Assumptions:
Inflation is bad and should be fixed (pushes people away from the game, hurts f2p people, makes trading annoying b/c you can't use the GTN, etc)
Any fix will anger some rich people who will cry about their items being devalued.
Fixing inflation REQUIRES the devaluation of in-game items so they can be reasonably priced again
Inflation is due to both a low supply of items and a high demand for them. The high supply of credits themselves increases demand for items, particularly cartel market items which are rare
Supply-side fixes:
Increase the amount of cartel coins that players get, which will increase the supply of items. Bioware took away the referral system which reduced total CC and thus total supply. I support their decision (b/c said system was unfair) but there was no compensation. Next, Bioware reduced galactic season rewards, further worsening the problem of a low supply of CC. I propose an increase to galactic season rewards, by 2x-3x. They could also increase CC achievement rewards (and could do so retroactively).
Reduce the cartel coin price of items (I doubt they'll do this one, but I think they should. Spending 30-50 dollars on a fake lightsaber for 1 character is offensively overpriced)
Demand-and-Supply-side fixes:
Let people turn credits into CC, but not the other way around. If people could exchange 1 billion credits for 1000cc, they would. This would increase the supply of items and be a credit sink
Demand-side fixes:
Bring back amplifiers
Create a credit-sink vendor with cosmetics that you can only get by spending X billion credits.
Counter-arguments
Doing any of these will devalue items and make some people sad.
I agree. But that's worth it if it can make the economy better for the average person. F2p players can't even afford to buy a friggin purple medpack b/c they are too expensive
But it'll hurt bioware b/c sales will go down!
I'd like to see evidence before I believe this. I think keeping players engaged and retaining new players is better for the game in the long-run, and runaway inflation is bad for those metrics. Everyday I see people in chat say "just came back to this game. wtf is this economy." That's not good