Just to let people know 90% of people that PKed started out skilling/merchanting. That is how the majority of PKers make the gold they used to make a pure/pker character. Thats how I did it. I started playing runescape before the wild and members and I thought the wild was one of the best updates ever. Pkers/pure bought the majority of skillers products because of their need of them in large quantities...so taking it out not only affected the pkers. And I've read up on this bounty hunter crap and its pretty stupid. The pvp system did set runescape aprt from other mmos. Skilling in every othe rmmo is just about the same, maybe different ways tot rain the skills or slightly different names but tis the same thing. Runescape was the only game ive played so far that allowed people that liked to pk and knew how to do it to get rich doing what they like. And as for the unbalanced trade alot pf pkers/pure were started form peopleborrowing money/items from friends or their main accounts which more then likely started out making money by skilling. I for one spent 3 months fishing from lvl 50 something fishing to lvl 86 fishing. It was the most boring way to make money ever. But I did it so i could have the funds to do something I liked...pk. Alot of people feel like this.Just to let you know I could go int he wild and find more people int he wild then i ever could skilling anywhere.