Gil Toss Ability to drain gil out of the economy?

[Falcus]

I would gladly buy darkhold/nm gear if it weren't unique and untradeable... Let me spend my gill and let people who are willing to do multiple runs make a profit from it!

You can pay someone else to do it for you, just you need to go along with them, and essentially leech the drops.

[Irana]

While I always liked gil toos in games... I think I cna explain why this would be bad in a single sentence.

RMT's WOULD BE GODS!

[Nabiri]

It makes no sense for someone to throw down several million for a chance at an item that may or may not drop.

I don't think it necessarily HAS to be millions. O.o But... didn't people basically do this in XI already? Buying fairly expensive pop-sets for tough NMs which may or may not drop the item they want, could also be considered "throwing money at a chance at an item."
For Azury's idea there could be a min and max amount of gil allowed for the ability. I don't think anyone said it has to be insanely high.

[Thanos]

its easy for ppl who have no money to talk about spending money.

funny idea but no thanks.

Ill sit on my millions and wait for something worthwhile to come come along

[Petori]

Just need more gil sinks. This isn't a sink, it's a waste.

[Nabiri]

its easy for ppl who have no money to talk about spending money.

funny idea but no thanks.

Ill sit on my millions and wait for something worthwhile to come come along

The ironic thing is Azury was saying it'd be pretty epic items. :x But if you don't consider that worthwhile.. well I guess everyone differs in opinion. lol ^^

[Thanos]

The ironic thing is Azury was saying it'd be pretty epic items. :x But if you don't consider that worthwhile.. well I guess everyone differs in opinion. lol ^^

I rather sit on my money and wait for something that cost a insane amount of money that everyone wants.. that appeals to me.. ill buy it just for show LOL

[Chocobits]

Thought there was already a gil toss ability in the game..? It's called Repairs.

[Azurymber]

I don't think it necessarily HAS to be millions. O.o But... didn't people basically do this in XI already? Buying fairly expensive pop-sets for tough NMs which may or may not drop the item they want, could also be considered "throwing money at a chance at an item."
For Azury's idea there could be a min and max amount of gil allowed for the ability. I don't think anyone said it has to be insanely high.

exactly this.
nothing ive suggested here is really new. I just took a concept from FFXI and improved it slightly and then presented it in a creative way.

[Aerycat]

To each their own, seriously. Funny ppl seem to argue whether or not they'd hurl their hard earned gil at a monster when it's just a suggestion. Some ppl would, some ppl wouldn't, don't need to have a conclusion to that do we ? lol

Put the option there, use it if you feel it's worth or call it a last resort kinda act - you're a frail mage and tank just went down, the boss monster hanging on it's sliver of health, and he's lunging at you and the most you'd survive is 2 hits. Casting big enough a spell would also mean possibly getting interrupted, but HEY you're a RICH crafter! Select throw gil and it will instantly throw a couple of million at it to make sure it's dead. It's just an option (Just a sample scenario so refrain from coming up with 'intelligent' ideas how to get out of it).

Reminded me of Ragnarok Online - a Blacksmith spending MILLIONS each session castle fight using "Mammonite". I can never understand that kind of spending, when there are other skills they could use.... but he earned lots of respect for sure.

I am really really interested however how's SE going to balance this out with PS3 players. Too big of a gil sink, PS3 players would end up getting poorer each day, while PC players around this time got so much accumulated it'd last them for another few years....