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    Questions about 'The Stuff'

    in Help and Advice

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    FYI - you can play the game with as few as six people (three per side) and still earn significant rewards to make enough POE to buy more "Stuff".

     

    If you'd like, you may add me in game. I've been known to occasionally organize the odd game from time to time and we could probably get something organized within a reasonable time.

     

    If you're not familiar with the game play for "TB", I can certainly teach you how to play, as well. 

     

    |^_^|

    Missing, Presumed Death

    in General Discussion

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    Its weird how they are not consistent with the quest title. In one of the bts vids mod mark called it missing, presumed dead. Also in today's newspost the music medley is also labelled as such. Yet the official name is now missing, presumed death.  :huh:

     

    ...The title's been Missing, Presumed Death for awhile now. It's not new.

     

    Not to mention that the term, "missing, presumed dead", is common in English nomenclature, and Jagex's videos aren't exactly high production and very few people, including Mod Mark himself, were probably totally unaware of his verbal misstep in giving the name of the quest.

     

    Until now ... :rolleyes:

    bird nests

    in Help and Advice

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    FYI - in the pre-EOC/RS3 era, I found the best trees for nest drops were Maples. Just sayin' ...

     

    Nests are incredibly cheap now (621 ea +/-), so if you're looking for nests for Herblore purposes, then I'd strongly suggest you simply buy them. If you're looking for eggs for God-birds, the nest drops you get from assigning Maples at Misc/Etc usually contain eggs of all varieties, including Raven ...

    25-September-2013 - Runescape Bonds

    in General Discussion

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    My concern is that I don’t know whether this will cause inflation or deflation – or if it will have any actual effect at all.

    Bonds in Runescape doesn't create money, you can only remove money from runescape by changing bonds from untradeable to tradeable

     

    My experience tells me that any time a governing body floods its economy with bonds, as a means of balancing the economy, it generally turns out bad, in that it floods the market with money and causes a decrease in the value of what a [base cash amount] buys, while it increases the costs of everything else.
    Again, bonds in real life and in runescape are different. You can't compare them.
    One of the guys was saying that he thinks this is going to be a reasonable coin sink and that the net effect is that we may start seeing base materials, i.e. skilling products, start having greater value once again.

    Money sink from bonds is small (10% of GE value) and many ppl won't use this option.

     

     

    Fair enough - but let's look at it this way. When everyone has loads and loads of money, and the cost of everything gets so grossly inflated, and the economy is so FUBAR, that Jagex has to basically reboot the game, don't say that I didn't mention that it was a possibility ...

     

    :lol:

     

     

     

    “Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich. [...]
    "But we have also," continued the management consultant, "run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship's peanut." [...]
    "So in order to oblviate this problem," he continued, "and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and...er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll all agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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    25-September-2013 - Runescape Bonds

    in General Discussion

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    For the sake of asking, weren't "bonds" used in other gaming systems, specifically WoW and MapleStory, and didn't they pretty much FUBAR the economies of both games?

     

    I am not sure of my facts on this, but this is my recollection on this issue ... :unsure:

    Maplestory directly sold gold at prices that were never matched by their goldselling counterparts and never could stop the goldsellers nor punish the buyers effectively. My friends bought gold from sellers rather than MS frequently. It was more viable than grinding for hours in a place specifically good for moneymaking at the sacrifice of EXP shortly before we all quit.

     

    As for WoW, I don't know if they've ever implemented a bond-like system. Maybe someone else can clarify.

     

    But here's the issue - won't R/S Bonds now allow someone to buy R/S gear or skills, using IRL money, and do so "legitimately"?

     

    If so, what will this do the game's economy? Will it drive prices up? Down? Existentially sideways? :unsure:

     

    It shouldn't impact too much badly other than perhaps denting the top tier items as it can remove some demand for them alongside draining some gold from the economy.

     

    When it comes to most skills they are still limited by the gathering, a factor that cannot be altered by money in-game or not. It may afford some users to reach buyable 99s a bit faster but as the items they need to buy are still restricted by said gathering it shouldn't hit prices too much. If anything it would increase demand vs supply and make prices better on the low end stuff.

