So you understood my point. (Thanks for giving the right word, and adding some extra info)
That’s our goal : engraving alchemist goods price in ice (basically, potions and roasting).
Why, you ask me ? Why do we want to play against the ~glorious~ free market ? (putting aside the fact that the only thing forbidding colluding in the free market are laws, colluding doesn’t oppose the ~free~ nature of the free market)
That’s because in ToS economy crafting classes are doomed if we start letting the prices plummet.
Once the majority of alchemists will start undercutting themselves, prices will plummet. It happened in iCBT2, it happened in kTOS, it will happen again in iTOS. Excuse me if I don’t want to prove it.
And now, that’s the interesting bit.
And so, what would happen in a real economy ? Either you go bankrupt, either you sell tons of (now) cheap things for okay margin (because you improved your process), either you sell new things for higher margin (Hi Apple !).
In ToS, we can stop playing the class 1)
Stop making profits because the process will never improve 2)
Ask the devs to create new skills and give us free reset 3)
So yeah, I’d rather befriend with my alchemist mates in a profit-oriented community than 1), 2) or 3). That’s better than burning the class until potions aren’t worth anything anymore.
_Wow talking about economics in english is hard V~v