Gil problem

[Caedeia]

If you blew 150k on materials, you should have a high enough craft to pick a HQ synth to profit from. Check out your GC supply/provision requests for an idea. Just don't flood the market and you should have enough for repairs. This sounds less like an inability to make gil, and more like an inability to hold on to it. Farm your own items, at 50 it should be fairly easy. Be conservative with your teleports and strategically place your favored locations.

[Felis]

(Asking this here because my main isn't high enough to create a thread, and 1017 won't let me into the game to level... well played Square. Well played.)

Anyway, a lot of people are saying you can get Gil by making items and selling them on the auction house.. and i get that, usually the best way to get Gil; It only transfers Gil already in the system though.

Does anyone know what bring the majority of Gil into the system? As in, if someone just wanted to collect raw Gil without playing the auction house, what activity would bring in a sizable amount of Gil into their pocket? It just seems that once quests are done, the game doesn't really give you much Gil at all through any of the activities.

Leve quests, if all other quests are done.

Crafting stuff and selling it wont make you much gil. The economy in mmo's sucks, you will be undercut until the item is worthless. I tried fishing but nothings sells and what does sell has been undercut. Mazlaya Marlin are the only fish that is worth farming.

Everything is possible if you know how.
I bought a Moth-eaten Seneschal Coatee for 500 gil, upgraded it to a Vintage Seneschal Coatee HQ and sold it for 25k gil.
I think your problem is that you tried to get gil with Fisher.

[Riyo]

Making money on the AH is nice and all. But there are so many gold sinks in the game but where is the new gil coming from? Is the only real source of gil once quests are complete leves?

[DiamonteZ]

How on earth do you only have 8k?

I'm level 31 who teleports all the time, and I have 30k +

My only advice is... if you've been dropping gil on gear and stuff, don't... you get all you need from quests.

[BubblyBoar]

This is actually a problem. I understand why gil-sinks are in the game, but the number of them makes it so that there's no new incoming source. All the gil is made from other players and it'll get plugged somwhere on the route, making it so gil stops circulating and get consumed thru the gil-sinks. Once all the new gil from quests is consumed, everything is going to get deflated and making money will be a pain.

[Bibimbap]

For all the people who can't imagine where "new gil" comes from, it comes from new players and NPCs.

[Tricksy]

Im not going to poopoo your situation OP. I understand how it feels to be poor. (In my case its real life as opposed to in game teehee)

Anywho, Lets give the game a little more than a week and maybe even until after 2.1 patch before we worry about the economy. There are many many things that are and will be commodities as the game progresses. Furthermore when you add housing and additional content.

But in my opinion, what keeps me grounded about the money situation is its current effect on RMTs. Look at how hard they are working to get our attention. I dont think people are biting. Also, look at the prices. They are steep. I believe the time it takes for a player to make 10k and the fun involved in that process , is not a deterrent enough foe people to buy the steep rmt prices.

I think the economy looks bullish ^^

[Zetonegi]

Does anyone know what bring the majority of Gil into the system? As in, if someone just wanted to collect raw Gil without playing the auction house, what activity would bring in a sizable amount of Gil into their pocket? It just seems that once quests are done, the game doesn't really give you much Gil at all through any of the activities.

Turning in HQs on crafting leves.

[Evangela]

The game is unbalanced. Since the start of 2.0 I've got nearly zero income.

- normal items are cheap. aren't worth selling them.
- rare items are bounded to characters.
- I don't craft.
- I don't gather.

make the game that everyone can play, please. if someone don't want to craft/gather, let them be. give them a choice to find money without doing something they don't like.

[Anakhu]

I don't see any problems, I have for crafting the highest lvl of only 22 and a botanist at 18. I have 1 job at 50.

I have made 190k since EA

it's there