Before community members continue to try and analyze the market, whether it is good or bad, they need to understand a few things.

The only way we can tell if the market is doing poorly or good is if we have sufficient information proving it. The key information we need to do that is the gil in circulation numbers.

Gil in Circulation - Is the total amount of gil being spent everyday. Not the overall amount of gil a server has.

Anyone who wants to claim the market is doing bad or good must have these numbers to present because the following conditions can actually be occurring now:

-If the prices of all goods drop and the gil in circulation remains the same, that indicates that the gil has been spread evenly in the market and not a majority on the 20 hottest items pre 2.1.

-If the prices of all goods drop and the gil in circulation continues to increase, that means not only is the gil in circulation spread out, consumption of these items have also increased or gil generation is now taking effect.

-If the prices of all goods drop and the gil in circulation drops, that indicates that the market is struggling. From what source, we don't know.

Because we don't have the gil in circulation numbers, we can't say the economy is 1 of the 3 above.

We are only concerned with gil in circulation numbers because when it comes to making money off the market boards, the only gil you get, is the gil in circulation.

-Even if a server has x100 amount the normal amount of gil, for this example lets say 100 billion , if the gil in circulation has come to 0 gil spent everyday. It means the economy is dead. In this case you have no chance at making any gil.

-Even if a server only has x2 amount the normal amount of gil, 2 billion, but 200 million gil is spent daily in the markets, the economy is alive, meaning in a day you have a chance at that 200 million.

So before I have to repeatedly correct hundreds of posts everyday. Please understand, at the current time, we have no information to prove which way the economy is swinging. The only people who have these numbers are SE.

However, the only thing we know, is that yoshida forecasted 80% of FC's to be able to buy atleast a small FC-lot within the next 3 months, meaning he's going to have to keep gil in circulation numbers up for this in order to happen.