Innocence

Well, darn. Congratulations. I was going to make a complete comprehensive BA guide before people started finding my niche before I did, but I'm too late. Yours is the first attempt that I've seen that is anywhere near decent. I'll still probably make my guide, but with a few months of procrastination and laziness thrown in. OT: Looking at my postcount, it's obvious I don't use tip.it much for the forums in the way of posting. So before anyone says it, shut up.

People, for one thing people say is bad, the inverse can also be true. They say that the rising prices are bad for people with money. That is true. This artificial inflation does raise prices, and as we all know, rising prices or inflation devalues money. But what of the deflation system that runescape operates on otherwise? The system goes something like this. When an item starts out, its price is very high, as the supply is a low number. When people start spawning these items in the economy, the price will gradually lower, until the demand meets the supply. Most of the items have done this. As somebody said a while back, rune 2h was once 1m. What I'm saying is, the deflation system, which people seem to be saying is better, devalues items as opposed to money. Now, I can think of two possible solutions. One of them is virtually impossible and based on the player base as a whole, and one is very simple and focuses on the individual. 1. Balance the economy perfectly so that the value of items and money stay exactly the same, and everyone can log out knowing what they have will be worth exactly the same when they log back in. This one is, like I said, virtually impossible. People would have to bring items and gold into the economy at the exact same rate, and everybody has to want items exactly the same amount each day. Basically, buying and selling would need to become impossible. 2. Just invest in items when there is inflation, and sell all your items and keep cash when there is deflation. Basically, this one is win/win. If you're worried about inflation in the economy, buy some items. That way you can rest at ease when you know that your items are only going to rise in price. If the price of items are going down, sell them, provided you don't need them of course. These tips are intended as a generalization and only for general deflation, not specific items dropping, as selling in that case would only crash the item. There are probably flaws in what I've said, so feel free to flame me.