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Nicholasgord

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predator,
I was saying that there are some people that come on this forum and post comments like
"***** sake i ******* hate all the ******* haters, we gont give a **** about your opinion you ******* why dont oyu just gtfo and l2getonwithlife?"
While a large percentage of the people who vote against the update seem to actually know how to spell and hold a slight morsel of respect.
By the way the post above was taken from an actual post I read yesterday.
I apologise for wording my post badly, I did not mean to insult you or the people who know how to spell

05-Jan-2011 22:13:11

APaleBlueDot

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I personally don't PK at all, and I never have, but I am in favour of the old wilderness. It was frustrating getting pked while abyss runecrafting or doing a clue, but the wilderness was a true PvP environment and I certainly respect that and agree with the sentiment of the wilderness.
However, free trade or unlimited trade will certainly exacerbate real world trading. It wasn't really a huge problem in the classic days or even in early RS2 as there wasn't this mad obsession with getting items or creating these characters so people can use them without having to spend hours training.
From around 2005 or so, bots became prevalent and up until 2007 it was impossible for free players to gather raw materials effectively at all, even partially for members as well. All these materials were being botted up the wahzoo with sometimes 30 or more bots on a single yew tree.
Buying items in game for real money was a serious problem, and free trade had to be taken away, and I believe that there should be a trade limit.
The wilderness can be considered a method of free trading though, as a bot can simply go to the wilderness with 50k yew logs (for instance) and get the real worth trader (buyer) to simply kill them and take the loot. For this reason, I am obliged to resist both the free trade and wilderness reintroductions as per above.
Now, I do understand that there are many botters on Runescape even now. Some of these bots are real world trading bots (as I'm sure the green dragon and red chinchompa bots are) but many are for personal use only to simply save time training because a player is just too lazy or impatient to do the work themselves. Back in the golden age of botting, these bots were ALL for making illegitimate REAL money against the rules of Runescape. The problem was in orders of magnitude worse than the botting problem today.
In summary
-FAVOUR of the "old" wilderness
-OPPOSE free trade
therefore
-OPPOSE the proposed changes
-Adam

05-Jan-2011 22:13:44

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@Bunny I know where your coming from but I see these pkers banks after say a couple of weeks and they have tonnes of money, as I was highlighting it is just like a skill, train a skill for a couple of weeks and you would have racked up some nice money, I think the pvp system is fair right now, before all this I believe that it was a bit unfair and so did tonnes of people hence why they updated it.

05-Jan-2011 22:14:52

Resistnt
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@Mental Wyro
The Majority of Runescape players left when it was taken out, the new kids dont know anything and are doubting it thats the problem, just chill it will be fine, and trust me the game will be a LOT more funner ;)

05-Jan-2011 22:14:54

T V  Lord5

T V  Lord5

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This has probably already been said many times but i look forward to free trade again because now smithers and crafters, etc. will actually be profitable again. With the current prices noone is ever at a skill area doing work, they're all just at the GE selling raw materials that are twice the price of the product that ****umes time costs. It will be nice to maybe be able to buy wood for 5gp and sell furnature for 30 or something instead of buying wood for 80 and selling furnature for 3.

05-Jan-2011 22:15:46

[#LHG9INIEP]

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i think youll find the most of the 8% who disagree with free trade are doing so because there being over pre-cautious about scammers. not that there afraid of unstability in the economy.I also think youll find that the prices before the grand exchange were very much more stable then they currently are. nowadays you have merch clans bying the same item because its EASIER to. with the introduction of free trade individual merchers will be there and the prices of items wont be effected so greatly.

05-Jan-2011 22:15:53

Resistnt
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Resistnt

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@adamchrome
I agree with you its a classic and characteristical part of the game and even if one doesn't Pk, such as myself, it was that danger that drew people in to it, the risk, the thrill, and the fun.

05-Jan-2011 22:17:11

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