Quote Originally Posted by Awha View Post
Though isn't the base function of a currency sink to remove money from the game world?
The point is to get currency out of active circulation so inflation doesn't get out of hand and new players end up priced out of the game.

In a way, many of the wealthiest players are a mini-currency sink. They're using currency as a scoring system to see if they're "winning". They're not about to give up part of their score so it's not contributing to inflation. It's fine to have items that target that wealthy but it's not going to impact inflation.


Quote Originally Posted by Awha View Post
That said my issue with a tax system largely boils down unless the tax is rather large given how easy it is to make vast amounts of gil after one is already established in a market any tax would just negatively impact players with smaller coffers. I get the idea behind it, thought I highly doubt SE will tax players at rate those who have gil to burn and a reliable means of earning gil would bat an eye lash even when it came to owning multiple plots since plots do prove a source of revenue.
Which is part of why I listed a staggered tax rate based on property size. Players with less wealth are more likely just to have the small houses and the tax could easily be paid with what's earned through normal game play. Players with greater wealth are the one who have the medium and large houses, or multiple houses. They're already going to greater effort to earn the gil and most of it is usually coming through sales to other players, not game play.

The one interesting thing to point out here is that the revenue that comes from housing isn't newly generated gil (with the exception of that which comes from selling salvaged accessories to a vendor). It's all gil already in circulation coming from other players through marketboard sales or direct trade transactions. When that's the revenue being used to pay the tax, the tax ends up an even more effective gil sink since it's using gil already in circulation.

This is all theoretical, of course, based on the idea of using housing as a gil sink and how it would be effective. SE is unlikely to do it.