Do you have some examples of those languages that never never panned out ? <| sep |> Why do you have elected officials if every law is going to require a referendum ? Do you think voter turnout would be higher when you have fifty referendums a year than the one every several years you vote for local officials ? I think it would be great if affected parties were consulted before laws were enacted . A direct democracy just isn ' t feasible in most cases . <| sep |> The advantages of a premium currency tied to cosmetics and premium clubs and other cosmetic things are significant though . Not allowing direct purchase of power I think being able to directly purchase almost anything in the universe with cash via the UEC shop is a bad thing . Self regulating value A premium currency , that can only be purchased via real cash , and can be traded for UEC , will self regulate it ' s price . We wouldn ' t have to rely on the probably flawed exchange rates that CIG would use . No conflict of interest CIG would want to make the UEC per time limit as high as possible , because this directly influences how much income they could get . There is too much pressure on CIG to make the limit higher then it should be . A premium currency would need much less of a limit , if any limit at all , because all the UEC still needs to be made ingame to be traded for the premium currency . Direct CashUEC shop would be a massive source of inflation Allowing players to make large amounts of UEC out of thin air with cash in a direct CashUEC shop would obviously be a major problem for the economy .