ARR Gil Cap Reduction

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Q: Will you wipe gil from our characters or change the currency with the launch of ARR?

A: No, there won't be a gil wipe. However, we do currently have plans to decrease the max digit by 1 (999,999,999 > 99,999,999)

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Can we get clarification on what this means for people with more than 99,999,999 gil?

Put it on alts.

Retainers or whatever

give it to me

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Originally Posted by Raikki

Can we get clarification on what this means for people with more than 99,999,999 gil?

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From what I understood Raikki all gil values are being reduced to 1/10th their current value actually. So if you have 150m now you will only have 15m starting out in realm reborn.

Give it to me? :)

Who the hell has that much gil?

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Originally Posted by Akira_Tenshi

Who the hell has that much gil?

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More people than you think. It's not really hard >.>

That being said, I'm a little :/ about this change. If you cut everyone's gil by a decimal point, AND adjust prices by the same, isn't this really just a lateral/cosmetic move? Is it driven by server storage/stress?

What about items that are less than 10 gil now, like warped arrows. Unless they cost .2 gil in ARR, they just got a ton more expensive. >.>

They aren't reducing everyone's gil by a decimal... they are reducing ALL item prices by a decimal and making the new max gil 99,999,999 So I imagine if you have more then that, you will be affected. but otherwise it won't be detrimental

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Originally Posted by RoxyLalonde

They aren't reducing everyone's gil by a decimal... they are reducing ALL item prices by a decimal and making the new max gil 99,999,999 So I imagine if you have more then that, you will be affected. but otherwise it won't be detrimental

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Nope, your losing your gil. So just give it away before its taken.

That info made someone on sargatanas buy all expensive materia....the "auction house" is empty lol

I think we should be allowed to vote for the president of eorzea every 4 years. The poor vote for the distribution of wealth through lev quest, and the rich vote for lowing taxes in the market wards.

please reduce all players gils of about 20% - 40% to reduce inflation^

rich players will stay rich, it would just decrease inflation
:D :D


well i dont thinkt that they are going to do this ;)

Don't like this at all. We should be able to keep all of our gil.

if they reduce our actual gil that's a terrible idea. The market will just inflate again and the only ones who lose are the lot of us.

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Originally Posted by lordvr

From what I understood Raikki all gil values are being reduced to 1/10th their current value actually. So if you have 150m now you will only have 15m starting out in realm reborn.

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Ahh.. wouldn't they just cap the person @ 99,999,999?... I believe this is what will take place. And like others are saying, put your extra gil on mules, but don't buy items. as this will cause you to loose money as it won't be priced the same come 2.0 it will be lower in price. And this also probably mean, gil will not be so easily made, as it is now.

derp didn't read the translation correctly i see why ppl would move gil to alts.

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Originally Posted by lordvr

From what I understood Raikki all gil values are being reduced to 1/10th their current value actually. So if you have 150m now you will only have 15m starting out in realm reborn.

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Well done, you win troll of the week award lol. jesus christ you almost had me going there.

edit I didnt' read the translation correctly nm

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Originally Posted by Raikki

Can we get clarification on what this means for people with more than 99,999,999 gil?

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you'll lose a lot of gil. get to spending

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Originally Posted by Molly_Millions

you'll lose a lot of gil. get to spending

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Yep. And I have a few suggestions if you are on Ridill. No bias at all either.

I just don't see them lopping off gil past 99mil and basically erasing all that effort while putting current 100+mil people on the same level as others that had around 99mil the whole time.

I guess we'll see, but really, gil total adjustment (not just cap), is the only fair way to do it. Dunno why you guys think people are trolling.

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Originally Posted by Enyyx

I just don't see them lopping off gil past 99mil and basically erasing all that effort while putting current 100+mil people on the same level as others that had around 99mil the whole time.

I guess we'll see, but really, gil total adjustment (not just cap), is the only fair way to do it. Dunno why you guys think people are trolling.

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I think they are going to lop it off. So hurry and spend spend spend!

