kelem_ryu

probably i just play for too short, i don't know how much easier it became to make money. when i started rs there already where barrows, whips and d equipment. i'd just like you to follow your graph and tell us, what the prices would be by the end of 2008, if the price would develop as it did over the last years. somehow i doubt it can rise at that ratio forever. what i forgot at the beginning of my post, is that people, who buy phats usually have already more then enough money. about the price manipulation: i said, that any trade and any statement has a certain impact on the price, even the smallest. the bigger the trade and the higher the reknown of the person, that makes a statement about prices, the higher the impact. when the most famous merchanter of rs makes a statement about price development, the impact should be noticeable. i mean, when i see the duke is seling some mask sets, i can assume, that it can't be a terrible bad time to sell my red mask to... i know price manipulation is something different, but your actions do, i believe, have an impact on the economy (like the actions of reknown stock market experts in rl have)

Every trade or statement done is a manipulation of the price. When a highly renowned merchanter like Duke makes a statement on prices, this will of course have a larger impact on the economy, then if anybody else would do. I don't know if Duke is aware of that, but he should. (Actually i should say "you" because you'll not unlikely read this) So whatever you do, it is price manipulation, or better said price alteration. Duke, you are one of the few people in this games, that are that legendary, that even i, as a fairly new player (started July 2005) know your name, wich is somehow aweinspiring, whenever i read it. (like the name 3 hit u for example) That said i want to point out, that the price of phats can't raise exponentielly forever. (they would be in the billions by next year, not to speak of the year thereafter). I feel, the higher the price rises, the more people will ask themselves, wether they really want to buy one or rather have enough gold pieces, to buy all the items they desire. Then again this might not be so true, since still people who have that kind of ressources might just want to have this status symbol. The other thought is, that the higher prices rise, the less people will even start to raise that much gold. (why bother gathering 100m, when i can do as good as everything in the game with my 50m?) This is exactly the question i ask myself! The higher the prices will rise, the more people will play the game as if there weren't any rares around, until (to postulate the extreme of the scenario) nobody buys them anymore at all. In that case phats wouldn't have any real value anymore, besides being not even expensive, but unaffordable expensive and would be ultimately untradeable. (nobody wants to trade for an item, that is extremly hard to sell) This scenario could be fueled, by the increasing gap between the most expensive non rare item (wich is as far as i know dchain) and the phats. How many dchains can you buy for even a purple phat? 3? and for a blue? 8? phats just go more and more off scale. Then again, over time players just accumulate incredible amounts of gold. when there is nothing left to buy, they'll go for rares.