Submitted by Stasik50
My friends and me were once talking about earning GP, when I started wondering if it was possible for the value of the Gold Coin to decrease like the American Dollar. The more money in the sytem, the less that currency is worth, right? After a few minutes of pondering, I realized that this was not possible because the big “J” has implemented a few factors into the game that do not allow this to be possible.
The first one is probably obvious. The players with lots of gold quit and when they do, the money pretty much leaves the system because the coins will never go to another player who might be able to use it Of course, they may give it out in the Falador Party Room, but lower-leveled players leave the game even more often than the more higher ones. The second one is the one most players might not suspect…Summoning. “What do you mean?” you might ask. Where do the Spirit Shards and Pouches come from? Players can’t make them, and the only way you can actually acquire them is to buy from NPCs. Well where do the Coins go when you buy the shards and pouches? They get destroyed. And the amount of Shards and Pouches needed to get to 99 Summoning is 120 Million gp! The amount is never achieved by most players.
That’s all I could think of for now, and hopefully I have answered some of your guy’s questions out there :).
You are referring to cash sinks. Here are a few of the other sinks for you:
Banning: This one is obvious. There are millions daily lost on banned accounts. Gold farmers in particular are targeted and tend to have a lot of gold on one account.
Shops: This isn’t so big any more, but it used to be huge before the GE, especially rune and arrow shops.
Barrows: Let’s say there were 10,000 sets out there on average, and that they had to be repaired three times every month (about 1.5 hours of combat training per day). 10,000 sets * 3 times * 1 month * 330k gp/time = 9.9bil gp drained.
Farming: Farmer payments are very expensive and in general not necessary. Why? The payments are worth more than a seed. Only about 1 in 10 trees die, so you have to multiply the cost by 10.
Here is another article on the topic from Duke Freedom, you can see I paraphrased part of it:
http://tip.it/runescape/index.php?times=6
Thanks for your addition, never even thought about the Barrows and Farming one.
For the link, thanks too. Much better than my article lol
Thanks Again,
Stasik50
Construction was desined to be the giant money hole that it is. 1500gp to turn 1 mahogany log into a plank definitely adds up.
And you’re right about Summoning. What gets me is that it was stated that it wasn’t designed to be a money hole skill like Construction is. But in the end, it is. Those shards start to add up when you get around mid level.
Also, there’s the daily pay that your kingdom takes for harvesting materials for you.
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