After reading this week's development diary i became concerned about my rares investment. Its a fact that bots and their net of rulebreakers can gather enourmouse quantities of recources in exange for RS money in an exponential way... After reaching their 'mules' that money is sold for real life cash ( during 2006, they banned bots and real-world trader accounts carrying RuneScape gold and items worth over 200 billion gp) So now my question is, wich percentage of the price of rares is beeing afected by this? I strongly believe that in january the grinding to replace bots supply in member objects will raise prime materials, no doubt about that, but what will happen to rares i cannot predict and here are 2 (contradicting?) ideas: 1- Money value will increase, cause money will be harder to get getting the prices of raw materials up 2- how many rares will those RWT acounts take with them (during 2007, so far, they've banned over 525 billion in RWT acouts) If there is a limit on the amount of money u can have so either they got rares or the potential to buy them... As a non profitable source they could easily alch it or leave the acounts behind... It all aims to the fact that they will climb in price a lot or fall in price a lot...