Golden Saucer.

Am I the only one that thinks the prices on stuff from the Golden Saucer are insane?
All my friend playing triple triad are earning a lot... Since they actually like to play that game and actually manage to win. With games being fast and profits can be high its easy to grind some MGP. I only do chocobo racing and so far it takes a lot of time and it seems like i will have to spend all my MGP on chocofeed and breeding costs. Leaving nothing left for buying a mount or bunny ears except winning the jackpot, twice.

Yeah the returns on the minigames are ridiculously tiny. The two cactpot lotteries are...well it's lottery. The chocobo racing and triple triad give the biggest returns but if you're terrible at triple triad most of your profit will be eaten by upkeep on the chocobo...

I thought the Golden Saucer would be some relaxed fun. to kill the gap in content coming up before heavensward and just to kill time now that stuff like all classes to 50 has been achieved. But its just making me rage about how bad i am at triple triad and get annoyed by chocobo racing since its so RNG based. Really want the rewards but you really have to play 8 hours a day in the gold saucer till heavensward to even get the mount or keep playing this game casually for the next 5 years.

I don't think the Golden Saucer was intended to be the new raid. Its something to do when you've finished your dailies or to pass some time while waiting for a friend to get on. Try to relax and enjoy the game. I'm sure they'll be making adjustments over time but its the first day. :)

The thing was released several hours ago. It would be pointless to make all the rewards attainable so quickly. Just try to enjoy it, especially for those of us that are stuck at work and can't gain one single mgp lol. :)

I think the intention was that this is something people would do casually for a long period of time with a reward for their effort.

The problem is that they do not truly understand the magnitude of how important glamour is to a good chunk of the playerbase. The gambler's attire and the bunny outfit are not rewarded to casual players. Personally, I won't spend the time getting it, as it's not worth the effort I could be putting into progression.

Also, if you remember what the original Gold Saucer was like in FFVII, with it's 3,000 gil entrance fee each time you wanted to visit, or a once-only, 30,000 gil fee for the 'Lifetime Pass', and how most of it's attractions (other than the arcade machines in Wonder Square) required GP to play, then you should have known what to expect. It's a casino/themepark, that's it's purpose - it's there to take your money.

Every guy rushing for new RP bunny.I'm grinding for cloud card Dx

if you are a casual player an don't have much time to play gold saucer play the daily cacpot you are almost guaranteed to win some points, unless you are really unlucky

...honestly though, I wasn't even surprised at that. :( Although - 1mil for a mount is beyond ridiculous.

Those prices for Ul'dah civilian clothes is insane too. >_>
I'm not a huge fan of Triple Triad (I dunno, just not for me) so I'm gonna be one of those people that are gonna be grinding out Gold Saucer for chump stuff.

Imho,triple triad winnings need to be nerfed,it's that simple.

Chocobo racing is more difficult and time consuming,and costs more.

At least,it's more difficult when races are filled with proper players.

Speaking of chocobo racing,is there anyway to see player names there too?It feels a little distant to race not knowing who's there.

You know,they should just add ff14 themed roulette tables,at least that way you can play a game,win some mgp or whatever it's called,and have some kinda social experience to it as well with a bunch all playing and being able to look around at all the others too.

I honestly thought we would have more control over the chocobo. It feels like my chocobo is drunk and the visuals look like it's not working or laggy XD

The only way to get the fenrir mount is to win the big lottery.
Literally impossible for any mere human willing to grind 1 million MGP. Its just impossible if u tackle it the slow and steady way XD. So if u see someone with a fenrir mount u better respect their rng and hope some of it will rub off on you :3

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Originally Posted by Yumi_umi

The only way to get the fenrir mount is to win the big lottery.
Literally impossible for any mere human willing to grind 1 million MGP. Its just impossible if u tackle it the slow and steady way XD. So if u see someone with a fenrir mount u better respect their rng and hope some of it will rub off on you :3

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Until/unless they add more lucrative games, or improve the odds on others.

i just want fenrir :( , but no point farming for it , since by the time u get it 3.0 will be live (4.0 to be more realistic) , and u will use flying mounts , so fenrir will be used on no flying zones only.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

Until/unless they add more lucrative games, or improve the odds on others.

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Don't think SE has time for that as 3.0 and 2.5 p2 is up next >_>
Hopefully they will ninja add a few more stuff but i doubt it till 3.0 and beyond.
Took WD a while before FL was introduced.
They realllllllly want to make things gated by grind or godly rng stuff.
Remember to grab ur pitchforks and torches for the 1st winner of the big lotto XD

I think TT is awesome best way to pass time while waiting for low level roulette! Can't wait to play after work. ;)

Guys it's the first day. Chill. Like others have said, some of us have been stuck at work/school and haven't been able to even set foot in the Gold Saucer yet. Of course it will take time to get the mount. Just enjoy getting there.

