Arceus

Happy birthday Star!

With the old recovery system you could prove yourself to be pure F2P, but at this point I don't think you can, unless you have some more substantiated evidence.

Me too. It seems everyone wants something.

If they wait to do mass removals, I'm guessing that would be shared in some hidden forum only.

Those bonus xp items could be the ones that grant the 1m xp from being a member in August/September.

There are 300-600 active users every time I go on there. I'm not sure if there were more previously, but that still seems rather impressive. I would guesstimate the community at ~100k (taking everyone who has read/posted once in the last month, for example). Does that sound right?

I do believe it is 31 spins for August (one extra/day) plus 60 for September (two extra spins per day) in addition to the daily spins.

Sorry. I didn't realize it should be incorporated there :(.

I fixed the horrendous font problems now. Sorry if the formatting is a little off as a result.

No Sinkhan, you can earn up to 2500, spend and repeat. :)

That's interesting to know but it will only fuel new complaints on the forums, at least for the time being.

Let's consider what would happen if a substantial fraction of the traders decided to financing these bots through the Grand Exchange. The issue with refusing to be a "soft user" of the botting companies (by buying their products off the Grand Exchange) is that it would create a double standard impossible to keep up with. Let's suppose that maple logs are 100 gp each, and people refuse to buy them off the Grand Exchange. This creates a shortage of demand on the Grand Exchange. The botting companies do not care and dump their stuff until the price is 95gp. Meanwhile, the legitimate users running the corporation of non-botted goods decide that they need to cut their prices to 95 gp to keep in line with the obvious competition and the apparent real market price. The botting companies, meanwhile, continue cutting logs, and dump them on the Grand Exchange. People are boycotting their products for this reason, so they push the price down once again to 90 gp. Reluctantly, the legitimate corporation matches their price. This cycle continues and prices spiral downward until maple logs hit 50gp one day, half of their original price. Frustrated, employees of the company decide it is not worthwhile to cut logs anymore, and people gradually quit the company. After all, a bot's time is worth less than a RuneScape player's. (Why doesn't everything go to zero? Bots can't crack everything-see high level PvM/bossing.) Queued orders overrun the remaining workers, and people return to the Grand Exchange, causing a massive rise in the price of maple logs and an eventual return to equilibrium. The net change is zero. The only way such an operation could be salvaged is by price fixing, i.e. "buy botted logs off the ge for 50 gp, or real logs from us for 100 gp." Theoretically this would work and satisfy the thirst of both markets, but in practice this is impossible. No matter how many people walk the walk or talk the talk, integrity comes at a high premium. They may indeed bot logs, or sneak a few off the Grand Exchange that they pass off as their own handiwork. If the author has another suggestion to fix this problem, I would be inclined to listen. But beyond the players simply refusing to buy gold from these websites no matter how trivial the cost, or Jagex implementing another bot nuke, I see no mechanism that can correct the problem.

Oh wait, I thought you were talking about something else. We'll see, I guess.

They did implement it for F2P, and I'm not sure how/if it will change with the EoC update. I guess we'll find out.

It's a nice layout, but I strongly dislike white text on black.

I don't mind watching an ad for another SoF spin. Maybe they'll add it to F2P soon, as I haven't seen it there.

It's something about the email itself, although it would be nice if we could link the account to our phone. One client that offers such services is Gmail.

What are you going to do once you buy some RS gold and get that 99 skill or other achievement? There are already thousands of people running around showing it off as it is, and imagine how many more there will be should such a system be implemented. You may well find that it was not worth it.

Hypothetically one would buy up the bulk items (nature runes and so forth) and wait for BXPW to hit and dump them on the last minute buyers. Furthermore, you could buy alch items substantially below their market price over the weekend (ex: addy plates, 1k profit each, 500/4hrs) and alch or sell them a few days later. However, the efficacy of these methods fell with each passing BXPW as more players caught onto the game. I never did much myself, but hopefully that was a satisfactory explanation.

Could this mean they rethink other content too? :S

Unfortunately I have never heard of them and hence have no authority there. Is their clan chat ("GLchat") no longer active?

I asked them to lock my account while I was on vacation but they didn't do it for me. I posted on a forum thread though.

I can't play the beta so I'm not really sure...but the cool effect should shove prices upwards for a little while.

That's interesting. Maybe it will help a little bit with the fact that attaining rune is so easy it homogonizes things.

That video was interesting, but I didn't really see any of the hints Jagex was hinting might be in there, if you know what I mean.