Is there an inexpensive way to base yourself out of Kugane/Shirogane?

So, I'm totally willing to trash my LL apartment for a Shirogane one, except for the fact that basing one's self out of the far east puts you at a max price teleport away from anything happening in Eorzea. I'm mostly thinking of regular access to my grand company stuff, or just, I don't know... doing stuff around the world that isn't in the first.

Those of you that do this, that base yourselves out of Shirogane, that have a house or apartment there and like... lobby there to play the game, while still leveling jobs and, you know... needing most of the world: how do you have your favorites and home point and gold star favorite teleport set up? Like I'm at Shirogane now, and my teleport to my LL home is 249 and that's reasonable. Am I to assume that a teleport TO a Shriogane home is also peanuts from pretty much anywhere?

To put things in perspective, I hover around 1.5 mil. I know that's poor for this game, but I don't do anything market-boardy for income as that avenue's not fun for me in any game. That's why I'm talking apartments and not full blown houses (also I can't do a house that could get demolished with time away, it's the principle involved).

I use Aetheryte Tickets for when it's gonna get real expensive.
"One Aetheryte Ticket can be purchased for 5 Allied Seals at your Grand Company, or 5 Centurio Seals from Ardolain at the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard."

I know not everyone might feel like doing hunts just for that.
I'm just sharing my own way to get around the high prices incase it'll help.

My main has a house in Shirogane. Her 'return' is set to Ul'dah, because she's an Immortal Flame - and I to GC turn ins most every day. I am in an FC that has a house in Lavender Beds, so that's a 'cheap' port to Gridania. I have an apartment in Mist, so there's a cheap port to Limsa. So my favorites are set up as of now, Ishgard, Rhalgr's Reach, the Crystarium and Eulmore. (I think I have an extra favorite from having the phone app but I can't remember)When Endwalker comes out, I'll switch Eulmore and Crystarium to the hubs there, and I am hoping I can relocate to the Ishgard housing, so I'd move my Ishgard favorite to Kugane.

Are you using your favorite destinations for teleporting? I think with the phone app you get 5 or 6.. so 1 return destination an 5 or 6 for half price dropping it to 499 I think.. an can be lowered further with FC buff.

Just space your favorites out in the different areas

For example my return is Crystarium and my favorites are Idleshire, Ralgar's, Kugane, Eulmore, and Mor Dona I think? Lol I'm forgetting one for sure haha

I have:
My free teleport is to Uldah ( I can get to gold saucer for free and from there to the other two main cities for under 300)
My bind point is Limsa, where my GC is based, I've just never bothered to change this.
My "reduced" points are: Rhalgars Reach, Doman enclave, Foundation, Eulmore (airship to crystarium!) , and Gridania. (there was some reason I have more "favorite" slots than usual that I forget. I think it was having 2 factor authentication?)

My house is in Shirogane , teleporting there from anywhere in the world is 250 at most.

What this results in is I rarely spend more than 600 gil to go anywhere in the entire world in 2 teleports or less. I can usually get within the region for under 200 and then to the point in 400 or less if not completely free if I don't mind a little walking.



As to funding it all, I generally turn in all my dungeon drops (I just roll greed on everything unless someone says something) from roulettes in to my GC for seals and turn those seals into ventures (or aetheryte tickets) which in turn sometimes end up MORE seals because of the gear the retainers bring in. At this point I have somewhere around 10k ventures, 90k seals and am straight up desynthing every gear piece I get and MB'ing the results.


Honestly as far as "funding" yourself you really should at least take a tertiary interest in the MB and list as much as your retainers can put up. If nothing else various venture results and dungeon drops can net you enough gil to never walk anywhere ever again.

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Originally Posted by Krotoan

My "reduced" points are: Rhalgars Reach, Doman enclave, Foundation, Eulmore (airship to crystarium!) , and Gridania. (there was some reason I have more "favorite" slots than usual that I forget. I think it was having 2 factor authentication?)

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2 factor authentication (or One-Time Password) is what gives you the free teleport. The companion app gives you a 4th favored (reduced) destination. Dunno how you got the 5th one though.

Teleporting to a housing ward will always be half the teleport price. At most it will be 499 gil. That and you also have 1 slot to set a no cost teleport. I set mine to Kugane with the 3 major cites as the 3 discounted ones you get. It helps a bit, but isn't mandatory.

