Here to give so economic insight.
Spawning in more money or paying 'compensation' amounts,—it is already a mystery how you would even calculate a fair exchange rate of the amount of money paid in compensation—doesn't actually help the economy, if not break it even more.
An example:
Right now, every player who is [grade-12] or higher gets an allowance of ¥1,000 per 30 minutes, which is ¥48,000 per day.
If, due to this compensation pay, we up the amount of ¥1,000 to ¥10,000, everyone will make ¥480,000 on that day.
- This is a price increase of +10%. If the price increases by +10%, so will the inflation because if you know players will have 'more' money, why not raise your prices to earn a little more yourself?
Because the inflation rises at the same rate your wealth does, this essentially doesn't change anything; you just made the ¥ more worthless.
If an auction item used to be ¥20,000 then after the increase, it will be ¥200,000. Which is still 41.67% of you total allowance you earned that day.
- "Okay, but it would be for just one day, so it doesn't matter and you can save money!"
If this is your thought process, then I hate to break it to you but:
1. Not only are you not the only person who thought of it, meaning if you all save money, the economic state stays relatively the same.
2. Inflation doesn't lower as quickly as it rises. Especially since players will still have money they had before this increase; some people might not be willing to pay ¥200,000 for an auction item after the allowance is brought back to ¥1,000, but maybe settle at ¥100,000. That is still more than a more than 50% increase of the original price.
To give you a TLDR like this is Reddit:
- Spawning in money during an 'economic crisis' does the complete opposite of its intended goal; it will cause more harm than good through inflation.
So, that is why I'm giving this a big -1 WHEN IT COMES TO PAYING COMPENSATION IN FORM OF MONEY.
I do agree there should be given some other form of compensation to the players for the recent issues and bugs the server has been experiencing. — I commend the devs for the hard work they've been putting in, but the players still are very logically upset and frustrated with the ongoing bugs and malfunctions
Again, this isn't real life. It wouldn't make the yen less valuable, unless we have some sort of uprising with shop owners. BMD's always have the same money. Yen is always going to be spawned in, as every 30 minutes, with an average of 200 players online, thats 200 thousand yen, being put into the economy. What they could do, is put out a limited time code - and perhaps post it to the starting message, which grants the user 10,000 yen. It seems reasonable, as the code would only be active for around 2 days, and it would just progress the economy around 5 hours of playtime
- assuming you are a g-12 - , which is less than most people have played during this downtime of /rewards, and the daily rewards man. Then, greenies who did not like playing during this time, could have some money to use from the past time. Shop owners wouldn't raise prices, as its a one time 10,000 yen boost, and isn't going to mess with the economy that much, as it would be around ~1 million yen given out, assuming 1000 people used the code during this time. Some cars are more expensive than that, and it would help out new players a lot, given that most can't use /feed, or were saving up towards a new item they wanted. I'm not stating that they should raise the allowance per 30 minutes, as that
would cause some inflation, but a 1 time thing would be more of a stimulus check, for
missed payments. Yen gets taken out of the economy, throughout various things, such as buying cars, black market supply drops, and vending machine, NPC ran shops, and so much more. It would help the economy, a little bit, as no one would be raising prices for such a relatively medium one time drop, but newer players could have a bit of a better experience after the past days we've had without the basic money grants. Rich people on the server wouldn't care about this amount, and would consider it as a minor event, but greenies, g 10, 11s, and newer grade 12s would appreciate and or benefit from this a lot. I'm not asking for some out of proportioned amazing yen boost, like 50-100k, just a ease of life benefit. Another option we could take, is giving out a nice cosmetic, for a limited time. That would be equivalent to the 10,000 yen, and would mess with the economy even less, as everyone who was active would have it, and there would be no demand as the supply was given to
everyone. Again, this is
mostly for newer players. I've had around 4 greenies ask for money loocly, as they couldn't afford the vending machines. Just a jumpstart, while the devs work on fixing the plugins, and the players can relax for a bit.
