What happens when as chest said, people but 20000 rubies before this happens? Then just liquidate after and have 90% of your original platinum?
No plat wipe or shit will work. We would need a money sink to combat inflation. EQ did that in a few ways:
1. Mounts in Luclin - Cost 10k for cheap, much more for faster ones.
2. Casino in GoD - people threw away millions trying to get a guise.
3. Qvic armor in GoD - it cost 10.5k a pop to make this armor. With the rate it was obtainable (6 or 12 hour respawn Mshas) this ate up people's platinum quick.
4. Augment distillers / potions / armor creation / corpse summons / mercenaries in modern EQ - changing around augments costed you a lot.
On here though. There are a few quests that take platinum from you. JBoots, a few epics and sol temple armors. Velious will have Lodi shield and a few others that eat platinum.
But beyond that, tradeskilling (blacksmithing/Jewelcrafting are the main vendor bought ones that can eat plat) although TS are useless pre Luclin, reagents for symbol/rune/corpse summon/planar ports. Classic just didn't have enough plat sinks built in for regular gameplay to take plat out of circulation.
Which either means we say... It's classic ergo not an issue, or we implement a non-classic money sink.
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