Post Your Solution For Gil Generation

[Shmashed]

Dailies? :/ Why not weeklies? I mean, shoot, if they'd give us the first time bonus on doing dungeons every week, you can bet your rear end that I would be burning through those dungeons helping lowbies every week. I don't mind playing my rear end off for a day or two a week, but having to plow through dailies is just not cool at all for people who have things to do (or value their sanity). Even when I was in college I hated "dailies" in games because it got seriously old within a week. Yet, you had to do it for months on end.

[Kaliban]

Another option they could do is that they could give a gil bonus to areas that you have rep in. Seeing as we do not have reputation issues now, it could be that we can be given a gil reward by selling to our GC home city OR in lieu of the GC supply/provision badge reward we could get currency pieces or straight gil. Have there be a bonus for the HQ like there is currently. That would help in addition to allowing for player repairs and gathering DM again (this was in Beta3 iirc so I am not sure why it was changed in live). Or maybe give discounts for repairs at GC? I know these wont completely correct it but it will/can help.

[Skattered]

Gil generation or Girls Generation :P

[UBERHAXED]

Problem is in a month max, the market board might be useless for selling stuff since people are already undercutting on items down to vendor price and undercutting on items that are not even selling yet by 1-5k gil.
I have even found stuff below vendor value, but still more expensive since the retainer is in the wrong town so you get fee's on top lol.
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How is SE planning on making people actually make money later into the game when people got everything?
And how are we going to afford houses / free company houses if there is no real way of making gil?
Feels like you are helping the gil sellers by not giving any real way of making gil.

Why would anyone buy above the vendor price? Your logic baffles me. Of course people have to undercut vendors or else they will never sell. Basic economics...

But anyway, In response to the thread, there is already a way of gil generation in the economy. Higher level DoH leves are (within time bounds) infinite and produce boundless amount of gil. What I don't understand about people in this thread is what they thought the purpose of the DoH was? Merchants are primary money makers, not adventurers and this was by intentional design. You cannot be self sufficient by just leveling a DoW, which is what people want. Unfortunately, that's not how life (or the system in the game) is. Different paradigms were generated for the purpose of being played. Otherwise, the development team would have wasted hundreds of hours designing DoH and DoL if they are never necessary for a player to become if they want to be sufficient over time.

[Kewitt]

We don't need millions of millions of gil.

I would sooner there been a near perfect balance of Gil in and Gil out.

[Syfin]

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But anyway, In response to the thread, there is already a way of gil generation in the economy. Higher level DoH leves are (within time bounds) infinite and produce boundless amount of gil. What I don't understand about people in this thread is what they thought the purpose of the DoH was? Merchants are primary money makers, not adventurers and this was by intentional design. You cannot be self sufficient by just leveling a DoW, which is what people want. Unfortunately, that's not how life (or the system in the game) is. Different paradigms were generated for the purpose of being played...

The amount of time farming mats for that "boundless gil" you are refering to ruins the enjoyment of the game for a lot of players. If you enjoy DoH than by all means go for it. But a lot of us dont.
As for undercutting he means he can make more SELLING to a vendor than on the boards, not buying.

[luxv]

Really all they need to do is allow dark matter to be gathered like it was before.

[CaZx]

I can understand people saying that these people should just craft/gather in order to generate cash. That can work as a method for generating gil for the server (selling to NPC's) and as a way to make good money on the AH. However, I also understand the people who say they don't like crafting/gathering and they don't play an MMO to feel like they have a second job (outside of whatever they do in the real world to pay for their house..family..video game habits..ect).

Another point is this...whats the point of crafting to make money..if everyone else is required to craft also in order to play the game? If EVERYONE is running around as a lvl 50 crafter/gatherer than who the heck am I going to sell things to? Crafters should be able to craft and sell to a non-crafting community of people who choose to spend the majority of their time doing other things in the game.

[Syfin]

I can understand people saying that these people should just craft/gather in order to generate cash. That can work as a method for generating gil for the server (selling to NPC's) and as a way to make good money on the AH. However, I also understand the people who say they don't like crafting/gathering and they don't play an MMO to feel like they have a second job (outside of whatever they do in the real world to pay for their house..family..video game habits..ect).

Another point is this...whats the point of crafting to make money..if everyone else is required to craft also in order to play the game? If EVERYONE is running around as a lvl 50 crafter/gatherer than who the heck am I going to sell things to? Crafters should be able to craft and sell to a non-crafting community of people who choose to spend the majority of their time doing other things in the game.

Well said my friend!

[Inosaska]

I can understand people saying that these people should just craft/gather in order to generate cash. That can work as a method for generating gil for the server (selling to NPC's) and as a way to make good money on the AH. However, I also understand the people who say they don't like crafting/gathering and they don't play an MMO to feel like they have a second job (outside of whatever they do in the real world to pay for their house..family..video game habits..ect).

Another point is this...whats the point of crafting to make money..if everyone else is required to craft also in order to play the game? If EVERYONE is running around as a lvl 50 crafter/gatherer than who the heck am I going to sell things to? Crafters should be able to craft and sell to a non-crafting community of people who choose to spend the majority of their time doing other things in the game.

Ya this person is right on the money. People seem to be missing the point that people who want to just adventure should be able to gain money through just doing that but currently a dungeon run makes you lose more then what you get from it and that's very bad. Not everyone wants to craft/gather and they have to accommodate for that or else they will just lose those players later on when they start to see there money is just vanishing and they are not making anything to pay for the repair bills.