I was going to write an answer, but it ballooned into a huge article, so I made it one in a blog to link to so as to avoid having its' hugeness here. Warning, it's really long.

http://azaral.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-do-you-prevent-inflation-in-virtual.html

I was going to write an answer, but it ballooned into a huge article, so I made it one in a blog to link to so as to avoid having its' hugeness here. Warning, it's really long.

http://azaralgametalk.blogspot.com/