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VIRTUAL ECONOMY & TRUST

Currency Flows and Price Stability

A precise model for faucets, sinks, transfers, locks, item flows, purchasing power, and transparent monetary tuning.

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LEVEL 1

ORIENTATION

Why this matters

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One-sentence brief

Misclassifying a transfer or temporary escrow lock as a sink hides inflation and can lead to excessive taxes, arbitrary confiscation, or a shortage of usable currency.

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Three key points

  1. Creation changes total currency; transfers do not.
  2. Price stability should be measured through representative baskets, not one rare item.
  3. Tuning should be bounded, announced, reversible, and tested for unequal effects.
LEVEL 2

WORKING BRIEF

Evidence, context, and limits

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Definitions that prevent accounting errors

A faucet creates currency. A sink destroys it permanently. A transfer changes ownership. A lock removes spendability temporarily. Item destruction can create demand without directly reducing the money supply. Every ledger event should carry one of these classifications.

  • Escrow principal is a lock, while an escrow fee may be a sink.
  • A fine is not a sink if it is redistributed.
  • A repossessed asset is not destroyed unless the system deletes it.
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Use several price indexes

Track a newcomer essentials basket, routine operating basket, housing or prestige basket, and high-risk or shadow-market basket. The same nominal inflation rate can affect these groups differently.

  • Weights should reflect actual consumption.
  • Publish index composition and revision rules.
  • Include time-to-earn alongside currency price.
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Bounded adaptive rules

A slowly changing emission modifier can respond to excess issuance, but rewards must not shift unpredictably. Use explicit bounds, cool-down periods, change notices, and player-facing explanations.

  • No hidden overnight devaluation.
  • Cap automatic changes and require review beyond the cap.
  • Keep regional shortages from becoming permanent penalties.
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Wealth is not liquidity

A player may own valuable property yet lack cash for food, transport, repairs, or taxes. Monitor active currency, velocity, escrow concentration, debt-like obligations, and forced-sale rates rather than treating total net worth as spendable capacity.

  • Separate asset concentration from cash concentration.
  • Watch for liquidity crises caused by upkeep.
  • Do not punish inactivity with irreversible loss without notice and recovery.
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Acceptance tests

Before release, simulate population growth, churn, botting, market freezes, regional isolation, exploit shocks, and a sudden influx of new players. Pass only when basic participation remains affordable and no cohort depends on real-money spending to recover.

  • Test 30-, 90-, and 180-day horizons.
  • Record rollback thresholds.
  • Include accessibility and low-playtime cohorts.
LEVEL 3

COMPLETE DOSSIER

Limitations, game links, and review context

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Known limitations and gaps

  • The supplied reports are preserved research inputs, not independent proof of every cited case, statistic, legal claim, or product description.
  • Public material abstracts system design and player-protection principles; it omits actionable intrusion, evasion, coercion, targeting, sabotage, or real-person profiling methods.
  • Player behavior, diagnosis, disability, nationality, religion, language, poverty, migration, or social identity are never automatic indicators of guilt, fraud, danger, or disloyalty.
  • Parameters require simulation, accessibility testing, privacy review, regional review, and human playtesting before production use.
LEVEL 4

RESEARCH EDITION

Sources, methods, and stable links

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Linked reports

  • Virtual Economy FundamentalsProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
  • Monetary Architecture and StabilizationProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
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Method and corrections

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