A simple fix to inlfation.

The economy of this game is completely broken.
Far more influence comes into the system than what leaves - this is a major problem in any economy whether they be in a mmo or in real life.
The inflation can be fixed by either reducing the amount of influence coming into the game or increasing the rate at which it leaves.

I suggest doing both.

We have the option of turning off our experience and gaining more influence. I propose doing something similar, but the opposite. Give us the ability to turn off our influence gain and in return, double our drop rates. All recipes have twice the chance of dropping (including purples and pvp IOs), vanguard merits and architect tickets drop twice as fast too.
This not only halts the influence brought into the economy but it also gives us more to sell on the marketplace - further utilizing the biggest inf sink in the game and increasing the outflow of revenue.

Edit: Just noticed the typo in the title. Won't let me edit it - fail lol.

This... is actually not a bad idea. It would fix one big problem, which is that it's impossible to generate stuff without also generating more Inf.

A slightly more drastic solution:

Completely cut influence gain for anybody with more than 100,000 on their character.

No caveats, no exclusions. If you have 100,000 inf, you don't generate any more from mobs. Earn it through drops and the market.

To be fair, I never said it was a particularly good idea. Just that it would stop influence from being generated as fast as it is.

Thanks for the support guys and for overlooking the typo in the title that would probably deter most.
I just hope the Devs aren't deterred and support the idea just as much.

The only problem I see with it is that it's optional, and not likely to be used enough to make an impact.

There has to be a mandatory way. Perhaps level 50s automagically turn this effect on. It can be like hitting the influence cap of 2 billion in that your defeats still count towards the influence badges.


I also say that one way to delete a bit more influence is to change the inf : prestige ratio into something more appetizing. If I got more prestige for my inf, I'd actually be willing to burn the influence. Instead, I don't burn any and just farm missions to earn prestige, generating even more craptons of influence.

Not bad idea witht eh turning off X to get more Y.

The only thing that will kill inflation is a ceiling set price.

Put a Store on all sides or Pocket D that sells everything (yes everything, purps, temps, x-mas salavage..) for a set influence price. I don't care if every purple is 2 billion inf. Whatever value is set that would be the new max anyone would pay for said item so no more off market sells.

The other thing is that you need influence eaters. Like any or all of the following.
Convert Influence to reward merits.
Make AE a pay to play.
Make AE a pay to vote.
Put in more temp powers that people can by with their influence. (ie 25 mill inf = 1 hour x2 xp; want to auto complete that mission 1mill x lvl of mission)
Scrap XP debt instead have the player loose 10% of thier current influence.
Leave the influence cap at 2 billion, but make influence account based not toon based.
Let people buy up or down a recipe level (with the min max being what the recipe actually is normally). So if you get a level 38 recipe and you want it to be level 30 it will cost you 8 mill to convert it.

All these things will eat influence. Less influence means more bang for the buck and little to no inflation. Add in a ceiling on prices and you pretty much have as much of a fix as you can get.

The OP's suggestion is sort of like running in SG mode, where you get prestige in exchange for cutting your inf in half.

If you could encapsulate that idea with some in-game rationale it be more logical. Perhaps actually joining the Midnighters and running in Midnighter mode, or when running secret missions for Vanguard (which, since they're secret, won't give you any influence/infamy).

Several things....

1. Double drop rates? I doubt it would happen but maybe a slight improvement to drop rates. Maybe an improvement to the chances of getting a drop by something like 33% or in the ballpark of a quarter. But then improve yields more. Not an expert on rewards tables but something like a disproportionate improvement to chances of getting uncommon or rares vs commons. So that rather than completely filling your inventory with common junk 2x as fast, you'll gain everything slightly faster and a better chance at uncommon junk.

2. End of mission/arc bonus. Possible point of exploit; turn off inf there or to kill a boss and improve the drops just for them. So how about a kind of inf debt that you incur upon turning the option on? At this point you don't earn inf or get improved drops but the drop bonus will turn on after paying the debt with dropped inf you'd have gotten.

3. Coupons! This option could come with the bonus of adding coupons to the drop tables and even really nice stuff like merits! So tailor cupons, crafting coupons, and other stuff that might cost you inf to use.

4. Vendors. They still give you inf for your junk. So how about changing that chatty vault secretary into someone that wants our junk (*smirk*)? There'd be progress bars on stuff you can get rif of (like badges) and when you get to 100%, you get the prize and start over again. Ex: trade 20 temp power recipies for a basic IO of your choosing. trade 15 pieces of random common salvage for a random uncommon drop. trade 25 pieces of any common salvage for a piece of common salvage of your choosing.

Double drops for PvE and PvP is alright. But for AE? Don't we need more incentive for people to play the other areas of the game? PvP surely could use some new players.