Quote Originally Posted by Tonkra View Post
I've not followed this thread.. but in the german forum it was said, that everyones gil (the gil of the whole economy in a total) is being reduced about 1/10 (90%) of the original gil.

the new gil cap is just a result of this because 99.999.999 milion gil are 10% of 999.999.999 so you wont lose your gil because everyone's gil is being reduced. you will stay as rich as you are now in the same value compared to all other players. the only difference is, that we have much lower inflation and gil is much more worth as now.

and that the difference between old and new players isnt that big anymore. i really thing that this change is aussum. we do not need 999.999.999 gil for a player..


an other good thing.. gil seller wont like this bot characters/gil farmer chars carry hundreds of million gil with them and so they just can have "only" 99 million per character. it will hopefully mean less inflation then. (gil will be much more worth then)
Two errors in this post:

the first is the idea that the difference between new and old players wont be severe. This isn't true because all methods by which a new player will obtain gil will also produce one tenth of the gil it currently does. So the difference will be no different than it is now.

the second is this idea that bots and gil farmers will be hit hardest. Actually, they will be hit the least. They most likely already have capped gil amounts. And as was pointed out by Noctis, the gil cap isn't being reduced to 99mil (uconfirmed imho) but just their current gil. Which means with less gil in circulation gil sellers will have a bigger potential market to sell to if players dont adjust their prices to 10% (which they wont). And since they are bots afterall it wont take them long to bot their way back to gil cap. Sure it will take 10x longer than before but they are still doing it at a rate 2-6x as fast as any other player who plays 4-12 hours a day since bots run 24/7.