"oh great, another noob whinging about the CE prices"

1.
So basically, we need an npc who sits in near the AH, and sells 1000ce every hour, at a price which is the average of the current selling price of CE.

this would mean that the prices would still go up and down like stocks, but a much slower rate, and the CE market will be more stable.

now the 1000ce will only be available to people in 100ce increments, and once you buy 100ce from the npc, you cannot buy from him again for 2 hours.

the point of this is to introduce more CE into the market, so while some people may say that guys will just sit there for hours buying ce instantly, it actually doesn matter who gets the ce, since it'll only be 100cr cheaper anyway. the point is that with more CE circulating, the value of CE will go down. It's like a country printing off more money.

2.
A lottery, plain and simple. But a permanent one. a weekly lottery will be held each friday at something PST time. all players who have logged in during the past week will be automatically entered in (this stops people with multiple accounts sitting around waiting).

A player will not have to be on at the time of the draw to win, the CE will be mailed to the person.

3.
at some time PST, give each knight that has played within the past week a certain amount of CE. the formula to determine the amount of CE given will be:

the average selling price of ce for the past week, divided by 100.

this means that at the moment, every knight that has logged in 7 days prior to next friday will receive about 90ce. It also means that if ce prices start to drastically fall, people will get less ce.

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all these ideas will need to be fine tuned to make sure that the ce prices keep at a stable 5-6kcr, or something similar.