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Originally Posted by zodium
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it's classic and without recharges there'd be insane pp inflation, seeing as EQ has virtually no other systemic mechanism for destroying pp
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This is literally the dumbest argument in favor of item recharging.
1) The total amount of pp that enters the server on a daily basis dwarfs the amount spent on recharging.
2) Inflation only affects items that no longer drop, because new items entering the economy produce a deflationary effect on that item's market price. So the inflationary pressure of newly created plat and the deflationary pressure of newly created items tend to cancel each other out, making prices relatively stable over the short and medium term.
3) Even if there was inflation it wouldn't matter, because it would affect all players who participated in the economy equally, even new players ("WTS stack of Bone chips 100pp"). The amount of plat in circulation in is completely arbitrary, all that matters in terms of pricing is the ratio of buyers to sellers.
The only defense of item recharging is that it is (unfortunately) classic as a mechanic. Its widespread abuse is obviously unclassic as hell.