Boeing125

I agree with you that JaGeX shud monitor and try to limit merch clans - simply because price manipulation is not what the Ge is for... However this would b hard 2 monitor etc... Another point - taxes - if JaGeX release a tax system for banked Gp, ppl will develop a new 'Gp' for instance maple logs/p ess/runes (just so they can evade the tax system - just invest all the Gp in cheap items that r 95% certain to sell instantly on the Ge and when the tax collector comes - (s)he can only tax the few remaining Gp [i know there's not going 2 b a tax collector really] ) then when the person wishes to buy an item - whip / dfs / bgs (the list goes on) all they will do is sell the stockpile of logs etc and buy the item and then buy back logs etc with remaining Gp... I can c this hitting the Market for regularly traded items in a similar way that 17/11/2003 [phat dupe day] did to the rares markets. Except in this scenario, the items will skyrocket in the few days after the tax release then I guess the skillers will step in and start selling there logs that they have been collecting - unfortunately this will b too late for most to make them millions and the prices will 'die' - the items that ppl have invested in will become almost worthless whilst skillers are trying 2 make millions from them but having to sell for very little money... Then as the maple logs/runes/p ess become so worthless the skillers stop collecting and prices go back up (becos ppl are selling the minimum number of that item for max return to buy that expensive item - and still have money left over) and so on till a few months/years have passed and the prices go back to being steady. If JaGeX released an alternative where any item that a player has over 10k of (for example: a player with 13k fire runes - that they can't sell) gets taxed - fair enough if that item was junk or unsellable and un-needed - fire runes etc. BUT what if that person had 10k pure ess that they wanted to rune craft into natures for a desired cash quantity or RC level and they log on to find only 8.5k ess due to it being taxed? How would they feel? Again an 'illegal' tax evasion system will occur whereby players would buy either a small quantity 9k of this and 9k of that till they have invested safely there money in 9k piles of various items (this like the above method of tax evasion on Gp only would ruin the Market for skillers and normal players alike). The other tax evasion would b to spend All your money on 1 or 2 really expensive items - eg 2mil could b spent on: 1 whip [1.5mil], 1 obby sheild [250k], 1 obby cape [250k] or anyother combination of items - these can then b sold later when the player feels ready to but something new. And again for the ridiculously rich (not me) an investment could be : a couple of d claws, an ags, a phat and finally an Elysian sheild - yes you would have 2 be really ridiculously rich for this - these can be sold again for the Gp fora new item - quite what, I don't know :lol: this alternative tax system will again 'ruin' the economy if ppl do this tax evasion as shown above :?: And merch clans - JaGeX are really going to have a struggle to stop them :ohnoes: but hopefully they will do !!