Any tips for making Gil?

[Jojoya]

You're on the right track when you're looking for consistent ways to make gil but you need to expect the amounts to be small and add up over time. If you get lucky with a more lucrative item to sell, great, but you shouldn't expect to get it.

Think of it this way: if you do something that gives you 10k a day, that's 300k by the end of the month. Now if you have 10 of those somethings you do each day, that's 3 million gil by the end of the month. And some of those somethings are going to give you additional items that can be turned into even more gil.

So tips are:

1. Don't spend your gil unnecessarily. Save it for the items that you can't get through other means and that you will be using for a long time.

2. Play the game. Any content except Gold Saucer and PvP will end up rewarding gil. AFKing at the Limsa Aetheryte won't. Again, amounts look small but they start adding up when you don't spend them.

3. Always have your retainers going out on ventures. Convert what they bring back into gil. Crafting materials can be sold on the MB to crafters. Housing items can be sold to people decorating their housing or crafters desynthing for materials. Gear can be turned into your Grand Company for Seals to purchase more ventures for your retainers or crafting materials to sell to crafters. Things like Coke are very good sellers on the MB because FCs need it in large quantities for building their airship and submersible parts. Remember to keep your retainer gear up to date as it will affect yields and potential loot.

4. You hit on one of my favorites - hunts. It's not just the gil from the hunt bills, it's also the hunt currencies. Allied and Centurio Seals can be used to purchase Aetheryte tickets so you don't have to pay teleport fees. Got to the point you have more Aetheryte tickets than you need for a long time? Start buying more gear to turn into your Grand Company. Join hunt trains and go to S ranks to earn tomestones to buy gear for yourself or GC turn in, along with clusters to buy materia for self use or sale.

5. Treasure map parties - joining treasure map parties can get a decent amount of gil in a couple of hours not to mention what you'll get when you sell any loot drops you get. Make sure to take a couple of maps with you to share with the party. Sometimes they seem a bit expensive on the MB but with a good party you'll get a lot more than that back.

6. Don't spend your gil unnecessarily. It's worth repeating because it really makes a difference.

7. FATE farms - more small amounts that add up but you're also getting either GC seals (ARR/HW/SB) or bicolor gemstones (ShB/EW). Use the GC seals to buy more ventures and crafting materials. Bicolor gemstones can be used to buy a wide variety of items to sell, especially once you get to rank 3 for Shared FATEs in all zones. FATE farm parties for ShB and EW zones can frequently be found listed in Party Finder.

8. Grow shards in your apartment or FC private chambers in flowerpots. This isn't the same as the crystal farming Seiya mentioned. There are seeds you can buy on the marketboard that will grow shards that crafters use in large quantities. Using one of the Shroud topsoils will increase the number of shards you get back. Just plant the seeds then harvest the next day. Depending on which shard, yield and your local marketboard prices, it's 2000-8000 gil a day per flowerpot for just 1 minute of your time that again will add up over time.

It's not the "big deals" that make us rich (unless you're really lucky with a Night Pegasus whistle drop). It's all the little amounts that we accumulate over time. The more effort we put in, the more little amounts we get.