If SE is taking away my hard work...

[Rizon]

The prices will settle at whatever price that is sustainable given the amount of gil and the system and each person's own willingness to pay. It's pointless to even hypothesize exactly what percentage of the original price you think things will go to, because when the economy starts back up in 2.0, the demand for tons of items is going to change. Some items will go away (arrows), some items will be needed less, others will be needed more. The economy will gradually stabalize over time. It may prove benefiical to be conservative initially, but beyond that, nobody needs to take any special action to influence the economy. It will settle on its own.

Yes, by the way, I'm fully aware it's been talked about before. THere's been like a dozen threads on this topic- but in most of them except this one, people have come to grips with the fact that the effect this change has on people is not what some people are worrying it will be. For some reason, in this one, the panic is back in full force and people like the OP are calling it a "wipe" when it isnt.

I think the basic problem here is that you are confusing the real world economies with SE economy. In the real world governments take an active part in regulating their economies in order to ensure the very things you are talking about. As such the arguments you make would be very valid. Unfortunately SE has always taken a hands off approach in regards to the economy. Therefore Gil will always enter the economy at a rate far greater then its removal. Gil sinks and the such will have little or no effect. You will always have people who will spend every playing hour trying to corner the market in goods forcing people to spend large amounts of time just trying to make Gil to keep up. Please look up SEs history in this matter. It has always been the case with them. Til they make an idealogical shift in their thinking you will always have a problem of too much currency available. SEs current tactic of revaluation (as you wish to call it) is just a half hearted effort to redefine the starting point.