New players have no need to buy gil. Simply putting signet on and leveling a few jobs to lvl 8 on a mule, I made hundreds of thousands of gil in crystals, beehive chips, honey, silk thread and bird eggs. Low level gear, even HQ gear, is easily obtainable with money gained while xping. I'd say the majority of gilbuyers are end-gamers going for that l33t god/hnm drop because they lack the social skills to make friends willing to help them camp those mobs. As for the "Go Square!" people.. STFU lol. The players responsible for manufacturing the gil were SE employees. SE was selling gil to all of the sites. In fact, IGE is owned by Squaresoft. Type WWW.FFXI.COM and see where it redirects you? Lol. SE wanted to make a quick buck at our expense, and they succeeded. Now, they are destroying the gil they manufactured so that the economy will be hospitable to the xBox360 players. Yay? They must look like real heroes. Worship them, and continue to buy their slightly less dirt cheap gil. Btw, ask people on Hydra server what their AH prices are? Lol. The only ways to make gil are gain rank, do quests, sell items to npcs, and kill mobs/BCNM that drop gils. If you set an army of noobs out w/ creating gil in mind, in a year's time how much gil would exist in the economy? How about in 3 years? Would it equal the amount of gil circulating in your server currently? That depends. Gilsellers sell gil they make from items they sell in-game, purchased by players. That money is already in circulation and does not affect the economy. However, if SE were to create gil for that server and sell it to a buncha sites, Hydra's economy would look a lot like ours. SE aren't heroes, they're geniuses at embezzling and squeezing the last drop of blood from their players. Give props to them for the right reasons. Selling your own intellectual property on the black market at the expense of your shareholders, then doing a prevenatative countermeasure. They get phat cash and get praise and glory. THAT'S something to admire.