This is interesting to think about. I once tipped a performer 10,000 gil and she was grateful but she certainly didn't act like I was handing her a thousand dollars, nor did I really think of it as more than a modest token of appreciation.Â
I think this is because you have to go out of way to distinguish in your mind the actual OOC value of gil and your character's IC valuation of gil, and most players don't really do this.
A lot of this is probably due to the fact that the cost of living for most players is so low that it's practically zero. You don't really need to replace your clothes, eat food, or pay the electrical bill, so everything you spend gil on feels like a luxury. Compare this with the fact that there are sources of income so steady and reliable that there's never any real peril of being broke, starving to death, being evicted from your FC.
And I don't think most people RP the financial aspect of their character's lives either, or at least I haven't seen people who do it, though that is likely just my limited experience. It's kind of implied that your characters eat food and therefore buy food even though you don't RP every instance of it. So it's also kind of implied that your character is spending a lot of the money that you are actually banking OOC.
I think this is because you have to go out of way to distinguish in your mind the actual OOC value of gil and your character's IC valuation of gil, and most players don't really do this.
A lot of this is probably due to the fact that the cost of living for most players is so low that it's practically zero. You don't really need to replace your clothes, eat food, or pay the electrical bill, so everything you spend gil on feels like a luxury. Compare this with the fact that there are sources of income so steady and reliable that there's never any real peril of being broke, starving to death, being evicted from your FC.
And I don't think most people RP the financial aspect of their character's lives either, or at least I haven't seen people who do it, though that is likely just my limited experience. It's kind of implied that your characters eat food and therefore buy food even though you don't RP every instance of it. So it's also kind of implied that your character is spending a lot of the money that you are actually banking OOC.
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