Mesos Sink Ideas & Mesos Cap Fixes

Introduction
So throughout the day today I had a variety of different ideas that could potentially benefit the server. I thought I would jot them down here and see if any might sound good to staff, or if it might help come up with some even better ideas.

Voluntary Mesos Sinks
What I mean by "voluntary" mesos sinks is that the player is deciding to spend their mesos for some benefit or exchange. This usually would be received by the player base better than drastic changes to take mesos away without anything in return. I could be 100% wrong here but from my point of view majority of the wealth in-game is in the end-game players. These suggestions would be specifically targeting end-game and rich players.

Type 1 - Stat Re-roll
The idea behind this suggestion is that for a cost (generally set by the level of the item) you can turn in an item for a new item with possibly better stats. This was inspired by the Maple turn in quest where you can turn in a low level maple weapon for a higher one. This would essentially be a similar concept. This would also have a small chance to boom the item.

Example:
You supply a dragon shiner bow with 96 attack. By supplying 5 million mesos, I could turn in this bow and receive a new bow. The new bow will re-roll the stats. The amount of mesos cost would need to be varied based on level. Highest cost would be for timeless/reverse. The boom rate could be between 5% and 10%.

This would result in a mesos sink directly from the player base at will and will also create a small item sink. This would be worthwhile for users who could turn the item into a better selling item, an item worth scrolling, or replace long grinding hours for drops to craft. This obviously would need to be adjusted for quantities and costs. The con here is that staff do not want the player base to push for perfect gear as the norm and this is kind of pushing for that. The hope is that the mesos sink offsets the negative of that as well as the booming of the item in certain cases.

Type 2 - Tiered Gacha System
This idea is from an MMO I played in my youth as well as similar to the Digging Bros in Pokemon: Sword & Shield. You supply a base mesos to start a gamble with the NPC. The first tier would have a small chance to fail. If you succeed, you would receive a relatively low valued item or scroll from a set list of options. The NPC would then ask you if you want to risk that prize to continue and try for Tier 2. Tier 2 would have better items but a slightly increased fail rate. This would continue up the tiers for better items.

I like this idea because it would be a good way to reimpliment some items in the game that are not currently available, like old chairs that are now going insanely over-priced for collectors, and you can also add white scrolls and chaos scrolls to the tiers. This could be changed to a different "jackpot" item(s) each patch as well to keep it alive and interesting for players.

1 Billion Mesos Coin
I know this has been suggested a few times, but if we really want to get away from the White Scroll Currency meta, we need another way to be able to trade large sums of money/hold large sums of money.

Type 1 - Non-Tradable
My suggestion for the 1 billion coin is that it is directly purchasable for exactly 1,000,000,000 mesos, and directly converts back into exactly 1,000,000,000 mesos. The coin itself is non-tradable. Now before you get up in arms about it, this is my reasoning: Taxes. A major issue with White Scrolls, besides hoarding white scrolls, is tax dodging. The coin being non-tradable allows you to carry more than the maximum amount of mesos on your character, but also does not allow for you to skip taxes. My biggest concern was that say you have 2 bill coin and 300m on your person, you want to do a trade for 1.5 bil. You will have to break one of the coins into a smaller amount to complete the transaction, or have them pay the difference. This can result in you being taxed multiple times each time you go to and from 1 bil coin. By making it non-tradable, you would just need to meet with your trader at the NPC and give 1bil mesos at a time to be converted/unconverted. The biggest con with this is potential scamming. But to be honest if you are buying things at this level of mesos anyways, you aren't likely to get scammed by another end-game user. They would get banned. Always take screenshots of your transactions.

Type 2 - Tradable
This would be the tradable version of the coin. Tax would be taken when the coin is created.

Type 3 - 100 Mesos Coin
100 Million coins that can stack. This allows for easier trading and is less likey going to be needed to be broken down into smaller amounts. These can be traded in stacks. Tax applied when the coin is created.

 

The point is that there is a limit how many mesos you can hold on 1 character at a time that cannot be increased.

 

The coins are with the assumption WS are addressed but there's separate topics about this so I didn't bring it up here.

The reason you should have to pay the tax when buying the coin is because if it's tradable you can essentially trade it infinitely without tax occurring.