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Originally Posted by Ella`Ella
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If you're trying to fix RMT, you need to devalue in game currency until the risk no longer outweighs the reward. If you look to the case of Supremacy, he claims to have made $42,000. If you think of that practically for him, that's 4 years of education at a state university. Therefore, the risk < reward.
There are several ways to devalue currency...Lower cost of Peridots, Port Stones, Sky keys, Rubies, recharges (especially the 100k/charge cost on Staff of Forbidden Rites), etc...However, I feel like the staff wants to revalue currency, which increases the real life value price per plat. (This of course omits the possibility of lowering drop rates on currently expensive items including BCG, VS legs, Trak BP's, etc...)
If you're looking to sap plat out of the economy and reduce ways of laundering plat for RMT, an NPC with rare goods is definitely a way to go. However, I would add a twist to increase scarcity. I advocate an NPC that sells things like a guise for 1million plat for selfish reasons, but I know that I would personally buy 1 the first day that NPC went live. HOWEVER, I also know that if I knew that NPC would always be around I would defer buying one for another char for an indefinite period of time which would keep plat in velocity (circulation in the economy). Given that tid-bit, if you put an NPC that sold items like guise and staff of endless adventure (only item i want!!!) on an NPC and I knew that NPC would be for a very limited time (this NPC could make random INFREQUENT guest appearances in the future), I would buy 2-3 guises on day one. That's 2-3million plat right there and as per my conversation in teamspeak about this earlier, I could estimate approximately 15mil out of the economy on day one(ish).
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Devaluing currency would just make RMTers have to tweak their pp:dollar ratio a little. The amount of devaluing you'd have to do to make RMT not worth it for them would probably do irreparable damage to the economy.
Also making an npc that sells shit like guises straight up for large amounts of platinum is beyond retarded no matter how short the window to buy it. And it does nothing for stopping RMT plat laundering.
In fact making an npc that sells guises just promotes RMT since most people dont have that kind of pp and would be desperate to get their hands on a guise. If gms announced such a npc would be available tomorrow for 24 hours I would be willing to bet that every RMT'ers plat supply would be dry before the npc was removed again.