What are the gil sinks in this game?

Title states it all. I am not rich by any means, I am poor. But I am leveling my crafters and aside from the 25000 for a level 5 item, to under cut to 500 (hate those people) I am slowly beginning to make money.

But as the people who are gil capped - what do you spend your money on? You got the mansions, the fancy gear, shiny toys. What do you rich people do with all your money?

Curious.

im in the top 10 richest people in ff14 probably (i've never seen anyone with 2m gil like me) and honestly i mostly just spend it on repairs XD

Buying stuff for my friends and funding fc events are my gil sink.

I'd buy some crafted primal weapon glamours for GNB...

IF I HAD ANY.

I'm not gil capped (always floating between 15-20m) but even if I was, there's hardly anything I want to spend money except on expansion day, when I'm leveling DoH/DoL. The last biggest buy was the urban coat on week 3 of its release.

There's just nothing in the game right now to motivate me to make more money or spend it.

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Originally Posted by SavishSalacious

Title states it all. I am not rich by any means, I am poor. But I am leveling my crafters and aside from the 25000 for a level 5 item, to under cut to 500 (hate those people) I am slowly beginning to make money.

But as the people who are gil capped - what do you spend your money on? You got the mansions, the fancy gear, shiny toys. What do you rich people do with all your money?

Curious.

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There are no major gil sinks in the game.

Housing and housing decorations can eat up quite a bit of gil, but that is mostly a one-off spending.
Teleports and repairs eat up some gil, but not all that much unless you overdo it.
Overmelding materia can eat up a whole lot of materia that some people will buy from the MB.
Buying HQ-crafted gear is a quick way of gearing up, if you don't want to get your gear through dungeon runs.
Some glamour items can be surprisingly expensive if you buy them.

But all in all, unless you waste your money it will slowly accumulate over time.

Donating money to my many alts.

Housing and Glam items.

Yeah. I'd say housing probably takes the most money out of rich player's pockets.

The ones that probably control the gil the most overall are fees like teleportation or MB taxes.

Sponsoring things like Dynamis every week... oh wait wrong game...
Paying off Yojimo... not that one either...
Spamming the skill GP Rain... wait no...
Umm... was there anything to dump truckloads of gil on in this game?

I do wish that there were more things to spend gil on. A mount that costs a straight up ten million gil or some such.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I do wish that there were more things to spend gil on. A mount that costs a straight up ten million gil or some such.

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While IMO that would be nice. Having the board flooded with threads created by people that can't afford them and feel entitled to have them just because they exist would be beyond annoying.

Step 1 : become an omni crafter
Step 2 : get bored of gathering stuff
Step 3 : use the marketboard for everything
Step 4 : contemplate how the fck did you manage to be poor even though youre a crafter
Step 5 : get addicted to housing

At least thats how i manage to reach having 5k gil from time to time. Have you guys ever traveled from ishgard to goblet on foot?

I just keep getting more gil slowly over time. I don't try to get it, just happens as I play. I don't even use the marketboard for anything. There simply isn't anything to spend gil on.

Mounts, minions, orchestrion rolls, bardings, emotes, hairs (and now umbrellas). Anything that is a permanent addition to my character. Easily costs you hundreds of millions. Already spent about 40mil just on 5.3 stuff.

Buying out MB listings to resell at better prices with the intent of 0 profit.

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

While IMO that would be nice. Having the board flooded with threads created by people that can't afford them and feel entitled to have them just because they exist would be beyond annoying.

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I'm sure people could be eased into it. The first gil sink could be one million gil, the next two million, the one after that five million and so on. It'd establish a trend.

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Originally Posted by Espritduo

Mounts, minions, orchestrion rolls, bardings, emotes, hairs (and now umbrellas). Anything that is a permanent addition to my character. Easily costs you hundreds of millions. Already spent about 40mil just on 5.3 stuff.

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Isn't that based on early purchases, though? Even with a lot of gil to burn, I just wait a week or two for the prices to fall and purchase the stuff I want as soon as they do. :p

Some servers also have better prices than others too.

Raid supplies mostly. It kinda goes fast when you buy pots and food.

