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Trevor M
Jul Member 2008

Trevor M

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Neeria said :
EllingerMain said :
To give some encouragement to those worrying about GE not passing at 74% -- the polls round up to the nearest whole number.

This means if the votes end up at 74.5% it will round up to 75%. Also been keeping track of the % lately and it is going up at a slow but steady rate. It is safe to say in a week's worth of time it will definitely have gone up over that half of a %.

Hope this eases some people. :)

Can anyone confirm this??

Also, does anyone have any idea on how many accounts are able to vote/will bve going to vote. Or even just a guesstimation?

I can confirm this. I've also been tracking the numbers and as of 9:52 EST the percentage is at 74.055.

13-Jan-2015 14:53:21

Lion  1234
Dec Member 2023

Lion  1234

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No to GE

Ok guys I'm going to try to make a point about majority and minority votes which people seem to constantly throw.
Yes there are more people voting for GE the reason being that trading affects everyone. Now some people or most should i say are looking at the poll and are trying to attempt to get a "convenient" trading system.
Now the problem of "Convenience" is that it is detrimental to the game, RS3 updates being a good example of that and how at first people liked it but then now the game is too easy. It just not what osrs is about, its not the spirit of the game.
Now you average player isnt going to always be trading , where as traders are going to be always advertising selling buying, so this poll imho is aimed at the wrong audience. With GE there is no more talking, negotiationg, hagling; all online confidence of item price is determined by the game engine and graphs not by any active selling, this will mean opportunist will get their way of misusing GE to manipulate prices =[
Please vote No to stop this

13-Jan-2015 15:55:00 - Last edited on 13-Jan-2015 15:56:00 by Lion  1234

Sybe

Sybe

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Neeria said :
I am specifically talking about the 74.5->75% part. I understand that 74.055 will get rounded up to 74.1%, but does the 74.5->75% happen aswell?

Nope it has to be 75. If its 74.9, it still failed
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13-Jan-2015 15:57:36

Miami

Miami

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i'll just post this zyb quote here.

Cons to GE:

Prices crashing from the entire playerbase dropping their drop tabs into the economy, creating huge supply and no demand, this won't help you sell faster either.

Skilling unprofitable, in some cases costing more to train a skill then to earn
merc* clans controlling prices to sell gp.

Empty trading areas, no open market
having to using forums to price check certain items (still being done now on rs3).

Quests becoming a joke, another form of fast tracking where people don't actually want to play the game like NMZ, splashing etc.

Bots having an automated system to convert items to gp and let it leave the game long before our very limited Mod ban team (total of: 1) deal with it.

13-Jan-2015 16:04:25

Gad Zook

Gad Zook

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Trading Post offers from offline players should not show.
Privacy off, hidden player (in a system that requires private chat to function) is offline player!


Why on earth was this question scrapped?


I said it on the day TP was released, but I'll say it again. We voted to NOT have offers show from players that are offline. Until you make that right we never got the Trading Post that we voted for, and pretending we did just tricks a few more players into voting for the GE because they don't know any better. You can't seriously think the TP got a fair chance for us to try when it was released in such a broken way.

I'm not asking for "tweaks" to the TP like trading through it, just the TP we voted for.

13-Jan-2015 16:16:51

EllingerMain

EllingerMain

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Sybe said :
Neeria said :
I am specifically talking about the 74.5->75% part. I understand that 74.055 will get rounded up to 74.1%, but does the 74.5->75% happen aswell?

Nope it has to be 75. If its 74.9, it still failed

I don't believe this to be true, because it rounds up for a reason. If Jagex didn't want to provide us with a false assumption a poll passed at 75% when it really wasn't then it wouldn't be rounding up at all.

13-Jan-2015 16:17:10

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