I'm sure you all agree... SURPRISING ANALYSIS - 4TH LINK

So the new update has everyone all up in a tissy about how it ruined PK-ing... Lets analyse the effect on the one thing that THIS thread made it big with; inflation...

lol, on w23.

 

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First of all, its nice to see that the world of choice is used :) and while we all know riotting doesnt get us anything, its ncie to gather everyone in one place to discuss and scream about it...

So lets get on with the analysis...

Automatically becoming skulled and not being able to use protection prayers;

I suppose its effect is 2 sided. On one end you could have the people who risk the more expensive items (the kind of stuff you need to have lvl 70+ to wear) seeing that lost, so not many people will use those items anymore. This means prices of items like godswords, bandos gear, d claws and even whips will drop. And on the other hand prices of "welfare" items (black dhide, dds, rune armor) will not crash, but may infact continue to climb...

Dying means you lose everything, so there will be less 1-iteming people, meaning that around the banks on bounty and pvp worlds, it will become a helluva lot quieter...

Upping the minimum risked coins from 25k to 75k;

Knowing that people cannot risk their one valuable item which they use to get EP% with, trickers are obviously looking at new ways to risk 75k and it is still up in the air wether or not they will be more at risk (they risk more coins, but there are a lot les people using 'super'-weapons now, meaning its easier to escape)...

What this does for the PVP drops; nothing...

Hard working pk-ers who risk all their stuff to kill random other people, they got what they wanted, because for them the risk and reward balance has been equalized... The pile jumpers, the rushers, they got shafted (and rightly so), but the trickers havent been hampered too much...

I still feel that the drops given should be a factor of what the person was risking (no more then 150% of what he dropped) instead of randomly determined and only influenced by how long a person has been loitering in a certain spot...

But this gives us an opportunity;

Honor-PK is back, and that means you can grab a DDS, some Black D'hide armor, a Strength Amulet, a Ring of Life and whatever else you may need to survive (but isnt too expensive) and know that in relative safety (since there are only very few super weapons used) you can go out and hunt down the trickers yourself (or with a group, make sure someone brings teleblock)...

Remember the witchhunts of abyss-PKers? Theyre back baby...

I don't know what to post, I just really like your analysis. :D

Keep up the good work Stormrage. :thumbup:

The best feature (and one of the main ones jagax made the ge for) of the GE is its ability to fix these issues.

Jagax can easily pump items into the game and just take the currency out. Its pretty much the best part of the GE. And no one is the wiser. They can just make stuff that gets used every day. They can produce potions, sharks, whips heck anything. And because the cash dosent actually go into another players pocket, just the abyss of the GE, inflation will retract.

Im sure if they start losing memberships over this they will use the GE to fix it.

The problem is...

I spotted this problem occuring early April already, and so far not much of a dent has been made...

PVP is still a net money generator...