I think part of the answer to the big inflation we have would be a proper auction house.
Currently PRO economy is just a far west. Scammers, resellers, etc...
PRO economy hasn't much to do with travels fees, npcs prices/rewards or even bosses runs nowadays. It's just speculation on pokemons.
Take the richest players on the money ladder, do you really think they are having hundreds of millions by doing boss runs on 4 accounts...
When you can clearly see what's on the market, compare between sellers, automatically prices are more likely to be fair. For Walross that has been looking for money sink for years I don't get why he doesn't implement auction house because i only see benefits :
- less work for trade moderators
- more fair prices
- money sink as you could put a market display fee
Let's say the market npc ask you 10% fee to display your pokemon 24h in auction house (i.e 20k fee if you try to sell your poke 200k), it forces people to correctly estimate what will be a fair price. Especially considering people are able to see all the similar pokemon in market and compare prices. If in 24h your poke is not sold, you have to repay entry fee to display it 24h more.
Other games with auction house/market system have an economy, PRO hasn't... Nowadays it's impossible to price anything because in the end stuff is worth what people are ready to pay.