I went to world 1 yesterday and noticed yews going anywhere from 320-350 ea. Now A few months ago I remember seeing the max around 300 and most people were buying at around 290 ea. Is the increase in price due to a demand issue or is the "killing macro agenda" really having an effect on the yew market?

Well yea, with more macro killers and Jagex doing something about the macros (or so it seems) it could be likely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: But, then again, if you're selling the yews, who's it good for? :lol: the seller! Plus, if everyone is extremely rich from Buying->Fletching->Alching, it wouldn't make such a difference, would it? (I mean, not a huge amount...)

well thats not a bad thing for me :P

With the lack of wc autoers, it's effecting everything. Yew logs have gone up(I seriously remember when I could easily buy them for 270ea), therfore fletchers do not make enough money. So now yew longs are going up. Now alchers aren't making enough money. So now nats are going down( :( ). Bad for us runecrafters.

w00t i can make some dectent money yay for me now to figur out how to get this axe to work again....

With the lack of wc autoers, it's effecting everything. Yew logs have gone up(I seriously remember when I could easily buy them for 270ea), therfore fletchers do not make enough money. So now yew longs are going up. Now alchers aren't making enough money. So now nats are going down( :( ). Bad for us runecrafters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why do people always immediatly have to come up with a doom scenario? Are you sure the economy isn't going to crash because of this?

I went to world 1 yesterday and noticed yews going anywhere from 320-350 ea. Now A few months ago I remember seeing the max around 300 and most people were buying at around 290 ea. Is the increase in price due to a demand issue or is the "killing macro agenda" really having an effect on the yew market?

 

 

 

News to me, perhaps I should consider go cut some.

I remember selling them for 220 ea under a year ago. Only good for me, altho I don't sell them for money. :P

320 ea omg!! im going to woodcut some!!! :mrgreen:

Yes, the prices are killing us fletchers.

Yes, the prices are killing us fletchers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd say it's only fair because I'm sure that the majority

 

 

 

of the yews on the market are produced by f2p players.

 

 

 

The thing about yews that I hate is that f2p can cut but can't

 

 

 

use it. Since that's the case i rather that f2p didn't get yews

 

 

 

at all.

Everyone here seems to be missing the main reason.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SKILL CAPES!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many members are aimin gfor a 99 stat one of the eassiest of those to get would be fletching. Up the demand with combination of lower suply from autoers = higher cost of yews.

 

Yes, the prices are killing us fletchers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd say it's only fair because I'm sure that the majority

 

 

 

of the yews on the market are produced by f2p players.

 

 

 

The thing about yews that I hate is that f2p can cut but can't

 

 

 

use it. Since that's the case i rather that f2p didn't get yews

 

 

 

at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

f2p can make fires with yew logs

 

Yes, the prices are killing us fletchers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd say it's only fair because I'm sure that the majority

 

 

 

of the yews on the market are produced by f2p players.

 

 

 

The thing about yews that I hate is that f2p can cut but can't

 

 

 

use it. Since that's the case i rather that f2p didn't get yews

 

 

 

at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

F2Pers can't use logs for anything but burning really. So are you suggesting that they eliminate the woodcutting skill from f2p? Which would most likely eliminate firemaking. I think that would cause more begging from f2pers that they want more updates for a game which they don't pay for.

There are two main issues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1) tons of people are going for skill capes now, especially in easy skills. This is particularly easy to notice in the price rises for items like raw lobbies, and of course, fletching supplies. People have noticed a drop in the prices of rares, which many people attribute to players selling their rares to "buy" their way to skill capes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) If jagex is indeed cracking down on macros (finally) it is going to take a huge chunk out the yew production force. Back when I was f2p a few months ago, I would cut yews north of rimmington (4 yew spot). At any given time, on any given world, there would ALWAYS be at least 5 macros, and sometimes as many as 20s. Seeing as they are cutting all the time, in every world, and in locations other than north rimmy, thats A LOT of yews being fed into the marketplace. I would often notice seeing macros all over the place with similar names(i.e. xgbfda, xgbfdb, xgbfdc, xgbfdd, xgbfde), which leads me to believe that a high-functioning macro-owner can run several yews at once, further increasing his yew supply.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know the statistics, and its probably impossible to know, but I wouldn't be surprised if over 50% of the yews coming into the market at some points have been from macros. So if in fact the macros are dying out, then you are going to have to deal with the some increases in yew, yew long prices. It may mean a harder market for fletcher and alchers, but at least some real players will benefit (woodcutters). Even fletchers don't have to suffer if they want to sell their yew longs at jacked prices.

I don't care how much fletchers and alchers complain, i'm just happy that i can actually make decent money without relying on flax...

I went to world 1 yesterday and noticed yews going anywhere from 320-350 ea. Now A few months ago I remember seeing the max around 300 and most people were buying at around 290 ea. Is the increase in price due to a demand issue or is the "killing macro agenda" really having an effect on the yew market?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks like Jagex are killing the autoers. 8-)

I think that it's a good thing, mainly because, the macros will be gone. Then it will balance up again with more and more f2p ppl cutting the yew!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then the supply for smithing will be going down so ill be able to buy more :roll: :lol: (i think with less ppl smithing steel bars).

ooo i better cut some.

I might look at selling mine :)

 

 

 

But I agree with 25leaf, everyone wants the yews for 99 fletching

See, you guys even admit life without macroers is hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No matter how you look at it, they control the economy. Miners, WC'ers, and fishers. Even flaxers!

See, you guys even admit life without macroers is hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No matter how you look at it, they control the economy. Miners, WC'ers, and fishers. Even flaxers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And green dragon killers :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They make themselves some real money, they make the runescape skilling easier since prices drop because of them.

Well yea, with more macro killers and Jagex doing something about the macros (or so it seems) it could be likely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: But, then again, if you're selling the yews, who's it good for? :lol: the seller! Plus, if everyone is extremely rich from Buying->Fletching->Alching, it wouldn't make such a difference, would it? (I mean, not a huge amount...)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, maybe something like that. Or maybe just more people trains fletching or firemaking right now?