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

[C-croft]

Ironically, no one can answer your question. Because the minute you put it out there how to make gil, everyone starts doing it and the market disappears.

People have been saying it for a long time. Not as many people want to put any effort into it.

[Tlamila]

Bah the only money I'm getting now is the gil dropped from dungeons -.-'' Phil went from 18k to 5k so fast then they'll soon be free I guess...and another market died. Crafting never made you earn much money, except for the start when few could do it. I don't know it looks like since 2.1 many important things changed that killed the economy: some materials became more avalaible, so nobody buys them anymore/too many sell them. Most everybody is trying to save for housing, so they buy nothing and try to sell ever their liver.
And..I don't know, it seems like crafting and gathering is even more useless then before now :/

[LoLo]

People were saying 'level your crafters and gatherers!' when the game launched and there was no way to make money. Now everyone has them all up and they aren't even worth having anymore.
Thanks.

Whats funny because its just like how in FFXI people would level a craft and not know how to make money even though their crafting level was at max. There are ways but you need to do research to find them. The best ways of making money are the ones not everyone knows about.

[indira]

this game is going to be top heavy soon everything is too fast & easy so when everyone can make everything selling will be pointless and if SE makes stuff like housing crazy prices its going to be impossible.

[C-croft]

Part of the market problem is all the crafters and gatherers messing things up for everyone with their silly undercuts. I think I am going to try and gather all the crafters and gatherers of goblin and see if we cant get a common practice in place for the market to try and fix it. I think the other part of the problem is the whole housing situation causing people to save more instead of spend.

[Tazo]

I made 150k on culinarian last weekend. Seems worth it to me.

Maybe he is just lazy.... i dunno

I would spend maybe 1-2 hours on my botanist gathering mats and on another day I would craft buttons/cabbage/toast/eggs etc.
2 stacks at around 1,200-1,600 each piece of food....works for me

[Doo]

I have max crafts but I prefer to SB in CT for money. Playing the market and dealing with under cutters is too much hassle. If you are looking for big payouts, then there isn't going to anything like that since there's nothing of value anymore. You have to do blue collar dirty work. I would prefer there be some more rare items in game that might have some more worth but Yoshi probably thinks rare items = stressful.

[Tiggy]

Maybe he is just lazy.... i dunno

I would spend maybe 1-2 hours on my botanist gathering mats and on another day I would craft buttons/cabbage/toast/eggs etc.
2 stacks at around 1,200-1,600 each piece of food....works for me

People just want to be handed a solution. There is this mind set in this MMO that I've never seen before. People want constant, easy handouts. Gone are the days of people who look through every crack to find a good market. Meanwhile, those of us who do look through the cracks keep making cash.

[Mayin]

People just want to be handed a solution. There is this mind set in this MMO that I've never seen before. People want constant, easy handouts. Gone are the days of people who look through every crack to find a good market. Meanwhile, those of us who do look through the cracks keep making cash.

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

[LoLo]

Maybe he is just lazy.... i dunno

I would spend maybe 1-2 hours on my botanist gathering mats and on another day I would craft buttons/cabbage/toast/eggs etc.
2 stacks at around 1,200-1,600 each piece of food....works for me

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.