Jierevorse

If Pure Ess is supposedly flowing into the economy, why has essence steadily raised from 100 each to 110-120 each? Either demand is increasing or supply is being diminished.

Say, for example, you need Pure Essence, and don't want to pay the extortionate prices for it. If you use your kingdom to gather the essence for you, you're lowering the average demand for essence. If many people do this, essence prices will be forced to drop because of a greatly lowered demand. Merchants and miners are happy, yes. Pure essence hasn't completely crashed because there's still a load of pure essence from when the macroers had a hold of it. Eventually, that's going to deplete, so there has to be some solution to fix it.

Pure Essence; the biggest slap in the face to legitimate players. Surely, we all know what this update entailed long ago, and the effects of it nowadays. In the end, it's driven up essence prices for the better runes, put a dent in most runecrafting profit, and overall harmed us legitimate players. Since Pure Essence is still subject to the laws of Supply vs. Demand, there are two main ways to fix this: increase supply or lower demand. Naturally, you can't lower the demand without enraging somebody, such as if essence became harder to get. If Jagex is to make an update that allows you to increase supply, there has to be great care to avoid the macroers abusing it again. So, we need to find a solution that increases supply, while still negating the risk of it falling into macro hands, which leads us to... THE SOLUTION: The best way I've found to fix the problem is to allow pure essence to be mined in your kingdom. Since the kingdom requires you to do several higher level quests (Fremmenik Trials, specifically), it knocks out the threat of macroers abusing it. If essence is set to the gathering rate of maples or flax, it's possible to allow the kingdom to bring 800 or more Pure Essence into the economy per day, per person. Could this be overused for easy profit? Maybe in the beginning, but prices will surely fall a bit if there's a HUGE influx of essence, so it should balance out in the end. On the bright side, this potential update couldn't do any further harm to an already damaged economic item. At very least, with this update, the economy can begin to turn away from relying on macroers to bring in raw materials, and begin to put control back into the legitimate player. We need to find another way to increase the supply of Pure Essence, and this might just be the long overdue solution.