Why the Secret Spell Scroll system would have never worked.

While I am also on the line of purging massive amounts of mesos, saying that MTS is not one of the biggest problems is plain wrong. Duping is made many times easier to profit from since they can get easy NX for their handywork out of MTS, whereas without it, they would have to rely on selling stuff off-game for that kind of currency. It would cut a mastodont chunk out of the dupers market to remove it. MTS also spread the duped stuff like a whore would spread syphilis. The economy would be better off with a purge and a live MTS, but MTS will always be the exploiters best pal and continue to pineapple the economy.

But it doesn't CREATE any mesos. The problem is the excessive amounts of mesos flooding the economy. There is too much mesos, and mts is not where it came from. mts assists the process and provides motivation, sure, although it isn't the root of the problem. Once the duping stops, mts will stop being a problem. Even without mts, duping would still be a problem. Unless they stop the duping, MS is totally screwed quite frankly.

Also, from my understanding the SSS actually evade trade tax.