Where and how to acquire 300,000 gil?

[Tilarta]

The Real Estate Agent says I need 300,000 gil to purchase Shinra Villa.
How do I acquire that much Gil?

Preferably a simple method.

[Daenoxiis]

Wait until Disc 3/Part 3 of the game.
It is easiest then.

There are some weapons and armor that give Double and Triple AP growth.

Get those weapons and armor.
Put a punch of blue All materia on these weapons and armor.
Go to the Northern Cave, the last dungeon in the game.
There's enemies called Movers and Magic Pot in one of the sections in it.
Give Magic Pot an Elixir in battle to be able to do damage to it.
Movers you can just kill without an issue.

And your will Master the All materia very quickly this way.
If you have 6 All materia and want 12 of them Mastered.
Easily done within 30 mins to an hour of IRL gameplay time without mods.

1 Masterd All Materia sells for 1.4 Million Gil.

12 Mastered All Materia = 16,800,000 Gil.

In thereabouts of an hours worth of gameplay.

[Lucus]

with the above information in mind, you can acquire more elixirs in the Northern Cave by stealing them from the following monsters: Gighee, Iron Man and Master Tonberry.

you can make it easier by purchasing the Sneak Glove accessory(grants 100% steal chance on equipped character) from the guy in wall market's weapon shop (the guy standing on the tank turret, not the merchant) on disk 3, but that will cost about 130K.

[Tilarta]

This is confounding to me.
Why offer a player home that is not accessible until the game is almost over?
I would have no use for the building at that point, since the need to rest the party would be irrevalent.

[Phreya™]

You don't buy the villa for resting, but for bragging rights of finally being a homeowner in the middle of the Crisis. Just like in real life.

[Tilarta]

Who precisely would I be bragging to in a soloplayer game?
The NPCs?

To be candid, I'm thinking of finding a savegame editor and just adding the required Gil to my inventory.
I am not a fan of grinding.

[Lucus]

Originally posted by Tilarta:

I am not a fan of grinding.

you don't need to grind for the money. if you don't care too much about the all materia you can just sell the first one you naturally master for 1.4m gil.

[didymos1120]

Originally posted by Tilarta:

Who precisely would I be bragging to in a soloplayer game?
The NPCs?

Your friends at school or whatever.

[Phreya™]

Originally posted by Tilarta:

Who precisely would I be bragging to in a soloplayer game?
The NPCs?

To be candid, I'm thinking of finding a savegame editor and just adding the required Gil to my inventory.
I am not a fan of grinding.

Yes, you can flex on Johnny and rub your fancy villa in his face for example, or don't take things too literally . It's a novelty villa to own for the sake of it. Just use tents or rest at the inn instead of stressing over it.

[Swole Diccus]

Originally posted by Tilarta:

This is confounding to me.
Why offer a player home that is not accessible until the game is almost over?
I would have no use for the building at that point, since the need to rest the party would be irrevalent.

you have no use for that building right now.

[Lucus]

Originally posted by Swole Diccus:

you have no use for that building right now.

did it ever have a use? for 300,000 gil you could buy 600 tents to rest almost anywhere and i doubt anyone uses more then 100 tents per playthrough.

[Tilarta]

Rest for free, that's a use.
For me, that is preferable to finding some random Inn and paying to rest.
Especially the nearby Costa Sol Inn, which has a hoop you have to jump through each time you want to stay.

I looked up Northern Cave, according to the notes, once you enter, you can't leave.
Which sounds like any Gil earned could not be used.
Also, this is the end of the game.

I prefer to follow the story directly without grinding.

Given all of the above, I just edited my savegame with BlackChocobo and gave myself the Gil to buy the Villa,

[didymos1120]

Originally posted by Tilarta:

I looked up Northern Cave, according to the notes, once you enter, you can't leave.

Your source was wrong then. You can leave anytime you want. There is a point of no return, but the game makes it very obvious.

[Daenoxiis]

Tent costs 500 Gil.
99 Tents is 500 X 99 = 49,500 Gil.

Shinra Villa costs 300,000 Gil.

To use Tent you have to either be on world map or at a save point.
To use Shinra Villa you have to be at Costa Del Sol.

99 Tents at the cost of 49,500 Gil X 6 Sets of 99 Tents) = 297,000 Gil.
Which would be nearly 600 Tents, as a rough estimate...
That is, using them all and then restocking.
Trust me, you will never use this many Tents in a single playthrough.

Only purpose of Shinra Villa is to waste Gil in the late game after you have done everything else that there is to do. Sometimes I think it's leftover from some cut content.

[alan.dike]

Originally posted by Lucus:

Originally posted by Swole Diccus:

you have no use for that building right now.

did it ever have a use? for 300,000 gil you could buy 600 tents to rest almost anywhere and i doubt anyone uses more then 100 tents per playthrough.

Wait, people actually use tents?

[Krypto]

Sell a mastered All materia for big bucks.