I think you missed my point, which was to NOT lock it behind something requiring an Endgame Linkshell and having to compete over it. It screws over the players who don't want to be involved in any of that, especially since ZNMs are not and were never something to compete over on retail. It was accessible to all players, provided you do all the pre-requisites.

Because these pre-requisites (the picture taking for zeni) to acquire these pops aren't here, obviously a different method will be introduced, however he's going in the wrong direction by making it inaccessible to all but established Endgame Linkshells with this current method of locking it behind Endgame content.

I'm trying to look at this from all sides (all types of players) and not just one (Endgame). That's why, I'm hoping that all of this better JUST be tentative.

This is the perfect opportunity for him to introduce a legit (and hopefully reasonably priced) gilsink, I hope he doesn't screw it up.

Edit: He can make T1 pops 10K, T2 30K, T3 50K, and T4 100K. This is about 1.1M gil removed to complete a PW popset. He can even adjust the drop rates (again, hopefully to reasonable rates) so that players are needed to do ZNMs multiple times if they want a certain drop = more gil removed from the server = never a bad thing.

PW will also (or at least should be) incredible and extremely difficult to kill, so that's 1.1M gil to keep trial and erroring it until it gets killed consistently. Very similar to farming popsets for Kirin and AV, except you're dumping gil.

I think you missed my point, which was to NOT lock it behind something requiring an Endgame Linkshell and having to compete over it. It screws over the players who don't want to be involved in any of that, especially since ZNMs are not and were never something to compete over on retail. It was accessible to all players, provided you do all the pre-requisites.

Because these pre-requisites (the picture taking for zeni) to acquire these pops aren't here, obviously a different method will be introduced, however he's going in the wrong direction by making it inaccessible to all but established Endgame Linkshells with this current method of locking it behind Endgame content.

I'm trying to look at this from all sides (all types of players) and not just one (Endgame). That's why, I'm hoping that all of this better JUST be tentative.

This is the perfect opportunity for him to introduce a legit (and hopefully reasonably priced) gilsink, I hope he doesn't screw it up.

Edit: He can make T1 pops 10K, T2 30K, T3 50K, and T4 100K. This is about 1.1M gil removed to complete a PW popset. He can even adjust the drop rates (again, hopefully to reasonable rates) so that players are needed to do ZNMs multiple times if they want a certain drop = more gil removed from the server = never a bad thing.

PW will also (or at least should be) incredible and extremely difficult to kill, so that's 1.1M gil to keep trial and erroring it until it gets killed consistently. Very similar to farming popsets for Kirin and AV, except you're dumping gil.

Point understood and believe me I'd rather there not be 100 people at Khimaira when people want the sword yet not necessarily the ZNM pop but here we are and we need to accept it.

I'm sure he will introduce something the server will enjoy overall but that's not the present situation. This is endgame gear though, not exactly AF stuff.

Edit: please understand this isn't and won't ever be retail. Things are custom here and it's not for everyone.

Um, no, we don't have to accept it unless he's absolutely sure it's the BEST option for ALL players to benefit from, players can still show him why it isn't, and that's exactly what I'm doing.

Just because it's not retail doesn't mean players cant show him why his ideas are flawed, I know this is Nasomi we're talking about, but at least I'm trying.

Just because this won't ever be retail doesn't mean he should only look at things from one perspective.

I think you missed my point, which was to NOT lock it behind something requiring an Endgame Linkshell and having to compete over it. It screws over the players who don't want to be involved in any of that, especially since ZNMs are not and were never something to compete over on retail. It was accessible to all players, provided you do all the pre-requisites.

Because these pre-requisites (the picture taking for zeni) to acquire these pops aren't here, obviously a different method will be introduced, however he's going in the wrong direction by making it inaccessible to all but established Endgame Linkshells with this current method of locking it behind Endgame content.

I'm trying to look at this from all sides (all types of players) and not just one (Endgame). That's why, I'm hoping that all of this better JUST be tentative.

This is the perfect opportunity for him to introduce a legit (and hopefully reasonably priced) gilsink, I hope he doesn't screw it up.

Edit: He can make T1 pops 10K, T2 30K, T3 50K, and T4 100K. This is about 1.1M gil removed to complete a PW popset. He can even adjust the drop rates (again, hopefully to reasonable rates) so that players are needed to do ZNMs multiple times if they want a certain drop = more gil removed from the server = never a bad thing.

PW will also (or at least should be) incredible and extremely difficult to kill, so that's 1.1M gil to keep trial and erroring it until it gets killed consistently. Very similar to farming popsets for Kirin and AV, except you're dumping gil.

The overwhelming amount of content in this game can be done with 6-8 characters. The only hard part is getting the claim, rage nidhogg, or fighting for an extended period of time on higher HP stuff. The bulk of the gear is from Dynamis, Limbus, KSNMs(which youll get more of someday) and Sky; where the only fight that might require an end game shell is kirin, but that's really debatable. There's a literal abundance of small group stuff, so hopefully nasomi makes at least T3 and T4 of very high difficulty level, not just PW with that LOL loot pool. And if his goal is to make a gil sink, then T1 pops should cost a million or so to open up the pyramid.