Quote Originally Posted by d4rkie View Post
So my wild guess would be that SE was cutting the RMT gil from the economy and some people got so much of that gil that if removed, they would go minus gil, hence the /100 that happened.
A player can't possibly be holding more than 100% of illegitimate gil, or legitimate gil, or any kind of gil at one time. The amount of illegitimate gil a player holds would have to be somewhere between 0% and 100%, and I think it's extremely unlikely that so many players would be holding 99% of their wealth obtained illegitimately. Consider the crafters and gatherers who sold hundreds of items to different players. If nothing else, consider that those crafters likely did many leves/quests and obtained their gil through undoubtedly legitimate in game methods.

Also consider that if a sizable chunk of players actually were receiving 99% of their wealth from illegitimate sources, that the dozens/hundreds of transactions are all done using gil obtained illegitimately. If 99%+ of the gil being circulated on the markets is illegitimate, then every single player who has used the markets is likely holding 99% of illegitimately obtained gil, other than what they obtained from leves/quests (although many crafters/gatherers claim that a portion of their wealth did come from that, and it was still deleted, so even that would not be safe). I think that is so unlikely that we can rule it out, though. The only likely scenario I can come up with is what many others before me already have, that after sweeping up many players in the net, most of them were never looked at and had their gil reduced by 99% by an automated program.