An experienced player who has not played for 6 months I was shocked to find the rampant inflation on all servers on my return.
Thinking about it, this is caused not by the inflation of goods, but the DEFLATION on gold coin (in most circumstances). The reason is obvious in so much as whilst most resource is somehow taken out of the game (ultimately via troop loss), gold coin is not. Everyday I produce about 2k coins, in addition adventures drop coin, when multiplied across all players on all servers that is a huge amount of coin entering the economy everyday that never leaves the economy. If the trend continues then pretty soon coin will become worthless and will be unstorable.
The solution is twofold 1. TSO need to STOP dropping coins into the game - it is making the situation worse. 2. TSO need to figure out a way of taking coin out of the economy, so that the remaining coin is worth something, the suggestion here is to do this via the merchant / shop. Surely there must be a useful item that can be dropped into the game that is exclusive to the shop or certain shop items should be buyable with coin.
Suggestions for new drop -
Improved Prov house Buff
1 Day premiums - this is the most important actually - again it could be made quite expensive - say 100k, but it would in essence provide a cap on the value of gold
Existing changed to coin / coin option added
Improved storehouse (would be expensive) maybe 200k (ensuring a lot of gems have already been spent otherwise you cant hold 200k)
Arrows
Assasins
Stop Buffs
If you are a player reading this, whose economy is not set up to take advantage of this, remember that in game coin only has a value as a currency really, I am not talking about disadvantaging ppl I am talking about maintaining a useful currency in game.
I am a level 50 player with multiple imp storehouses, but pretty soon I wont even be able to buy the best items in the game (even if I had the coin) because I couldn't store that much.
Remember if you want to buy an expensive item in the game (such as for example a Witch Tower) which is 40k on my server, if you take gold out of the game the value of gold goes up, and therefore the price of the Witch tower comes down.