Sorry for the large number of posts: am reading some points and feel the need to address them. A lot of rather fallacious arguments here, I think, as well as a few good ideas.
From what I have seen and including my own personal view, automated trading is not considered wholly unwanted nor could it not have a valid place in the game.
The implementation, scope, and range of it do need to be worked at with a fine brush, however, because the original GE was (and still is) too blunt and can simply pigeonhole trades into one, and not necessarily the best, method.
What I would ask is that as a policy decision some clear demarcation is made between this game and the other or (as others have pointed out often) the distinction between the two may well blur to such an extent that this game loses out or people question the need for it.
Another thing to ask those who play to ask themselves is "Why do you play?" and "Why do you play this version of RS?". Because there is another if you want to play it in a way where you can get things relatively easily and once you join a clan (and then the whole world becomes silent because there's no chat - ...) then there is bound to be someone rich who can help you out with anything you might want.
Finally ... be innovative: don't just copy what someone else has done somewhere else - go create something new. That's probably wasted on many who don't have any imagination (perhaps there are too many of them in OSRS) but if you're not one of them and if you don't want to just follow every one else then recognise that if you want to be different it takes effort (but it pays back much more).
09-Jan-2015 23:13:19
