Atomos = Inflation...

[Ladon]

It's likely just going to be temporary as the game has a lot of decent gil sinks in the form of multi-melding.

A lot more money is entering the economy right now but a lot more is going to start disappearing too as people will have the gil and will take the risk on more double or triple melds which should eat up a good amount of the gil coming in. This is going to have an intimidate impact on materia prices as demand for them goes up but it will eventually settle back down once the event is over and enough gil is blown up in failed melds.

[TheFrozenOne]

It's likely just going to be temporary as the game has a lot of decent gil sinks in the form of multi-melding.

A lot more money is entering the economy right now but a lot more is going to start disappearing too as people will have the gil and will take the risk on more double or triple melds which should eat up a good amount of the gil coming in. This is going to have an intimidate impact on materia prices as demand for them goes up but it will eventually settle back down once the event is over and enough gil is blown up in failed melds.

But that gil doesn't go anywhere but into the hands of another player, so it stays in the system. You'd need something that actually takes the excess gil out of the system, which could be when the ARR launches, till then the ecomony will be inflated without a way to ease the gil coming into the system.

[Ladon]

But that gil doesn't go anywhere but into the hands of another player, so it stays in the system. You'd need something that actually takes the excess gil out of the system, which could be when the ARR launches, till then the ecomony will be inflated without a way to ease the gil coming into the system.

As long as a lot of players aren't doing direct trades then the retainer taxes take out a decent chunk. People with more gil are more willing to pay the tax as well. Also if melds are blowing up items then there is a gil sink there since a lot of items require a good amount of vendor items to make.

It's going to be a problem as long as the event is going on though as I'm sure the rate of gil coming in far exceeds the gil sinks, but it should stabilize pretty quick even with the current systems once they cut off the event.

[Falcus]

It's likely just going to be temporary as the game has a lot of decent gil sinks in the form of multi-melding.

You can buy materia from NPCs now?
Buying things on the wards is not a gil sink... That's just moving the gil around the economy.
It would get rid of a small amount of gil but not much (the tiny % that is removed from each sale)