The economic problem is people have too much money and nothing to spend it on on my opinion, the wealth gap is insane. once you have a few cars and a house there is nothing else for you to work towards that is realistic. when i saved up for my super car by the time i had 3 mill it cost 4 mill, and now its probably double that, also keep in mind during then gas prices was like 2-4$ now it's even more plus the fact now when you over 1 million total wealth you get taxed 35% i did not have to deal with that during the time i saved up for my super car which is an insane tax bracket, plus speeding camera tickets. I been in eclipse for almost a year now and it literally took my like 6-8 months irl to save up for a super car working for a government job, and prices have only gone up since then. Also those wealthy IRL can just buy more house slots and hog them then rent them out for in game money. A small pay to win aspect in my opinion. Players just need more things to spend money on that will keep them happy/entertained and an end goal to keep playing not more money sinks that will take away what little money they have. While they try to create money sinks and try and punish the richer player in reality they are punishing new players making it harder for them, the rich are already rich, they're not going to really lose money i already own 4 cars one which is a super and a big house.There are tons of businesses in the city which are empty/vacant they should add more player owned business, that way at least middle class players have something to work towards. A lot of the new players that joined during the crazy rush we had are almost all gone the server would be 400+ on weekends now its back to 200-270, it's just too punishing in the world of eclipse.
That's my opinion on that.