After four weeks of updates and tracking and filling out my tables and monitoring inventory, my latest workshop project in Final Fantasy 14 has concluded. I spent hours making the items over the weekend and now they’re up for sale, to be replaced as they’re bought out, in an effort to maintain a stock level rather than just craft a random assortment of things. I’m hopeful that this will all go according to my plan (the market is pretty low on available housing exterior options at the moment, so I was putting the only item up for a lot of them and could name my price), both in terms of how much all this stuff sells for an how much easier it will be to maintain a stock level than try to predict what is going to sell at any given time. It required an immense amount of up-front work, between adminstering the project and participating in it, but we managed to reach the end with only one miss-delivered item and my record-keeping made it easier to figure out what went wrong than to fix it (and fixing it was very easy). If I’d gotten more participants, I think it would have gone faster, but that would have also meant the work I did would have been more concentrated than it was and it was already enough to make me so tired that I am considering dropping the workshop stuff entirely. After all, the main people doing it don’t need more money and I’ve got my own means of earning money, so this just seems like a waste of time and effort sometimes. Less so if my pricing scheme works out (establishing a more controlled price across the board for some of these housing things rather than playing the “set the price lower than any current listing” thing most people seem to do), but I’m not super confident that it will. It’s worth a try, just like this entire project has been, but I’m not sure there’s much of an end-point to this other than me just quitting or turning it all into personal work rather than work for my Free Company.