I may be unusual but I do not subscribe to the capescape theory. I only have 3 skillcapes but hardly ever use them. However I do believe that withholding the new veterans cape from F2P is unbelievably cruel. Jagex itself admits that people move from P2P to F2P and back all the time. My own personal belief is that Jagex just wants a month's subscription from each of them, purely a venal moneygrabbing cash decision. Sadly the company seems to have been taken over by hard-nosed businessmen.