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We can definitely put rules in place for price controls. ("Anti-trust legislation" isn't synonymous with "artificial inflation" -- I wasn't meaning to make it sound like they were the same thing. Anti-trust legislation is the laws passed to prevent rich people from screwing with the economy.) It's fairly subjective, yes, but it's pretty simple to say that the mods are going to keep an eye on people asking for or offering amounts unreasonably higher than the average without justification.

The problem is that in a community this small normal economic stresses don't work to keep the free market under control: sellers will ALWAYS find a buyer no matter what the price is because the supply of currency is, essentially, unlimited. This is an issue that's always going to happen with currencies that aren't tied to any fixed resource -- many countries in the real world have discovered this problem the hard way, and many video games have had their economies ruined by this simple fact. External non-economic pressure is the only solution: that is to say, rules.