Personally, I think Jagex could kill two birds with one stone by releasing a GP skillcape, only available to players with over a certain amount of overall wealth. This could be considered a "merchanting skillcape", since 9/10 rich players got there through merchanting of some kind.

 

This would recognize players for their achievement as well as give Jagex a great money-sink to help push back inflation - the GP Cape should cost at least 99M nonrefundable GP. Imagine how great it would be for the economy to actually have a legitimate way for money to leave circulation, bringing prices back to their pre-inflation levels - having a mil would actually mean something again.

 

Thoughts?

We have a GP skillcape, except it's not a cape, it's a party hat.

We have a GP skillcape, except it's not a cape, it's a party hat.

 

Buying a partyhat doesn't help solve inflation - that would be the true value of having this.

Yes there are a lot of rich people in Runescape, but most of them are not the ones who have billions upon billions at their expense. Furthermore, the majority of the people who have over, let's say 1B, are not dumb enough to spend 99M on a cape, which only shows that you have a lot of money. Also if they do somehow fall for it and buy the cape, you're only taking money from the super rich who have that 99M to blow anyway. So you're not really killing much inflation at all. What you should aim to kill is gold from the regular moderate well-to-do players or the middle class player of Runescape. So no, I don't think it'd be a very good idea to kill inflation and the price tag is very high to be practical.

Meh, it better look good, or have some cool emote or something. I don't think even merchants would buy a cape worth 99m. :/

Merchanters/investors are rich because they only put money into things that will increase value over time. A cape will not increase it's value nor give any skill bonus (say, wasting millions on 99 Fletching has no value, but the skill itself is it's own "reward" if you will; a cape won't do that).

We have a GP skillcape, except it's not a cape, it's a party hat.

 

Buying a partyhat doesn't help solve inflation - that would be the true value of having this.

 

and I'm sure the economy will thank the one person who will be stupid enough to spend 99 mil on an untradeable cape.

We already have the Herblore,Smithing,Construction and Prayer cape for that i don't think we need another cape that show wealth...

^ Hes right, there are plenty of ways to show that ur rich..

And like said before, not many wud spend 99M on a skillcape

It is not his point that everyone would/must buy it.

 

Even if only a few people buy it every day, or even some people in a month, it would still have a lasting effect on the economy/inflation.

Good idea in my opinion, those people who would like to buy it are happy and nothing changes for the ones who don't.

 

But aren't prices already dropping as we speak? It seems the peak has been reached imo.

RAWR! Inflation is not a problem to the average 'scaper! Inflation hurts those with many GP, and only if they have no money tied up in items. Saying otherwise is foolish, and trying to "fix" or "stop" it is a stupid idea.

We already have the Herblore,Smithing,Construction and Prayer cape for that i don't think we need another cape that show wealth...

Isn't Construction the only one of those skills that requires you to spend money? How do the others show off wealth?

 

MerchantInTheDark, I really like this idea and, once I had the funds to do so, would definitely buy one. Unlike partyhats, the price would be the same for everyone and you wouldn't have to pay through the nose to some greedy rare-hording SOB who wants to unload junk in order to get it (sorry 'bout that, but current phat trading frustrates me to no end :angry: ). I'm going to ask my merch cc about this and see what a larger group of merchants thinks.

 

As for the cape, it could be bought from the Grand Exchange Tutor. The emote could be that you reach into a pouch on your belt and make a throwing motion up into the air repeatedly while gold pieces rain down around you into piles at your feet. Instead of a hood, it could come with a gold colored partyhat (gold, not yellow), perhaps even requiring another 99M to buy. Now, before you all get out your flamethrowers, hear me out. Doing this would kill two birds with one stone by being a massive cash sink and by lowering demand for high end rares (which are mostly used to buy phats anyway). This would really only affect merchers who deal in phats/easters/pumpinks/etc.. as I'm sure a lot of people who have only one phat have no intention of getting rid of it.

 

Full support! :thumbsup:

 

**Flame shield to full power!**

lool 99m rainbow colored phat plsss untradeable thoo

I don't think making a cape for players who at least 60-70% of them obtained their wealth via 76k'ing / GE Manipulation is going to be good.

No, thanks.

I don't think wealth should become any more a part of the game. Jagex thinks this as well, iirc, because that's why they said they didn't add a "bank value" spot on the new bank. I think they said that in one of the Q&A's.

I really don't agree with the idea. The only way this will actually benefit the economy is if legit single merchants decided to spend the cash for the cape. The problem is, the main problem for the economy isn't legit merchants (they've always been around). The problem is in those damned clan merchants who drive up any item of their picking simply by telling the gullible fools of runescape they'll make millions if they trust them. And the cape would not affect them at all. 99m is pocket change for those merchants when they have 5-10 maxed cash piles in their bank, and that 99m is actually hard earned money from the gullible players they've taken advantage of. So the only people suffering is the innocent players. This cape would do nothing to stop clan merchants, on the contrary, it would give them an item to show off their abuse of the economy.

This could be considered a "merchanting skillcape", since 9/10 rich players got there through merchanting of some kind.

 

Did you know that 4/5 scientists agree that 72% of statistics are made up?

I'd follow the player wearing a GP cape around all day, harassing them with my cries of "phree st00f plox!" and "how you make money?" Maybe I'd get all my lvl 138 buddies to join me.

This could be considered a "merchanting skillcape", since 9/10 rich players got there through merchanting of some kind.

 

Did you know that 4/5 scientists agree that 72% of statistics are made up?

 

I always thought it was 60% of all statistics are made up 90% of the time, but I guess yours works too :thumbup:

Lol "Free Stuff Plz", and what if it makes merchers more rich, and innocent players poor? lol. Anyways, if 99m was how much a player had, and lots of players had that cape, wouldnt things get lower? Causing others to not be able to sell their stuff? Making the merchers rich? Making former innocent players become merchers? I don't think so. I see enough merchers, making my member's equipment higher in price when I don't have it :Z

You guys are all crazy. Heaps of people would buy that cape. After a while cash is usless in this game.

Yet rapid loss of money from the system isn't healthy either.

How about no because although there are very rich "true" merchanters this cape would be rewarding manipulating clan leaders also.

little birdie told me this is a possibility if you have over a billion gp

I would really only buy it if the stats on there are ALL +99. Otherwise, big waste of cash.