My thinking wasn't when Astral Ring and when Gilseller are banned, when Gilseller was banned, I think Astral Ring price dropped by like 100k, I remember I brought Astral Ring like 3-5 days after the update, it drop like 300k, 270k, 250k..... 200k, when I saw that price dropped to 200k I brought 1 ring incase it goes up again.
My thinking is when for some reason Chocobo Rental when up, or when PS2 FFXI version came out, When it was only PC on NA and PS2 on JP, the AH price was stable. My Friend who play this since NA version came out, he said Ehanching Sword (What ever it spell

) was only 2mil, and now is like 15mil, I think all this happen because of the poplutation on the server, like what some people said, demand are high and they'll buy no matter the price is
SE should make each server Max of 2000 people on each server, ever since PS2 and Eurpean version came out, the popluation had double
If this is true, when XBOX 360 FFXI comes out, is possible the inflation will double again.
All this Lag in Jeuno, all those shoutting lol, and all those server it keep having problems and those 3rd pt attack >< ; ;
SE need to open and create more server, 4000-5000 people in each server is too much, big popluation = inflation, inflation create gilbuying, gilbuying create gilseller, gilseller create crowed camping, gilseller camping create less share to the normal LS who trying to camp it and continue with the flow of gil.
Gilseller claim the HNM and farm = get the drop, got the drop = sell at AH, sold = gilseller got the gil, gilseller hold the gil to sell it to the website who hold those gil, gil = almost like holding in Saving bank, not letting it flow, = less gil in the Server = force item and raw material to cost more = crafter had no chance but to increase the price = people willing to buy = will force into greed = turn into everyone want more money = cycle
I still think less people = more stable Econmic system