To all you rich players... How did you do it?

[KageTokage]

Beating up SB A/S ranks for cracked clusters is a good way to make some relatively passive income, assuming you have a good linkshell to hunt with (Or just leech off of like most "hunters" do).

It's also nice because materia prices tend to remain relatively consistent due to them not being easily farmed by bots (Who tend to exert a rather significant influence on gathered/crafted item prices on an average server).

[CrystalRainbow]

My wife has 50m gil and I have about 30m Gil.
We both own a house.
We both have appartments.
There is nothing to spend gil on in this game.


She keeps 50m gil on her because she wants a large house if they ever add more...
Anyways so every now and again she goes out to make gil and bring in 500k a hour isn't hard from gathering. But I see her gathering in ARR zoning to make 500k an hour.

[Rhus]

Got my first million in in game (from the 30 day reward thing but my first million of my own work was) from buying steel sallets, toadskin armguards, linen tights, linen bliauds, mythril sallets etc all from NPC for 1-3k Gil and selling on mb for 30-40k occasionally for some reason linen gaskins of gahering would sell for 100k (not sure why but people were paying it) over time I made my money.

Not sure it would work now though as at the time louisoix was new and had lots of new players and so all that low item stuff was in demand. Now some of those gems are selling for only a few hundred gil so not as profitable.

Retainer quick ventures can occasionally bring you back a gem between the mountain of fish they collect too.

[ShadowHunterrX]

I have around the 50 mil gil and I just play normal. But I get money with easy stuff and not buying overpriced stuff day 1.

My list :
- Daily retainer moneybags
- 5-10k from squadron sometimes
- Daily hunts
- Daily roulettes
- Daily Treasure map sell or use depends on price
- Selling items bought with Company seals
- Selling mats I will never use
- Keeping mats/materia/minions for future sale/craft/meld

[Deceptus]

Got my first million in in game (from the 30 day reward thing but my first million of my own work was) from buying steel sallets, toadskin armguards, linen tights, linen bliauds, mythril sallets etc all from NPC for 1-3k Gil and selling on mb for 30-40k occasionally for some reason linen gaskins of gahering would sell for 100k (not sure why but people were paying it) over time I made my money.

I remember doing that when DRK / AST came out. It was easy money.

[Super_Bee_Brian]

Hey, a question I know how to answer!

The first major thing that influences money making is passion. A lot of people (like myself) could spend 8 hours straight crafting things. Checking market trends, and socializing in novice network while doing it. To some--it's tedious as heck, but to others it's 'what' they do to enjoy the game. If you don't have a passion for crafting--you'll never compete with someone who actually enjoys it.

The second major factor are retainers. You could almost argue that they're pay to win! You see, for each retainer you have means +20 auction slots per character. Given that managing up to 10 retainers can take a lot of time, but remember--this goes alongside the passion thing. Some people ENJOY that kind of work. It's like playing the Sims or Farmville. There's some enjoyment in tedious micro-management.

A lot of it still resorts back to the passion thing. A lot of people try to 'get rich quick,' but there's no fast way of doing it. Heck, even my methods are more like an assembly-line. I'll invest 50 mil early on, and won't see a return on my investment until several weeks down the road. But playing the market board is all about being smart. Buy low/sell high type things. Sometimes it takes time to take advantage of those trends. Sometimes you can scope out 10,000 moly ingots for 900 gil each. How long will it take to flip them or convert them into yellow scrips? Who knows, but the sooner you get started--the sooner you'll start seeing returns. It's not a 'quick' thing. Getting rich is a well-tuned machine of many-many small decisions that all lead up to massive gil intake over time. And if maintained--can keep you rich for a long time to follow.

I guess I got overzealous, but the bottom line is--you need to be passionate about it. It's like asking how you farm mendacity. There's no easy way. You just need to really want to do the type of content that rewards it.

I love your answer. Thanks for posting here!

[Kazgrel]

In no particular order:

- Retainer ventures; the general purpose dues and some of the furniture they bring back sell for nice amounts. Granted, the retainers take time to level up, but worth it even if you don’t craft and simply have a couple of DoW/M retainers.

- Buy mats low, sell finished product high; been able to do this as of late with the glamour gear from Pagos (the Boulvedaire gear or whatever its called)

- Roulettes, especially if you’re a tank or healer. This leads to the next item:

- Tomestone mats; I’m still selling stacks of those creation mats for six digits here. Poetics can buy gardening topsoil, which isn’t a high seller, it’s better than sitting on capped poetics.

- Patches; if you can stave off the desire to have all the things for yourself ASAP, you can sell like crazy for mad amounts of gil.

[Aana]

Retainers mostly. They more than cover weekly raid meds/food which is the only thing to spend money on a day to day basis anyway.

Start of a patch I blow millions on the new tank accessories+pentamelds, though sometimes i get them at cost from FC people. Sometimes not. Then for the remainder of that ilvl patch/raid cycle i just send out two combat, two botanists, two miner retainers on the long venture once a day or every few days. Sell whatever they bring back. By the end of the raid cycle I recouped anything i lost on pentamelds and then some. Repeat.

In 2.x I actively crafted consumables (food and pots) to sell and gathered ores/clusters/etc to fund my pentameld tank gear. But materia was horrendously expensive at the time so I worked harder then. Now, retainers easily cover it and hunt clusters have made pentamelds virtually free as I have a few hundred clusters sitting around. Retainers alone now leave me sitting on my pile of millions.

[Lubu_Mykono]

Understanding supply, demand, cost and competition. I'll never be mad rich but I made a tidy amount of gil working on the less common stuff that sells reasonably.
Also signing in the new housing came in, I made more that day from mats than I did in a month.