Actually, teleporting to a housing ward seems to be quarter-price of whatever the trip to the main city aetheryte would cost – which to Kugane from a non-Othard destination is capped at 999 gil, so Shirogane is 249. (I worked out a while back that the cost is based on distance plus 100 gil travel fee.)

Favoured destinations are half-price, Gold Saucer is always half-price, and FC buffs can give you a 30% reduction on all costs, so 699 instead of 999 as the full capped price.

It's also worth considering that once you are in Shadowbringers, all teleports to any Eorzean or Othardian destinations will be at the capped price, so the difference of housing location is less important. And Endwalker sounds like it's going to be all over the place.

From memory, Limsa is far away from Gyr Abania that you hit the cap travelling that distance too.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

From memory, Limsa is far away from Gyr Abania that you hit the cap travelling that distance too.

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From the Ala Mhigan Quarter, all destinations in La Noscea are in the 900 range, with several at the cap, including Limsa. Most of Thanalan (barring the Gold Saucer) is in the 700s, and most of Coerthas is higher (the Dravania destinations hit the cap, but oddly the Sea of Clouds are in the upper 600s, and Azys Lla is 752....I guess the floating Allagan death continent is closer than Ishgard?).

Unrelatedly, I apparently still have Horizon set as a favored destination from returning to the Waking Sands.

Do your weekly hunt elite hunt bill from the hunt board at your Grand Company, at Foundation and at Kugane and buy Aetheryte Tickets each week.

Every teleport could be 1,000 gil lost and over time that gets high, because 10 teleports is 10,000 gil. Before you know it, you've done 100 teleports in a week and you've spent 100,000 gil. You've prevented that if you got the Aetheryte Tickets.

poetics -> stuff (the higher you can get and convert) -> GC seals -> free transport tickets

transports to Gold Saucer are free and Ul'dah to Gold Saucer is free

return to Mor Dhona and apartment in Lavender Bed make TP from Mor Dhona to Lavender Bed is only 68 gils

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

I use Aetheryte Tickets for when it's gonna get real expensive.
"One Aetheryte Ticket can be purchased for 5 Allied Seals at your Grand Company, or 5 Centurio Seals from Ardolain at the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard."

I know not everyone might feel like doing hunts just for that.
I'm just sharing my own way to get around the high prices incase it'll help.

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Alternative to hunts, BLU is a great way to build allied seals.
Makes for cheap and easy stacks of free teleport tickets.

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Originally Posted by Eldevern

poetics -> stuff (the higher you can get and convert) -> GC seals

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Gotta admit, this never dawned on me! Mind blown! I'm learning a lot in this thread haha!

People worry about teleports costs still? Just run roulettes or do maps.

This game gives out gil like its candy.

Thank you everyone for your input! I now have a lovely apartment in Shirogane! The "it will be peanuts to teleport there from anywhere" was really what I needed to confirm, and now I have, so thank you!

If you've got a friend that has a house, if they share their house with you, you can teleport there much the same as your apartment. Also you can buy Grand Company Aetheryte Tickets to get to your Grand Company asap. Those are easily purchased with GC Seals. Regular Aetheryte Tickets can be purchased with other types of currency (Allied Seals/Centurio Seals) but they can be a weekly chore to work up to.

So my setup is as follows:
My apartment is in Gridania. My FC is in Uldah. I have a shared estate with a friend in Shirogane. Free Port is in Crystarium and HP is set to random; currently in Doman Enclave due to Bozja stuffs. Favored destinations: Limsa Lominsa, Rhalgar's Reach, Ishgard.

Hunt tokens for free tp are really interesting. Only with weekly hunt, you can probably make more than enough free tp bond.

Interesting stuff, I'll be sure to remember it.

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

I have my houses (FC & personal) AND apartment in Shirogane. My free teleport (from one time password) is Kugane. My home point is Ul'dah. This way I get free teleports to Kugane and Ul'dah.

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Putting a free teleport in the same city as your house (ie. your cheapest paid teleport destination) is not an efficient place to put it. You'd be better off having your two free destinations far away from your house – one in Eorzea and one in Norvrandt or whatever far-flung place the story takes us next.

If you don't mind an extra travel step, you could also take the boat between Kugane and Limsa. I forget the exact price, but it's cheaper than teleporting.

On the other hand, that means having to go through Limsa.