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Readinggeak

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Yoyo

Haven't played RS3 since EOC release but used to be big on flipping rares etc. Started playing OSRS recently and decided to check these forums to see prices of rares nowadays. Most of the names I remember from R Quark chat are no longer around, and I don't recognize a lot of the new names.

I'm curious, to what extent are the current rich players people who have been rich for a super long time (10+ years) vs. people who have come into money more recently?

Part of my curiosity is based in wondering how easy/hard it would be to make 100b+. I also am curious if there are still old players around, people who maybe have held a collection of rares long term.

Obviously everyone knows who Chessy was. But I'm wondering if there are still people like Md3w who had 20+ blues/crackers, or Krimrandy from even longer ago who had 500+ pumpkins. Around the same time, I remember rumors (of I think A C I D Y?) having 1000+ easter eggs.

I remember once ending up with 100 blue masks, and another time 100 santas. But now that rares all cost so much, does anyone own that many of any? What happened to all the rares?

Someone fill me in on what's happened the past 10 years!

13-Mar-2022 19:22:06

Tigoko
Aug Member 2011

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I would say if you had the 100 blue masks/100 rsh today after taking a break for 10 years, you would have done pretty well on a long-term investment. I would say check the discontinued item thread for current prices, I haven't been paying close attention to the market recently, for the most part, I got out of it around 2015.

13-Mar-2022 21:57:07

200m Defence

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#1 - people from r quark are still around, alot just don't post on forums anymore / people nowdays also just either don't post or play on those accounts anymore rather on alts.

#2 - it's a mix of both, there's alot of newcomer rich people though.

#3 - if you put the effort in, 100b+ is EZ to make nowadays with all the high end pvm updates that've come into the game.
#3A. that's split half and half there's still people with huge collections that held out, but then there's people who cashed out before because of the M word that's in the market.

#4 - same as #1, yes there are still people like that around.

#5 - pretty sure owning 100 of a item nowadays is common for some people who don't mind taking the risk of owning that amount, others don't dabble that high anymore.
#5A - with all the end-game maxers, and newcomer rich people rares are spread out to a broader selection of people nowadays before they skyrocketed instead of before only merchers/flipping type people dipped into them.
#5B - and then yet again the M word comes into play of what happened to the rares, there's newer groups out there that appeared after r quark that have a part of what's happened.
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13-Mar-2022 22:07:51 - Last edited on 13-Mar-2022 22:18:40 by 200m Defence

Finance
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Finance

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I recognize your username from ~10 years ago, so I probably qualify as an "old timer" in that sense.

I mostly flip on the GE nowadays; I don't make a ton of gp, but I do make enough to fund my membership via bonds and continue adding to my rares collection.
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14-Mar-2022 04:24:02 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2022 20:49:38 by Finance

Ramesses II

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Hello Readinggeak,

I hope that you are well.

You may not remember me, but I am in your friend list.

I myself quit RS in 2013 and came back for divination skill and decided to quit again after EoC.

In 2018, I decided to join OSRS as a pure on my other account RSN "L H L".

I was also in R Quark and I remember you trying to hype disk and you lost big money on it! I for sure remember you being naughty and I used to kick you for your panic drama :)

The people I used to hang around with were

- K Magus
- Krimady1
- Scope I
- A C I D Y
- Sanders
- Win all day
- Md3w
- Motherland
- 1b Disk

I currently own 1 white phat, 1 wine and three pumpkins.

I also hold 1000 fish masks, which I purchased when they were released on the Yelps. I collected these at 600k to 1.20m during those times. I also have around 150 crab hats.

As of now, I have no plan on playing RS, but from what I see with discontinued items. They have gone up like never before, but these rises is not something I am impressed about.

It is because of inflation and the value of RS gp is worthless when compared to OSRS. I will continue to keep these rare items in the future, which I may liquidate slowly and fund my OSRS membership.

I have also swapped RS to OSRS gp during the last two years to fund my Twisted Bow and so on.

Yours Sincerely,

H

14-Mar-2022 16:08:37 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2022 16:16:41 by Ramesses II

Readinggeak

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Yoooo your username looks super familiar!

I think you have the disk guy story confused with another guy, I totally remember him but forget his full username. I never owned too many disks.

I did however own a shit ton of fish masks as well! I forget how many, I bought a bunch using my alts (I had like 50+ accounts) and lost big on them tbh, bought them anywhere from 600k-2m and they stayed under 1m for as long as I was playing.

Def got kicked from cc all the time lol, then would hop on those alts and cause even more trouble. I was an immature kid.

I honestly made most of my money from bot nuke merches and hosting in a couple small dicing/flower clans.

I super miss the days of flipping rares, though. I loved the goal of trying to get a full rares set (never made it). As I said, I've been playing OSRS and am the highest level I've ever been in either version of the game, but in the absence of rare items to set as goals, I feel like I'll burn out at some point. Getting levels and PVM is fun (never really did it back in the day), but I really just like making $ and fashionscape lol.

Does Scope still play? I liked that guy a lot. A lot of great people from back then, wonder if any still play and hope they're all doing well.

14-Mar-2022 18:28:46

Trip180

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I remember you. Krim still plays or did a couple years ago. K magus still plays.

Go to pis2ols fc chat. I’m not in there, but some rich are.

Shuttleduck still plays. Motherland changed his name. Scope I saw like a year or two ago in rs. Chisp plays. RS Matt. Weakpig. Scouse. Lots of people.
I cannot for the life of me manage to catch Covid. Perhaps it's because I didn't get vaxxed? The travails of those lacking immunity. :(

14-Mar-2022 21:03:32 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2022 21:13:49 by Trip180

Trip180

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You need to talk to “destruction” for tips on money. There are some other impressive flippers. They use alts. Alta are legal. Massive armies of alts. I cannot for the life of me manage to catch Covid. Perhaps it's because I didn't get vaxxed? The travails of those lacking immunity. :(

14-Mar-2022 21:06:35

Trip180

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Rares are just on logged out accounts, too expensive to sell, nothing to buy with the proceeds.

Jagex lost some account data awhile back. They didn’t seem to lose rares, but tokens were disrupted. Tokens are a big thing now, extremely risky.
I cannot for the life of me manage to catch Covid. Perhaps it's because I didn't get vaxxed? The travails of those lacking immunity. :(

14-Mar-2022 21:10:51 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2022 21:12:01 by Trip180

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