Faction Points 2.0

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Why is it low? It's hoplite-locked spear. No one even plays hoplite anymore after inf got buffed. And the guy left mod so make discount to you. And you even had 3m regardless telling about how hard to get gold.

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Deflation is worse than Inflation. There is a reason, central banks around the world aim for 2 % Inflation per year. If you think about it,it makes sense: Deflation means that the price of an item decreases over time. If I know the price decreases, I will wait another 2 weeks and in 2 weeks the same thing happens again. The seller however, keeps decreasing his prices and this only meets my expectations. If you keep thinking this through, the game economy stops working at some point. 

Inflation means the prices increase over time. If I know the prices are going to rise, it make sense to buy an item today and not wait for it. This will keep trades going, which is needed for a good economy. Right now there is a need for Inflation, which in return means an increase in Gold

1. Game economy is different from real one.
2. Prices are more or less stable now, so there is no deflation atm.
3. At least now gold is worth something otherwise we will have barter-based economy.

1. Human behaviour determines economy, which doesnt change just because it happens in a game. 
If your point is true, where is your proof or explanation? Just saying it like that because you think its true, is a bad argument. 
2. Deflation is real, just follow the price development on the AH. 
3. Gold was worth something before aswell, it were just different dimension. Also: when was this "otherwise"

1. Real-world economy relies on production and consumption of goods and economic growth heavily relies on steady consumption rate, so deflation might harm industry. In-game economy doesn't have such categories, there is pure monetarism here.
2. In big time scale, yes. In 2-3 months scale, no, prices are same.
3. There is a difference is gold worth something like now and worth nothing like it will be if more gold sources added.

1. It just the same. Lets stay within Gold for now and ignore mats. The production of gold is the ingame gameplay which generates gold through Killing, XP-conversion and doing quests. 
The consumptions are the gold sinks. In our case: upgrades, Hero-classes, crafting which requires gold. If the production is too limited, the consumption decreases as no gold is available. The main difference to real world is that the players then simply quit. This just increases the problem, as even less gold is produced. In a real world they cant quit, as that would mean they die. 
My Point is: ingame works just the same as out of the game. 
2. Compare the prices as of today and 1 year ago. It is a huge decrease. 
3. No just as I said, its a different dimension. I believe you talk about the relative value of gold. The relative value is determined if we take the other ingame items into comparions, which I excluded in my assuption in point 1. The relative value can be calculated, if you take the other item (in this case mats) in comparison aswell.

1. It's same in monetarism terms, I agreed on it before. But deflation doesn't harm game economy as it harm real one. That's the difference.
2. That was legendary upgrades implementation effect. Right now I think we passed through low point and economy is in balance.