We need more ways to make gold in this game.

[elreed]

It requires dark matter 3 which costs 350 gil per peice to repair. Its more expensive than vendor repairs.

You can buy dark matter from a grand company for company seals and its dark matter 5 for lvl 50 gear, op if you make all the craft process you wont lose gil, like gathering then crafting then selling, you can make also the materia for sell

[DeathRowe]

Any long time MMO player has to notice from the beginning levels that there is a Gil problem with the game.

[Elric_Skye]

I agree that this is a problem we are facing. Especially on the non-legacy servers. However, I can't blame the system entirely. Currently, people are crafting/gathering and selling items via market board as their main source of income. If this is the way things stay, you can be sure that the economy will dry up. It is my personal belief that we can resolve this little epidemic ourselves though, and once it becomes a noticeable problem, we probably will. There are other avenues of income. Most aren't hugely profitable though. Lately, I have been doing tradecraft leves because my current level in Carpenter doesn't afford me a lot to sell for profit. I still make some decent money. It gets me by and I end the day with more than I spent. Anyhow, the point is this is probably what we'll have to resort to once things get bad, at least I think so. If it does, we'll at least know we're generating new money rather than shuffling it around with a 5% loss.

[Yurimi]

one: make dark mater mine-able and allow users to offer repair services. this is a source of wealth, it is a service which can be exchanged for goods independent of gill.

this I can agree with 100% I would love to be able to farm dark matter and charge a below NPC cost for repairs for a much more reasonable ammount

[RobinHood]

Stop using gil sinks, stop dieing so your gear is not damaged as much. Sadly with such vast amounts of new players and presumably gil sellers all constantly making new characters just to get gil into the system, you just have to learn how to get it from them. I have sold over 50 stacks of Chicken egss at 5-10k a piece since release. I am not worried.

[Lasair_Shiorai]

I have over 25k in Gil. And I even abuse the teleport skill constantly. I don't get it.

[Doctor-]

FATEs, guildleves, and dungeons produce a tremendous amount of gil into the economy. You make far more per day doing them than you spend on repairs and the like.

People claiming to lose 2500g to repairs in crappy low lvl gear after 1 dungeon are full of shit. In blues and high lvl greens at lvl 50, it barely costs that much when my gear is completely broken after a good run of FATE grinds.

I have not all but several pieces of Darklight + Ifrit Cane and green from AK - when my gear gets to 50% my repair bill is 2750 .... my gil is quickly sinking at a rapid pace - now since I am doing my relic etc etc endgame content - 2750 is like every 30-1hour of play time. It is quite ridiculously.

[Kallera]

this I can agree with 100% I would love to be able to farm dark matter and charge a below NPC cost for repairs for a much more reasonable ammount

I agree this is a good idea, though there are some issues.

-Repair costs are dynamic, meaning the price changes on the wear and tear sustained instead of the fixed price of 1.0. how would the market establish a fair price when it is now the static number?

-Repairing gear by the player is something that needs to be expanded further, as it is, I'm not even sure its cost effective.

[blumps]

It just means 1 gil will be worth a lot more than you think. This isn't like WoWs economy where you sell shit for 9 billion gold and its considered "a fair deal". A good rare item will prob be considered a fair price around like 200k in this game, who knows (just popping out numbers, nothing 100% sure lol). I'd rather have it that way anyway, as I don't like to farm 24/7 or sit on the market for hours on end to generate 2 years worth of gil just to buy one item.

Its fine the way it is.

[MrKupo]

This may be by design. Before the servers closed for 1.0, pretty much everyone was a millionaire and there was just too much money to go around. Maybe they're holding back on the good ways to make gil for the higher levels so that us 1.0 peeps start to spend more than they are making. Lower levels are making money just fine.