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Ondeathroe

Ondeathroe

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Ive just done some research on gold farming sites and have found that the exchange rate for real money is far more than 160gp for $5, and I'm not talking about a few gp, we're talking like over 1 mil. Bonds are a fantastic idea but i fear the gold farmers won't be as effected as we hope. I'm keen to learn more about the bonds and hope that it will have the desired effect.

28-Sep-2013 13:24:21

Loopy Cow

Loopy Cow

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An Important Message:

"Hi I'm the CEO of Jagex, and I just killed Runescape, see you later **** lords, I'm off to Hawaii with your cash"

How come your stats are so high if you've only been playing since July 2013? Five 99's is impressive in such a short time ;)

28-Sep-2013 13:42:06

Dirk

Dirk

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An Important Message:

"Hi I'm the CEO of Jagex, and I just killed Runescape, see you later **** lords, I'm off to Hawaii with your cash"

How come your stats are so high if you've only been playing since July 2013? Five 99's is impressive in such a short time ;)

I guess he bought back membership on July 2013.

To come back on the topic, time will tell if bonds are really usefull beside that people can now buy their buyable skills to 99.

28-Sep-2013 13:49:43

Nihilus7

Nihilus7

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Ive just done some research on gold farming sites and have found that the exchange rate for real money is far more than 160gp for $5, and I'm not talking about a few gp, we're talking like over 1 mil. Bonds are a fantastic idea but i fear the gold farmers won't be as effected as we hope...

Its not 160gp. Its actually 160 rune coins which is just some stupid currency they decided would be cool for their Solomon Store. It allows you to buy cosmetic garbage for the most part.

Bonds, themselves, can't be exchanged for any in-game reward aside from the icon that appears in your inventory and bank/trade windows (maybe they can be dropped on the ground, so maybe theres that too). There only purpose in-game is to allow players to make gold off the dollars they just spent for them, and to act as a sort of moral loophole for Jagex (ie. its still acceptable trading because its in-game item for in-game currency, and not dollars for gp directly).

28-Sep-2013 14:35:16 - Last edited on 28-Sep-2013 14:47:57 by Nihilus7

ShaqShuka

ShaqShuka

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Oh dear Jagex, why you make it so complicated with those bonds? Just make a neat store on the website where one could buy in game gold and items for real money without having to use G.E. to sell that crap and get gold / get whatever they really want.

Of course, this would not work alone, because gold farmers would just choose to undercut your official prices. There are two solutions for this:
a) monitor the prices gold farmers charge for in game gold and try to compete with them.
b) cooperate with gold farmers to make a cartel agreement and set same / simmilar prices; share the loot with those hard working gold farmers.

28-Sep-2013 14:53:32

Tali Zorah
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Tali Zorah

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So... Assuming all players involved are maxed with the same level of knowledge

Player A buys 1000 bonds and sells them to player B.

Player A now has 7bil, or W.e the value is.

Player C did not purchase any bonds to sell.

Player A now has an ingame advantage over Player C due to Irl wealth.

Good job Jagex..

Italics=edit for clarity.


Since you never answered my amended statement.. I'll give it again :)

Just going to keep doing until i get a reasonable answer :D

EDIT: Oh, advantage in the form of being able to level skills faster due to a higher bank value, so things like prayer, herblore etc. Ability to buy the best gear to gain an advantage in pvm and pvp scenarios. If you can use a rune scimmy, you can use drygores. If you can use a wand, you can use seismics. I've lost my arrow. Have you seen it? It's been on my mind a lot lately...

28-Sep-2013 15:37:24 - Last edited on 30-Sep-2013 12:23:30 by Tali Zorah

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