How much gil would you need to accumulate where gil wouldn't matter anymore, or where it would be like you have infinite gil. So you wouldn't have to worry about teleport costs or buying things on the marketboard for convenience.
This is probably very speculative from person to person but I was just wondering in a large scale perspective.
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06-01-2016, 05:25 AMBloodbInfinite Gil
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06-01-2016, 05:31 AMLaylaTsarra
I wish there were achievements for the amount of teleports and yahms traveled. I'd blow those achievements away given all the gathering I do on a daily basis. i have lots of gil and don't simply rely on the marketboard because prices there can be silly.
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06-01-2016, 05:31 AMFived
A good 200 Gil.
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06-01-2016, 05:34 AMKonOkami
It's not a matter of sitting on a big sum but a matter of steady income. As long as you make more than you spend you might as well have infinite gil. Doesn't matter if that's 1k gil or 999mil
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06-01-2016, 05:41 AMLexia
Have crafting/gathering jobs leveled and be active on them and you will have pretty much infinite gil as KonOkami said.
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06-01-2016, 05:43 AMRoegadyn_BearAnd then Gil Toss was added to the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by KonOkami
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06-01-2016, 05:45 AMSendohJin
The gil cap would be the only number that makes me feel that way. If I'm forced to spend gil because otherwise I couldn't store more.
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06-01-2016, 05:46 AMKonOkamiYES PLEASE!Quote:
Originally Posted by Roegadyn_Bear
Lemme go in Sephi Ex with one of my DoH/DoL and throw gil at him!!! Insta KO!
Or even better... Yojimbo! -
06-01-2016, 05:52 AMUrthdigger
There's a lot more factors that go into this than just personal gil. If people just generate a lot of gil, that does make NPC costs trivial at best, but the price of things on the marketboards simply increase (Fun fact: This has happened over the course of ARR! Especially the introduction of duty roulette and challenge logs).
This is because money, when you boil it down, is simply a placeholder for goods and services. The notion of 5000 gil is meaningless without any context (and indeed, the worth of it differs from server to server.) Rather, a player is likely to think of gil in terms of "I can buy my next set of HQ armor for this much" or "A stack of my favorite food tends to be this much" or "I can craft these items, and they sell for this much." This is especially true when regarding whether something's worth the cost or not, it usually tends to be a simple matter of if it's easier to get the item themselves, or to do whatever farming method they prefer to produce the gil for it.
In this regard, I'd say what matters most is being self-sufficient. A good 100k is probably good enough to ignore most NPC costs, especially if you have crafting leveled to use dark matter for repairs over using repair NPCs... and especially if you turn in expert dungeon drops for GC seals for the dark matter and durability potions. Once you've got repairs and teleports out of the way, it's a simple matter of finding some source of income that produces more gil than you spend on food and potions. Whether that means using cheap (or no!) food and sticking to the idle methods of duty roulettes and ventures, or finding something to farm that suits your needs is a balance all up to the player. -
06-01-2016, 05:56 AMzosia
After furnishing my 4th house, owning all the minions and vanity gear that I like, and stockpiling materia/consumables, I would say the number you are looking for is around 200 mil.
If you can invest in buying a dead FC and bulding airships, those flying retainers can make you a small fortune once you are up and running with the latest parts. I can't even fathom how much gil I have made off of zu mounts. -
06-01-2016, 06:13 AMVespar
How much money would you need to support yourself in real life?
Its the same for your character.
Live within your means and you wont need to worry about infinite numbers. -
06-01-2016, 09:12 AMBloodbThank you, this was really the kind of answer i was seeking. I curse myself for spending 16 mil on a Zu mount when someone was holding a blind auction in party finder. The last one sold on the marketboard at the time was 50 mil. Thought I was getting a steal only to watch them quickly crash down to 1 million.Quote:
Originally Posted by zosia
Your smart with the airship idea btw. -
06-01-2016, 09:42 AMGemina
Make more than you spend = infinite gil.
Acquiring the means to sustain your fortune and make it grow is the hard part. -
06-01-2016, 09:52 AMSeraphix2407
Been sitting over 850 mil, think in my whole FF14 life I've had over 1.5 billion gil. Gave away so many stuff during xmas tho, so was worth having much!
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...e_santa_clauz/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ee_minions_at/
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Originally Posted by Gemina
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06-01-2016, 11:19 AMDerio
I teleport for free from doing hunts, and 30 million gill does me fine. But I think you would have to have a trillion in gill to reach near infinite
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06-01-2016, 12:00 PMBloodbA billion Gil is more realistic. But really once you have a house you like, a minion you like, and a good cushion or nest egg of gil for anything you want in the future your good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derio
That was my curiosity but i didn't know how to ask given the differences in servers.
ps. Arawn Wymer did you play beta? you've got the same join date as me. -
06-01-2016, 12:07 PMSeraphix2407Yeah :). My irl friends who got me into this game quit tho, so I stayed, since I made my own fancy little fc! Ever since we achived getting large house in 3 weeks since housing came out, we pushed our limits and made more income.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bloodb
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06-01-2016, 01:01 PMCherie
If devs want to deal with the excess gil in the game... I have come up with a solution!
