ZackZero

Yet the items earned vendor for more, particularly weapons.

Expect it to be abused to inflate tbe gold economy though. It will not work.

Tedious, yes, but your suggestion is rather liable to be abused.

Kilydan, that's a fair point indeed; I can certainly see how separating things out by language(s) can make things at least easier for parts of the community. Yet, while it's certainly great to see as many playing on Taran'zhu (international), the PvP-flagged realms for Cataclysm and Wrath of the Lich King are both the sole international realms for those expansions, and the least-populated (Aile de Mort and Pandaria, respectively, are both well-established and PvE-flagged, yet most stable English-language servers I've seen for those expansions have been PvP-flagged). It's a bit of a rough choice for those of us looking for a middle-of-the-road for those expansions... I'm biting the bullet myself on Pandaria/Aile de Mort right now.

Ahhhh, the way it was written, it sounded like it was already an implemented patch. If it was, I'd have dropped to 1x rates awhile ago.

If this is already implemented on the WotLK realms, how does one go about invoking the rate modifier?

The same can be said of the Cataclysm and 3.3.5a realms; the FR community is already well-established in them, but the sole international realms (PvP-flagged, which is about all you find in English anymore, anywhere) are extremely low-population. It's almost saying "You want PvE, get ready for a language barrier; you want your language, get ready for the gankers."