This game was designed to generate progress through grinding. When they went F2P and decided to hide everything behind the cash shop, the core of this game broke. There is no "fix". Think about it. You have a grinder of a game, with no rewards. You keep your computer on 24/7 for months, and what's at the end of it? Zilch, just the opportunity to let NCWest raid your wallet, so you get some items, that you use to self soothe while you keep your computer on 24/7 for another 6 months.
A band aid would be an Einhasad shop, mostly to generate a consistent supply of items, and put an upper limit on prices. That would make the game semi playable for the majority of the population. Cause right now, all they have to look forward to is quitting, there's no point grinding to 118 if you can't buy anything you need (or generate it ingame). But NCWest a) has no intention of bringing an Einhasad shop, and b) has every intention of bleeding its customers dry.
From that you get Naia, where people pretty much refuse to spend thousands of dollars a month in this game, so the server is borked. All item generation is locked up, ingame means of generating items (like the old "epic" raids, dragons etc) were destroyed because now a signle char can 3 shot all the dragons we used to need 200 people to raid, so it's easy for 3-4-5-10 people to hoard all the items. Inflation is irrelevant when there's nothing to buy.
Chronos has more spenders, and semi functions.
I laugh at people that think it's amazing NCWest gave them free pots. Seriously