As a general note, I'm writing this with the assumption that moving forward event items will be more unique or maybe even not found in shops at all. Possibly ephemeral things that only exist for the duration of the event. If not, then that all will have the "event" rarity and be limited to 1 per purchase, as has been discussed many times in other threads.

All of these might cause an initial surge of people buying and it will feel like the problem isn't fixed or even worse, but once everyone manages to get what they want initially it'll calm down and everything will be far more reasonable to purchase.

Right now, restocking for quests is absolutely awful. I only do 2 quests because I can't stand restocking and if I tried to do all of them I'd never get done. It can take literally 8+ hours to restock what you want and you might still not finish restocking because the "very rare" items never show up and when they do it's 1 at a time. "You don't have to do the quests." While this is true, we have been constantly told by multiple staff members that the best way to make TU is with quests. We are always pushed towards quests when it's brought up. If everyone starts doing quests, there is absolutely no way the shops will be able to keep up, even with the current userbase, let alone if more users start joining. They can barely keep up now. Many items aren't stocked in user shops because it's too hard to keep them there and, if they are, then it's at insane prices. I am fully aware that I have some overpriced items in my own shop, but that is 1/10th of the minimum price I saw in shops when I originally stocked them (haven't checked since, just dumped and left them). Especially items of Very Rare rarity, some of them I can barely keep any stock of for quests. One example is the Ghoul for the weapon quest. I hear a lot of complaints about that one but it's not the only one.

As always, I point out that this game is frequented by people who have lives and things to do. I work from home so I have some leeway but many people do not have that freedom and simply cannot devote their time to this. I'd rather a dozen people played my game for an hour and were happy and kept coming back than have one person focus it for 8 hours while the rest got frustrated and quit, which is what I often feel like doing while restocking.

- Nothing that can be asked for in quests should be stocking 1 at a time, especially if it is a rare item. Make the minimum 3 or even 5.

- For common/uncommon items, make them infinite stock while they're in the shop. This might not be feasible with the current system, so set the minimum stocked to some stupidly high number like 100 or more.

- Some people have discussed not even having "stock" for anything that's common or uncommon and just having those in their own section where you can buy them whenever you want and the rare+ rotate, but that's a much more complicated suggestion to implement and I'm only listing it here for completeness.

As with the above, some of this might cause a bit of scarcity initially but very quickly it'll become much more reasonable to do anything in terms of shops once the initial rush calms down.

Edit: There is no more captcha (not sure if that's staying or not but that's lovely. It's actually making Very Hard stocking even harder though right now). For the rarer items, the captcha removal really really needed to go hand-in-hand with higher base stock so this is very much still relevant.

I would literally walk this request into the Oval Office of the President of the United States if I thought it would help get it approved and implemented.  I can't tell you how many times this new captcha has caused me to simply close my computer and quit playing the game...that's how completely infuriating and frustrating it is.  While I understand, and actually appreciate, the spirit with which the captcha is implemented and agree that some safeguard like this should be in place - we all want a fair shot at purchasing rare and very rare items, especially in an event - it shouldn't take away from the enjoyable experience of the game.  In my opinion, this one should move to the top of the development team's to-do list.

I SUPPORT 100%

The current captcha is getting more tedious. It's not selecting 3-4 boxes anymore. Once, I have to select all the boxes for a close up picture of a bus.

I don't do quests because if I have the all items in my inventory, it takes a long time to load for using items auction or trades. Same for shrine's item drop down menu, the cut off is too short.

I have spent 2 hours without missing a reset stalking for an apparel that never shows up. It's not 'very rare' but the 'rare' ones that is the worse. And why is the price of items fluctuating? 

Is it account locked? How do we track the specific item that got used rather than "per user?" If it's "per user" people could easily pass it around.

The goal of this suggestion is to make quests less tedious/painful and make new users want to play them or stay. New users wouldn't be able to afford something expensive so it wouldn't benefit them as much and older users would just use it on only the rare items, making their rarity moot.

If there is a way to balance all the above issues without making it a slog to actually do the multiplying of the items then this could work, but it would involve a lot of thought, planning, and reworking of a lot of other things I think.

I'm glad people are thinking about these things though, I just think a more direct solution would benefit users more ultimately and be less convoluted for new users.