[maka]

I haven't read the full post but I would say that the economy is "****ed" cause we have a small shard population and we have had that for a long time.

During this time people have gotten skills, money and items. Now that everyone is selling the same thing, and as there are not enough buyers (a lot of people make their own stuff), prices go down.

If the relaunch is a success then the economy will be "fixed" I think. A lot more newbies without skills will be logging on and the demand will suddenly greatly outweigh the supply. Peoples stock will start to diminish and when vendors start going empty smart people will raise their prices again.

Sorry if it has been said and for reviving an old post, just felt it needed to be said:p


EDIT: And this would fix a lot too, and introduce a new gold sink:

Make owning a vender more expensive... at the moment its way to cheap and easy to operate a vendor. Make it actually cost something to have one.