What a single egg can get you!

[mario_sunny]

A couple months ago I took the egg challenge. I made a character named 'egg trader'(with two spaces).

 

 

 

This is suppose to be an achievement in a way, but I wanted to post it here for discussion.

 

 

 

For those of you who do not know what the egg challenge is, I'll explain it.

 

 

 

First you make a new f2p character, get him off tutorial. You head over to the lumbridge chicken coop and pick up a single egg. With this egg you trade a player and try to get something slightly better than it. Once you have, for example, three feathers, you can trade those three feathers for something else higher in value. You continue trading and trading and trading.

 

 

 

The rules are you cannot buy/sell from any NPC run store. You may only trade players, and you may NOT accept anything free. Teleportation is also against the rules with the exception of the home teleport. You may not pick up an item from the ground.

 

 

 

And that's it... you just trade, trade, and trade some more. I remember some of my first trades:

 

 

 

Egg -> 3 feathers

 

3 feathers -> 5 fire runes

 

5 fire runes -> bronze platebody

 

bronze platebody -> bronze legs, 100 fires!

 

 

 

Well I did this for about 2 weeks, until I got bored and trained mario sunny. A couple months later(two days ago) I got extremely bored on mario and went to egg trader.

 

 

 

My goal was a rune platebody... and the goal is finished. I will most likely go for full rune next.

 

 

 

Here is my bank a little while ago:

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALL of that is from a single egg.

 

 

 

And other picture of more progress:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is a current picture:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some people might consider this begging. Well I beg to differ! :P I do not consider this begging, but rather a quest to find the kind people in runescape, and reward them with kind words and nice manners, while having fun watching my wealth go up! :) You will usually see me always saying "sir" and "ma'am".

 

 

 

If you wish to, take the egg challenge yourself. It's really fun to see what a single egg can get you, but please don't use world 7 :) .

 

 

 

 

 

Oh by the way, I ran into this scammer just now, I thought I might post the dialouge. :P

 

 

 

[Dalcyte]

i was actually just thinking about this...gratz on the rune large, go for full rune now plzzzzzz

 

 

 

EDIT: Lmao at the scam attempt :lol:

[Star_Fox]

wow, very creative idea. it might be time cusuming though. :(

[Crimsoncow42]

That's something new... Hope you reach your goal, dude.

[Xewleer]

hmmm... not a bad idea, but I think I'll try other items

[aoe325]

I'm glad to see you're back! :D Good luck on the full rune!

[unorclan]

cool!! heck i'll try it...I'm getting bored wcing and mining for rune anyways.

 

 

 

go eggs!!

[SwreeTak]

Good luck :D.

 

I think this is a great thing to do while you're bored. You earn alot of money on it, and you have fun whilst you do it too!

 

 

 

 

 

But I will still stick to merchanting...

[gregmister2]

hey mario, can you sell your item eg. egg for 5 coins then buy a air rune for 5 coins

[Dragon_lord]

Heh, I tried the egg challenge a while back...After a couple of weeks I got as far as a rune scimmy, then I got bored and haven't used that account since....Maybe I'll get back on it soon and see how far I can get before we're all destroyed by the Amish.

[britrockdude]

Thats cool! Like the ebay thingy the guy did.

 

 

 

And thats a well funny scam attempt.

[Striker6]

Wow thats a great idea, I might try that sometime.

[Wachtwoord]

That's something new... Hope you reach your goal, dude.

 

If it wasn't done at least 10 times before. There was a hype of this not very long ago, when a man traded himself upto a house on ebay.

[aoe325]

That's something new... Hope you reach your goal, dude.

 

If it wasn't done at least 10 times before. There was a hype of this not very long ago, when a man traded himself upto a house on ebay.

 

 

 

Yeah but Mario is the first to do it on Runescape, that must be the third thread he posts about it :)

[mario_sunny]

hey mario, can you sell your item eg. egg for 5 coins then buy a air rune for 5 coins

 

 

 

As long as you don't buy it from a shop, yes :P

 

 

 

Let me confirm that before I started this I had no idea who Kyle Macdonald was, I simply got an inspiration from another egg trader do take the challenge. All he had got up to unfortunately was full addy, I intended to break that record.

 

 

 

Don't mention rares, please :) . Lets be realist people, party hats are rising like 1M a day, how in gods name am I suppose to catch up with that? Even on Mario I would be huffing and puffing through some runcrafting trips. The lowest priced 'rare' is the easter egg and it's around like 10M now, it would be ironic though if I started with an egg and ended up with an easter egg. :P

[game_proffy]

That would indeed be, but would also be awesome! Your name is "Egg Trader", and you have traded a normal egg for an easter egg! That's what the whole thing is about!

 

 

 

But, anyway, being more serios: good luck on your journey towards the full rune. Do you have any intention to make Egg Trader a member?

[qeltar]

This a variation on a gimmick like this that someone did in the real world.

 

 

 

No offense, but I consider it just a form of begging. I realize you are doing it for fun and not because you need to get stuff, but really, it only works because others are generous and give you stuff to make it work.

 

 

 

~q

[stratotanker]

First: Congrats on trading up to rune pl8.

 

Second:

 

Thanks for snagging that scammer! It makes my life easier trying to stop them. It's really hard being F2P and a non-p-moddy...but it helps having a p-mod to help out.

[tmottbg]

Awesome, Mario. :) Good luck on the full r00n.

[Crimsoncow42]

That's something new... Hope you reach your goal, dude.

 

If it wasn't done at least 10 times before. There was a hype of this not very long ago, when a man traded himself upto a house on ebay.

 

 

 

I guess I meant it was new to me. Haven't seen it done before.

[Striker6]

Well I started an eggy account today, heres how I got on:

 

 

 

Grabbed the egg and dropped everything I got from tutorial. First:

 

 

 

Traded the egg for some lovely bread.

 

Traded the bread for an Iron longsword :P

 

Traded the sword for a Bronze plate

 

Traded the bronze plate for an uncut sapphire and 10 feathers, (I then traded the uncut sapphire for a cut one).

 

 

 

I then traded the now cut sapphire and 10 feathers for a Steel medium helmet, Bronze chainmail and a wooden shield. Probably took me half an hour to an hour, not bad for me. My RSN is Lodowick if any other egg traders wish to add me. Good fun and a new challenge.

[unorclan]

Well I started an eggy account today, heres how I got on:

 

 

 

Grabbed the egg and dropped everything I got from tutorial. First:

 

 

 

Traded the egg for some lovely bread.

 

Traded the bread for an Iron longsword :P

 

Traded the sword for a Bronze plate

 

Traded the bronze plate for an uncut sapphire and 10 feathers, (I then traded the uncut sapphire for a cut one).

 

 

 

I then traded the now cut sapphire and 10 feathers for a Steel medium helmet, Bronze chainmail and a wooden shield. Probably took me half an hour to an hour, not bad for me. My RSN is Lodowick if any other egg traders wish to add me. Good fun and a new challenge.

 

 

 

Sweet, I'll add you...my egg traders name is Egg_Tradar

[mario_sunny]

This a variation on a gimmick like this that someone did in the real world.

 

 

 

No offense, but I consider it just a form of begging. I realize you are doing it for fun and not because you need to get stuff, but really, it only works because others are generous and give you stuff to make it work.

 

 

 

~q

 

 

 

We all have different opinions.

[Beaumonde]

I might try one of these but I think I'll try to start with something more original than an egg. Hmm what to start with?

[pama2901]

charcoal!

 

*trades charcoal for 200k*

 

w00t!