@Bittty - Given my own experience with selling through the merchant, I feel anything much over 24 hours to be as excessive as you seem to feel anything over 7 days is. If clutter is the issue then we could actually improve things by shortening the time to 36 hours. Most things that I put up that haven't sold by then simply don't sell, so 36 hours seems more than enough.
To be sure, finding the balance between clogging the vendors and penalizing players for having lives away from Atys is tricky, but I think it also important to remember that we all have different lives; this is very much a case of YMMV.
I have to wonder if things would be a little different if the base values of Exc/Sup things were adjusted to be notably greater than the common-as-dirt Choice. Those mats are notably harder to get and less common, yet the dapper value on them utterly fails to reflect that. But that's a separate rant.
To be sure, finding the balance between clogging the vendors and penalizing players for having lives away from Atys is tricky, but I think it also important to remember that we all have different lives; this is very much a case of YMMV.
I have to wonder if things would be a little different if the base values of Exc/Sup things were adjusted to be notably greater than the common-as-dirt Choice. Those mats are notably harder to get and less common, yet the dapper value on them utterly fails to reflect that. But that's a separate rant.
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