Talk:Economy guide

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"In reality, player merchants don't affect the economy much, but are blamed for the mostpart by the majority ..." Do you have ANY evidence to support this assertion?

Regular rune essance is not useless to members. True, it can only craft nonmembers runes, but they might not have the runecrafting level needed to make members runes, and regular rune essance is much cheaper then pure essance. --Wiiwantxbox 22:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

This is a really biasaed and uninformative article.

This article is not biased, but it isn't very good. Rohtul Xel 06:27, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

"This kind of merchant is not well liked." What other kind of merchants are there? Either way, I'm not sure if this represents general consensus. Who is the authority on classifying merchants, anyway. Finally, I think the best source for something like this would be the editorials on Rune Tips. They're generally unbiased about subjects like merchanting, and offer some solid research on inflation in the Runescape economy. --Jakfr0st 17:27, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Becuase of the dynamic nature of the RuneScape economy, is it even worth it to try and include prices in this article? --Jakfr0st 17:31, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

This article is in need of a lot of editing. Endasil 01:37, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I mean, it doesn't even mention the cow hide market!Mathwhiz90601 04:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Money Drain 2 Black kiteshields 3 Price Setting 4 Biased Article

[edit] Money Drain

Has anyone else noticed that Jagex has been attempting a large-scale money drain over the past few years? I mean, if you look at the last year or two's worth of updates, you can see that Jagex is obviously implementing a money drain: construction, basically being a money-based skill, the dragon cannon, repairs on armour...these are all things that Jagex has implemented that give limited reward for a LOT of money, money that exits the economy. The problem with that is, while it may close the $$ gap between poor and rich players, it actually drives the poor players into merchanting rares, stuff that does nothing for the economy.

The whole imbalance started when we were given high alchemy, and then the most sought-after items were only available through players. Take rune 2handers or rune large helms, back in the day. They were only available from high level smiths and greater demons. Buying either meant that the money was transferred to another player, but did not exit Runescape, like would happen from buying something from a shop. So this huge imbalance came about, where there was an unlimited, easy source of coinage coming in from high alch, but no incentive to spend that money in stores that would send the money out.

I've always thought that Jagex could be, or should be, buying back all of the rares from players posing as other undercover players. They would just pay the current price and destroy the items, thus saving those rares from being continual sources of income. Though this would cause a hiccup in the economy for a short time, it would eventually help the economy recover from those who get cash purely on day-trading, so to speak. Endasil 01:37, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

You know, that's an interesting theory. It's true that Jagex doesn't like that rares are so expensive, or at least they didn't used to. --Wowbagger421 22:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I also find this interesting, and I havn't seen a single Cracker being sold for over a year now... Anyways; I wouldn't sell a Red Mask if I had one and I'm sure many other players wouldn't sell their rares. Also, this article needs to be sorted out... E.T. Prod U (talk) 17:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Black kiteshields

These are now possible P2P drops, at least from Spiritual Warriors and maybe others. Just an FYI, I don't feel experienced enough to start editing someone else's page.

Black Kiteshields are being dropped by Ice Giants. Ice giants are found both in P2P and F2P. I don't see what you're trying to say. Gn0om 12:35, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Price Setting

I'm pretty sure Jagex sets the prices for many items, most of them being things that require little or no effort to change to a higher value. It seems this applies to a lot of things such as grimy herbs, which usually cost more than their counterparts (If they don't it's usually only a small amount.), and also uncut gems, which nowadays ALWAYS cost much more than the cut gems, which has never happened until recently. This is so that people don't buy uncuts in bulk and cut them all and sell them for more. This is just a thought, but it's what I've believed ever since the Grand Exchange started.

   --96.253.119.114 23:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Biased Article

I agree with some of the people below this, this article has its nit picky bias. A lot of examples below, but here's one I think no ones added-

        It is sometimes claimed that the Grand Exchange ruined the economy and caused massive deflation, but really it just caused increased availability. It is also sometimes claimed that the Grand Exchange ruined merchanting, but in fact merchanting can be done on the Grand Exchange and is often considered even easier to do than before the Grand Exchange.

And in the last sentence, the words Grand Exchange were used too many times, I'll fix it. Also, the words "in fact" cannot be used unless they are a solid example of so. This may be true, but not a solid fact.

Lastly, people on the Talk pages, all over the Wiki, need to stop talking about actual Runescape, but actually about the article, and the way it was written. There is a lot of forums if you have to duel it out over things in the game. -WildWings20