How much gil do you have on you?

[Vespar]

If it matters, 85 million of my gil was spent in the past 40-50 days.

I am quite curious how you got 85million :O Ive never had past 2-3 million (in total...and that was struggling to save up for an FC house between me and my hubby)

Not being rude but even the "average" player can farm something for a limited time. If you take fleece for example, one hour of farming(while watching doing something to pass the time), will get you 5-10 stacks of fleece. In balmung that's 100-200k gil profit with minimal effort. No one has to "play" with the market or take advantage of surges, just do some little work to get what you want, is all.
Plus, this is not even taking account of gil you get on dungeons/drops/retairners/fates/challenge logs/leves.

In regards to farming, the problem I run into on my server is that supply far outweighs demand, and many folks undercut like mad. So when you do sell materials or gear on the MB, it tends to sit there for weeks or months unless you undercut as well and by the time all the undercutting ends you've ended up with half or less of the money you could have made had it not been undercut in the first place. Another problem I noticed is that a good chunk of the people that craft, have started gathering/farming their own materials (mostly with the help of retainers I'd imagine) and then just make what they need for themselves. They cut out the MB entirely. Sadly, I am one of those people though I dont craft. I helped my hubby get all his crafts to 50, and when I need stuff I get him the mats and he makes it. Once again cutting out the MB entirely.
Personally, I hate the MB and wish they'd have made it an actual auction house so prices were hidden until you bid enough, but thats just my preference and doesnt necessarily match the views of the rest of the population. I would estimate that about 85% of the money I earn is from doing dungeons, leves, challenge logs, and fates. Only up to 15% would be from actually using the MB. I'm only poor right now, cuz I gave most of my money to the hubby so he could finish materia-ing out his jobs/crafts. Before buying housing, my personal room, materia's for novus and lending money for hubby's melds, I had about 2-3million that I'd saved purely from dungeon/challenge log style contents.

[Genz]

I quit the game in February with 3~4m and I came back in July after the free week-end. Now I have 11m, without focusing on farming. The inflation is strong, it's easy to make gils.

[AliceKaye]

About 450,000 at the moment. The most I have ever had. I scraped and saved knowing personal housing was coming out and I knew it wouldn't be enough, but I hoped to be close. Hah. Stuff that. :|

[Buff_Archer]

2 million, I'd have more if I worked harder at it, I just look for gaps between supply and demand when I get bored and find ways to meet buyers' needs that other sellers aren't doing at the moment. Oh and there was the time before the patch with personal housing/desynthesis where I bought EVERY piece of Ahriman furniture I could that was cheap... the best was seeing several lines in sale history with Ahriman flower vases being sold to me for around 50 gil, followed by several lines of them purchased for over 20k gil after the patch. I could tell from the market boards that others had the same idea, and someone was going to do it so why not me.

[scarebearz]

To anyone claiming to have never have had more than 1mil, just get junk ilvl45-49 sets and kill lvl 45-50 mobs. Can be done solo or in a party.

Ideally mobs that drop good items, the "Garlean" items such as Garlean Steel Plate, will be very high in demand either now or very soon.

Materia + expensive craft mats and you'll soon be able to make a mil in not that many hours.

Loads of other ways too, but sitting on your hands wont help you make gil/buy a house.

That said, I do think housing prices are insane and won't be wasting my gil on one any time soon.

[Akie]

11.5 mil, haven't really tried to make money lately, I'm definitely not buying a house.... there is no small house plot left anyways.

Just gonna do housing on wildstar

[QuinceTaru]

Had 15M on me when 2.38 hit, i bought a house though for the garden! All this gil was made just from 2.35 from desynth demimateria

[Vespar]

So my current breakdown of those who have posted as of post #45 is:
0-500k---11 people
600k-1m---5 people
2m-3m---10 people
3m-5m---7 people
5m-10m---2 people
10m+ --- 2 people

Currently in this post, it would appear most of us have less than 5million gil. With almost half of us being at less than 1m.

[Cluebilly]

On my person I have about 3.3 million gil. taking my retainers into account I have about 5-6 million.

[duvvvv]

about 74k in my pockets and around 70k with my retainers. I wasted around the same amount on chocobo stuff before I learned our FC gives away fruits lol /sigh