A Solution to the in game inflation.

[CrescentCalling_5]

this idea makes no sense...
(pics other then cats coming eventually xP)

The best way I could think of to fix in-game inflation is to shorten the enhancement reset time. That's a big money sink and if you could reset it every day, you'd lose inflation REALLY fast (though we might get a recession >>")

[Cendaer]

Interesting that this has come up, because I'm pretty sure that True Reincarnations put a huge dent in the inflation problem.

Stacks and stacks of haste pots... pages and pages of cure serious wounds... Yugoloth pots by the hundreds... oh my!

SERIOUSLY!

I fail to see how a Casino would "Solve" anything. WHy would someone gamble their plat when they can just go run some Slayers or a few quests and Win every time? Regardless of whether you pull anything uber or not, you ALWAYS can sell the stuff for plat.


No, the Plat sinks we need in this game are very Clear...

Housing.....

In-Game Customization... Armor Dying, Barber shops, etc...

Provide Reincarnate options that cost plat instead of RM.

^^What he said^^

...besides... isn't there already a gambler-type NPC (he would take your bet, and roll the dice, or whatever) in the Leaky Dinghy? Or did they take him out?

I seriously only gambled with him for like 10 minutes on my second day of playing DDO, and never went back; but now I'll have to, just to see if he's still there.

[yawumpus]

While Impaqt hit the nail on the head (housing, customization, "epic discs"), any real plat sink will compete with tp sinks. I have no idea why turbine hasn't included all the obvious LOTRO tp sinks in DDO. Planning for f2p DDO must have included *some* possibilities of the wild success they have. A year later and they are leaving huge chunks of money (or as customers want, plat) on the table.

Barely on topic, I have long thought that the AH needs to charge posting fees based on opening price, not MSRP (according to the docs I read, it should). Changing this would drive the last remaining big ticket items away, and also the plat hit of everybody suckered into paying 100X for something available from a vendor. No longer recommended (although if there were usable plat sinks, this would greatly help the AH).

Note on casinos. I have to admit that D&D should be about questing, not pulling a bar in a casino (although I have to point out that interaction is *not* important in a casino. Only noobs* pull the lever on a slot machine, everybody else knows they can lose money faster by hitting the button the moment they lose the last game). Making things that need to be bought by plat as casino prizes is unnecessarily indirect. Turbine might pull somewhat more plat that way, but why bother?

Bottom line:
Any real solution costs turbine money (since it will compete with the store). Interesting to see if they care.

*Guilty. In my defense, I am unlikely to show up at a casino again for a long time.