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Diamonds.

New players and especially younger players (which is a fair portion of the server population) seem to fixate on how 'valuable' diamonds are.

(My perception of what is happening)

This in turn saturates the diamond market a fair bit. There is some movement in the market as some players try to 'fix' diamond prices by slowing driving the price down, buying them all and reselling them higher, but in general, the market is fairly stagnant.

I feel this harms the server.

Because new players, go for the diamonds.

It is a very intuitive way to play the game. When they work (fairly hard) to acquire their diamonds, and go to sell them ("Where can I sell my diamonds? - said virtually every new player that recently joined) and discover there isn't much of a market for diamonds, they will either: a) persevere, and search for other ways to make money. b) quit the server.
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I do not offer a direct solution to this, but rather suggest that several custom diamond sinks should be added to alleviate the saturation of the market. Make diamonds as valuable as possible, so that mining diamonds is (if not the most rewarding) close to the most rewarding financial activity.

I don't particularly like mining diamonds. I suggest this not out of self interest, but rather what I consider to be the best interest of the server.
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Edit: I am not suggesting an admin sell shop for diamonds. A lot of people seem to be assuming i mean an admin sell shop for diamonds. This is not the case. What I suggesting is something along the lines of a custom item recipe or some sort of mini game that uses diamonds for tokens. Some other use for diamonds in game, that's all. It could be anything, I was hoping someone might have some good ideas.