Yesterday's updates obviously brought massive change to how we view money-making in Runescape. Money is now being thrown around for billions in the duel arena, and flipping profits people over 10m per hour if done right. Pretty much, it feels like making money is a joke now. But is it? All of this moneymaking that was introduced isn't really making money, just redistributing it. Disregarding bots, which may result in some inflation, we aren't really making much money at all with free trade. In fact, we're being less productive by staking and merchanting than we would be crafting natures or whatever you do. With all of this money being thrown around, Runescape doesn't even feel real. I handled billions of coins in items/cash yesterday, made 60m flipping for a few hours, made another 20m overnight flipping, lost 250m on the white p hat rise, and I'm not particularly excited or bothered. To describe it realistically, it feels like I'm playing a private server or some kind of fake Runescape. Is it just me? Does anybody else feel like everything is fake? I'm sure this will wear off as I normalize myself to the thought of free trade and old-style merchanting. It's just that the changes yesterday were so vast and impacting that I can't yet fully comprehend it. Before trade limits, I was pushing a 100m bank. Even during trade limits, the max cash I had was 100m, and I used it to buy a red paper hat, which I upgraded once and held on to since yesterday. I had never held more than 150m, and I had never had an elite item like an ely/divine, yet yesterday, I went to sleep with a divine and almost 300m cash. I have to place most of the blame on staking. Watching friends (and myself for a little while) exchange values of dozens to hundreds of millions, even billions, without breaking a sweat makes me forget how hard it is to actually produce that cash.