I am addicted to happiness. At first, I never cared about making gil or buying a house then things changed when I sold my 1st fat cat for 250k and I got this insane rush of happiness. I wanted more rush, so I learned about workshops and started saving for a house. I got into the lottery and a zero bug happened and I won the house for free. I got this insane rush of happiness. A free house and my 50 million gil were mine to keep. Today I am worth 210 million gil. I can't stop. I got to have rush. The Island favors, my retainers bring back treasure and gil. How much is too much?
Do you have an insane rush?
Addicted to happiness
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11-19-2023, 05:03 PMsagaciousAddicted to happiness
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11-19-2023, 05:12 PMtsuchii
Mood. I discovered FC house workshops and I now make 500k out of thin air, daily. Can't beat that rush.
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11-19-2023, 05:49 PMRikizza
Man you need all that gil or care to donate? c:
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11-20-2023, 01:36 AMAtelier-Bagur
Seems more like an addiction to cold hard cash
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11-20-2023, 02:21 AMsagaciousFFriend me up in game, I can give ya a million gil ... :) when you give you get more back in karma ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rikizza
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11-20-2023, 02:52 AMSilverquick
My question is, what exactly are you going to do with it?
Honestly if you don't have a house, gil is kinda worthless. I have never really found anything worth dropping major gil on unless its the high end crafted stuff. Still millions for a full set of 640 is still only temporary since you can slowly earn higher.
Its not like FFXI where it took forever to build up gil, because there was no way to make money and almost EVERYTHING required it. There in that game this kind of thing would have been very worthwhile. There they also had problems with gil sellers and all kinds of crap due to not having that type of thing. You had to grind every gil. Here I can't even imagine gil sellers making much money because almost nothing other than superficial crap is sellable.
FFXI and FFXIV are two totally different games when it comes to in game currency. Hell lets just say it, they are two totally different games period. -
11-20-2023, 08:04 AMRitsukoSonodaFFXI was actually fairly easy to make gil on. The issue is many of the better systems to get gil went unused by players because they either did not want to do it, or did not want to do the prepwork for it. So instead most just obsessed over trying to get rare NM and HNM drops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silverquick
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11-20-2023, 08:10 AMPoporito_PopotoDifferent people have different priorities. What's 'superficial crap' to you is treasure for another. Minions, mounts and other rarities can go for 50+ million.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silverquick
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. -
11-20-2023, 09:41 AMZiraZ
After your first gil cap you realize its the most useless currency in MMO history, after 3 gil caps you just look for ways to get rid of it, mostly throwing away gifting gil mounts, don't go down that path.
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11-20-2023, 10:02 AMGTK0HLKsounds like a good time to me, and a bad time to others..,Quote:
Originally Posted by ZiraZ
even if I was to gift to people who only care for their own gains.
They are always in an struggle to avoid the ball crushing them with the reality of the lessened value they gave their own experiences and living.
While those who are only thankful for a gift, and those who feel joy in giving/aiding others will get to feel minor joy in just giving.
in the end, all that matters if you enjoy it, and don't let it become something dark.
[or expect it to replace things you actually need] -
11-20-2023, 12:29 PMSilverquickWhen I say superficial crap I literally mean superficial.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poporito_Popoto
In this game you don't need any of that to play or be effective. In FFXI you really did. FFXI is the old school way and a much much harder game. You had to have the type of high end equipment just to be effective at your level. Here you may only need it if you're doing certain types of content. There you needed it just to play the game or your experience there was going to be a painful one.
FFXI used a similar model to Everquest. When you died you lost exp. Everquest had the infamous corpse run so you had to run all the way back to where you died naked and collect all your equipent and then put it on, and if you couldn't get to your corpse before it disappeared you lost all your gear. To add insult to injury you could even lose your current level because you lost exp when you died if you didn't get a Res.
You have no idea how F'n hard that game was if you were not perfect or with the best gear you could get. I hear they lightened up over the years as more modern MMOs came out... but when I say the things you are talking about are superficial... I mean that. One you needed just to play... the other was optional extra you don't need. -
11-20-2023, 02:50 PMsagaciousI agree. I love both, making lots of gil, and i enjoy giving it to someone I feel will appreciate it. It's good Karma :) Cap? Omg I love to reach a cap ..... then I might quit but maybe notQuote:
Originally Posted by GTK0HLK
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11-20-2023, 04:02 PMGemina
Gil doesn't really account for a whole lot in FFXIV. I'm not even sure if there are any achievements tied to making X amount of it. Gil, just like actual RL money, lacks substance. Your list of achievements and titles is really what measures your progress and leaves your footprints in the cement during your time playing FFXIV. There are also untradeable/unsellable acquisitions that contribute to this as well.
