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I don't know? Maybe some players just find it extremely irritating since it just looks so... unnatural? I don't mind so much the short-hand, and acronyms are fine by me, as long as they aren't abused, but when players use words like barrow or mercher... that kind of bugs me. You know someone spends way too much time on RS when they use the former. :P If someone abuses short-hand to the point where it annoys me... then I just don't reply. Because yes I do find it irritating. It's not superiority complex or anything like that. It's just I find no excuse for it when many of have grown up using computers frequently and are capable of typing at reasonable speeds. Typing short-hand would actually be slower for me simply because I'm just not used to it! And reading is the same... I actually read short-hand slower, which is probably what I find so irritating about it.

I used to... until I got a herblore(t) cape. Nobody questions it anymore. :)

When I started playing again a year ago like the OP - my entire list, literally my entire list was red. Nobody was online when I first logged in. The only way I've been able to get people on it through item related discussion in the RSOF. This restricted market and the way it works one thing I a few share an interest so there's something - but outside of that, almost absolutely nothing.

Bad idea. Not sure why Blizzard did that in the first place - but it was stupid.

I like how there are complaints every single day on the RSOF about street prices on rares... and Jagex decides "fix" climbing boots. I don't understand this update. It was completely unnecessary and how they didn't foresee the implications is beyond me. Last year it was statuetts, and this year climbing boots. I wonder what Jagex has in store for the super-inflation of the summer of 2011.

Blue mask has recovered to max. Red mask never really came off max. Given that red/blue are max and green is still is min (and just updated) - it's pretty obvious! Go get some greens while they're still there for min. I believe santas will be min for at least another day (maybe purchase them at 98M as opposed to 102M right now?), especially since green masks are still available.

Yep, it's looking much worse than that 65M->50M crash two months ago or so. They are falling heavily, and there are NO buyers. Not even junk+cash buyers. And reports of how long it is taking to sell one min GE are not very promising. This could be "the big one". I don't blame players for selling though. Two santa hats can get you 99 prayer...

Santa/Mask market collapsed. It's crashing pretty heavily right now. To those who cashed out in the past 2-3 days -> enjoy your gain in purchasing power! :)

I've thought it about, but I'd say that's not the case when I've tracked a 7 hour 48 minutes update (shortest) to 36 hour 3 minutes (longest). That's just far too large a difference. I still think it's random but I'll wait until I collect a month or two worth of data before I conclude that. Depends on what you track. There are items that take up to 5 minutes to show a price change (partyhat for example may take that long), where as other very frequently traded smaller items may be updated almost instantly. My guess is that Jagex has items grouped by type, and each type gets updated, and then the GE index page gets updated. But, my tracker is quick enough to snipe items on the level of h'weens, but not quick enough for partyhats and divines. No matter how quick an online tracker is, you won't beat the campers at the GE. In the time it takes you to just teleport over the GE... you're too late.

I'll be tracking for a good month or more before I try to come up with anything. I have a jQuery plugin creating a chart on the fly, and it just looks totally random based off 12 updates. So yeah, I need a lot more. ;)

I would hope so! If you can't figure it after 400 updates, then I would believe that it's just a totally random time-stamp down to the second, once a day, everyday between 9PM-6PM Central Time. I've read that it does NOT update in between those hours... but that still leaves 21 hours for a completely random time. You can use statistics to try to predict if an update will be early or late, but they're almost kind of useless if it a random time-stamp in the 9PM-6PM central Time every day. Well I've only got maybe 10 updates or so tracked right now, and it's totally random. Though... if the 9PM-6PM Central Time is true, you can at least say "the GE cannot update for another X hours". But after that it would be a 21 hour window if completely random. :( -------------------------------- Edit: GE Updates by mobile device now available through my notifier! I'm not sure if it will work for non-US residents though.

It's coming. I've tested it out my phone as well as my brother's and the sms works (just like email notification). However, I'm going to add some user verifications (similar to account registration verification) so my service doesn't keep sending GE Update texts to bogus or other's mobile phones. It'll probably be a June 1st release. It'd be a good update to start that month off with. :) A few days of testing should do as well. I don't want to rush it. Now... if only anyone could figure out the GE update pattern. :D (If there even is one)

You don't have to register yourself anywhere. Just send yourself an email to: [email protected], where the xxx... is your mobile number. I just tried it on my Verizon (from my gmail account) and it worked. If it's easy as easy that... I could have this up by the end of the day if I have time. :)

I've been looking into that, but I can't assure something like this would work for everyone. I've found some examples online that do this through PHP, though people have reported it may or may or not work depending on your country of residence, and mobile carrier. But it is something I'm looking into right now, and could be functional a week from now.

