2011-10-06, 12:44 AM
Ban botters (obvious)
Ban people who buy mesos (discourage the botters from even trying)
Introduce some meso sinks that are relevant to all players. We have the town medals, but those are pretty useless.
Proposal: Create an NPC that accepts meso donations. Whoever donates the most in a particular week gets 5k maple points, and anyone else who donated a fraction of that amount gets an equivalent fraction of 5k MP. Since everybody gets a prize, there's no feeling bad when you bid 300mil and someone else bid 300,001,000 - you get 4999 and 5000 MP - so even if you can't afford 5k NX, it's still worth tossing in however many mesos you want to convert to NX.
This will naturally find the nx:meso ratio and remove it from the economy. Of course, someone could be a plantain and donate 2 billion, but all they'll get for it is 5000 maple points, there's no recognition like with the medals.
The only caveat is that if the donation is less than the reward from 5k worth of meso sacks in the cash shop, no prizes will be given. But those are worth so little that massive deflation would have to occur before it became an issue.
Ban people who buy mesos (discourage the botters from even trying)
Introduce some meso sinks that are relevant to all players. We have the town medals, but those are pretty useless.
Proposal: Create an NPC that accepts meso donations. Whoever donates the most in a particular week gets 5k maple points, and anyone else who donated a fraction of that amount gets an equivalent fraction of 5k MP. Since everybody gets a prize, there's no feeling bad when you bid 300mil and someone else bid 300,001,000 - you get 4999 and 5000 MP - so even if you can't afford 5k NX, it's still worth tossing in however many mesos you want to convert to NX.
This will naturally find the nx:meso ratio and remove it from the economy. Of course, someone could be a plantain and donate 2 billion, but all they'll get for it is 5000 maple points, there's no recognition like with the medals.
The only caveat is that if the donation is less than the reward from 5k worth of meso sacks in the cash shop, no prizes will be given. But those are worth so little that massive deflation would have to occur before it became an issue.