Quote Originally Posted by Rau View Post
I'm still have trouble wrapping my head around how Materia is a gil sink. Sure the item is gone, and you lose all selling power, but the money you invested to buy it in the first place is still circulating with whomever sold it to you.

I've always assumed that Gil Sinks is something that would take Money out the system entirely, such as buying from an NPC, Retainer stalls and taxes, and Airship fees.
It would depend on if the total profit to materia is higher then the cost from materia - you'd have to total the servers profit gained and lost to make the best choice of what it was. Some people make big money off of double melds, but those are the ones that happen there may be people breaking more then making and we'd have to total it (it being RNG might mean on some servers it is and others it isnt, lol!).


I'd be curious to see that information - like what made / lost the most money and such.