I haven't logged in for over a month (let my subscription lapse, waiting 'til I can transfer), but as I recall, I had less than 300k gil and no tome mats. However, I understand the possibility of rich characters buying a bunch of tome mats before transferring (though that'll drive the price down, which I think is better for the majority).

Judging from the just-released FC housing prices, SE seems assume I have a lot more gil. It makes me wonder what the actual wealth distribution is. If I had to guess, I think it is similar the real-life U.S. wealth distribution, with a tiny percentage of the player base holding onto most of the gil. If only SE could audit characters for lack of wealth, judging from their gil AND their quantity of expensive mats, let them move.

2.1 has been implemented, so maybe they can try to address this legacy world emigration issue (maybe after the housing works its magic and decreases the overall gil in legacy servers--c'mon, rich players, buy houses).