DeletedUser29218
While it’s true that you can exhaust the diamond rewards for an age’s quests pretty fast, don’t forget that goods can be turned into diamonds and FPS through the Guild Expedition, especially in Level 4. I typically get about 200 diamonds per week when my guild opens up L4, in addition to a good amount of FPs, especially with a ToR. I negotiate every encounter, but my impression is that the higher people go in GE, the more likely they are to negotiate rather than fight. Level 4 requires a LOT of goods, but most weeks that’s worth it to me for the diamonds and FPs I get.
It also helps that I find the negotiation minigame the funnest part of the game overall.
The thing is that he says he is plundering about 400 goods/day. So, even if he had to negotiate lvl 4 (which I doubt so, being a military player who has been parking forever) he already has more goods than he can spend.