Bah, just buy your gil. It's only, what, around $200 per million or some such. How bad can it be?
Need 10M for a new staff? Spend $2,000 for it. So what if you don't make your car payment, or your mortgage: at least you'll get a +10% elemental damage bonus on your spells.
Armor falling a bit behind, and you need 2.5M to upgrade? It's only $500! Let the water bill slide a little, and you'll be fine. And don't worry about laundry -- just wear everything 2 or 3 times before you wash it.
But what about the in-game economy? Who cares!? You'll have all the best equipment, and look mightily impressive when people examine you.
Oh, and at least do a
few quests...being Rank 1 and having the title "Mog's Master" might just leave you out of a few party invites...but not until about level 70 or so, so don't let it bother you too much. After all, you're just here to look good, right? Right!?? [/Joke]
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NOTE: That's not targeted at anyone that's posted in this thread. It's just what popped into my head after reading various other threads concerning gil and such.
EDIT: Typos. #!@$#!^%$ Edited, Fri Oct 1 15:04:20 2004 by LordHighWarlock