No_OnE Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I go away for a month and a half and come back and the prices for pure ess took a major increase. What happened that made them so high?? I'm just curious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S00NERfan Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 pure ess= p2p normal ess= f2p Pure ess makes all the runes and normal makes free player runes. Members don't mine ess as much as free players did. Anyone who wants to add to me. Please DO I get bored. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connmaster123 Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 pure ess= p2p normal ess= f2p Pure ess makes all the runes and normal makes free player runes. Members don't mine ess as much as free players did. worst explaination ever ok what happened was jagex made two kinds of ess pure ess and normal ess pure ess can be mined buy memebers of all lvls ( i think combat lvl) and normal ess is mined by all non members below lvl 40 so a lvl 89 non meber can mine pure ess pure ess can be turned into any rune but normal ess can only be turned into the runes that you can craft in f2p :lol: on a break Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lider_V Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 pure ess= p2p normal ess= f2p Pure ess makes all the runes and normal makes free player runes. Members don't mine ess as much as free players did. worst explaination ever ok what happened was jagex made two kinds of ess pure ess and normal ess pure ess can be mined buy memebers of all lvls ( i think combat lvl) and normal ess is mined by all non members below lvl 40 so a lvl 89 non meber can mine pure ess pure ess can be turned into any rune but normal ess can only be turned into the runes that you can craft in f2p :lol: your explanation is fake.... members mine pure ess at 20 mining and non members only mine regular ess.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmmsk Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I think its at 30 mining... 18/22 skills at or better than 60.1300+ skill total.Barrows:Torag's Helm x2, Guthan's Helm, Guthan's Warspear, Dharok's Greataxe, died to dharok, Guthan's Platebody, Ahrim's Hood. All in a total of 104 runs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koddo Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I think you know about that already, if not, then what they said. I think people just realized people would pay a lot more for ess, with nats and all, so they hiked the price up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henk333 Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Nah, what happened is that all the ess that people had in their banks when it was changed ran out. So the supply of pure ess was getting lower and lower by the day since hardly anyone mines ess on members (or used to anyways). Since people continue to craft natures, laws and deaths the demand for pure ess eventually got way bigger then the supply so the prices went through the roof. Simple supply and demand, that's all that happened. Haven't played RuneScape since 12 january 2007 and it feels great :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepdean Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 i think posting here would be better Back by popular demand!And I guess I just wanted to tell you, as the light starts to fade, that you aree the reason, that I am not afraid, and I guess I just wanted to mention, as the heavens will fall, that we will be together soon if we will be anything at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogfever Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 20 April 2006 - Rune Essence adjustment Today we have made an adjustment to rune essence mining due to players breaking rule 7 and rule 12, using macros to mine the rune essence and then sell it. As you are probably aware we have various systems in place to detect people breaking rule 7 and ban them. These systems work very effectively at detecting people breaking this rule, and make macroing a really bad way to try and train a high level character. The problem we are now solving is not a problem with our macro detection systems which are still working well, but rather a problem with banning being an ineffective punishment against abusers who only use very low level accounts, and who have no intention of ever playing the game properly. Over the last few weeks we have banned literally hundreds of accounts a day for macroing at the rune essence mine. However the bans were ineffective as the abusers could just create more low level accounts that they didn't care about to mine more. We also track trades so we can ban the recipiant of the illegally obtained items, but the abusers in this case were swapping the runes for gp, and then selling the gp for real world money on auction sites. Of course the person buying the gp for real world money gets banned, because we track the money they received in an unbalanced trade to a macro account, but the seller doesn't care that their customers get banned shortly after, as they have their real world money by then. The fundamental problem is that rune essence was one of the few areas of the game which could be used to generate a reasonable amount of RuneScape money on a 'throwaway' low level free account. Normally to earn large amounts of money quickly you need to level up an account first, and then of course you care if it gets banned so our normal deterrent is effective. We have therefore split rune essence to have 2 grades. Normal essence can only be used to make the six basic runes, whereas pure essence can be used to make any rune. You can mine both types of essence at the same place as before. The kind of essence you receive is automatically decided when you mine the rock. You will always get pure essence only if your mining is over 30 and you are on a members' world, otherwise you will get normal essence. As a one-off event whilst we introduce this, existing essence in your bank and inventory will have been automatically converted to pure essence if you are a member or have other members-only items in your bank, provided you have level 30 mining or runecrafting. Since free players can only craft the six basic runes anyway, the normal essence is just as good for its intended purpose of letting free players do low level rune crafting. However it is not so useful for selling to members who want to make law and nature runes (who we believe buy the vast majority of rune essence in Runescape) which should reduce its price significantly and make it a much less appealing proposition for real world traders. The only people who should be significantly affected by this are players mining very large amounts of essence on free accounts purely to sell to members. There are better way of making money on high level free accounts anyway, so this change should only really affect players trying to making large amounts of money on a low level free account - which is of course the exact idea. We would also like to yet again remind our players NOT to break rule 12 and be tempted to buy RuneScape gold for real world money. Nearly all the gold being offered for sale in this way was generated by cheating on 'throwaway' accounts. If you buy it not only are you encouraging further cheating, but you run the very real risk of being banned yourself as the money you receive is dirty money and will be tracked. Again we have banned countless players for breaking rule 12 and fuelling this problem, and will continue to do so. We hope most players will agree we shouldn't let rule breakers spoil this game, and we are determined to not let them do so. As well as banning, where necessary we will also make minimal changes to the game to make rule breaking unviable. So basically now members have to mine their own ess. No-one wants to do it therefore the prices have gone way up. df Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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