RuneScape Forum Archive | Wilderness and Free Trade Vote

Jul

2007

Mytikas

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Second post on here, decided to highlight some thoughts:
1. Free trade and the Wilderness should not have been removed in the first place.
2. If they come back now; Jagex is admitting that a mistake was made.
3. Trade used to be more personal and interactive; people used to run businesses more often and more effectively, there was good competition. Now there is a interface called the GE, that though good as a whole does not measure up to free trade standards.
The artificial prices imposed by Jagex, interfering with the economy; as well as foolish things like the climbing boot (scam) change for example highlight the system flaws.
The key point people miss as they claim prices will skyrocket, is the simple logic that when competition exists, prices are kept honest. For most common items, they are easy to obtain and many people have them. Someone could sell a dds for 1m, but there would be a shop selling it for 50k and other players selling it for under 100k easily.
Some rares would skyrocket, among other items; perhaps as a correction for their prices being held artificially low. That would be in accordance to supply and demand.
4. Jagex should learn that they can't expect players to have a strong community; when they can't even give each other great X-mas presents. =(
5. I don't care about old wilderness at all; if that's the price for free trade, I'll pay it. I think a better option, sort of a win-win is to leave revs in the wilderness and bring back the pking possibility. Upon entering the Wilderness a player will be possed the question: PKers or Revs? They pick PKers, they can be killed by and kill other players. They pick Revs, they will be attacked by Revs only; but can't PK themselves.
6. I don't care if any change happens regarding this; I'm fine with either system.
7. Lastly for you noobs that complain about being scammed; learn some math and pay better attention. The loss of free trade hasn't cured stupidity.
Merry Christmas! =)
-Antmon

23-Dec-2010 10:07:29

David Meow

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Sooo...my 2nd post on this topic.
Firstly: This isn't a *real* poll...you can "spam vote" as many times as you like without logging in. Whats to stop others putting your name in and voting for you? This doesn't give an accurate reflection of who wants the wilderness + free trade brought back. I would certainly vote no. This leads me to believe that the counter is merely counting how many people spam click the only option for this "so called" poll.
Secondly: It's not official...normal jagex polls = you must login to vote and every account that is eligable to vote gets 1 vote. This isn't the case with this poll, which reinforces in my mind why its not real.
Thirdly: It isn't technically a vote as there is only *1* option, hence it isn't a vote. It is a count. A vote must consist of a possible "yes/no" or two alternatives for a decision to be considered a vote. There is no counting of those who don't vote or who would vote no.
Fourthly: Surely, by bringing back the wilderness and free trade, it is enticing Real World Item traders along with scammers, botters and hackers back into the game, as there would be real money to be made again. Why would Jagex bring something back which would undo the last 3 years of their hard work cracking down and limiting the options RWT'ers and Botters have? It doesn't make sense or follow logic.
Finally, to all you trollers out there, feel free to comment to this, but I am presenting my perspective and facts, which can be confirmed in the post about this.
As a leaving comment, to all of you outthere hoping to get free stuff and buy things cheaply/more expensively, please wake up and come back to reality.
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Happy Trollin'
~~Libby~~

23-Dec-2010 10:12:12

Wensley

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Trade at the moment is broken, I don't care how you look at it, it doesn't work how it was designed to do so. It is full of money makers and people spend more time making money than playing the actual ingame content.
The wilderness was a great fun and dangerous place, now its just wasteland with a few minigames and some ghosts.
I would personally love to see free trade return to restore balance and control. I am not so bothered about the wilderness but believe it was better before.
Thats my input and I hope you do whats best.
Thanks
Walty

23-Dec-2010 10:19:35