Market Economy is a Mess - Possible fixes

[blowfin]

The profit I've seen from treasure maps is 5k, those maps cost anywhere from 10k-15k. So, 8 treasure maps is what 40k gil income out of dumping 80k (10k per map). You lose 40k. If you're banking on a rare drop, that's completely unreasonable as I know friends that have done over 35+ maps in an attempt to get a pet.

I'm not going to agree to disagree when your math is wrong . If you do a full round of 8 maps with a group (1 map each) the minimum amount of gil you're going to get per player is somewhere between 12.5 and 40K gil. Maps are 8k on my server. That means EACH player has made between 4-32K gil. Not to mention you get random mats (including Philo) thrown in to boost the bottom line, plus you have the chance of getting the rare minion.

You could:
- Spam HM primals for furniture items
- Do battle leves
- Supplement income with dailies and roulette
- Spam an easy level 50 dungeon to farm gil

There are enough things that you can do to make money on a battle class, certainly enough to be able to repair your gear and keep your head above water.

I also disagree with the notion that simply spamming dungeons for Philo tomes should be able to make you incredibly wealthy, because it shouldn't. I think it was a massive mistake to value those items so highly in the first place.