Something needs to be done about the state of Gil in FF14

[TheMightyMollusk]

Also, the best way to be casual gil-wise in this game is to go hardcore on crafting.

The best way to be casual is to go hardcore. Right.

[andrealfus]

why don't poor people just buy more money?

[Skiros]

The best way to be casual is to go hardcore. Right.

Yes, indeed. The best way to be casual in terms of time is the go hardcore in terms of skill/mentality.

It's the same thing as Savage. A lot of week 1 raiders are actually the most casual players in the game. They clear the Savage tier in 20 hours and unsub. Most casuals play more than that over three months!

[Colter_Hildibrand]

Get 200M. You're set for the rest of the tier (6 months).
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And this is why I want marketboards and trading locked for cross data center travel. 200M would have me set for the next 2 expacs on my servers economy, and I like it that way

[Ardeth]

I do think there needs to be some kind of restriction on constantly adjusting prices. That's my biggest issue with the market board. It wouldn't even be that hard to implement. It's just finding an agreeable time frame. To me like 1 adjust an hour, but I'd rather it cost a percentage of your sale to discourage you from doing it, but that idea is a tad extreme.

[Darthgummibear]

A bigger problem is people being able to constantly adjust their prices all day with zero penalty. If for example they repurposed the sale tax as a list tax to be paid up front every time you price an item, the behavior of people sitting at the bell all day to keep undercutting new listings would almost disappear overnight.

Having said that, as a general rule any item that is easily obtainable by the community at large especially when it's this saturated is going to be worthless. Trying to focus on singular items like farmable crafting materials is going to be an exercise in frustration.

[Kolsykol]

I just wish I didn't have to pay for more retainers.
My retainers are always selling stuff at max capacity and meanwhile my bags are perpetually full ( and so are theirs ).

[Rhysati]

The people above who are all saying that gil is easy to obtain probably think 1M a day is some big number LOL

Back in Heavensward/Stormblood you could make 600M in a week for Savage tiers.

Ironworks crafter set and Heavy Metal crafted set were going for like 1-3M per piece during content drought. Compare that to what we have now, the equivalent of which is 30k crafted rings.

So yeah, gil has gotten harder to obtain.

The people who are shaming you, OP, are probably not that good at making gil in the first place, don't worry.

This is utter nonsense. I've made 2 million over the last two weeks not even TRYING to make gil. I haven't been doing dungeons, I've just been doing side things I feel like doing and sending out my retainers every day.

I used up about 6 million fixing up an apartment and made it back in about 3 weeks of barely trying.

There isn't anything in the game you actually need gil in the first place for and I'm sitting on around 20 million with nothing to do with it.

[Knot_D]

Meanwhile on my server the red IX materia sold for 50k per piece before savage raid...

[Saraide]

Meanwhile on my server the red IX materia sold for 50k per piece before savage raid...

Bless the overmelders, turned all grade IX clusters that i just got through casual stuff into easy money.