Quote Originally Posted by Kenky View Post
And lastly, for housing to -BE- an efficient gil-sink (by SEs standards at least), then there needs to be a limited number of them so people would try to throw as much gil as they can at it.
I'm sorry, I think there's some misunderstanding on what a gil sink is. It has nothing to do with anything that moves gil from player to player. A gil sink takes gil out of the game completely. You "pay the game." When you buy a housing plot or an apartment, that gil is completely removed from the game. It's gone. There doesn't "need to be a limited number" of them for people to buy them, beyond the extremely small amount of players who won't buy something others can get.

Because, again, having extra money to "throw at" buying the plot doesn't make the gil sink work. The plot is a fixed price that only goes down as it remains unpurchased, and the only reason the prices goes down right now is due to the random timer, before it was always at max price. A medium grade 1 plot is 20 mil maximum and will only every be 20 mil maximum. Having 40 mil won't increase my chances of getting it. It won't get me extra stuff. If I spent 40 mil on a medium plot, then that means I probably spent 20 mil on the plot itself and gave 20 mil to someone so I could relocate there. Which means 20 mil was actually removed from the economy, and 20 mil went to another player.

How many players are fabulously wealthy, but can't buy a plot, and therefore have nothing to invest that gil into?

I get it's in vogue to hate on WoW around here, but it does have a good gil sink model with the Black Market Auction House and a number of very expensive mounts and minions, like the brutosaur. The stuff on the BMAH is limited, but things like the brutosaur are not. At most they might be gated behind a reputation. There's a wide enough variety of them now that most people can find at least one thing they want to strive for, and they don't have to worry about the number being limited.