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Originally Posted by Enyyx

I just don't see them lopping off gil past 99mil and basically erasing all that effort while putting current 100+mil people on the same level as others that had around 99mil the whole time.

I guess we'll see, but really, gil total adjustment (not just cap), is the only fair way to do it. Dunno why you guys think people are trolling.

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I think you are wrong. The dev post seems to indicate a gil reduction if you are currently past the cap.

I guess if over 99 mil then put some on your retainer before we close...but not sure if that will work/carry over >.<

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Originally Posted by Molly_Millions

I think you are wrong. The dev post seems to indicate a gil reduction if you are currently past the cap.

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I hope you're right.

Really shouldn't be hard to interpret this guys. They're going to change a value in the code with probably some if statement saying if character gold > 99,999,999 then change their gold value to that number.

If you have this much gil and are worried about this cap reduction, I hate you.

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Originally Posted by Tahldon

If you have this much gil and are worried about this cap reduction, I hate you.

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Consider for a minute that it probably costs >150mil current market prices to do 7/7 relic weapons.

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Originally Posted by Raikki

Consider for a minute that it probably costs >150mil current market prices to do 7/7 relic weapons.

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He probably still hates you.

This is starting to remind me of those terrible mitt romney attack ads coming on tv all the time now.

I would like some clarification on this.

At first I thught it was going to cut off any gil past 99,999,999 but the idea of that is so crazy I can't imagine SE doing it. 100mil isn't a lot of money in this game and there will be thousands of pissed off players when including people who have quit and are waiting for V2. The other and more likely thing is that they will divide all gil in the game by 10, which I'm fine with. Relative wealth remains the same yet prices are lower for new players at NPCs.

But if there is no clarification I will definitely take the safety option and buy some extra characters. It's not like I'll have to pay for them in V2 because as a legacy member I get something like 8 free per world anyway. This is another reason it seems unlikely that they would screw over people, it's so easy to move gil around.

With two retainers you can hold up to nearly 300m gil. If you honestly think you need more than that then you might as well buy everything you want before it gets reduced in 2.0

You do realise that we will only have one retainer in V2 right?

No one wants to lose money. I'm glad people like you aren't in charge or you'd be saying to Bill Gates "You don't need more than 100 million, let's take 56 billion of your hard earned fortune!".

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Originally Posted by Raikki

Can we get clarification on what this means for people with more than 99,999,999 gil?

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They get to donate their gil to me, who has about 80K to my name between a ton of failed double melds and some odds and ends. Consider it donating to charity. :D

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Originally Posted by Xenor

You do realise that we will only have one retainer in V2 right?

No one wants to lose money. I'm glad people like you aren't in charge or you'd be saying to Bill Gates "You don't need more than 100 million, let's take 56 billion of your hard earned fortune!".

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He doesnt, and he gives money away all the time because he doesnt need it all himself. He also pays more in taxes because he has more....so what's your point?

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Originally Posted by Xenor

I would like some clarification on this.

At first I thught it was going to cut off any gil past 99,999,999 but the idea of that is so crazy I can't imagine SE doing it. 100mil isn't a lot of money in this game and there will be thousands of pissed off players when including people who have quit and are waiting for V2. The other and more likely thing is that they will divide all gil in the game by 10, which I'm fine with. Relative wealth remains the same yet prices are lower for new players at NPCs.

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I find the part I bolded highly UNlikely, actually.

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Originally Posted by neorei

give it to me

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What he said. You could send to me as well. Think I have 200k.

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Originally Posted by Enyyx

More people than you think. It's not really hard >.>

That being said, I'm a little :/ about this change. If you cut everyone's gil by a decimal point, AND adjust prices by the same, isn't this really just a lateral/cosmetic move? Is it driven by server storage/stress?

What about items that are less than 10 gil now, like warped arrows. Unless they cost .2 gil in ARR, they just got a ton more expensive. >.>

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yeah thats only cosmetic and 4,294,967,295 gil uses the same storage space as 1 gil on a server and thats 32 bits, which is not even a drop in the bucket of storage more like slightly humid air

Better get to putting that gil on alts if you don't want it deleted.