It does get a bit weird. Food in Ul'dah is a couple dozen gil, while a meal in Kugane is a couple thousand a pop. Could be because of its status as a trade hub port. Aetheryte travel on the continent is several hundred gil, while intercontinental teleportation between Othard and Eorzea maxes out at 999. Weapons and armor get more expensive as they improve in quality / get better enchantments on them.
My assumptions include: most of the larger non-adventuring peasant populace subsist on several hundred gil a month for food and rent, or live off the land. Grand Company members and squadrons are paid in company seals, to trade in for equipment repairs and military housing + meals. A permanent-ownership apartment is 500k and houses can range from 2m-4m - both of which are somewhat comparable to real-world USD value.
If you live in one of the three GC cities, an adventurer carrying around 1k-2k gil would probably be more than enough for their mundane day-to-day, with the rest kept in retainer bank. If they travel a lot to Ishgard or Kugane, it might be more along the lines of 5k or higher.
And then there's Syndicate members like Godbert, and weirdos like Rowena - the Bill Gates of the setting. One was rich enough to build the Gold Saucer and the other has adventurers pay her in an ancient lost civilization's USB drives. You could chalk it up to just the game running on RPG tropes, but she's been diabolically canny enough to have a presence and invest in every budding future city - Mor Dhona and Idyllshire. The latter of which is now building and testing mecha to rival Garlemald's. Their net worths are probably comically high.
My assumptions include: most of the larger non-adventuring peasant populace subsist on several hundred gil a month for food and rent, or live off the land. Grand Company members and squadrons are paid in company seals, to trade in for equipment repairs and military housing + meals. A permanent-ownership apartment is 500k and houses can range from 2m-4m - both of which are somewhat comparable to real-world USD value.
If you live in one of the three GC cities, an adventurer carrying around 1k-2k gil would probably be more than enough for their mundane day-to-day, with the rest kept in retainer bank. If they travel a lot to Ishgard or Kugane, it might be more along the lines of 5k or higher.
And then there's Syndicate members like Godbert, and weirdos like Rowena - the Bill Gates of the setting. One was rich enough to build the Gold Saucer and the other has adventurers pay her in an ancient lost civilization's USB drives. You could chalk it up to just the game running on RPG tropes, but she's been diabolically canny enough to have a presence and invest in every budding future city - Mor Dhona and Idyllshire. The latter of which is now building and testing mecha to rival Garlemald's. Their net worths are probably comically high.
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