I want to make sure future new players have a place they can farm appropriate amounts of plat.
Why and what for? I just don't get how it is needed or what it will provide. Lets start at the basics and build up again
Plat is needed to buy ore for strike augments. It's that simple. Everything else can be farmed, but there is no way to get around the cost of the ore. If I want to make 3 FS V augs for my paladin I would need ~3.6 million plat just for the ores and 24 SLS.
Twenty four SLS. You expect me to farm 24 SLS and then farm even more SLS so that I can sell it to higher end players and make 3.6 million plat to buy the ore for these augs? There is no way I want to do that. I don't even want to hear you claim that there is any shred of sanity in that notion.
The fact is, the market for T1 through T4 armor and other items in these tiers is much less active than it was a year ago. Combine that with the changes in gem drops and all of a sudden plat is significantly harder to come by when you are stuck in T1-T4 without strike augs.