I don't get the arguement why skill capes lead to a decrease in the price of material prices if it has any effect on the prices of materials at all. 'Skill cape hunters' need masses of specific materials to train the 'buyable' skills (fast). For the non-buyable skills, gathering those specific materials is usually not the fastest way of training, hence supply caused by skill cape hunters would be smaller then demand caused by skill cape hunters if you ask me --> I'd say skill capes rather lead to an increase in the prices of material prices. In fact, looking at the material prices used in production I believe they actually rose, rather then dropped. Have to agree there. A player going after, say, the fishing cape would most likely fly fish, maybe even fish lobs. A player looking for the woodcutting cape would cut willows or maples. Miners powermine iron, etc. Of course, this is not always true. But I would safely bet that it is true over 50% of the time. Furthermore, the day jagex implents a "legal" real world gold piece buying is the day I quit for good.