This game would be better off without gil

[TheMoonflow]

Just a simple question. If we don't have any form of currency, then what about the npc merchants and transportation methods?

If we don't have currency, then how are we supposed to reach Limsa Lominsa if we can't pay for the ferry or airship? If they would switch gil back to anima for teleportation, you would still need to have visited the Aetheryte before you can teleport to it. Would i then have to trade 1 or 2 stacks of Elm logs in order to use the ferry? That would be a form of currency as well.

Also, what about the merchants? They would become obsolete if we were to gather and craft everything ourselves.

Could use something like company seals for ferry's instead.

[Pandastirfry]

Could use something like company seals for ferry's instead.

so all you've done now is trade gil for company seals... Basically there is no way to not need a currency of some kind just for basic administration of ingame commodities. when you need to build in work arounds for your "no currencey" idea to work with established MMO conventions it makes your idea not only unworkable, but just plain dumb.