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Preventing Phat Losses in GE

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Jeremy Cheng
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Jeremy Cheng

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To improve the grand exchange a little, make it so inactive discontinued rare sell offers on ge are automatically cancelled after a year without logging in fully.

This includes logging into the lobby, so players can still login to lobby and not have to worry about losing any discontinued rares they put on ge for sale years ago and see if any of their old friends are still online before logging out to wait a year.

Players who have a discontinued rare in ge sale will get a message in lobby letting them
know "Warning. you have an expensive item offer in the Grand Exchange that will be sold for far less than it's worth if you login.".

This will let the player know to not login fully, saving themselves from potentially losing a purple phat like that guy who lost 2 purps a month ago.

This change is automatically implemented for all players and can't be toggled, and isn't polled.

I'd hate to see more phats get instasold on ge and the original owner is forced to never login otherwise they lose that phat.

03-Feb-2022 23:17:08

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I think that inactive accounts with grand exchange offers should be "paused" and have to be "reactivated" upon reactivation of the account.

Truthfully it seems absurd in the first place that such offers are allowed to go into an "inactive" state and just stay there to be reactivated sometime in the future. But I understand that it is probably a performance issue for Jagex, to not process offers on millions of inactive accounts. So the right solution is to require player intervention to reactivate these offers.

Don't think it's right to have your offer change so dramatically years in the future but be fulfilled then, instead of when it should have been fulfilled.
Buy Zemomarks / Chromatic Partyhats safely here

04-Feb-2022 18:53:49

Jeremy Cheng
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Jeremy Cheng

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Draco Burnz said :
Jeremy Cheng said :


This change is automatically implemented for all players and can't be toggled, and isn't polled.


Why would it matter if things are toggleable and polled?

Either way, i dont support this at all.

Yeah we all know why you don't support this

05-Feb-2022 00:12:42

Jeremy Cheng
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Jeremy Cheng

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https://old.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/11nv2oo/oof/

Someone managed to snag an inactive white partyhat for max cash in ge today (when its street price is way over that). I can imagine how upset the person who had a white phat sitting in ge sale for max cash was when they see the current price of it. Another reason why this needs to happen or at least make it so when max cash increase happens, any inactive offers for discontinued items are automatically cancelled so the person can login and collect their rare to sell for over max cash at their leisure. And cancel all ge buy offers for phats when the max cash increase happens so everyone is on equal footing not just rich players with item buy offers for max cash.

11-Mar-2023 05:26:33

Jeremy Cheng
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Jeremy Cheng

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This issue will continue if jagex doesn't automatically cancel all ge offers on june 12. Cancel all ge offers on that day so inactive players can finally login to their accounts and retrieve their phat sale offer for max cash and then repost for their current value when they login after the max cash update. I counted 3 different phats from inactive offers being sold and lost from inactive accounts logging in after a long break and they either forgot they had a phat offer or they didn't wait for the update to drop. Let's not have a 4th phat fall victim to this again.

31-May-2023 15:16:43

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