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Originally Posted by Crono
The real world doesn't have money magically appearing from shop NPCs but more importantly it has a functioning government. If you read my ideas you'd realize that your tax system is just stupid as it would piss people off and is not a good replacement for LACK OF CONTENT which is the real problem (assuming we're ignoring glitches).
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This is only partly true.
The only content that we can guarantee most players will buy is new guns.
Most players ignore cars, houses, etc.
And they'll only buy the new gun if it's better than the old gun.
So eventually we run into a problem (that we're already kind of in) where everybody is using guns with stats so high that anything higher would be excessively lame.
The other problem is that even if we keep the new items stocked, after a few are bought players will start selling them for whatever the shop price is minus a few thousand, so nobody has any reason to buy anymore from the shop now, because they can get it for cheaper from players who have already bought it.
In an attempt to circumvent that problem (since it has been a problem for a long time) I suggested making a pawn shop that buys back items for 75 percent of their shop value, which should prevent the street value of items from ever dropping too low, and since the bought-back items would be removed from circulation more will need to be bought. Downside being that it does create money out of nowhere to actually buy the items back from the players in the first place.
As other people have suggested the only real way to fix the economy is to have reoccuring small fees that completely remove money from play (e.g. house upkeep costs).
The idea of adding a chance to fail when making an item isn't bad either, but I think that might be too annoying.