I spend the most on raid supplies (food, pot, and gear at beginning of tier, materia for melding/pentamelding, etc). As far as housing, it is expensive but just a one time thing. Once you are done with your house and are happy with it, there's really no continuous cost. Some people spend a lot of gil on glam but personally I don't.

Are you asking how players spend their gil, or are you asking what gil sinks are in the game? Those are 2 different things.

Gil sinks permanently remove gil from circulation. The best gil sinks are ones that players must repeatedly use so gil gets steadily drained from circulation just as it's steadily entering it from quest rewards, mob kills, selling junk to vendors, completing challenge logs, roulette bonuses, etc.

Gil sinks:
Teleport fees
Market fees
Repair fees
Melding fees
Items purchased from vendors for gil
House plot and estate permit, apartment, FC private chambers, FC workshop

Player to player transactions aren't gil sinks (outside of any market fees involved). You being poorer because you gave your gil to another player in exchange for something doesn't remove the gil from circulation. It only changes who is holding it.

There are no good gil sinks targeting wealthy players. Housing is a poor gil sink because you only pay once. Apartments might be available for everyone but the price is relatively small (can easily make that much while leveling). Houses might cost more but they're supply dependent. Gil doesn't get removed when there's no house to buy. For housing to be a good gil sink there would need to be a recurring fee for house owners.

Really the only thing for wealthy players to spend significant amounts of gil on are items that other players are already selling. There's nothing out there that can only be purchased with gil that's gong to make a dent in the gil wealthy players already have. The largest gil purchase price I can think of for a single item (outside of housing) is 100,000. There might be a few items higher but still gil sinks targeting wealthy players in general are lacking.

Plus, to add to what Jojoya said, the myriad of different tokens we possess (poetics, tribe tokens, etc) are also mitigating gil sink effects. If those things didn't exist and we had to pay out of our own pockets on a regular basis, some of us (well, me definitely lol) would be flat broke constantly.

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Originally Posted by Penthea

Buying stuff for my friends and funding fc events are my gil sink.

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Stuff like this.

If I can craft it myself i'll usually do so. However, sometimes I get tired of gathering and would rather spend my time just crafting so I'll buy materials from the MB. Oh and mounts, orchestration rolls, minions, and a fair bit of materia for melding as I never manage to save as much as I need.

Food and pots. If I were the type to actually build my gil up, then I'd blow it on pots for just general dungeon use too heh. Gotta go fast!

probably crafter overmeld is the most for me, also L house but thats a one time things

Glamour.





R.I.P my wallet.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Isn't that based on early purchases, though? Even with a lot of gil to burn, I just wait a week or two for the prices to fall and purchase the stuff I want as soon as they do. :p

Some servers also have better prices than others too.

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For some things yes, for most things, no. Assuming some fundamental nerf to how the item is acquired doesn't tank the price, anything of the above mentioned that sells really high, stays really high forever. The price drops a little bit from day/week one prices, but you're still going to be spending 500k-20million on these things no matter how long you wait. If you're expecting things like the Copycat Bulb or Incitatus mount to sell for 100k or less, you're going to be waiting a very long time.

And due to cross server capabilities becoming well-used, most servers have equalized and you are not going to find significantly different prices on average for things. You get your outliers from random people deciding to sell at a huge price drop one time, and it's great when you can catch these bargains before they're snatched up, but the average going rate tends to be mostly the same across servers.

Hoarding in a big pile and sitting on it like a dragon.

Housing items aren’t cheap, Glam ain’t easy if your poor. Simply doing the ARR relic is pricey. I Relocate from time to time especially if I see a bot spamming the placecard. Leveling crafters has you pay millions on mats

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

Hoarding in a big pile and sitting on it like a dragon.

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I am now going to turn the basement of my house into Scrooge McDuck's money bin just so I can do this.

Buying overpriced crafting/gathering/battle gear a few hours after a patch hits then afking in Uldah with it :3

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

I am now going to turn the basement of my house into Scrooge McDuck's money bin just so I can do this.

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Indoor swimming when? Let's go the whole way.

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Originally Posted by Penthea

Buying stuff for my friends and funding fc events are my gil sink.

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This right here