Creating deflation

[Russell]

I was talking to Joe just now, and we figured that one complementary solution would be an automatic increase or decrease of your bank account money based on your activity. Imagine:

• You receive positive interest on the value of your bank account for up to a week of inactivity. This means you get free money.
  
• When you are inactive for more than a week, you will receive a negative interest of half the positive interest's rate. This means that as long as you log in once per three weeks, you get free money.
  
• If you haven't logged in for three weeks or more, the value of your bank account will steadily decrease depending on the time passed since you last visited the server.
  
• The value of your bank account will never decrease past a hundred million or so*, to make sure that returning players have sufficient money to get back up on their feet.
  

Running some numbers, we have 344 billionaires on the server, and 2,852 people with more than a hundred million dollars. Many of those haven't been in-game for ages, but could still significantly influence the economy when they return.

* This will likely become a million once we reconsider pricing in our economy.