Why are there no gil fountains?

[C-croft]

what crafting leve gives out 450k for doing 99 of them? that would mean it gives out almost 4.5k each.

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Again, I am not sure if the gil reward was affected by 2.1.

EDIT: you are right, i borked that up. I remember having this same conversation and 450k is about a months worth of crafting at high level crafting.

[OldGeezer]

If by 'try very hard' you mean 'buy some hq food' then yeah, I agree D:

Well if you use HQ foods for extreme modes you are a rarity. But with the lockouts you can waste 20 hours to get your culinary to 50 though tradecraft leves and it will cost you nothing thereafter. The choice is yours.

[Hanabira]

why wouldnt you use HQ foods? most of them cost about as much as NQ.

[Fluttersnipe]

I don't actually mind that's its tough to earn Gil tbh. I look at games like world of warcraft, where a level 19 chest piece goes for almost 1000 gold because of the top heavy, horribly inflated economy.

XIV will get there one day, trust me. And I don't say that looking forward to it... Did you know a pn epic drop in vanilla wow could potentially sell for 100 gold in the early days of the auction house? And that even the richest guilds had trouble affording that?

[Welsper59]

The infamous leve that many folks know of is a perfect example of a gil fountain. To the close-minded individual, it may seem like a pointless activity because of a paltry 600-700 gil for it, but to the informed, it's a ridiculously huge gil fountain towards the economy. You spend ~30sec doing the leve. 600+ gil in 30 sec. You spend 10 leves doing it. 6000+ gil in around 5-10min. Ten of your peers do it at the same time: 60000 gil in 5-10min. One hundred of your fellow server players do it: 600,000 newly created gil to be circulated in the economy, for a playtime of 5-10min. And this is just one small leve. We're not including daily quests, treasure hunting, dungeons, etc. So yeah, there's one example of a significant gil fountain.

[Swishytail]

"I need more Gil!"
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More ways to make Gil Added
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10x more Gil/day
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Prices on items go 10x higher
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Back to top, repeat.

Circles are fun.

[Muzy]

Whats crazy are the triple turn in leves, I've gotten upwards of 2k for some of them(closer to 3k), and it takes barely any more time to turn in.

[Archona]

There are TOO MANY gil fountains in the game already. OP please troll more.

[ArkhamNative]

There are TOO MANY gil fountains in the game already. OP please troll more.

Ah, it turns out the OP actually wanted a gil firehose, and pointed only at him.

[Peptaru]

The infamous leve

Accurate enough for what it is, but you do have to total the time investment of all people doing it if you're going to total the gil they get from doing it. Yes, in the world, only 5-10 minutes have passed, but it took 500-1000 minutes of invested time.