Quote Originally Posted by Shistar View Post
Indeed! Gil is really easy to come by, even without all the sub management nonsense. Ironically, if you want subs to be actually useful you need a few FCs worth of them, otherwise they're more trouble than they're worth imo (when only doing gil farming and nothing else)

There's also lots of relatively quick ways to make money, but they will always involve the marketboard to some extent. Even then, I made my 1M on my first day with a full sub by selling a stack of Snow White/Soot Black I got from doing Ixal beast tribes, and it was really easy to get because as a trial player your cap is so low that you need to be constantly spending gil to prevent overcapping. At least that's how it was when I was a trial player, over 4 years ago now lol

Nowadays I make my money doing unreals every week, buying whatever mount sells the best in my world and just waiting. It only makes around 10M per sale nowadays, but bAcK iN mY dAy it could get up to 20M even though the trials were easier!
I don't craft nor gather, I personally don't find it fun, so I can confirm everything Nyastra mentioned is fairly decent as I've done it in the past to some extent. Gil is very easy to earn, it's more the keeping part people may have issues with.

Whenever I want something I go straight to a database like Garland Tools or Gamerescape to find out where it is from. Most of the time, it's way cheaper to buy the materials and craft it myself, and if it's not craftable it may come from content I can then go and try out. But yeah, when you really need to buy something just head to Universalis and find the cheapest deal so you're not getting ripped off!
I am SO guilty of the "keeping gil" issue, because I get lazy XD. But I've tried really hard to dial back on that and just look where to find things and craft myself (I do have everything levelled after all so I really have no excuse besides being lazy)

I've considered the Unreal Trials... But I'm afraid? Even though I know it's not nearly as bad. Braincell stupid.