Is it okay to trade gil to other players?

Hello!

I'm a new player and I'm already really in love with the game. I play the game with my husband and he keeps wanting to trade me 500k and I keep telling him to wait because I'm afraid we'd get in trouble since I guess there is some issues with RMT and I'm not sure how GMs tell the difference between trading a large sum of gil between friends vs fake currency accounts. Does it depend on how frequently the account shares gil and how much is traded at a time? Should we just avoid the situation all together? I'm just bad with gil management and he isn't and he always wants to help so I can keep up. There wouldn't be any actual money exchanging hands; just two friends/spouses sharing resources in-game. Is there a log to prove it?

We've just invested IRL money (and obviously time) in it so we don't wanna break any rules. Any clarification is appreciated! Thank you!

Trading gil is perfectly fine. Even trading large lump sums is fine. GMs don't monitor that.

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Originally Posted by Labrys619

Hello!

I'm a new player and I'm already really in love with the game. I play the game with my husband and he keeps wanting to trade me 500k and I keep telling him to wait because I'm afraid we'd get in trouble since I guess there is some issues with RMT and I'm not sure how GMs tell the difference between trading a large sum of gil between friends vs fake currency accounts. Does it depend on how frequently the account shares gil and how much is traded at a time? Should we just avoid the situation all together? I'm just bad with gil management and he isn't and he always wants to help so I can keep up. There wouldn't be any actual money exchanging hands; just two friends/spouses sharing resources in-game. Is there a log to prove it?

We've just invested IRL money (and obviously time) in it so we don't wanna break any rules. Any clarification is appreciated! Thank you!

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I've been given 25 million before as a lump sum and there's been no issue. I've also given millions over the course of my two to three years of playing. 500k is basically just pennies tbh.

Thanks so much guys!

When it comes to gil there's nothing to worry about. It's when real money gets involved that it gets their attention.

Personal trades are fine. I have given away a lot of gil. Just know it does limit one million per trade. 500k is nothing anyways when you think about it he could buy you a set of lvl 80 gear that is easily over 500k.

I gave each of my friends a few hundred thousand gil when they joined. It's perfectly fine~

I did a cross data center trade for about 5 million gil twice now. An alt of mine got 5 mil on their data center, and I gave them 5 mil gil on my data center. This allowed the alts to have enough pocket money for an easier time leveling.

I think that kind of movement is something they monitor on a macro scale (since millions of gil going to lower level characters is what RMT banks do) but they won't contact your or ban you if you... you know.... play the game normally and aren't an RMT bot.

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Originally Posted by MilkieTea

Trading gil is perfectly fine. Even trading large lump sums is fine. GMs don't monitor that.

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They do. I've seen FCs where some generous member trades a few million to several other members, and that's gotten them in trouble (but also subsequently cleared on GM review).

It seems trading to a single person or very few people won't get you flagged for RMT, but it is there and monitored.

I can understand Labrys's hesitance though - some other online games have far more aggressive algorithms that issue completely automated bans that can arise from a single transaction. And as with pretty much any online game, the chance of an appeal is just about zero.

This thread is adorable. Reminds me of thinking I was cheating when I mailed stuff to an alt in WoW

Keep on trading OP, it's perfectly legal!

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Originally Posted by Labrys619

Hello!

I'm a new player and I'm already really in love with the game. I play the game with my husband and he keeps wanting to trade me 500k and I keep telling him to wait because I'm afraid we'd get in trouble since I guess there is some issues with RMT and I'm not sure how GMs tell the difference between trading a large sum of gil between friends vs fake currency accounts. Does it depend on how frequently the account shares gil and how much is traded at a time? Should we just avoid the situation all together? I'm just bad with gil management and he isn't and he always wants to help so I can keep up. There wouldn't be any actual money exchanging hands; just two friends/spouses sharing resources in-game. Is there a log to prove it?

We've just invested IRL money (and obviously time) in it so we don't wanna break any rules. Any clarification is appreciated! Thank you!

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you can trade gil in game with fellow players, there are newb greeters who randomly trade gil and items to new players by the aetheryte plaza in the starter cities. It's fine, the RMT is about gil sellers who take cash out of the game and send gil to you. And even then most of the actions that are reported and stopped by the Dev team are Chat ad spams, and hostile account takeovers. Trading gil between IRL friends and family happens all the time, I even maintain an alt account just to transfer gil between my characters and alts.

You're fine. 500k is a small amount for what they would be looking for on anything automated. People can find that in their couch cushions in this game now.

if you're just giving gil to someone else and no actual money is involved that should be fine.