You take the phrase "gold-sink" too literally. Whats intended is a method of removing transferable worth. Gold just happens to be the common currency for worth, silver is another. Buying regs is not a gold sink -- they are still worth what you paid -- actually casting and using them is.BlackFoot wrote:A gold sink is omthing that removes 'gold' from the economy. Its pretty simple.
Buying regs from npcs or anything else is a large gold sink.
Even if unusable tradeable items (rares etc) are bought for gold, gold is removed from the system.
Unusable tradable items may remove gold (the shiny stuff), but they do not remove worth. If an item can only be obtained for 100k, it's still worth 100k after you buy it (minus transaction costs) -- assuming there are other buyers obviously. Even if neither party had gold, its value would be the same in trade.
Paying to enter events would be a sink. However, you would have to pay quite a lot (5k-ish for CTF) to completely offset the payouts as they currently are.