Except mine checks just as quickly as their premium and sends emails for free. ;) I just don't have any of their more advanced features yet (custom item tracking for example) but it's all coming, and more.

Yes... Since coming back in 2009, after the whole HD feel wore off (after about 2 weeks), I've felt RS needs a giant new continent with cities/towns that are worth staying in or being around. I'm just sick of Varrock, Falador, Catherby, etc. But it's really driving my web development hobby right now so I'm at least getting something out of it. ;)

FairTraders.net Grand Exchange Update Notifier This is my next web development project. Right now after testing it seems to be fully functional, however I'll admit it is a bit slow right now (testing for a week has shown a 1-3 minute delay, and 1 minute or so less on the members due to faster interval requests). Unfortunately CRON only allows for execution of PHP page checking script I made every minute (however I made the script so it checks every 30 seconds within itself). Then there's the delay of AJAX calls from the webpage to my server. If the traffic from this location remains low on the guest views (I'm only pulling maybe 3MB/hr from Jagex - which is minimal because most users browsing the website would use that in a few minutes from all of the images loading), I'll first try speeding the CRON PHP job and AJAX calls up. Anyway... it's free, and there's nothing to download, so enjoy. :) It's not going to snipe you partyhats but if you're in the market for masks, santas, third age, and etc this can help you out for now! (If you try out and get any bugs like false alarms, please let me know ASAP!! I've tested it out and am pretty sure that has been removed, but one debugger can't be entirely sure! Oh if anyone is good at finding patterns given a random set of numbers, let me know! I'm logging every single update interval to see if there is any predictable pattern. Though... Jagex could have done a very lazy "update once anywhere from 0-24 and repeat" so there may not be any - but it would be great if there was!)

I'm pretty sure a divine is somewhere between a green and red partyhat, but I'll look into it. I could be a little off on some numbers as I just updated it yesterday. And yes, easters are buyable on the GE now. They max go to max once in a while, but lately I've been reading a lot buying instantly 1M under max, and at mid, and etc. They essentially have no street at this point.

Hey everyone, Updated Street Price Calculator for all those who have no idea what is going on in the market right now. (And I don't blame you if you don't) Santas still are not on it... but I'll probably add them shortly anyway just so all the discontinued items are on it. ;)

Good God some of you are taking this way too seriously...

Update: Edibles have tanked pretty hard. Current prices: Purple: ??? Yellow: Disk Green: Pumpkin Red: Pumpkin + 2 Easters White: 2 Pumpkins + 3 Easters Blue: ??? Holy crap at red, and especially white partyhat. That is the current buyer price! There are literally no partyhat sellers right now. Blue I haven't seen any offers, so I have no idea what its current price is.

Edibles took a big hit lately. Easters were going for 200-250M, disks for 400-450M, and pumpkin 650M. Those prices are from like 5 months ago! Bad junk was released, but earth talisman isn't THAT bad... no worse than the typical merchant junk that was usually dumped with edibles. Partyhats on the other hand DID NOT drop in street. Hmm... It seems the new prices are: Purple: 0.8 eggs -> 1 egg Yellow: 1.5 eggs -> 2 eggs Green: 2 eggs -> 1 disk Red: 3 eggs -> Egg+Disk minimum or even 1 Pumpkin White: Pumpkin + Disk + 0.5 Eggs -> 2 Pumpkins minimum Blue: Who knows By the way, for those that may be interested (GE tracker info in sig). Check it out, play around with it, and give me some feedback. :)

Only level 12, but I guess I'm starting to warm up to it. :)

I believe there is a pseudo-crash happening right now. Anyway, while I do not like the new skill, anything that makes the market a bit more interesting is okay with me! Anyway, New Skill Dungeoneering, Market Crash! Good time to buy. :)

Hehe, you got it before I updated my post. :thumbsup: But like I've stated, and like somebody else has stated, other skill releases were also "fail" at release, so I'm not giving up yet. I'm just going to give it time, and return to this skill a later date. Maybe I'll enjoy it then. :)