Controlling inflation

[pepolshet]

I am wondering how difficult would it be to balance the economy up to a point that allowing players to withdraw virtual Gold for USD would become viable.

Could we potentially limit the supply of Gold from mobs, mining, lumberjacking and so on in relation to the actual USD worth of the economy? Has something similar been done?

 

[m309]

I'm pretty sure making any sort of a profit from UO's files would be highly against the EULA terms for a "freeshard", so if anyone has ever done something similar I doubt they'll talk about it publicly. The closest you could get legally would be to offer gold for "donations".

 

[pepolshet]

We would use a modified client with custom artwork, we'd also host the shard as a hidden service the popo would never catch us alive.