Quote Originally Posted by Incinerator2 View Post
Except that's not true because people who started playing in ARR/Heavensward benefitted from playing early, as they have much more time to amass wealth. And you know what they say, you use money to make money. So it becomes a snowball and they make more and more money with the money they have. People who start later just can't catch up.
When a new expansion is released everyone starts from square one again because all of the stuff that sells for a lot on the market is new and you get it from doing content, and I don't think that people have benefitted as much as you think that they have.

And yes obviously if you've played since ARR/ Heavensward and you've hoarded gil ever since you're going to have more than someone who started playing in Shadowbringers.
That's how it should be.

You can play the market by going to other worlds and buying stuff cheaper then selling it at home but normally the difference is not that big at all you don't actually make a whole lot back even in the best case scenario.
And you can still do that even with fairly limited amounts of gil if you cba.

I dunno what you even mean with catch up, I've played since ARR and I currently have like 200k gil.
The gil I had back in ARR and Heavensward is totally irrelevant nowadays.
If I spend a couple of mil gil on crafted gear and pentamelding it then it won't matter in the next expansion it has no effect.