When I used the term “inflation” in the other thread, …
… I meant that I suspect that the level associated with specific rank labels (such as “1d”) has decreased over time in Japan. I don’t know in which time period that happened, but I think it was before the 90s.
To me that (hypothetical) process seems similar enough to the devaluation of money which is commonly called “inflation”.
The terms “inflation”/“deflation” may not fit as well if used for any shift in rank needed when converting between different servers or regions.
In monetary terms, I think that would be more like converting from one curreny to another via some exchange rate (like when converting dollars to euros). The fact that 1.00 dollar is (currently) worth 0.92 euro doesn’t mean that the dollar currency is “inflated” or that the euro currency is “deflated”. They could be, but one can’t really base such a claim exclusively on the exchange rate.