Exchange rate of Gil?

[rubah]

Obviously monsters get their gil from all the gameovers.

What? You never got killed by an imp?

It would seem that gil is just as easy to convert to real money as galleons sickles and knuts are.

That and there's ingame inflations, not to mention between games.

[Shoden]

5 gil = £1/$2

villa= £60,000/$120,000


considering its small size thats fairly reasonable or ,aybe raise it to
10 gil=£1/$1

making the villa = £120,000/$240,000
reasonable enough?

potion = a mere tenner or £20

[Martyr]

DJZen's calculations were off.

In FF1, on the nes anyway, there was no "gil." It was gold. Obviously they must have screwed that up in the Origins thing if it says gil there instead of gold.

Of course, the value of the gold, comparatively, is impossible to find an exchange rate for since, although we can calculate the exchange rate of gold, we cannot calculate the size of gold pieces in FF.
(Or maybe I'm wrong)
Anyway, I thought I'd bring that up.

Secondly: Yes, the monsters carry their own cash.
All you people can never realize the plight of a monster. Imagine being a freaking imp. You're walking around one day, picking flowers or slaughtering deer or whatever it is that imps like to do, and suddenly some racist bastard human shouts, "Ah! An imp! Murder the ugly hag!"

Insulted that you could ever possibly be related to sahags, you and your cronies fight back etc...

Basically, what I'm trying to say, is that humans are the dominant characters in Final Fantasy. If they were conquered, then the monsters would finally get a well deserved chance at starting their own civilization. Such things as money would be necessary there. ESPECIALLY for monsters who have bad tempers and will probably squabble over trade deals even MORE than humans might. Currency is a must.
So they carry gil. Probably in little wallets. Ogres probably have big wallets and bosses are probably rich from their entrepenuerial skillz.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

In FF1, on the nes anyway, there was no "gil." It was gold. Obviously they must have screwed that up in the Origins thing if it says gil there instead of gold.

No, they screwed that up in the original translation. It was always Gil.

[Necronopticous]

It looks like it's about $35 dollars per 1,000,000 gil. At least that's the running price at ige.com.

[DarkLadyNyara]

So they carry gil. Probably in little wallets. Ogres probably have big wallets and bosses are probably rich from their entrepenuerial skillz.

Interesting theory...
I think they get it from travelers that got eaten.

[Martyr]

No, they screwed that up in the original translation. It was always Gil.

No, either

1. Gil translates from Japanese to Gold in English.

or... that's the only alternative for your theory to be reasonably possible.

Being that Final Fantasy was the first game of it's series, before the concept of gil was imagined, despite that gil became the mainstream deal in the games, it can't be a mistranslation.

There has GOT to be a Japanese-English translator who knew that gold would interpret into gold and not gil in the minds of Americans when he made the game. I mean, gold can't mean anything else. It's impossible for somebody to say gold and mean gil, especially before gil ever existed.
(Note that the translaters were fairly literate. They knew words like fiend, impertinent, and tinder.)

Rethink yourself, kiddo.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

"Giru" = Gil, not gold or G or GP or anything like that. I'm very sorry.

[eestlinc]

i would rethink addressing another member of EoFF in that way.

Gil, gold, GP. All the same to me and they are clearly just different terms for the same thing.

[Martyr]

"Giru" = Gil, not gold or G or GP or anything like that. I'm very sorry.

OUCH! HAHA! Okay, I'm wrong. I concede to the man become god.

[Del Murder]

I wonder where the monsters keep their money. Or maybe it's better left unsaid.

[rubah]

If only there was a kangaroo enemy.

[strawberryman]

If only there was a kangaroo enemy.

Kangaroo= Really hard kick= Ow.

[Rase]

I wonder where the monsters keep their money. Or maybe it's better left unsaid.

Obviously, they keep it in the bank. Then, when our valiant heros defeat them, the poor monsters are forced to sign a slip, allowing the heros to go to the bank and withdraw the money. They do that during the blackout time between battle and moving around on the world.

[Del Murder]

Awesome post.