New players flying for money because it's the easiest thing to do. Some of them try trading and use flushies because they know them better from their flying.
Most don't have the education to exchange into points themselves so they try to buy low and sell high. The trading between newbies keeps the flushies prices a bit high because of speculation and a lack of understanding as well as the fact that it often makes money even if the full logic says it shouldn't.
Points drop faster because the market is the only place to sell them. Yes you can add them to a trade but that's not a realistic option most of the time. The problem is with points being worth less than the flushies the people who can exchange full sets have no incentive to do so just to lose money. So the flushies continue to build up and trade between speculators keeps going.
We need a new use for flushies and or points. Or we need something else newbies can buy overseas beyond Xanax and grenades that make good money.
If they had other options the surge of flushies would decline. Points would stabilize and the value of both would increase. I thought they would do this with OC items but they haven't to any meaningful level. Also with the time and small quantity of oc items being used its not enough of a solution without reworking the oc payout a lot as it would change profitability and risk too much.
We could really use another desirable and popular consumable to buy overseas. At the current rate with all the new players I don't see an end soon. It's hurting the new player experience and is getting out of hand. If new players start to see entry into the games economics as near impossible less will continue to play.