modular Wrote:I HATE THIS CONVENTIONAL WISDOM. ITS DUMB. STOP PERPETUATING IT.
this is smarter.
things like mounts, where no player profits, are sinks. NOT SCROLLS. except the crappy 100%s you buy from an npc. buy more 100% overall dex and eventually inflation will stop.
First off, according to wikipedia a gold sink: (or for our discussion mesos)
"Gold sink is an economic process by which gold, or any item that can be valued against gold, is removed"
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_sink
How is applying 7B worth of scrolls to an item that you can never sell or trade not a form of mesos sink. The value of that item is no longer recognized in the economy as a whole. I.e. it's been removed from the economy.
@Kaj
Yes I understand that paying for the scrolls give someone else mesos. If the item was tradeable, the the seller would have 7B and the buyer would have a 7B item. That's still 14 B floating around the economy. The item isn't tradeable so there's only 7B floating. Therefore 7B is still removed.
And you're argument about scrolls is flawed. Nexon makes available to the economy scrolls that have a percentage chance of not working and destroying the item. They're called dark scrolls. So, whenever you apply a dark scroll and destroy an item you have participated in an economic process to remove 2 or more items that can be valued against mesos. Maybe an example will clarify:
Let's say you're a STR shadower and you've just purchased a 99 ATK Gold Double Knife for 20 mil, 3 30% dark scrolls for dagger for atk 5 mil each, and 4 60% dark scrolls for dagger for atk 2.5 mil each. (prices are for illustration only)
Now you scroll the item as follows:
30% pass, 30% fail, 60% pass, 60% pass, 60% fail, 30% destroy
You've just removed 20 + 5 + 5 + 2.5 + 2.5 + 2.5 + 5 = 42.5 million mesos from the economy. (not including the value of any bait scrolls and items)
Just because this process doesn't remove mesos 100% of the time and sometimes adds value doesn't mean it's not a mesos sink.
And finally, you state "buy more 100% overall dex and eventually inflation will stop."
That's just silly. Seriously, I dare you to present a case where this will ever be true.