Let me tell you about the Gil Farmers

Long long time ago, in the southern province of China, there lived a bunch of
people who take shifts so they could camp a Notorious Monster 24/7.


Why did they do so? Because this NM drops an Archer’s Ring which can be sold
at the Auction House for up to 200,000 gil. And why do they seem to need these
gil desperately? So they can sell it to a company called IGE for food, and IGE
then sells those gil to other desperate people for real life money.


This results in farmers getting greedy and jacking up the prices to a
possible 500,000 gil. Then desperate people who are lazy to earn that amount of
gil then buys them from IGE, and frustrates a huge population of FFXI players
who refuse to pay
real-life money every month, just to spend in-game money that are again, bought
with real-life money
.


Anyway, knowing the fact and even though I had been warned, I attempted to
camp Stroper Chyme for those Archer’s Rings. I needed the accuracy boost so as
to land more hits during fights. Upon reaching the area where it spawns, there
was a gil-farmer, easily identifiable by his weird name and another Japanese who
probably shares my purpose.


Last night together with Evasama, out of about 10 spawns of Stroper Chyme, we
only managed to grab 2. The ring didn’t drop. I heard it had a fucking low drop
rate, perhaps 1-2 a full day’s worth of Stroper Chymes. I was mentally prepared
so I didn’t end up too frustrated from losing the NM to the gil farmers.


Moral of this blog entry: 24/7 NM camping for the purpose of earning real
life money is bad mmkay?

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