Learning to contribute to your pocket and the economy.

Hello! I have just recently started crafting, and I see many things with multi-million dollar price tags, so I assume a lot of people have this sort of money sitting around.

I would honestly like to know how to structure my game play (as I have limited time resources) and ask that people share their strategies (doesn't have to be item-specific, just a general description, don't want to cause market flooding with item problems) because I would like to be able to buy those items I see for 2 and 3 million within the next year sometime(this is not sarcasm.)

This is not a troll or any sarcasm, I am honestly hoping this will help me and future players to learn to contribute more to the world economy.

If you have suggestions of other threads, please feel free to post them here.

I don't quite know the rules of posting outside websites to the forums, so please, I ask, do not post them so that this thread might stay alive. (Looked around for the rules, call me blind but where are they??)

I'd like to keep editing this post with your suggestions.

Thank you!

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Originally Posted by Sainya

Hello! I have just recently started crafting, and I see many things with multi-million dollar price tags, so I assume a lot of people have this sort of money sitting around.

I would honestly like to know how to structure my game play (as I have limited time resources) and ask that people share their strategies (doesn't have to be item-specific, just a general description, don't want to cause market flooding with item problems) because I would like to be able to buy those items I see for 2 and 3 million within the next year sometime(this is not sarcasm.)

This is not a troll or any sarcasm, I am honestly hoping this will help me and future players to learn to contribute more to the world economy.

If you have suggestions of other threads, please feel free to post them here.

I don't quite know the rules of posting outside websites to the forums, so please, I ask, do not post them so that this thread might stay alive. (Looked around for the rules, call me blind but where are they??)

I'd like to keep editing this post with your suggestions.

Thank you!

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Wanna make money? Start mining and botanist. People are too lazy to farm mats and prices are sky high. U can make 1mil a day farming 2-3 hours

I agree with Noir. Supplying materials for crafters can make you a lot of gil. Have a look at the wards on your server and see what materials the faster selling and higher priced stuff needs. A lot of players are trying to get hold of class weapons at the moment which is an oppertunity for gatherers and miners. I've made up to 5 mill in a day from gathering trillium+1 and trillium bulbs+1 which areused in the CNJ staff. Mats used in the items for hamlet supply points are also making good gil on my server with raptorskin+1 fetching over 40k, resin+1 sells for a lot too. The nq versions of the supply item mats sell for less but sell quickly and can make you a mill in a day.
The golden rule is simple, check the wards and see what people are buying. Other players will catch on to gilmakers too. I remember making a fortune from choco feathers and then the price crashed as others caught on to them. It's important to keep checking the market as the gilmaking oppertunities change constantly.

Thank you both for replying, it's most appreciated, will get my DoL's leveled up :)

I third what Noir said about the DoL levelling♪

I strongly suggest to get goldsmith up with your miner -- any silver you get, make it into earrings and npc them. Each earring nets like 2k gil which is more for what you'd get for the 3 ores that went into the ingot on the wards.

Charlemagne speaks the truth also! Crafters will buy mats from the wards often which is a nice cash cow but expect competition here.

You can make a lot of gil just levelling crafts and NPcing what you make if it's little grind synths, granted it's not as swift as say making millions on BTN but it's a nice steady cash flow while you're getting your DoLs up.

I don't think there's too many super rich people still floating out there, I know there's some so don't be discouraged when you see the big pricetags! There's cash everywhere to be made, keep your means of making it varied and you'll find yourself making gil pretty steadily.

Have a good day!

Thanks a lot, Nix! Much appreciated.

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I would like to be able to buy those items I see for 2 and 3 million within the next year sometime(this is not sarcasm.)

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It's funny because this is totally doable within a couple of days. It seems like mining is more popular than botany, so botany will have less competition, so you may make more money with botany. Fishing is really popular with botters since you don't have to move, so you'll have a lot of competition with people who bot fishing 24/7, I wouldn't recommend it.

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i have to say i agree with the dol supporters here. you can also work on classes you are leveling and farm other mats as well. things like fleece, snurble tufts, raptor skins, boar skins, and other grinding mats also can make you a nice profit as well. i think the best point them is use the search feature and see what's low on the wards and is selling fast. you don't want to go farming something that there's a ton of those items up for sale because of the constant undercutting war with higher numbers of people selling those items.

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Originally Posted by Masamune1004

It's funny because this is totally doable within a couple of days. It seems like mining is more popular than botany, so botany will have less competition, so you may make more money with botany. Fishing is really popular with botters since you don't have to move, so you'll have a lot of competition with people who bot fishing 24/7, I wouldn't recommend it.

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Mining is most popular because...

1. It is utilized more frequently in DoH grinds (BSM, GSM, ARM) than the other two DoL
2. It has a greater number of items that sell rapidly (cobalt, electrum, mythril) as opposed to fish or logs
3. Darksteel Ore +1 has a greater frequency than spruce and trillium
4. Darksteel Ore +1 is used in just about every high-end synth
5. The distance between money-making nodes is significantly shorter for mining than other classes (Iron Lake, Dragonhead.)

Thank you for all of the replies

tldr; Gather and watch market trends. It's working! TYVM everyone.