Fixing the Economy, the Stupid Way

I haven't had time to comment on stupid threads lately, but I felt I could make time for a very special suggestions thread.

In case you're like me and don't want to subject yourself to such stupidity: we all know that Sega doesn't want to increase the maximum amount of meseta that a player can carry. Many people have suggested that the amount be increased by a factor of 10, to just under 1 billion meseta, but Sonic Team argues that doing that would require a lot of additional coding.

The brilliant idea presented in this topic was to essentially have GMs mass produce items and place them in special shops for players to purchase. Proceeds from the special shops would be deleted periodically by the GMs, helping to bring down inflation.

Does anybody else see how ridiculous this is? This could certainly take meseta out of the economy, but players would instead be left with rare items that are completely worthless -- a drawback many would argue to be far worse. Meseta may be rampant right now, but the really rare items are not. Mass production of items for the sole purpose of lowering inflation would give the vast majority of players inexpensive access to items that are not readily available right now. Prices would drop across the board, and the economy could actually crash. Not good.

Personally, I think that NPC shops are the best tool Sega has to fix the economy, since meseta spent there is gone forever. Since nothing has actually been done, though, I take it that Sega is content letting things play out the way they have thus far.

That's all I have to say about this stupid thread. I'll cut the guy a little slack, though. There are still even more stupid people roaming the internets this evening...



That's what happens when you mess with a hurricane, I suppose. Pay more attention next time!