Jeuno AH fees

[Tobold]

Yesterday I went to Jeuno for the first time. I noticed that some things were trading more expensively in Jeuno than in my home town of San d'Oria, and as I still had a stack of some crafting material in my Mog safe, I put it up for sale.

EEEEEEEK :eek: I put up a stack of cooking materials for 400 gil and the AH takes 500 gil fee for that. Why is the Jeuno AH so outrageously expensive for fees? The fee for a stack of things in San is more like 10 gil, not 500.

[Anom]

Taxes, taxes, taxes.

Jeuno isn't really a kingdom with it's own people like the other kingdoms... and I dont think they have any real industries like the other kingdoms do either... Logging, mining, harvesting.

My guess is that SE wanted Jeuno to be the in-game version of a United Nations. And to run that allied system, the money had to come from somewhere (ie. taxes).

Course I could easily be wrong...

[Satyricon]

From my experiences, it's not worth it to put things under 1k on auction in Jeuno due to the high tax rate. Usually armor and weapons is a great idea, since it will be of high cost and the return is much greater.

[Kagi]

Higher lv weapons, armour, and other costly things == Jeuno
Low lv equipment and odds and ends == other cities

[Arturo-B]

Wow. Thanks for the post. I too saw that things were worth more in Jeuno, so I was selling all sorts of stuff. I am so used to minimal AH fees that I didn't even pay attention as I go pretty fast. I'll have to be more careful in the future.

Best Regards,
Alex

[bakasan]

I'd say the more probable reason for the high charges in Jeuno is to encourage the greater use of the other AHs throughout the land--in the original cities, Kazham, Norg, etc.

In the mid to later stages in the game (25+), Jeuno becomes such an important city--from its location to its role in various quests and missions, that many, many players end up using it as a home base. Large alliance quests meet up and depart from there; travel arrangements via teleports or airships converge on there; etc. It just makes sense at a certain point to spend a lot of time there.

For that reason, the city gets / is VERY VERY crowded.. I've zoned into Lower Jeuno before, and just that one *area* had some 220 players.

Levy taxes high enough and you more or less force player's hands to *have* to travel abroad more, putting stuff up for sale at the other AHs, using the mog houses at those cities, etc. I guarantee you, Jeuno would be 10x worse as it already is w/ crowding if there weren't those taxes levied on bazaars and auctions.

[Cedric-Archaon]

Back before the AH tax was above like 10 gil, basically everyone and their mother would be in jeuno, and almost no one cept lowbies used the other city AH's. This made the jeuno serverload INSANE, and I used to spend 2-3 minutes loading into jeuno, and that is on PS2 which has less lag than PC. After a while Square made the tax, and eventually upgraded the servers to not go gimp with all the jeuno traffic.