If there is anything that currently gives me a rush and a huge dopamine hit, it's winning a Fall Guys match. -
11-20-2023, 04:31 PMsagaciousHow do you feel when you look at your retainers and they made a million gil over night? big big rush I'm sure :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gemina
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11-20-2023, 05:37 PMReinha
Another gil making addict reporting in. It's fun!
I can buy everything I want when it comes out in a patch. My collections include all tradeable items. And now that there will be a pause in content until summer, I will be closer to my ultimate goal of reaching the gil gap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silverquick
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11-20-2023, 05:38 PMLianaThorneRookie numbers, try ignoring them for a week and coming back to 50 mil or gambling and making 500m in an hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by sagacious
For real though, the shiny feeling wears off once you hit gil cap and have bought the majority of the MB. Now I just feed it to sprouts lol. -
11-20-2023, 06:04 PMRitsukoSonodaMaybe FFXIV will take something from the Borderlands series and let players buy turbo mansions. Which are mansions built out of other smaller mansions... >.>Quote:
Originally Posted by LianaThorne
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11-20-2023, 11:05 PMGeminaI get a bigger rush when my retainers produce rare dyes like jet black, and pure white.Quote:
Originally Posted by sagacious
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11-21-2023, 12:49 AMsagaciousReach cap? How long does it take to reach cap? I've been trying to reach cap for 4 years. Why do you act like reaching cap is so easy. 3 gil caps? is that 3 billion? omgQuote:
Originally Posted by ZiraZ
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11-21-2023, 01:12 AMTahbithaIf it works for you, more power to you!Quote:
Originally Posted by sagacious
As for me...
I don't care too much for money. Money can't buy you love. -
11-21-2023, 01:19 AMWantlessYoYoIt, really really dependsQuote:
Originally Posted by sagacious
You can have some hidden markets, you can get some ultra rare drops, do external services like say, gpose requests or run a thing/work on venues(These generate A LOT if well made) roleplaying and SPECIALLY ERP
Along just comes the enough time to amass
But I agree once reached a certain point gil becomes pretty much useless, I'm sitting at 250M and even I know I won't use more than say, 50 mil on the next 2 years unless I play dumb or go crazy buying mounts I'm too lazy to get(AKA criterion) -
11-21-2023, 01:35 AMZiraZI've never tracked how long it takes to reach a gil cap but I know I made around 500mil in a week once.Quote:
Originally Posted by sagacious
Just log in as soon as the servers come up after a patch and mass craft new stuff all day, sell everything you loot from new content, don't keep anything, it will be worth nothing in a week, gotta stay ahead of the gil making pack.
I've probably made 1 gil cap solely on the expert crafts used for island stuff since that was first introduced.
Sub parts always sell well, sniping dirt cheap combat materia in preparation for combat craft set patches, pentamelded sets are immune to undercuts, abuse anything that punishes lazy people, abuse dumb undercutters and do smart undercutting, always prepping for a patch is a no brainer.
Then to go sleep and wait for next patch because almost everything gets hyper saturated by week 2. -
11-21-2023, 03:57 AMEastwall
Enjoy while the rush lasts.
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11-21-2023, 04:21 AMPoporito_PopotoNo, but it can buy you a nice evening with a cat girl on Balmung.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahbitha
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11-21-2023, 06:29 AMTahbithaWell... I just said money can't buy you love. But you can still rent it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poporito_Popoto
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11-21-2023, 01:46 PMFyrebrand"We scoured the universe, seeking out new civilizations in a quest to find meaning in life. One race valued wealth above all things. They believed gil was equal to happiness. But when they acquired all the gil, and there was nothing left to buy, happiness disappeared. Their wealth had no meaning, and so too did their lives."Quote:
Originally Posted by ZiraZ
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11-22-2023, 07:21 PMXemnarth
Can't blame you. My combined gil totals stand at 3.1 billion from at least 4 years of honest MB sales and it's only getting worse, haha.