I don’t think Vetex actually knows how these changes he’s doing are going to affect the economy. Increasing tax just makes prices increase, which boosts inflation, not decrease it.
The losing money thing will only really affect low level players since once you have enough money 20k really isnt that much
What we really need is to reduce the supply of money. Turn the money printer (fleets) off and reduce the amount of drachma you gain
How about instead of that, if they wanna go this route with fleets, they should add more money sinks to use our drachma on other than marketplace, which is atrocious to navigate right now with so many people. (devs pls fix) Like maybe give the potion seller guy a chance to sell legendary potions for like crazy prices, or some other things like that to funnel the money out of the economy.
this is never going to be a good solution on its own, all this does is keep rich players rich and poor players poor, honestly there just needs to be a drachma wipe before doing this
I think another possibility they could do is add something prestigious at a vendor for like 5 milion drachma, World of Warcraft did this with their Caravan Brutosaur which cost said amount at a vendor so people could buy something cool and flex while the money got funneled away out of the game. Maybe some prestigious ship customization option or specific high cost drip?
The economy was already shitty. It was already no-lifers buying from other no-lifers with nobody else being able to afford anything. Fleets just gave people with a life the occasion to also participate in it. Sure, it was a bit overtuned, but still, I don’t necessarily think that having Drachma be more accessible is a bad thing.