The Current Economy

[Abriael]

Blowing up items by melding doesn't cause deflation, nor does dropping them on the ground etc.

A gil sink isn't defined by the fact it causes inflation or deflation. Causing deflation is a consequence.

It's simply the removal of currency from the market. Items *are* currency, as they can be automatically echanged for currency (by vendoring them).

By the way, not sure who told you that RMT don't complete levequests. They do, and that's the whole reason why they go around in trains of eight multiboxed lalafells. By leve linking they multiply the gil earning from every levequest.

Once they're done with the leve allowance of a group of lalas, they move to the next (they have access to a ton of them) over and over.