Being open to every person is part of the problem. HGs and Spectres are limited in number and competitive. If everyone has access to endless plat at a rate out of balance with the rest of the game, it causes inflation. If dupers also caused inflation, two sources of inflation compound a problem, rather than negate it.
Economic health is of extreme importance to a game. You can google this and find dissertations on the topic. Eve actually hires a RL economist to do economic reports on their servers.
Classic did not have a lot of plat sinks. Sinks being ways for money to exit the game, rather than change hands, so any inflation will be slow to recover from, if at all. Spells, reagents, and high cost, vendor based tradeskills such as blacksmithing and jewelcrafting are really the only three significant money sinks, and these were designed to be in balance with the rate that money enters a game through intended means.
Dissimilar to classic eq in 1999, everyone playing here has the advantage of essentially being clairvoyant. Everyone knows the inside secrets of the game. We had the jump on the guards, rather than it being a slowly leaked secret that became popular after folks had been max level for a while. If the change didn't go through, you would see prices similar to EQLive today, before Kunark made it through development.
Whether folks agree or disagree, I hope this makes at least a little sense out of the confusion.
Also, telling folks to shut up didn't work the first 20 times you did it. Rather than clutter the thread as if you had tourette's, take the hint
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