Why is this not the solution?

[PredatoryCatgirl]

Your gil sink doesn't accomplish much because while a house is something that players want, a real estate purchase system would push prices out of the range of the ordinary player so only the wealthy could buy with gil they aren't using.

The whole point of a gil sink is to stop this. After the first few months to a year, prices will drop significantly.

It's not closing the RMT loophole at all.

I never claimed it stopped RMT entirely. I said it would get RMT bots out of housing, because they won't be spam-clicking something they can't flip for a profit. You will never stop RMT entirely.

The only way to stop RMT in housing is for SE to stop giving players control over specific game addresses and move to an instanced system that allows every player to get the house they want, similar to what other MMOs use.

Which SE won't do because potato. Leaving people like us to argue about the best ways to season a shit sandwich.

Except part of what I mentioned was removing the ability to store gil on retainers. Retainers would be a temporary bank for what's received from marketboard listings, with that gil being automatically transferred to the player when they go to interact with the retainer, same as we automatically get gil when completing a duty/quest.

You also forgot that players can now get a 10th retainer if they have the paid companion app.

What I suggest would reduce the account wide gil cap from a potential 440 billion down to 4 billion.

I didn't forget anything. I just picked a number and you assumed I forgot something. And also, great, get ready for mega inflation when they decide to spend all that gil on the market board rather than lose it.

Inflation that would be very short term at best because players won't have as much gil to spend after the lower gil cap goes into effect.

Like they're going to wait. They'll spend it before it goes into effect. And please don't tell me that SE should set the dangerous as hell precedent of just getting rid of gil without telling people. Great way to destroy trust. And no they didn't do it before either. They slashed a zero off of everything, including prices. Its like how some countries do old/new currency to stop zeros from adding up.

It's rarely the poor players selling the big ticket items. It's the players who have lots of time on their hands to play and they've become rich because of that extra time they have to farm for the rare items that bring in the big gil.

Is this a problem? That's basically how capitalism should actually work. More time and effort equals more money.