Wow dude I have read some political economics books and marx stuff, but what you are triying to achieve is really something; Ỉ̫m like 17 years old and honestly I have never taken an economics class, I even had to look up the initials of the concepts you what to obtain, but i would really like to help out with data recolpilation. Regarding some troubles mentioned on this thread I would suggest d following: GDP Make a survey or a poll to a really significant part of runescapẻ̫s population (10,000 + say somthing) about the time they play on an average week and the amout of money they spend in traning skills and the income they get from this training and other stuff GDP per capita. Cold be solve only by asking jagex how many accounts there are in runescape and how many accs get banned during a period of time (luck with this), and also running some polls about how many ppl quit/get hack/etc. their accs and using this info as a mortality rate (really dont know if this matters when they do it on a real, say US scale but just an idea) CPI would be solved by setting a tipical basket of goods, such as high demand ores (irons an coals basically), armors (rune and maybe cheap p2p better than rune armors), fishes (lobbies, swordies and sharks basically) etc. etc. Money supply Well, no ideas for solving this lol. Comodity value. Well, I also dont have ideas for this since the recent PoH̫̉s are all set on the same places (the portals around RS) and the price is totally set by NPC̫̉s and doesn̫̉t change with time. income inequality Sure theres gonna be a huge gap betwen noobs and 80+ lvls pros but as they are causing troubles in this matter, I would suggest to eliminate part of this minoritary population (mmmm maybe they are not that few ppl) by considering only ppl above a minimun SKILL TOTAL of say 60, and below a maximun Skill total of say 1700. Then again these are just suggestions of a mexican dude at 01:32 am (local time) who thinks he knows a lot of economic stuff, but maybe you could get an idea from the mess above this. Anyway if you keep on this proyect I would like to help collecting data and stuff, and please if you can achive and interpret results from this, please let me know, it sounds really interesting. cya!!
