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king_fool wrote: »

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king_fool wrote: »

Also don't forget this forced "deflation" is a bit unlike the common deflation. It's a total cut of all existing currency which only has the effect of deflation.
Without such function all moneysinks with static pricing become too cheap at some point sooner or later.

EDIT: It's essentially a question of if you want to allow lower level type stuff to matter or not. If "goldfarming" is something only high level can do then what purpose is there to gather low level stuff outside of becoming higher level in that particular farming activity. It's just that people are already used to that kinda stuff where lower level stuff really doesn't matter (since it has no impact at all).

Overall, again, this isn't true.

It only happens because games basically go 'you need money to progress, that money can be transferred between players and also increases indefinitely, so we will have mobs drop money'.

Games that fix this:
Option 1) Don't have most mobs drop money and have it enter from a different faucet (FF11, old FF14 sorta, etc)
Option 2) Make the money that drops from mobs and is used for progression the type you can't transfer (Onigiri, Throne and Liberty, maybe Neverwinter but I forget rn)
Option 3) Carefully set their item price floors and have higher money sinks, as well as separate currencies for progression (New World, Throne and Liberty, FF14 moreso)

Or all of the above.

Now, if one wants a game where the average mob drops Gold, then you might need to solve Deflation, but Ashes of Creation is already not like this. Glint can easily be tuned to be a relatively weak currency faucet.

The real question is whether or not the game is actually going to be mostly 'player controlled' economically or 'dev controlled' economically, not will we have inflation or deflation, so, for now, we're still going to have people who express both opinions about which thing should happen.

To this I cant answer fully due to the references to other games which I don't play.
But from what I read here, essentially you either create some alternative from of currency in endgame or make other sinks. The idea here is, that you generally design how you would love it to be from a gameplay perspective and let the economy autocorrect itself by inducing a cut rather than some convoluted sinks or other weird stuff.