A possible fix for "submarine income"

[Kaiproberts]

(With only 6 sub farms of my own, I fall into the make fuel come direct from credits camp.) However, importantly.

Looking out into one of my wards right now....



You want subs? Are you in NA or EU?

1. Buy a second account for one month to form an FC on Materia. Make 4 characters on each of the two accounts. Leave all at level 1, except your sub alt.
2. Form your FC and start levelling to 6 (For me, the fastest is to buy a warrior class boost and expansion skip on the sub alt then run Shisui ~80 times solo)
3. You can dop your second account sub as soon as the fc is formed.
3. Pay for the 8 extra retainers (you absolutely need these to fund your ceruleum tanks)
4. Level your sub alt character and FC leader to 2nd Lieutenant. Yay squadrons.
5. Level your miner to cap
6. Level all 10 retainers to miner cap
7. As soon as you get FC 6, buy one of the few hundred empty plots, small is best as you can use your free 1 million gil for level 30 in Materia. Goblet is best as it's the easiest to get a level 1 mule into.
8. Start your sub grind. You need cobalt, mythrite, and darksteel mainly. Crafting crystals. A lot. Your subs need to be on this as soon as they can. In the first few weeks keep the 10 retainers very busy and craft, craft, craft
9. It will be about 6 months wait now. Keep your 10 retainers on 18h ventures, trade in the blues. Buy venture coins. This can be a bit of a pain until you get it rolling.
10. Log in every day without fail, do your 10 retainers, go into the dungeon, send out the 4 subs (do your calculations on what route will give the move XP)
11. Have one retainer on dark shards.

After those 6 months, you should have 100,000 a day coming in for those 10 retainers you are paying for. Gather it up, every 6 months to a year, pay a month on your second account and do the 1,000,000 gil trade shuffle to exfiltrate the gil back to your home DC.

Congrats you are now earning 30 million gil a year solo for no work (apart from the daily retainer grind) That 30 million costs you an extra $192 a year. So.... 200,000g / US$

I just wanted to chime in on a completely unrelated note. The picture here for me ruins the entire point of ever wanting to move to another server for housing; all 3 larges are already taken, even in a completely dead ward. If that doesn't say how bad the large housing situation is, I don't know what will.

[Reinha]

I just wanted to chime in on a completely unrelated note. The picture here for me ruins the entire point of ever wanting to move to another server for housing; all 3 larges are already taken, even in a completely dead ward. If that doesn't say how bad the large housing situation is, I don't know what will.

I can only speak for myself but when I advise people to move servers for housing, I don't mean 2 years after a new server with wards has been opened but on the exact day that it opens. We know that new wards or servers are added every 1-2 years. The best way to get a large house is to prepare for it and wait patiently until the time is right. Shadow DC is here soon and Dynamis still hasn't gotten the missing 4 servers.

[Jojoya]

I just wanted to chime in on a completely unrelated note. The picture here for me ruins the entire point of ever wanting to move to another server for housing; all 3 larges are already taken, even in a completely dead ward. If that doesn't say how bad the large housing situation is, I don't know what will.

Hopefully, the suggested Housing Mirage system will happen and that will fill a lot of the demand for mediums and larges.

It's not going to kill all the demand though since it will only affect house interiors, not exteriors.

If Housing Mirage doesn't happen or gets pushed into the distant future, then Reinha's advice is best. Transfer when the new worlds or wards are added so the odds will be in your favor if you're going after a personal house and not too picky about which medium or large you want to get. You would be able to bid the same day you transfer if the lottery entry period is already active. It's only FCs that would have 30 day waiting period before they could enter.

If you're fine with playing on the EU servers, Shadow is going to be a great opportunity. Assuming housing there opens as quickly as it did on Dynamis, your competition would be limited to players likewise willing to transfer to a new world.

Dynamis will probably see the locked wards unlocked before the final 4 worlds are added. While the population on the data center is growing right now, it's still not so high that the last 4 worlds are needed. If the locked wards come first, that would mean competing against existing Dynamis players for the prime locations like the larges unless you want to wait for the final 4 worlds to open.

[Jojoya]

Dynamis will probably see the locked wards unlocked before the final 4 worlds are added. While the population on the data center is growing right now, it's still not so high that the last 4 worlds are needed. If the locked wards come first, that would mean competing against existing Dynamis players for the prime locations like the larges unless you want to wait for the final 4 worlds to open.

Well I got that wrong. I really was not expecting them to open the final 4 worlds yet.

Here is your best chance of getting the large of your dreams. Good luck!