Crashing a RuneScape encomeny...i will tell you why you cant

Mckennant · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 5:10 pm

Pepole are always say that too much money is being put in to rs and that sone the encomey would crash .so i got into deep thought ...and finaly it hit me! the only reson the encomeny has not crashed is because of the SHOP'S think about it how much money do u spend on shops each week?
10k....20k .now try to think of everone spensing that much on shops

..What i am saying is that it is alomst inposble to crash the "encomey"

srry bout the spelling i type really fast

Adbot · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 5:10 pm

Anubis · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 5:12 pm

I dont understand what your arguement is? I rarely ever used a shop...

Problem with the runescape theft *cough* economy, is that as soon as a new item comes out, first person to get it sets a price of 50 million gp. :roll:

Skate_Ilkley · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 5:41 pm

I think it would crash if somehow everyone managed to get any item they wanted... or any skill level they wanted.

Christopher · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 6:45 pm

There is no point here...the economy in runescape will never crash because it is a game. The game is subsidized by Jagex. If it ever came close to losing its appeal they'll just add more stuff. Trust me they could add a lot of cool stuff if it ever came to that.

Chris · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 6:55 pm

Anyone who thinks a game economy will crash is a moron. :-s

Mckennant · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 7:10 pm

true..pepole in hq where saying that it was going to crash...i have herd a few pepole say it in hear...there is a nother reson its a game

Adbot · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 7:10 pm

Robbie · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 7:19 pm

Not only is that the stupidest argument I have ever heard about anything in my entire life...

But the fact that you put deep thought into this makes it even worse.

No offense, but I'm sorry, this is just so unbelievably inadequate as an argument that I can't possibly think of anything nice to say.

Sorry.

I think i spend at most about 2 gp a week at stores, because the only stores that I need to buy stuff are tinderboxes/hammers/etc. from the general stores. There are so few stores that sell decent stuff, and all (yes, ALL) of them are so overpriced that if some of them were taken away in the next 5 minutes, I wouldn't even consider thinking about caring.

axl 14 · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 7:29 pm

ya..no1 above lvl like 50 uses stores much cause they can just buy from players...so i never use store....

Dave · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 7:58 pm

skate_ilkley wrote:

I think it would crash if somehow everyone managed to get any item they wanted... or any skill level they wanted.

Well ofcoruse it would. There would be no market if everyone had what they wanted.

The ecomny will not crash. It just doesn't work that way. People are constantly buying and selling stuff, getting new things and loosing other things. It just balances out. As for the stores, I don't think a lot of people spend 10k to 20k a week on them. I rarely use stores at all.

All I have to say is that the ecomony is going to stay put.

Heres an interesting thing Shane wrote on his blog relating to the ecmony:

Shane wrote:

Stabilizing I thought Last Night

Please read this all even though it is quite long,

Last night when I was going to bed I thought that the Runescape economy was begining to stabilize. However today we see the reports of Death talismans, which of course is good and reports of new weapons (dark axe). Once again the balance is thrown off. Now it is only the first day after the update, hours actually. However as the Runescape economy is there are three main classes of people, the people who get these drops, we’ll call them millionaires in this post; then there is the class of people who are able to buy what they need to buy in order to be successful but are not always running a surplus, I put myself in this group; finally we have the people who have nothing depending on their level. Now I am not complaining about controlling the economy, this should be done in no such way.

I felt it necessary today to look at the situation after the update, it comes to me that when there was no update last week the market was rather stable. The supply/demand issue is at hand here. Eventually Jagex will need to increase levels so that they may go beyond 99. There will eventually be too much of a “supply” of high levels therefore creating an imbalance in the economy. Right now today, is a perfect situation where there is a good deal of demand on products such as weapons (whip, dark axe [if exists] veracs, guthan etc..) it is a perfect situation where eventually I believe the market would or or will crash if the market is not balanced either by decreasing demand of these products (unlikely) or increasing the maximum level(unlikely). So as you can see I am not sure where this is all leading in the bigger schemes of things relating to economy. Many players do not enjoy or take interest in examing this part of the game however it is critical to know how to spend your money and how to save.

I will later be doing the new quests. Will have some pics.

S12088

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** January 27th, 2006, 9:06 pm

We can only imagine the outcome if we didn't have shops:

-waiting in long lines for bread and water
-rampant crime
-children dying

Seriously now, the economy of a game might be interesting to think about sometimes as it helps you understand the basics of how an economy works..but the fact always remains that it's a game that is controlled.

Christopher · **Posted:** January 28th, 2006, 1:20 am

Interesting article dave. I don't think runescape will make the switch to higher lvls for a long time why. Higher lvled players would easily move up to the next high point due to the amount of money they have and the time they have. The gap between low lvl and high lvl would increase to a huge amount. More liekly is that eventually jagex will introduce a new version, readjest the current lvls and add new skill and rework combat...just like the did in the last major update. By doing this they can change the face of the game and respark everyones interest.

Lisaz · **Posted:** January 28th, 2006, 1:34 am

the economy will cradh if they make a nature staff or something that we use it always

Rapidash · **Posted:** January 28th, 2006, 2:54 am

If it gets to a point where it would "crash", as Mushroom Queen stated earlier, it's controlled. If it can crash, Jagex wouldn't allow it to. That would ruin RS.

MattVortex · **Posted:** January 28th, 2006, 9:29 am

It is possible to crash the runescape economy. But it would require the spontaneous and simultaneous closing of every single runescape forum with a marketplace there is. Particularly the wto biggest: runescapecommunity and tip.it

After all the marketplaces are gone, most players will find it quite difficult to get larger amounts of items, and basically every item in the game that is bought and sold regularly will shoot up in price. Items like ores, bars and runes will be most effected. This sudden raise of price will cause hardly anyone to buy and sell anymore, and so the prices of everything will shoot down. There. You've crashed the runescape economy.

But the spontaneous closing of every runescape forum in existence is not going to happen. So I think we're safe. And even if it dd happen, the economy would eventually restabilise. However many prices would be completely different.

sam3611 · **Posted:** January 28th, 2006, 11:57 am

God point,I never really thought abou this,but I want like 4 xmas crackers to crack,so there price will jump a few mil. :twisted: