Seafury island alone adds close to 2k an hour to the total platinum circulating on the server. Even at my odd euro playtime hours (i.e. 6-10am on a Wednesday) there are enough people on the island that competition for spawns is fierce. It's farmed 24/7.
I've been camped out there for 2 weeks and have added another 40k to the total platinum on this server with fairly casual play.
Then factor in places like KC where kunark armor drops and can be vendored quickly for 300-450p along with gem drops from KC, Seb, and HS ...
There's an awful lot of plat flowing INTO the economy every day.
What you therefore see in an absence of a steady influx of true p99 noobs (most low levels are alts) is that cheap low/medium tier gear gets cheaper and more rare high end gear might get more expensive. People who have been on the server and want to fund an alt will have the bankrolls to skip low end gear (demand for these goes down) and the price on high dollar stuff stays steady or goes up.
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