Prices leading up the Bonus Xp Weekend were quite interesting. Many items rose very high, above their normal highs, and dropped extremely fast. Toadflax went from 4800 gp to over 7000 gp. This was the story with almost all herbs. Some people are looking into doing farming, as Strawberry and Sweetcorn seeds rose in price [...]
As most people know, Pvp and the economy are two closely related subjects. I had a nice conversation with a good friend, Chris (xXturtXx) to talk about how these two subjects are related.
Q. What do you think brings the most GP into Runescape via Pvp?
A. I’d have to say statues are the items that bring [...]
Junk Trading and the Economy
In the days after the trade updates a few years ago, and even more after Summoning was released, junk trading became an easy way to trade items over their set prices. The junk trading “community” is made up of mainly high level players. They are the ones who can control the [...]
As the year comes to a close and we prepare for the holiday season, we look back the the economy in Runescape this year. Many of the updates Jagex made this year had a profound effect on the games economy. Many updates did this, but only the most important ones of the year are listed [...]
As the Holiday season begins, people are running all over for Holiday preparations, this week is one of the busiest all year. Jagex planned the release for a new store, probably to put forth their new items for the Holiday season. Our game continues on its winding path, with surprises each and every week.
In major [...]
As the month of November slowly comes to the end, the economy in Runescape is having its usual twists and turns. The merch clans have started to go after a group of items that most of us never use, low level seeds. The clans have started to take seeds such as Nasturtium, Redberry, Tarromin (graph [...]
Economic Headlines- 20 November 2009
Continuing on the downward trend, Guthan’s warspear dropped 113k this week. The entire set (below) itself climbed up about 100k, but had dropped down 82k by the end of the week.
At the start of the month, Infinity Boots began to drop. They dropped a whopping 263k during the week, and I [...]
The pros and cons of the Grand Exchange, and if it had a positive or negative affect on Runescape as a game, and Runescape’s Economy.
Have you ever just jumped into a skill, trying to obtain that high level, only to waste all your money halfway to the end of your goal? A lot of us do this, or did this, for many reasons. We try to compete with others, beat our friends out, and show off to our friends [...]
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