We need more ways to make gold in this game.

[OldGeezer]

I love all of the responses still saying "Just craft stuff, you'll make tons of money!".

Crafting an item does not introduce new gil into the economy.

Player A pays Crafter B for Item C.

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If you can't make enough money to slowly increase your own personal wealth in spite of the current gil sinks in the game without ever interacting with another player's own wealth this is a gil deficit and the economy will go broke. This is a real issue, that is happening right now, and we would like it to be fixed.

Not if you sell it to a vendor it's not. Whether you get gil from a quest reward or gil from selling items to a vendor that is adding gil to the economy. So crafting does add money to the system if you don't sell it to other players. I do al the crafting logs and sell the items back to vendors and I make money doing it. So crafing adds gil to the economy.