Economy Actions Taken Today

It's a bit rosier than that, you're taxing the same money multiple times with that math. If you have 20 billion you lose nothing on your first 500mil, you lose 475mil on your next 9.5billion, 500mil on your next 5billion, and 1 billion on your last 5 billion, so you're left with 18billion.

If you had 24 billion total, you're left with something like 21billion.

The max anyone can be left with, across their whole account, is just under 22billion. Which is still plenty of money.

Personally, I think there were a lot of really bad ideas thrown around for how to address this, and this is probably the best bad idea there was.

Pertaining to IRL economics, you're absolutely right. But that principle works because most IRL wealthy people don't like being taken advantage of and wouldn't pay $50 for a $10 burger meal, regardless of the fact that such an overpayment wouldn't even have the the tiniest miniscule impact on their finances. In DCUO, too many people with a lot of cash are far too indiscriminate about their spending and have no problem grossly overpaying for items to sooth their "gotta have it now" itch. That phenomena then influences people to price gouge and the inflation cycle continues.

I really appreciate what the devs have done, thank you!

The gold selling websites will ALWAYS be around same with other F2P MMOs - Their cash "stocks" will take a massive hit thankfully.

Pretty much Mepp's post answers your questions.

it's amazing how a few bad apples literally ruined it for thousands of players. Anyway, thanks for addressing this. The Broker was getting out of hand with the prices.

Seriously though, I have to agree with you. lol.

What about alts?

if you have 3.5 billion spread across 17 toons you'll lose about 150mil total or about 9 mil per toon. You probably won't even notice this.

this does not stop the broker from being ridiculous...you will see come tomorrow

It's a progressive tax. If you have say 30 billion, to use the fullest display of how this works:
The first 500 million goes untouched.
The money from 500 mil to 10 billion gets hit at 5%, so that 9.5 billion loses 475mil, so at this point someone with 10 billion now has 9,525,000,000
then the 5 billion after that gets hit at 10% costing you another 500 million, so someone with 15 billion would have 14,025,000,000
then the next 5 billion gets hit for 20%, taking away 1 billion, so someone with 20 billion has 18,025,000,000
then the next 5 gets 25%, losing 1,500,000,000 so now someone with $25 billion has 21,525,000,000
finally every dollar over the 25 billion gets hit. So someone with say 30 billion, ends up with 21,525,000,000, so the most anyone will have after the adjustment will be 21,525,000,000 (at least if I haven't screwed up my math.)

we can trade money? or thats officialy over, and money only at broker?

it'll still be out of hand..

It still hasn't been answered if this is a One Time wipe or if it's going to be on going from this point on?

Tomorrow, or next week it will be as always.

Mepps says it's a one time progressive tax in the initial post.

I don't think it's gonna work like that. The cash that falls into one category should be siphoned off from the effects of the cash in the category below it. Granted, you raise a fine point in that Mepps is putting waaaay too much faith in this communities general understanding of math and economics by omitting the details of how the brackets are applied.

not worried about loosing the tax one time, i am worried about being taxed now when this is acted and again and again. i did read the entire post and unless i missed something it never said this was a one time action.

How can that be? One of the main "exploiters/glitchers" on the villain side IS STILL PLAYING on an entirely different account. Lower level but stocked with ALL the "OG" auras/materials. I mean everyone active on trade chat on the villain side knows who it is.