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@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.

Oh, you really meant a sort of player intrinsic value. Some of us were talking about pure mesos o.O I do agree that untradeables are a meso sink. But they are a meso sink for the owner only, redeemable by whatever NPCs are willing to pay, if any.

Also, you are right about dark scrolls destroying items will lower the amount of mesos floating around, since the equipment has an NPC value. However, the scrolls themselves only have an NPC value of 1. It's only the players have hold value for these scrolls, and so whatever mesos they've earned, they'll use to buy the scrolls. The only mesos ever really lost are through tax (or if you bought the scrolls from NPCs, then you've lost a lot more).