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d...ns/ffx-130.jpg
There you go summoners! Enjoy your new summon! :P It would take "paid run" to a whole new level and cut out the middleman lol....
(For those that never played FFX, Yojimbo was a summon that did jack unless you paid him. If you paid him enough him was incredibly strong. If you were cheap then just slaps the enemy lightly and leaves.)
I'm kidding about actually adding Yojimbo btw... :P -
06-01-2016, 02:24 PMAlphaFoxYojimbo for Samurai teacher? :3Quote:
Originally Posted by Cherie
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06-01-2016, 03:12 PMCherieIf he was the teacher, he'd charge you to learn skills. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by AlphaFox
I always got tickled when I summoned him in FFX. It was always what I'd do when I was super desperate to beat a boss I was losing on. One time I did it, the boss didn't have much health so I thought it might be just what I needed. So I gave Yojimbo all the gil I had at the time (It was my first run through and I didn't know what was a 'lot'...lol)... Yojimbo took all my money and like threw a small dart at the boss and left me to die... -
06-01-2016, 05:02 PMMorzy
Being rich is overrated.
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06-01-2016, 05:15 PMYawnie
Well I dunno about infinite, but my Gil currency is OVER 9000!!!!
Sorry, couldn't resist. -
06-01-2016, 07:49 PMPowe
I heard theres a guy from my old fc trying to hit the max gil limit, hes at something lik 645 million gil last time i checked.
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06-01-2016, 07:51 PMPowe" A dev sees this and implements this at 4.0" GJ you killed my wallet you monster ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cherie
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06-01-2016, 08:15 PMJoe_SchmoeMaybe also the ability to rack up frequent flyer miles. For every _1000__ yalms traveled, you get one free teleport. That'd be cool. :]Quote:
Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra
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06-02-2016, 03:55 AMCwestcott18
If you can pay a roe to go with a fro then you have plenty of gil
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06-02-2016, 04:40 AMSeraphix2407I think I spent like 300 mil that weekend/3 days on minion, house, vanity and random stuff like housing item. Lol, I could but I rather not :p. You know how I obtain my gil, because we are on same server haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Synestra
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06-02-2016, 05:20 AMAlexander_Dragonfang
I do "midcore" crafting.
That mean right now, simply restock my retainers once or twice a week depending on my mood, and also not being constantly undercutting, that with all crafters at 60 with the starting high end gear (i150 melded). I make usually 6 to 7 millions weekly, that on an average week, sadly for my server the last weeks of the patch have really hurt my sellings so has went down to 3-4 millions weekly. Unless i spent in some serious gearing or anything, i basically have infinite money since there is no way, i can spend that much gil on the "character maintenance" weekly. Repairs, teleports, a minion or two...
Basically all you need to have infinite gil is to level 1 crafter. After having let say, 10 million gil, gil itself stops being a "resource" and becomes more of a "score". Its irrelevant, you just want to see it go up. -
06-02-2016, 06:55 AMraela
Way too variable to say - it depends on what sort of things you would want to buy from the MB. If you just hop on random DF things and aren't into glamour, I imagine even 1m would be overkill. Repairs and teleports aren't that much, and food/pots aren't really necessary outside of savage.
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06-02-2016, 07:07 AMJynx
The real answer is to learn how to get anything you want without using gil.
Once you do that gil becomes a self sustaining resource fueled by your ability to make money from your characters abilities and time.
Having x amount of gil does nothing but give you a bankruptcy timer. -
06-03-2016, 09:51 AMPoweGet a sugar daddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jynx
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06-03-2016, 09:54 AMAlexander_DragonfangWhy not become one?Quote:
Originally Posted by Powe
"There is only two things in the universe that are infinite, horny miqo'tes and gil, and im not sure about the second one". Lord lolorito.... Maybe...? -
06-03-2016, 12:26 PMKewitt
Anything over 100m and you would never need to worry about gil again....
I currently have just over 15m and never have any issues. With all crafts leveled I can swing between 5m gil up and down... depending on what I'm working on.
If I go spending gil.. and need to recover it. 1 hour normally nets between 100-400k gil then 20+ hours for it all to sell. -
06-03-2016, 03:32 PMNicobo
You should have stopped thinking how to make/save gil when you really reach the stage that gil doesn't matter anymore. ^^;