The economy has always been FUBAR. It's fun to try and play it if you want, but it's even more prone to panic and spikes than ever. Since it's now common knowledge of almost all Scapers to participate in the black market, the only real driving force of the economy are bots.
The economy is shit mate, at your days AGS was 80-100M, now its 20M and going to crash to 5-10M after EoC. Umm 800B was duped into the economy, so it kinda made it worst, few rares got wiped out 2 weeks ago after high profile rwters got hammered.
I was playing up until about June, but then I quit for good. The game is getting continually worse and worse, I couldn't justify paying the membership fee for SoF and soloman updates instead of real content.
It's hard to skill with all the bots around, makes it so frustrating to play.