YOSHI FIX THE DANG GIL ISSUE THAT IS KILLING OUR PLAYERS!!!

[Iskander]

someone mentioned newbie gil, so lets add them to the showcase of Economic Fun Time.

I don't understand how everyone is having this issue. I finished my first 50 with 200k in my pocket, after a second class to level 50 I still haven't dropped below 100k. I don't do ANYTHING at all to make money. I haven't even sold a single thing on the auction house since I started this game in beta phase 3.

Also, what's with these incredibly long walls of text that claim they know how much money is going in and out of the game? I read Iskander's post claiming that the sky is falling on the economy. There's a lot of gil entering the economy from the quests (certain will give you 2500 gil just for some dumb completion) even if you can only do them once.

Checking your lodestone character, you don't know much about the costs yet because the gear you are wearing is what one would be wearing when they first reach 50. You have not improved your gear at all, which means you also probably haven't started the main parts of being 50: the costs of your relic, and the costs of trying to beat Primal HMs. Also, with leveling another battle class, in this case your WHM, you are not expected to accrue as many costs due Fate grinds, and dungeon drops. Once you start partaking in the activities of part 1, which explains the costs of a mere 200 people playing endgame, you may understand.

As for the gil from newbies... It'd take 240 people's quest gil to merely break even with 200 endgamers. If those 240 accrue the same amount of costs as the first 200, that'll make the new bill 52.8million gil. it'll take 264 more to break even. In order to merely break even, you will constantly need an influx of new people at an exponential rate in order to mere break even with the costs of endgame. Once the influx of new players slows, the debt would not be able to be able to be broken.

Edit: adjusted numbers for accuracy.

[reality_check]

Checking your lodestone character, you don't know much about the costs yet because the gear you are wearing is what one would be wearing when they first reach 50.

Your argument was dumb in the first place. Now it's just even more dumb. I've been playing this game non stop since it came out. I have two level 50 classes, I'm max rank for my GC, and I've cleared everything in the game before hard mode garuda. I know how the gil system works in this game, despite what gear I'm wearing on an alt.

You can't ignore "newbie" gil. Your numbers are all dumb crap you make up. Each new character getting to level 50 brings about 300k into the server if they only SOMETIMES choose gil coins over equipment rewards.