[sengir]

Diamonds are ONLY worth ANYTHING due to the fact that players need them for preping. EA's didnt ruin the game..it just gave old players more to do. The thing I believe to have caused the economy crash was 2 reason. The first and biggest was the FACT that certain event masters would only give out EC's and GK's in order to buy them back for themselves. This caused certain players (with high power already) get even more power and money and items. The 2nd is DOPV. I love the alch myself and I use it (you have to nowadays) But this recipe gave players unlimited plat (which brought down the worth of dias)
I don't think the dia shop would do any good. In fact I think if DOPV gave *less* amounts of plat, and we LOWERED the drop rate of dia's and brut's it would fix some things.