Every citizen and their mother in the sever seems to have some sort of weaponry on them.
Taking away their money will only increase the rates people are mugged and robbed, and characters killed.
I'm only personally speaking from P3 and "the wrong side of town" experience, but seeing as how people react to you carrying a donut in your inventory, if they start losing all their money, the crime rate is going to sky-rocket.
In turn with that, the CP will need to get a lot more involved in things, which could viewed as good or bad, like most things in this topic.
In the end I think it'll turn into a massive shit-storm that'll involve full-on CP raids and all, which could be fun. It won't be as fun for the losing side, though. It'll probably cause a lot more OOC turmoil when the CP need to start firing because everyone is a gun-totin' badass.
It could create some decent "gang" roleplay, though I doubt it'll be as good as I'm picturing it in my head.
The issue above could be good or bad on both sides of a spectrum, but in my own personal opinion, I don't think every gold/vip members turning into some high class gun shooting criminal would be the best for the serious roleplay of the server.
That's just my two cents, and someone with experience could most definitely out-debate me on this topic.
I'm just trying to get the point across that some people will do whatever it takes to keep their money, rather it be killing characters or spending real life money.
Either way, I don't believe this is going to be a win-win situation. It just does need to be handled in some sort of way.
How? I'm not exactly sure, haven't been here long enough to make an affirmative answer. I just hope whatever happens, if anything, works for the best and the interests of the community.
I do like the idea of someone with decency and responsibility, like an Admin, being charged with the duty to "distribute" various items instead of anyone with a couple thousand coins being able to spawn something out of their ass.
In that sense, having a "dealer" would definitely increase roleplay and maybe even interaction between everyone in the server, it'll also create a sort of "under-ground" market type of roleplay.
I'm not sure if all that exists already, but I haven't seen it, so that's just my penny in.
All in all, nobody is going to like a total reset in their tokens, and they'res going to be a bitch-fit about it if it ever does occur.
There are numerous ways to approach this issue, but a reset is probably the one that'll cause the most strife from the most people
This post wasn't intended to bash anyone's ideas or opinions on the topic, it's just my thoughts on the subject.