(08-18-2015, 08:10 PM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote:(08-18-2015, 07:58 PM)Kaiz Wrote: Given the prices of things, I'm inclined to think gil = yen and then go from there.
I might be a little off but last time I had checked (admittedly awhile ago) it was something like 1 Yen = 1 cent USD... so 20 gil for a glass of orange juice would be 20 yen would be 20 cents... which... nope. :p
EDIT: Just checked and it's actually .8 cents now. Yikes. Poor yen!
I did some conversion math a while back using averaged food prices in the Coffer and Coffin compared to averaged food prices in working-class establishments, and it came out to one gil being worth a little over two USD, which I thought was reasonable.
"One-hundred gil on the Hellsguard!" Comes out to a little over "Fifty bucks on the Hellsguard!" to borrow on some "famous" NPC text. Your average teleportation would be about $200 USD or more (coming down from 400 gil or more), about the price of some plane tickets, while the 40 gil it takes to take a ferry to Limsa comes to about $20.
A $15 per hour job would be around 30 gil an hour; a 40-hour work week would net you 1,200 gil, accordingly (it's interesting to note that higher-level quests involving decent amounts of danger will pay you around this ballpark in-game). Having two-million gil would make you a millionaire in USD. A 140 gil airship ticket would be roughly $70 USD.
It's not a perfect estimate, but it's what I've been using so far, and nothing outlandish has come of it yet.
