good writen article, but some things make people get angry, for example: a friend got perm ban for just funning around with a few friends, he has never done something wrong be4 that time, 0 black marks... the, already mentioned, rune ess jagex made us, runecrafters, angry because the ess price went up by 333% this means we get 70k less each hour we craft runes ( based on 1k law runes a hour) when we now craft law runes for a day ( 10 hours ) we get 700k less than normal ( so we need to craft 13-14k laws to get the same profit we got be4 the ess change in 10 hours) and what did they do back? NOTHING atleast they could make the pouches auto fill/auto empty so it goes a little faster and we can make the same ammount of profit again construction it was made that expensive so the rares would go down.. did it work? NO, only the uber rich could afford to train the skill economy ever wondered why the phats went up at a certain moment from 10-20mil to 150mil+ this was due duping bug #2, what made people get the ability to duplicate money, i won't explain how it works because some of you might get a idea to try it and lose cash, some people say its still possible to duplicate cash but i don't know how... due duping bug #2 people made bilions and bilions of gp, they bought phats, and because there were quite a lot dupers the phats went up because more people wanted them, however, the dupers got catched, banned for ever, accaunts including the phats down the pixel drain... less phats left, so price went up (some background information: its called duping but #2 because in RSC there was a other duping bug wich made people able to dupe non stackable items, like phats ed, so at that time phats went down) the phat economy line: .......| ....../ ../\/ / where it goes down its duping bug #1 where it goes straight up its duping bug #2 thats why we can make our conclusion: the phats economy is mainly based on bugs that were just a few bad things about jagex now the good things: everything else :) , after 4 years of playing runescape (almost from the beginning), playing it for a while, than quit for a while, losing loads a accaunts, losing lots a cash due scams/hacks etc, i still love the game GO JAGEX, QUIT MAKE RUNESCAPE LOOK LIKE BUGSCAPE AND KEEP IT OWNING LIKE IT IS, AND USED TO DO ~amen~ :roll: (it felt like a priest having his (great) lil talking)