Help! How the heck do I make money in this game?

[Ryios]

Do the dailies, do 1 duty routllette, and clear Crystal Tower once a day. If you run crystal tower once a day you will cap your philo every 10 days, then you can buy 16 philo mats and sell them for 2-5k a piece. Just doing these things I go up about 100k a week repair costs included.

[Lemon8or]

Check the market board for what's selling often -> Gather your own mats -> Make the items -> ???? -> Profit. I make about 100k a day with almost no effort. Not much but then again I'm too lazy to get gil, I just wanna play.

[Xystic]

. I am absolutely stumped, other than random tips I make for melding, I can't make jack squat.

Change up your market strategy.

You already have a powerful tool at your disposal. The recent transactions tab. Observe the markets you want to enter first instead of ,"Making "X" items should gurantee me "Y" amount of gil" and entering blindly without realizing, only 50 woolen yarn are sold day and there are 10,000 of em on the market board. This means you'll be competing to be one of the producers who sell 50 a day, which in most cases, you'll be undercutting like mad to stay in this market.

I recommend looking elsewhere for less competitive markets. It maybe less gil but steady gil income is better then not being one of the 50 yarn sellers which yield 0 income.

Good luck!

[Tazo]

Problem is that people like to see large numbers instead of the 1200 a stack because that means less work for them in creating items to sell.

Orly?

If you find 4 hrs of your time in game to make 300k too much work then I am okay with that honestly. More market share for me.

[LoLo]

Orly?

If you find 4 hrs of your time in game to make 300k too much work then I am okay with that honestly. More market share for me.

Did I say I think this? Its almost expected that people want to see big numbers when selling items. When they see most stuff selling for under 100 gil a piece they then turn around and say there is nothing to sell. They want to see items going for 500 gil a piece. What they do not understand is that when items inflate so does their item that they are save up for inflates. The items will always have a gap of expensive between them. Its for you as the player to work with what you got and to make money. You can make money when a market is down and when a market is up.

[Nenin]

Yes because maxing all DoH and DoL is me taking shortcuts. Thanks for the help sir! It was just an honest question.

I don't know what you're expecting people to respond with. The only methods people will freely divulge are those that everyone already knows about.

As people have said, the best kept secrets are the best methods because... they are secrets. If all you're looking for is confirmation that these do still exist in order to motivate your searching then I can assure you that they are still there. I personally know of two different ways to make well over 100-200k an hour with almost zero effort. I'm sure many more exist but I have no desire to look for them until these money wells dry up, which is highly unlikely in the near future.

[Scamperoo]

I don't know what you're expecting people to respond with. The only methods people will freely divulge are those that everyone already knows about.

As people have said, the best kept secrets are the best methods because... they are secrets. If all you're looking for is confirmation that these do still exist in order to motivate your searching then I can assure you that they are still there. I personally know of two different ways to make well over 100-200k an hour with almost zero effort. I'm sure many more exist but I have no desire to look for them until these money wells dry up, which is highly unlikely in the near future.

Isn't it funny when people point out the problems with the current economy, a certain defensive cluster of apologists flood the thread with, "dude you're lazy, I just made a bazillion gil by falling over...oops sorry I'd tell you how but then I'd have to kill you." Pfft

[Eekiki]

What's so secret about it? It's called analyzing the market and finding out what the high profit items are. They're out there, trust me. And every now and then the items change because *gasp* economies are cyclical in nature and ever evolving!

But...y'know...reading things, thinking for yourself, and putting forth the effort to make it happen...bo~oring... (and that isn't directed at the OP)

[Nenin]

Isn't it funny when people point out the problems with the current economy, a certain defensive cluster of apologists flood the thread with, "dude you're lazy, I just made a bazillion gil by falling over...oops sorry I'd tell you how but then I'd have to kill you." Pfft

Yea because this thread is an in-depth analysis of the game's economics. It's definitely not one titled, "Help! How the heck do I make money in this game?".

[Scamperoo]

Yea because this thread is an in-depth analysis of the game's economics. It's definitely not one titled, "Help! How the heck do I make money in this game?".

Exactly! He is asking for help not a friggin lecture, and if you are constantly making 100-200k per hour you should have your own large FC and be doing something you shouldn't.