Plat for race change (still within the normal race+class rules) would be better. Nonclassic mechanic, but the classic experience is maintained. People would get to change if they want to, plat gets eated up by NPCs, and we don't have a bunch of iksar clerics and erudite warriors and dwarf monks running around the server.
I'm still not sure that it would affect the economy much though. The people who can afford to pay 6-7 figures for a race change probably had the pp just sitting around not contributing to inflation anyway, or they had their wealth in items that they liquidated in order get the pure plat for the race change. Maybe that'd have an effect down the road but it certainly wouldn't have a pervasive effect in the short term.
Plat for name changes (or maybe not cause people would QQ about it letting people escape reputation or something), deity changes, respending stats (someone else mentioned this). All those things would work towards this goal of destroying platinum while not changing the way people experience the game itself because the only thing you're letting people change is stuff they had control to do at one point in the past anyways.
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