Broken Economy In Cosmicrew
Something that has always personally pissed me off about Cosmicrew and Cosmic Events is the owner giving themself rare, ancient, and legendary items/pets. These rewards are normally scarcely given and earned through event and site participation.
They give themself items as payment for their work on the site and item submissions; this is fine and has never bothered me, especially as the owner gives back to the community and stimulates the economy by trading these items for fairly low prices en mass.
However, they've notoriously gone against this reward system and then used the exclusiveness of certain pets to get a leg up on the economy. I.E. Unicorns were at one point not an orderable species and were obtained through a special event and special rewards, however the owner ordered multiple legendary-tier unicorns from artists. This would be fine if they were perhaps kept forever by the owner or owned by NPCs, but the owner traded them off for value later. The kicker is they were considered "classic" unicorns by that point and ergo especially unobtainable- even through the new means of ordering unicorns!
Recently they've gone and gave themself an Ancient Camusken- which nobody but one other person has due to it being their special reward/request. What especially bothers me is this person was told not to ask for "too much" because it was free, but the owner is allowed to give themself a fully paid for artist ancient that they're likely just going to trade off later.
Nobody is allowed to say anything about this in-server or criticize the owner because others will either not voice this opinion out of fear, or will say "oh but they do so much work, they deserve it" even if they're cheating their own economy and causing a huuuuuge imbalance. Why bother with special rewards when the owner can give it to themself anytime? Unfair.
