Just wanted to get everyones ideas or suggestions on how we can all collectively stop the price explosion of many items/equipment on our server and also what SE might be able to do.
One suggestion I have is small, but might help new players to make money a little easier to help pay for items (instead of buying gil, the REAL problem when it comes to the gilsellers) is to raise the amount of gil dropped by regular mobs. If SE raises the amount of gil dropped by mobs, it might help things a bit. This is by no means THE solution to our inflation problems, but maybe a start? My thought here is that new players might start, see the ridiculous prices on equipment and may just get frusterated and buy gil. But, if they can make decent money by just farming regular, low level mobs, they can be less tempted to just give up and buy gil. If less people buy gil, then gil sellers will not be able to sell gil to websites because this server will be overstocked with gil on the cannotlinkto sites etc.....and the gilsellers will not be able to unload their gil to those sites for our server. With less gilsellers at certain nm camps and other areas, regular players have a better chance of getting the rare items they want WITHOUT paying the high price on the AH set by the gilseller. Kind of a domino effect, see?
Basically, lessen the temptation for a player to buy gil and this will in turn lower the gilseller population and lessen the amount of gil sold from our server to the ige/whatever websites that sell it to people.
Anyways, post your ideas and thoughts on how we can maybe slow the inflation, if not reverse this effect.