The Gold Saucer high cost rewards are intended to be content for the remainder of a long term players career. I don't think people realize how fast it is to get MGP. 5 sec for 6(?) MGP just for doing the Crystal Tower mini-game that you can spam. 1600 MGP for surviving Typhon. 468 or whatever it was for properly doing some other GATEs. 50-80+ MGP for partaking in Chocobo racing (which including queue time, only takes around 4min from queue to end of race). 100+ for beating the king at TT (I can beat him with a starter deck most of the time). Believe me, you'll get enough for everything in due time. It's like using tickets at an arcade for prizes. They require an obscene amount for the good stuff, but unlike IRL, this won't cost you $1000 to get enough arcade currency to get something like an XBox 360.

Just have fun... that's what this is for. If you're gonna treat it like a job, you're only ruining the game for yourself.

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Originally Posted by VictoriqueSorrowsong

Am I the only one that thinks the prices on stuff from the Golden Saucer are insane?
All my friend playing triple triad are earning a lot... Since they actually like to play that game and actually manage to win. With games being fast and profits can be high its easy to grind some MGP. I only do chocobo racing and so far it takes a lot of time and it seems like i will have to spend all my MGP on chocofeed and breeding costs. Leaving nothing left for buying a mount or bunny ears except winning the jackpot, twice.

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Try it with a top racing Chocobo that can win the highest ranked race. I'm sure the reward increase with the race rank.
Also training feed you can get for cheap if you craft it with culinarian (only 1 star recipes)

Does anyone else think some of the mini games are total crap and cheat? I tried that mog game and couldn't win once. The strength game and Gilgamesh ones are fun.

Where to start...?

Remember this is supposed to be an amusing timesink. So far it succeeds.

Chocobos, Control gets better as the chocobo ranks? rates? both? up. We start with rank 1 birds, rating 11. They can retire and be bred at rating 40 if I read this stuff correctly. And there are covering certificates for rank 8 birds....

Grade 1 feed is L 30, Grade 2 is one star, I have no cooking master books but I bet grade 3 is 3 star.

Triple Triad, the NPCs have some strong cards but they still loose. And the games are quick.

Haven't tried a GATE yet but a FC mate got 1600 MGPs for a few minuets.

And did you notice that the airship to the saucer is free?

Did they have to add the hairstyle to the MGP grind though? I can live without the extra glamor but come one. Find most these time sinks kinda boring. <---- opinion, remember that.

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Originally Posted by Battlewrench

Did they have to add the hairstyle to the MGP grind though?

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Omg, I had forgotten about that! Why they decided that those ponytails were Gold saucer content and something to be purchased and not just already in the aesthetician menu is beyond me.

Why do some people keep calling it "golden saucer" ?

Its Gold Saucer.
It was Gold Saucer in FF7 too, never golden. I just dont get where this came from.

Someone will inevitably respond with "who cares" and no, it isnt a big deal. Its just weird. Its like if ppl referred to Gridania as Grenada.

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Originally Posted by Ophie-Mio

Omg, I had forgotten about that! Why they decided that those ponytails were Gold saucer content and something to be purchased and not just already in the aesthetician menu is beyond me.

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Probably to set the precedent for future hairstyles... besides that ponytail is essentially Irvine Kinneas from FFVIII, so they'll probably put in more character hairstyles in Gold Saucer too.

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Originally Posted by Welsper59

The Gold Saucer high cost reards are intended to be content for the remainder of a long term players career. I don\\'t think people realize how fast it is to get MGP

Just have fun... that\\'s what this is for. If you\\'re gonna treat it like a job, you\\'re only ruining the game for yourself.

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Everything under the andamantoise mount is grindable. But fenrir, u literally won\\'t have enough life in you to be able to actually grind from
500 -> 1 million mgp.
Only way is lottery and that i can bet my mgp on ;)

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Originally Posted by Terrini

Probably to set the precedent for future hairstyles... besides that ponytail is essentially Irvine Kinneas from FFVIII, so they'll probably put in more character hairstyles in Gold Saucer too.

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Hm.... There you go, put those hairs, like Cloud's, in there and just charge 1,000,000 MGP for it lol. People will acquire it at different phases, and get over it, and overall the overuse of these incredibly popular items will be kept down (a bit at least).

Fenrir, Cloud's Bike version, 1,777,777 points. xD.

It can probably feel like hard grind in the first day, but eventually you get 80 different cards and you will start earning more and more. Even if you do not spend time in Gold Saucer you will get those cards from trials/dungeons/raids and you can change those extra cards for some mgp.