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You asked in a much politer way than most people but I'm sure you'll get the same response, which boils down to:

"Why can't you go make gil like everyone else who plays?"

Let me point you in the direction of some gil-making methods for the levels in your sig. Let me find them.

Quests:

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?mode=bytype

http://ffxi.cannotlinkto/questdb/

Find some that you can do for your level.

Beginners Crafting guides:

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=24;mid=1115126760887739441;num=57;page=1

In addition there is mining, logging, harvesting, excavating, fishing and chocobo digging. Though you mention that you need to feed your chocobo so I'm assuming you don't have the ability to ride one yet?

Hope this helps. You won't help yourself or anyone if you ask for handouts. Do research on these sites and better your knowledge of the game.

Give a man a fish....

Edited, Feb 26th 2007 12:44am by Gamion

Yea. I've always found that it takes gil to make gil. I've often found myself having to divert attention to things completely unrelated to my original task just to get sub-tasks done which were started to get the income needed to complete my main objective.

For example, I would need A item. A item costs B gil so I start doing C activity. However I do not have the gil to continue C activity so I start doing D activity to build up gil so I can do C activity. D activity brings in very little gil so I have to do it alot until I have enough to begin C activity which can bring in more.


I often found myself killing enemies to get the gil so I could fish to get enough gil to craft a certain item for sale on AH just so I would have enough gil to craft a better item to sell several times to get enough gil to buy my item.

Good luck in your endeavors. Everyone is in the same boat as you, you just have to get your own personal income to the point that you can feel sufficiently self-sustained.

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i agree with him, start a casino! (i came into the casino light, shortly after him.)

but first, stick to farming silk threads, and yag. necklaces.. them are very good sources of gil at the start of your FFXI career.

The only way to get that equipment without buying from the AH is to either craft it, or to buy it from another person.

The act of a Casino is not something that was meant to be implemented by the game developers. There is a command you type, which is /random. When you type that, a random number appears in your chat box. Anyone can do this, as many times as they want. Basically, a Casino, is someone who sits there and says something along the lines of "my rates are this, you can bet between this and this". Then people come up, trade you money, and you both do /random trying to see who wins based on the rates that you set. If they win, you pay them their money back plus the winnings, if they lose, you keep the money. It's something alot of players don't like because these Casino guys just sit there and spam away with their text macro filling the screen up with mindless junk every 2 seconds. It's not a foolproof way to make money because if the person wins, then you gotta pay them their winnings out of your pocket. I mean, just like a real Casino, the odds are with the house (i.e. you), but there is risk involved and many people will blacklist you for spamming the macro.

[edit]In regards to your second edit, it's never a problem to ask for help here. That's what the forums are for. :P[/edit]

Edited, Mar 4th 2007 1:31pm by Gamion

I'm from another server but thought I'd try to add helpful info anyway.

You can do well with fishing without the clothes used to enhance it. I went through about 10 levels of fishing without the clothing and did fine. You can also kill goblin fishermen (or whatever they're called) which sometimes drop fishing poles. I started out fishing to get ingredients for cooking, but now I use it more for earning gil. It's a boring and tedious task but it does pay off, and it pays better and better the higher you level it up. Don't forget the fishing test at the Windurst guild if you want to take it past level 10.

As others have mentioned, farming can bring in quite a bit of gil. I have one low-level character I use just for farming in Windurst, mainly for beehive chips, honey, and silk threads. Harvesting is also great, and the only equipment you need are the sickles which you can get from the npc (don't buy from the AH).

As for the carrots, many have said they feed their chocos the much cheaper sandy carrots intead of vomp and the chocos do fine. I dunno if that is always the case. I am fortunate in that mine likes the cheaper greens.

Good luck, and it's nice to see you are actually doing things to get gil. A lot of people will ask for gil in these forums and then whine when people tell them how to earn it. I am glad to see you're not one of them.