[Kamaeru]

I feel like, Graal2001 revival or not, there needs to be some sort of Jedi council in place to prevent the dark side from ever resurrecting it for bad and selfish reasons instead of good. Of course Graal2001 could be a money printer, but it wouldn't be Graal2001 then now would it be?

It just wouldn't be worth any of the effort at all if the economy of the game were to compare gralats to real world money, as Skyld diligently observed. The fact that it takes a bit of work just to yield 1 gralat is testament to that fact. On Graal2001 the playing field begins equal to everyone and some grind hard, trade, and get rich while others struggle. Never is it unfair. If players could just spend real money on gralats, then whoever is the richest IRL is equated to 'best player' which simply isn't the way Graal2001 works. Maybe the best CS player might get rich by winning lots of items, or maybe someone spent a month farming apples and buying low/selling high at the market. The market wouldn't even work if real cash were in the equation.

With that being said, 2k1 was definitely the first online game I ever played where I witnessed players sell Gralats for cash over paypal. During its prime, many players did equate G to $. I would be more likely to set up a system where players would be able to trade as such, but the trade value would be up to the trading parties. I'm not opposed to players trading each other cash for Gralat, but think it would be wrong for players to buy them from the server. This way, the best Graal2001 players would get rich in real life, as a trade-off for the richest people in real life getting an in-game advantage. There would be no way to straight-up buy that advantage from the get-go.