1. army of alts, you only need to buy the medal for market entry on the one that gets lucky. The only way to make marketplace work is only ninjas pulled through ingot-only method are tradeable.

2-5 I'd agree with, thou 5 with some reservation. It does take sometime, thou the pace they are at is excessively slow.

6. The issue of whether they want to give out real money aside, that's going to create sooo many legal and tax problems. I don't think they want to mess with that... To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what the GLs are even doing, it doesn't seem like much. If they can't even handle the issues raised in forum, I don't really see how they expect to handle whatever they can gather in game. Might as well do away with the position imo. But no, no real money payment is likely, that's just troublesome.