I do not think the price of the item directly correlates with "multiclienting". It's more of the fact that the supply of the item is very low. It's a rare drop. Also have been playing for a month and nobody sells upgrade stones for 200% of the original price.. not sure where you're getting your price checks, but most people who don't even multi client advertise selling upgrade stones for 200k for hours. If you don't agree with the price then try to offer or simply hunt it yourself and stop scapegoating first world problems.
Where I'm getting my prices is putting them up for 300k and having them sell in a matter of minutes. I've never seen a single one in dunbarton for under 275k so I'm not sure where you're seeing them for 200k. And I personally haven't been looking for either of them at either price recently, they were just an example to show how ludicrous the price of endgame items is.
But even if it was only 200k like you said, how long do you think it would it take for you personally to make that without abusing SMs with alts? In my experience even if you're doing SMs with a group you still wont be making nearly as much as if you were just using alt accounts and soloing the missions, so even then it takes significantly longer to farm the same amounts, whereas I could easily farm 200k in less than an hour, probably closer to 30 minutes with alt accounts spamming SMs, and I'm only total 460
Bottom line, in my opinion, is that if you think it is a disadvantage, then even the playing field. Run some alts in missions you can handle. Otherwise, don't sit and gawk at those taking advantage of it.
To reiterate the entire point of the first post: some people want to run things with other people, not have those slots filled with alts. People are worried that these alts will prevent people from joining sms.
YOU CAN'T FORCE PEOPLE TO DO THINGS THEY DON'T WANT. If people don't want to run something, they won't run it. If the alts are causing this issue then the GMs should disable multiclient. Not going to happen because this isn't "super official Live."
I'm in no way worried or upset that people aren't grouping up to play the game, that's just dumb. If you want to play alone then feel free to. The problem I have and the reason i'm advocating for changing the way SMs work is because of the ungodly amount of gold you can make in a few hours and how much it unbalances the economy, see above.
And as far as "evening the playing field" not everyone's computers can handle running 3 clients at the same time. This game isn't exactly the most resource efficient to run, which was the point of my previous post that apparently you missed. I wasn't saying "Just stop being poor in the game" I was saying "just stop being pore in real life"