kaizen pops 10 Byakkos, that's 350-5 (I make it 350-5 for half a year, sicne that's the time gilsellers have been active in sky). God knows how many bought by that other LS mentioned in this thread, and then several which are bought by Japanese LS's, and not to forget those which are legally claimed by other LS's which they have popped.
You also assume everyone holds on to them and pop them at the same time, to make your own arguments look better. To make i clearer, I'll present some better numbers.
Let's say pop time is 14 hours. I know people can camp in for god knows how many hours without seeing him pop. I've camped him for well over 10 hours without seeing him pop several times.
That's 12 stones every week. I'm sure linkshells claim them legally to pop, so let's say linkshells claim 6 of them over the gilsellers. That's probably being generous, although I do admit I haven't been in sky for hellova long time, so it might be more.
That's 6 stones each week that gilsellers can sell. And with BDS buying a few, and I'm sure JP buying a few, that's not a whole lot of stones available. A total of 12 stones i ncirculation per week is far less then the perhaps 700+ kotes every week in circulation.
Fuma Kyahans work the same way, and as for b. hides etc. those drop from other things then only 1 mob. So the circulation of those items are also larger then you make it out to be.
Whe nthe chance of buying an item from a gilseller is 50-75% per week, and the chance of buying fuma kyahans, o. kote, damascene cloth is maybe 5-10%, I wouldn't compare them as 1 and the same.