vistachiri
Dalayan Master
True, but it would be extremely shortsighted to not expect a recurring effect.
Predictability however would be damm near impossible, because you'd have to figure out a hilarious amount of variables which probably change week to week.
Yet many still farmed. It also did not make character advancement obsolete. That was more what I was referring to than suggesting they were not really traded.
A more limited system akin to the character moves would not suffer from the particular drawbacks you're referencing.
Kind of out of the range of the topic, but in regards to plat sinks, another I would suggest, that I'd also bet on not being considered would be dyes (since it has been nixed in the past). They also might have the side effect of actually making brewing profitable, rather than absolute shit that is only useful in complement to other tradeskills, and alone quite possibly less profitable that running around athica in circles. In addition to making characters no longer appear that they may indeed have schizotypal personality disorder.