ARR Gil Cap Reduction

[Seig345]

Less actual gil, but that gil would have the same inherent value as the higher number previously because EVERYONE would have lost the same percentage of their gil, thus making the value of the gil they have left go up by a proportional percentage.

I've seen this as well, and I'll admit I'm not exactly educated on financial stuff. But the value of the gil seems (to me) to be stapled, because gil is gil. While the value of, say, the US Dollar can go up and down because it's supposedly a promise note for a certain about of gold (or at least that was the original idea), Gil isn't a representative currency. There's no inflation or deflation, there's just total amount of gil in the collective pockets of all player characters/retainers put together.

There's unlimited gil in the game, NPC vendors, monsters, and quests are lined with it. Individual item prices may go up or down based on rarity and how much people are simply willing to fretter away, but I've yet to see anything to indicate Gil in and of itself having its own value, outside of RMT.

[Shougun]

I've seen this as well, and I'll admit I'm not exactly educated on financial stuff. But the value of the gil seems (to me) to be stapled, because gil is gil. While the value of, say, the US Dollar can go up and down because it's supposedly a promise note for a certain about of gold (or at least that was the original idea), Gil isn't a representative currency. There's no inflation or deflation, there's just total amount of gil in the collective pockets of all player characters/retainers put together.

There's unlimited gil in the game, NPC vendors, monsters, and quests are lined with it. Individual item prices may go up or down based on rarity and how much people are simply willing to fretter away, but I've yet to see anything to indicate Gil in and of itself having its own value, outside of RMT.

The problem is people relate the price of the item and how much gil is in the economy. If you gave everyone a hundred million gil the prices on everything would rise - some items may be resistant because players refuse to raise it, but in general the prices would rise.


A big problem is what large amounts of gil can do to such a fickle system like the one SE has up. Its retainer market is no good on keeping prices steady.

[Xenor]

I've seen this as well, and I'll admit I'm not exactly educated on financial stuff. But the value of the gil seems (to me) to be stapled, because gil is gil. While the value of, say, the US Dollar can go up and down because it's supposedly a promise note for a certain about of gold (or at least that was the original idea), Gil isn't a representative currency. There's no inflation or deflation, there's just total amount of gil in the collective pockets of all player characters/retainers put together.

There's unlimited gil in the game, NPC vendors, monsters, and quests are lined with it. Individual item prices may go up or down based on rarity and how much people are simply willing to fretter away, but I've yet to see anything to indicate Gil in and of itself having its own value, outside of RMT.

Time = money = gil.

Surely this concept denotes the value of gil. If it takes me an hour to farm a million whereas before it took me 10 minutes, it's surely more valuable now.