[littl3chocobo]

it's evil if we do the plunger but this is more along the line of making a dog do four or five consecutive tricks for a treat. i did say hard but not impossibly so. it should be a goal that CAN be met but not in the first month of activity(unless the person is a posting maniac. you lose people if noone can make the goal but you get people to come back for more if they feel like they have well and truly earned what they have gotten and feel that they can win something for 'nothing' through perseverance. this is why phone games are so darn popular, they use the same method(though not always well)

i will say this though, you are making a lot of assumptions when you say a person can just spend 5k in the marketplace this requires not only for there to be runes to sell but for the seller to sell at that low of a price AND this is if the buyer in question can afford the 5k (which they cannot unless they are already posting quite a lot)