DevTalk: GIL SINKS! Ideas to Stabilize the Economy and Curb Inflation

[darkstarpoet1]

i'll be honest. to me if they add a gil sink they should be adding something people would enjoy spending their gil on. npc that you buy anima from. can buy more guardians aspect. add some dungeons that you have to buy access to. golden saucer type event you will be gambling your gil away.

in the long run this is a game. the game should be adding things to enjoy spending gil on and not taxes. i don't know about everyone else, but i hate taxes in real life and i'm not a fan of them in a game either. in real life i like going to events and doing things that are fun and am willing to spend money on them.

[Rentahamster]

i'll be honest. to me if they add a gil sink they should be adding something people would enjoy spending their gil on.

Yes, this should be one of the primary concerns for any of these ideas.

[normalforce]

I think I should redo the OP a little bit. Given some of the recent changes, a few of the suggestions in the OP are either irrelevant now, need some tweaking, or need to be removed.

Even so, the suggestions are still goods ones for introduction gil sinks into the game. Some have even come to fruition.

i'll be honest. to me if they add a gil sink they should be adding something people would enjoy spending their gil on. npc that you buy anima from. can buy more guardians aspect. add some dungeons that you have to buy access to. golden saucer type event you will be gambling your gil away.

For buying anima, I always liked this suggestion:

1k gil replenishes 1 anima point. 2k for the next. 4k for the next and so forth. Each successive point just gets more expensive. Replenishing a few anima points costs relatively little, 4 points costs 15k while 8 points costs 255k. Then, every 24 hours or so it gets reset and the price drops back down to 1k.

They can come up with some excuse that forcing anima a body is a dangerous affair and requires increasingly more complex rituals and exotic components the more you try to infuse yourself with it lest you want to explode.

[Rentahamster]

requires increasingly more complex rituals and exotic components the more you try to infuse yourself with it lest you want to explode.

Complex rituals, you say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfMOQxYgGas#t=02m10s

[Blarp]

I'm not sure what SE can do at this point. By 2013, most players will be filthy rich. It's incredibly easy to make a ton of gil in the wards. At level 30, I earned about 4m leveling off of bombs. Boar hides were selling for 10-13k a pop and they were never camped. Karakul fleece was selling for 8-10k and there are a ton of level 40 Karakul to AOE farm. Earth, wind, and lightning shards were selling for 300 gil after 1.9.

They're going to have to make a HUGE gil sink sooner or later. I predict something like relics.

[Laughlyn]

Housing, furnitures and decorations will save this game's player base & economy.
(if implemented long before 2.0, wich seems doubtful at this time)

Ooh! Ooh! and maybe a "Rentahamster" shop, where you can
rent a hamster for 2hours wich will fight beside you in battle! :O

[tymora]

Space Hamster.

[kwestro]

enough with the gil sinks. I'm seriously tired of being broke.

[Andrien]

tax the rich!

[Alerith]

Triple Triad tournaments.