[Trexmaster]

The economy of SL2 is funny.

People will inevitably end up with far more than they will ever use if they spend a fair bit of time playing the game. There simply isn't enough resource sinks for the majority of expendable goods to match how quickly resources can be generated, particularly with items that can be farmed.

There are likely millions of each crop floating around in the collective inventory space of farmers. Maybe 10%~ of what is farmed will actually be used for food/potions. At least the watermelons you see being methodically chopped for profit are being expended and turned into murai, which stands a greater chance of being spent than farm goods.

There are few incentives for people to want to put their crops into circulation or use them, if not for their own friends. As murai cannot always get you what you want, thus it is better to have items with clear purpose on standby than to convert them into murai or consumables you're not sure you need right now.

The solution is not to constantly hammer down people trying to get murai passively, but rather to find ways by which to make murai desirable and able to get what you want beyond the few upgrades/recipes a character's build requires at first.