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Flumps
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Shard packs are going to be needed for all the rare items soon problem is that rares themselves have risen so high and fast that if they keep rising at the same rate you can't physically earn one without being in from the start.

19-Apr-2022 01:47:28 - Last edited on 19-Apr-2022 01:59:18 by Flumps

Trip180

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H Rassy said :
Jagex is difficult to understand
Why they keep this system of street trades in place. Only very few people benefit from this system.

Jagex only loves old school runescape,that is their main game. Few people trade rares.

RS3 isn't played mainly by rare merchants. Many new players don't seem interested in rares at all. 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. :(

19-Apr-2022 02:29:23

The Princess
Sep Member 2009

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Jagex doesn't have to intervene. Phats will eventually become junk once again. This was what Jagex wanted.

If you're smart, just don't tie up a huge percentage of your wealth in high end rares or waste effort trying to get one. They're increasingly becoming dead weight, similar to what occurred in 2008, when people had to trade high end gear like 3rd age to liquidate their high end rares.

If making GP is what interests you, you'd find it a lot more prudent to flip lower end and TH "rares". The market size for those items is a lot bigger.

I mean, who really has 300bill in LIQUID ASSETS laying around that they're willing to trade for a Phat? I'm not talking other rares, I'm talking about 300bill in cash and lower valued items.. Not a lot.

TL;DR - Don't waste your time getting an item that is near impossible to liquidate and accounts for nearly 95% of your bank. Focus on lower end and TH rares for flipping, or high end gear.

19-Apr-2022 04:05:15 - Last edited on 19-Apr-2022 04:15:13 by The Princess

The Princess
Sep Member 2009

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Dr Goldfire said :
The group of certain players trade rares among themselves and pretend to be a market. That's the biggest part of it. Then, as a secondary reason, FOMO buyers just add fuel to the situation.

But stay calm, market has always been going by the rule "Easy come - easy go". Corrections happen. Market is too complex system to stay in people's hands for a longer term. They can, however, intensify short-term moves, for example by the means as I mentioned above.

This.

Contrary to what the merchers and manips are telling people, there isn't actual "demand" for Phats or other high end rares.

Demand for something presumes that people are actively attempting to get said item. This isn't the case with Phats.

19-Apr-2022 04:33:40

Jesica
Feb Member 2021

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jagex refuses to remove max cash limit or provide alternate currency. now rares are traded outside ge so people can report any price they want. we will get fair price only when it supplied via ge again.

19-Apr-2022 08:12:33

Trip180

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Jesica said :
jagex refuses to remove max cash limit or provide alternate currency. now rares are traded outside ge so people can report any price they want. we will get fair price only when it supplied via ge again. I think their view is this would be seen as Jagex spending resources on "elite" players. 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. :(

19-Apr-2022 18:54:20

200m Defence

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Trip180 said :
Jesica said :
jagex refuses to remove max cash limit or provide alternate currency. now rares are traded outside ge so people can report any price they want. we will get fair price only when it supplied via ge again. I think their view is this would be seen as Jagex spending resources on "elite" players.

no it's that they don't want to waste resources on a update that is only going to effect a very small % of players.

not everyone who is in the rare market is "elite" as you label them. there's probably only 5-10 people who are actually elitist in the market. Don't trust any pc's listed, any advice or talks between posts on ID forums anymore , the Manips are let loose, especially the main one with 15+ accounts posting acting as different people.. do your own research

19-Apr-2022 21:17:47 - Last edited on 19-Apr-2022 21:22:06 by 200m Defence

Aecka
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200m Defence said :
Trip180 said :
Jesica said :
jagex refuses to remove max cash limit or provide alternate currency. now rares are traded outside ge so people can report any price they want. we will get fair price only when it supplied via ge again. I think their view is this would be seen as Jagex spending resources on "elite" players.

no it's that they don't want to waste resources on a update that is only going to effect a very small % of players.

not everyone who is in the rare market is "elite" as you label them. there's probably only 5-10 people who are actually elitist in the market.

Its not just rares that are over max cash now though. top tier weapons, hero items, dyes etc. are all above max cash. If prices keep trending in same direction it'll impact more and more players. even as we have it now top tier weapons are definitely not just for a small minority thats a significant amount of player base impacted
AECKA

19-Apr-2022 22:49:06

Trip180

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Even having a phat is getting super elite, now. Regardless, I guess max cash is an issue now.

Some players just cannot trade above it. So, I guess y'all do have a point. And shards are sketchy. x25 is not intuitive. If they were x10 or x100, it'd be easier to trade them. 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. :(

20-Apr-2022 10:42:52

OrderedEight
Sep Member 2020

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I mean max cash has been an issue for a super long time. it could have easily been solved by adding platinum tokens like in osrs. I am unsure why they never decided to implement that on rs3, I can't imagine it would have been all that difficult.

It's really not as hard as some people are making it out to be to get out of a phat or buy one. climb your way up the ladder of rares and climb your way back down. yes you are gonna have to use lowers in order to get up to that point, need to use black santa as a stepping stone for first phat as well.

20-Apr-2022 14:54:59

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