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Raphtalia6
Oct Member 2017

Raphtalia6

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When you posit it could destroy the economy, are you talking in terms of banning RWT'ers that operate within the discontinued items sphere? Because if so, I find it highly unlikely it would have any impact at all on 99.9% of the player base and economies they operate within. The rares community have effectively created a bubble outside mainstream markets, and they play ZERO role in any of the 'mainstreams' game items. Personally, i find the entire market distasteful, manipulative and a cancer on the game. But, having said that, it's become such a way it really does only impact the same 20-30 people, as in all honestly, its just the same 20-30 people trading amongst themselves.[/quote]

no i mean all items. consider rares. but also pots food ores bars hides, i agree on the lack of fair trading with that i mean street trades and high end trades or bulks/tokens. ive seen alot of nice people but ive also seen people i had to put on my ignore because they dont merch but go way past that and ask the impossible for an item thats way less on the bright side. in todays trades they are way more obvious that in the past making it easier to find a proper player with dignity. unfortunately its not a scam because they dont use underhanded methods to obtain it.
trusting certain pc lists or prices of items or websites that dont belong to jagex will get you into trouble notice: external websites and trades are your responsibility, dont get fooled!.

09-Dec-2020 16:29:26

Fungus Fubar
Sep Member 2007

Fungus Fubar

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Its not just the upper rares that has shot through the roof when it comes to trade values, but litterally all expensive items. This means also everything that has tokens, armours, weapons, SOF, you name it...A few or certain group of individuals, players, and cheaters are getting hold of a fuckton of gp values, and simply buys up everything at high value. And since there are so much gp value pumped into economy, the gp value just losing purchasing power.

I suspect there are some main reasons:

1. Glitch exploit/bug abuse/duping
Someone or a group are doing the above mentioned. Thus manage to acquire huge amount of wealth. Probably buying what they can, and are doing alot of real world trading on the side.

2. New "intelligent" bot scripts
From what I have seen, there arent any big huge population increase of bots (though there are always some bots running). Thus probably bot users are using better bot scripts that runs more advanced game play like bossing such as GWD 2 bossing. Fewer quality bots over many quantity bots (due to higher gp pr hour). These bots has probably better overrall stats, and more difficult to spot as well.

3. Enormous increase in buying in real world money for gp and rares.
Bonds and buying through illegal internet sites.

10-Dec-2020 18:48:10 - Last edited on 10-Dec-2020 19:11:35 by Fungus Fubar

SoulSplits
Nov Member 2014

SoulSplits

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It's staking,

This isn't the result of massive duping, or merchants manipulating the market. They manipulate their reporting of trades on the forums and are there to facilitate the rise, but at the end of the day the people buying up partyhats are stakers.

Theres no other way for rich stakers to store wealth / do large stakes, other than to buy partyhats. This game desperately needs the system OSRS has and im near certain that alone would cause phats to tank in price from where they are now.

OSRS has platinum tokens, a staking tax, and restricts staking to currency only. So not only would partyhats no longer to be used to stake with, but mega rich wont need to buy and hoard phats in order to store their wealth without having 10x max shard stacks across several accounts.

11-Dec-2020 01:21:01

Fungus Fubar
Sep Member 2007

Fungus Fubar

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There are billions upon billions in values added to the game both in items and gp every day. To make big price movements, the changes has to involve many actors, or be in such a large scale that could command this. Some few stakers or sum of players bellow 0,5 % of player population, are just some sandcorns on the beach.

11-Dec-2020 02:10:38 - Last edited on 11-Dec-2020 02:13:17 by Fungus Fubar

Mortality
May Member 2023

Mortality

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Stakers all eventually get cleaned which means their hats go back into the market. I don't see how this creates a permanent rise in prices. People staking multiple hats at once are also such a small minority of players.

I also really don't like this rhetoric going around about crashing hat prices for the sake of crashing prices. Not good for the rare community and not good for the spirit of the game.

It will upset the whole merchanting community as any artificial direct manipulation by Jagex would destabilize markets by significantly reducing predictability.

11-Dec-2020 21:54:13 - Last edited on 11-Dec-2020 21:55:42 by Mortality

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