Preventing it before it happens...
 

In the beggining of Graal 2001 nobody would ever suspect that everyone would be running around with thousands of gralat. For the first few months you could get a bomy for 250-750. The same will happen to Graal 2002 if it is not prevented. It is much easier to put in some precautions instead of trying to get money off the server in massive amounts later (remember the economic balance donations?).

The reason this always happens is because there is always much more money coming on the server than there is money coming off.

Everytime you mine a mineral and sell it, everytime you kill a skeleton, everytime you do mostly anything puts money on the server. The only way money gets taken off is buy buying things from stores, and those things are still worth a large sum of their total amount.

There needs to be things that take money off, the rental of boats perhaps. Maybe cafes and bakeries. A tailor that costs large amounts. A pet daycare maybe. A charge of houses would be ok (as long as say you only get temporarily evicted, and when you do find the money to pay you get the house bacl). Taxes kingdoms have to pay simply for use of the land (maybe a % of total income of the kingdom gained by taxes).

good ideas

Maybe you shouldnt get money from NPC's or NPC's shouldnt have unlimited supplies of money, kingdoms should have corruency similiar to real life, and the shops can only buy things if they have money and they get money either by being supplied it by the kingdom or by selling things they already have.

Re: Preventing it before it happens...
 

And then I spend it failing spells :(

Ok this is what i think on this subject...
 

There is no reason for this post! Here it's a simple cycle Example : People kill mosters to make money, they use the money to buy things from the shop or players and you know what the players selling things need the money for? Items! So everyone is making money for items, and somewhere along the line it will get to the shop and be gone.

Not enough money goes into the shops.

Not only that, people buy items, like ingrediants, and guess what they do? They make MORE money with it.

There needs to be a better balance.

2k2 Doesn't have an economy, so it doesn't really mess anything up when people are rich. Well, not on 2k2 anyways (people always spend their money on spells and such that just disaper) And most of the ideas you posted are already in progress...

There is an economy if there is money and stuff to buy ^^