It seems like you post in every topic with all the answers man. For your information I do use my own Chocobo to go places. Only time I use Porter is to run to the bathroom or something. Anyways this is a real issue, the gold sinks in this game far outweigh the gold gains. There has been many topics, especially by Legacy players. Its also a heated topic among critics as well. A simple google search will prove that to you. Even Yoshi and his crew have acknowledged the problem and their first apparent step is going to be reducing armor repair costs, followed by other various changes one by one.

They said they figured this might be an issue, but would rather boost a slow economy then try to fix an inflated one. Which makes total sense, I just wish they would get on it.