Community Update - Future of Events

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Good idea to move the server to the DarkRP category because it is "easier to find", truly revolutionary. Fantastic! Truly some great thinkers, finally! Whoever thought of that, props to you! 

But it begs the questions: What's next? At this rate the team might even consider reverting back farming, mining, disallowing casinos and whatever else useless money systems that ruined the economy!

I have high hopes!

Casinos inherently didn't ruin the economy, Moneypacks did and all other sources of 'inflation'. But on a gamemode like CityRP 'inflation' is the only true way to stimulate and grown an economy, and as such it will happen again, albeit it on a smaller scale due to no moneypacks.

Joe, casinos redistribute the wealth in an unhealthy way and can be considered one of the sources of inflation - thought I know you would feel that is counter-intuitive.
That being said I wouldn't consider the casinos to be the biggest problem.

In regards to moneypacks, yes, it is a contributing factor - however the biggest blows are the additional money systems added that effectively devalued a fixed price market.

I think you are misunderstanding the concept of inflation if you say that casinos are a source of inflation. Real inflation only happens if the total money supply is increased, thats it. In our case thats money systems & moneypacks. The players just dont have enough ways to spend their money on. Because different to the real world, money just appears out of nowhere if money is gained by systems, and also disappears if you buy anything from NPCs, we can actually relatively easy tackle inflation problems by adjusting prices to money earned. Peer to peer trading doesnt effect that at all as no money is added or removed from the total money supply. Similiar to when money is hoarded by people irl, in fl if people leave the server the money supply is artifically lowered, thus the purchasing power of the remaining funds increase - a cause of deflation actually.

What casinos can do is create a "felt inflation" - inflation not caused by an actual increase of the money supply but the redistribution of wealth. If we assume most people lose money and some earn a lot of money from casinos, there are some felt implications on the economy but I personally think thats not just not a bad thing - its actually great. This is what makes it feel like an elactic, dynamic economy driven by demand and supply - which it is to some extend.