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23,982. And he wonders why people stop visiting FG...

Suppose they made it 80% of value like you said. Uncut onyx would alch for 1440K. The G.E. price is 1070K, meaning anyone who has a bunch of them just made bank. And the same thing goes for literally any pile of junk sitting around in someone's bank. Suddenly, it goes from the old alch value to quite a bit more! You see the problem: it creates a huge amount of inflation. And you can bet one quest, even if it's hard, isn't going to stand between people and millions of potential profit. Jagex already did it once with rock climbing boots and I doubt they would want a repeat of that disaster. A percent-based new spell would therefore end up being a huge amount of trouble. If it were carefully balanced and limited, maybe one could squeeze a few thousand more out of some items, but, like Saradomin Mage points out...it just drives people into the same cycle again, particularly the casual type players who can't or may not want to access/complete that quest.

Thank you for reaffirming my faith in humanity! Now I can at least take some comfort in the knowledge that we are consistent all 365.25 days with regard to concern for our planet :P.

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You missed by 1100 though! 23,985.

Thank you, I'll pass that on. :)

Today, apparently, is Earth Day in the United States (and a wide number of other countries as well, apparently). Now in the interest of intercultural enlightenment, let's think about what Earth Day actually entails. We think about the Earth for roughly a day and all the things that we could do, even little things, to improve it. The news is inundated with Earth Day things and the like. And then the next day we as the masses wake up and go "Oh to hell with it, it's not worth it anyway" until next year's Earth Day. And that's pretty much the holiday in a nutshell...

506, and good, you?

It's not entirely about whether people can get the money though. One shouldn't underestimate the fact that a number of people (for various reasons) have more free time than money available to them. And other people like myself enjoy playing F2P and don't want to be bombarded with a million reminders to subscribe, or perhaps even pay for membership and want to PK on F2P to find a bigger crowd of people.

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Hmm an interesting proposal, especially since drygores are relatively inexpensive in comparison to the other two combat classes. I wonder though - if we have even stronger melee weapons, wouldn't it further devalue other classes? With a T95 melee weapon you could tear through even more hence eliminating as much of a need for other classes and maybe driving down prices of other weapons. The effect on the economy would be an important thing to consider, especially since it wasn't that long ago that noxious were introduced into the game. In terms of PvP armor - the concept is nice, but does anyone go into the wilderness with their 40M of degradable equipment in the first place? I thought usually people wanted to risk less than that.

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23,998. "are fun to slice open" - no one ever.

I did see that, but given that close to 15,000 people have completed every single quest to date, I think they would manage to do it and probably a good deal more if it had good moneymaking potential.

That is an interesting idea, but it would just flood the economy with even more coins from junk items and lift them off the floor a little further. I get the feeling it would marginalize High Alchemy as well - if you can do Super High Alch for x % more coins, pretty soon High Alch pales in comparison. Maybe have it require multiple nature runes per cast? It's a good suggestion and could work, but I'm unsure about the potential impact on the game's economy.

530. Easy, solved in my head ;).

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24,000!

The eggs are received as a secondary benefit when you do regular fishing at the appropriate spot, i.e. trout golden egg when fishing trout. The Aquarium is a room that you can build in your POH to store all the stuff. There is an extra room in there subsequent to Monday's update so you don't have to tear your whole house apart to make room for it. And yes it is mostly just cosmetic. You unlock a few perks like baitless fishing along the way but it may not be worth all the effort unless you're planning to do a substantial amount of fishing.

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