     

     

    After posting my earlier comments, my friends and I were chatting about this in my FC, last night. We discussed it at length and we’re still piecing together what the net effect of it may be. One of the guys was saying that he thinks this is going to be a reasonable coin sink and that the net effect is that we may start seeing base materials, i.e. skilling products, start having greater value once again.
    To be honest, I am not sure what to think. On the one hand, I am somewhat doubtful that the stats Jagex is quoting are honest – or at least realistic. That said, I have not done the math to be sure if they’re wrong or not, let’s just call it a “vibe” I get.
    My concern is that I don’t know whether this will cause inflation or deflation – or if it will have any actual effect at all.
    My experience tells me that any time a governing body floods its economy with bonds, as a means of balancing the economy, it generally turns out bad, in that it floods the market with money and causes a decrease in the value of what a [base cash amount] buys, while it increases the costs of everything else.
    I understand that it doesn’t seem a bad thing when there’s a lot of money around. It's one of those wonderful economic markers when people have money and are spending it -- but that only lasts as long as the bubble does, and then it goes bad real fast …

    25-September-2013 - Runescape Bonds

    in General Discussion

    Posted

     

    For the sake of asking, weren't "bonds" used in other gaming systems, specifically WoW and MapleStory, and didn't they pretty much FUBAR the economies of both games?

     

    I am not sure of my facts on this, but this is my recollection on this issue ... :unsure:

    Maplestory directly sold gold at prices that were never matched by their goldselling counterparts and never could stop the goldsellers nor punish the buyers effectively. My friends bought gold from sellers rather than MS frequently. It was more viable than grinding for hours in a place specifically good for moneymaking at the sacrifice of EXP shortly before we all quit.

     

    As for WoW, I don't know if they've ever implemented a bond-like system. Maybe someone else can clarify.

     

     

    But here's the issue - won't R/S Bonds now allow someone to buy R/S gear or skills, using IRL money, and do so "legitimately"?

     

    If so, what will this do the game's economy? Will it drive prices up? Down? Existentially sideways? :unsure:

    The Obligatory Ice Hockey Thread

    in Off-Topic

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    I was fine with both suspensions....First whack was understandable from kessel but second definitely went too far even considering the circumstances.

     

    While, I can somewhat understand the initial reaction of striking out irrationally with whatever item you have at hand, when someone who is approximately one foot taller and 80 pounds heavier than you suddenly jumps you, I still cringe every time I watch "modern" hockey players swing their sticks in the manner in which Kessel swung his the other night - and in the previous game against Philly.

     

    There is simply no justification for that. It needs to be stopped. It's a habit they need to get out of ...

    25-September-2013 - Runescape Bonds

    in General Discussion

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    When I first saw the Runescape Bonds thing, my first thought was that it would involve an in-game investment scheme wherein you could “invest” your RS Gold by buying bonds through the Bank of Runescape and have it earn interest over time …

     

    Then I read the explanation and checked my calendar to see if I had entered some kind of worm hole and come out on April 1st. :unsure:

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    Indian-American Woman wins Miss America

    in Off-Topic

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    Perhaps I was not entirely clear. Pro homogeneity is my gut reaction, born from an emotional feeling and backed by the most cursory passing of logical reasoning, something I hadn't really thought to question until I tried to defend it, and realized I couldn't. There is the whole social expression in, which I only briefly touched on during the bit about why my own viewpoint is quite biased, but also that the logic behind the sentiment is deeply flawed.

    It is only “natural” to want everyone to follow the same norms, rules, regulations and to have the same opinions. It’s that aspect which, in my opinion, is one of the building blocks that makes up the social contract upon which Western society is based.
    That said, not everyone is born into or derived from Western society, and to ask everyone who immigrates into Western society to immediately drop whatever social conduct they previously held upon their immediate arrival across whatever perceived border is deemed to exist is, well, silly. It will takes generation before such people divert from their cultural norms.
    Take a look at what has happened in, say, the U.S. throughout its historical immigration. Millions of people from all over the world went to the U.S. and most of them, upon arrival, overwhelmed with the shock of the journey and by the sheer magnitude of their respective port of call, merely fell back into whatever ethnic cultural position that existed for them in their old country. In fact, many of them still do.
    And I am not only talking about people of Middle Eastern origin – look at the Italians, Irish, Ukrainians, Russians – all of these ethnicities still celebrate their own heritage and proudly display it openly – specifically on their respective days of cultural significance.
    And don’t forget folks, that it was only 80 years ago, or so, that there were areas in U.S. cities – and Canadian cities – where people of certain European descent were not allowed to conduct business or purchase houses in certain neighbourhoods.
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