March 18, 201214 yr I was discussing with a friend how much currency is circulating through Runescape. I welcome all to guess values, post theories, or even submit you're own questions. A few questions to kick off discussion, or provoke some thought: 1) How much GP do you think is currently in the game? 2) How much of an influence did Coinshare make to the Runescape currency/economy? 3) How many rare items are still in the game, and how many are horded by players? Thanks for reading, looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts. Cake.... Cake?
March 18, 201214 yr 1) Billions of billions of billions 2) Sod all really. Pre-coinshare people just lootshared and then sold items so not a huge impact on gp flow really. 3) Lots. Operation Gold Sparkles :: Chompy Kills :: Full Profound :: Champions :: Barbarian Notes :: Champions Tackle Box :: MA RewardsDragonkin Journals :: Ports Stories :: Elder Chronicles :: Boss Slayer :: Penance King :: Kal'gerion Titles :: Gold Statue
March 18, 201214 yr Might find this interesting. I don't think it's possible to establish the amount of gp total, but you can use the GE Centre to determine how much is being traded and go from there. Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted
March 18, 201214 yr Author 1) Billions of billions of billions 2) Sod all really. Pre-coinshare people just lootshared and then sold items so not a huge impact on gp flow really. 3) Lots. Good input, thanks. If you take a look at price changes of sigils (Divine and Ely specifically) this year, you will notice that the price took a sharp decrease, compare that to spirit shield prices and you will notice a difference. Before the price drop, people were receiving a coin-share price for a divine/ely sigil which was far more expensive than the price of the completed shield. Unless you were mentally challenged, you would not pay the high price for a sigil, over a shield. So what happened to the sigils? If they are put in the G.E at mid price at time of drop, would that mean there could have been many sigils stuck in the G.E until recently (Hence the price drops)? If this is true, it means that allot of GP would have been entering the game, but no items. Which may have created a kind of inflation, or something similar. It also raises the question, why did sigil prices crash so hard? Cake.... Cake?
March 18, 201214 yr Author Might find this interesting. I don't think it's possible to establish the amount of gp total, but you can use the GE Centre to determine how much is being traded and go from there. Thanks for the link, looks interesting. Good idea, might look into that :) On a side note, does the G.E charts update at a certain time? Cake.... Cake?
March 18, 201214 yr It also raises the question, why did sigil prices crash so hard?Jagex manually adjusted those prices. Those sigils, floating at mid point for ages, finally were adjusted down to be much closer to the shield prices and actually have a chance of entering the economy now, which should take out a bit of GP, but not as much as Coinshare introduced when they first appeared on the GE for the pre-adjusted price. In real life MMO you don't get 99 smithing by making endless bronze daggers.
March 18, 201214 yr While these articles are horribly outdated, they still offer an insight into one mans attempt to answer those very questions.The Rares Market - Duke FreedomTotal amount of GP in Runescape - Duke Freedom
March 18, 201214 yr They were floating due to Coinshare. I believe it was Logdotzip who wrote a little piece about it. It was fairly interesting.
March 18, 201214 yr https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AheuzHmAkHUNdGtLQlp6V0IyZlRWelJYR1pQQXZBZnc#gid=0 I'd take this with a grain of salt tbh
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