NPC Prices (CPI?)

[Nohmaan]

The CPI is a key indicator of inflation rates, you're scoring the inflation in price of goods in the past vs. in the future. What I'm asking for IS a price index, so that the rate of gil required to purchase each item in each field has a mark on the rate in which gil is being given and taken by NPCs.

I'm also not asking for a free market system, while I would like to see NPC values inflate and deflate as needed there doesn't need to be a removal of certain hard or soft caps at some point. But having NPCs with items that are at set values isn't going to help a whole lot when those vendor items become outdated and useless- meaning their price values have no consequence since it's a good people don't want anyways.

Central Banks use the information to decide when to print or remove money from the system. NPC vendors (in addition to taxes and airship fees, materia melding, etc.) are the money printers in the game. And since there are unlimited ways to introduce new gil into the system, it needs to be able to be removed from the system to curb that inflation, and this is just one measure that may help.