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Raphtalia6
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Trip180 said :
Oh. Blue, green, red, yellow, purple is my guess of most to least rare of those. The wiki has the actual original percentages.

It’s a shame there is no white there. I don’t remember when restricted trade ended etc.

When phats crashed, I bought yellow at 600, purple at 650, and green was in the 700s, not as good of a deal; maybe 760. The best deal was yellow, and I can’t claim to know why.

We had very good data back then in r quark; so, I could predict prices from the price reports. It made flipping extremely easy. During a crash like that, 50m margins were common. I ended that with 9 yellows which rebounded above purple. Purple was 3x= blue shortly after it all.


Just a guess, but if we have the % of dropped phats ea and the amount of players at that time* the amount of days the phats were available would that give a rough estimate of the amount it started with?. or wont the total playerbase at that time be enough for it to be precise enough?.
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!.

15-Jan-2022 22:44:10

Trip180

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Strangely, in rs classic, blue was king as usual, but then pink returned as champ. I don’t know how that happened. This was just before rs classic was closed. If pink is so common, why did it become most valuable again? 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. :(

15-Jan-2022 23:42:22

The Princess
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Zorb49 said :
I have always had this information saved in my notes. Apparently a JMOD posted this information in 2008 somewhere on like reddit or the rs forums. I don't have a number for white partyhats.


As of 13th August 2008: # of Phats left in game:

1629 Blue
2865 Red
3610 Green
4517 Yellow
2625 Purple


I'm highly skeptical.

For one, we know Green is the third rarest Hat that could be had from a cracker (after Blue and Purp), and it wasn't as mass duped as Purp. And why did the J-Mod conveniently leave White off?

There are probably less Green hats than Purp and White. In fact, Green was the 2nd most expensive for a while in RSC because of rarity (and it somewhat match with Rune).

16-Jan-2022 01:04:44

The Princess
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Trip180 said :
Strangely, in rs classic, blue was king as usual, but then pink returned as champ. I don’t know how that happened. This was just before rs classic was closed. If pink is so common, why did it become most valuable again?


Purp never "recovered" at any point in RSC after the dupe. Purp leap frogging Green and Yellow is a recent trend (last couple of years). RSC Phat price ended like this: Blue <-- Green <--White <--- Yellow <---- Red <---- Purp/Pink.

16-Jan-2022 01:09:44 - Last edited on 16-Jan-2022 01:12:23 by The Princess

ZaryteBow

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The only somewhat official number I can find for phats is from a reddit post about bank bidders. States there were over 4000 unique trades during the month it was posted on.

https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/5ajvis/bank_bidders_faq_update/

16-Jan-2022 07:10:21

Trip180

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The Princess said :
Trip180 said :
Strangely, in rs classic, blue was king as usual, but then pink returned as champ. I don’t know how that happened. This was just before rs classic was closed. If pink is so common, why did it become most valuable again?


Purp never "recovered" at any point in RSC after the dupe. Purp leap frogging Green and Yellow is a recent trend (last couple of years). RSC Phat price ended like this: Blue <-- Green <--White <--- Yellow <---- Red <---- Purp/Pink.
You seem like you’d know better than I. I bought a blue in rsc before it closed and was told pink was higher. Maybe I misunderstood.
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. :(

16-Jan-2022 11:57:43 - Last edited on 16-Jan-2022 11:58:00 by Trip180

Lumbys Hero
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Trip180 said :
Strangely, in rs classic, blue was king as usual, but then pink returned as champ. I don’t know how that happened. This was just before rs classic was closed. If pink is so common, why did it become most valuable again?


The first phat order least value to most in RSC was Red, Yella, White, Green, Blue, Pink.

Your point is interesting though that now somehow Purple (Pink) is worth more than the other two lower colors when they duped the hell out of pink. I guess the price difference between those lowers is so miniscule it doesn't matter.

I also don't understand why in RS2 they changed Pink to Purple? I have never understood this and I don't believe their reasoning has ever been explained to the players. I wish they would have left it pink...

Another note, I wish they would have left HWeen masks alone too. They looked so much cooler in RSC and not like latex plastered to your characters face...

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16-Jan-2022 19:47:13 - Last edited on 16-Jan-2022 20:22:47 by Lumbys Hero

Trip180

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I know most don't agree with me, but I like the old graphics of even rsc.

I'm not familiar with the game, but Stardew Valley was a big hit using poor graphics, pretty sure. It was written by just one person, at least mostly. All of those facts could be wrong, but anyway.

My point: I think there's a market for fun game, bad graphics. It's easy on the computer, easy to write, good all around. Low cost, fun. But we can't go back, of course.

Anyway, it's really good you old timers are still around to tell your tales.
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. :(

16-Jan-2022 20:18:48

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