Herald article: RuneScape & the World of Merchants
This article by Slim50 brings a deeper look at the often talked about and never deeply discussed practice of "merchanting." Enjoy and discuss!...

http://herald.global-rs.com/article55

Herald FTW! Does this mean it's back?

EDIT: Great article Slim

Good article Slim.

Thanks for the praise guys. I hope to write some more articles here and there...along with possibly a follow-up on Proper mercantile practices rather than the side in the article.

Love the article and I hope this will incourage more people to write Heralds (I'm currently workign on one). This topic was a very good choice and I hope to read more articles from you in the future.

Sweet! Gj, Slim.
(nooooo! prayer pots are 15k now)

That's great. Great job!!!

Here's where you guys get to see a little bit of the worst in me. I don't have any problem at all with merchant clans. It is amazing how enterprising some people can be. Manipulation is a part of this game.

Think about it. Safe spots allow you to train range for hours with no ill effect. Chinning at the Ape Atoll can bring in hundreds of thousands of xp per hour. Merchanting can bring in huge profit. Pking is even a bit of manipulation piling on people and luring are still around. These are all forms of manipulation just like that clan is manipulating the price of the prayer pots. Figuring out the fastest, legal way to reap rewards in the game is perfectly okay. This doesn't have to be based on the real world. Are monopolies in the real world bad? Yes, but not in a fictitious game. I say let them manipulate the price. I say let the pkers have their fun. Let the chinners chin the dead monkeys.

Good day.....


I said good day. (Lol... )

And another topic where I completely disagree with you. I'm tired of hearing people complain about "omg, i can't afford bandos, summoning, or w/e it is because of the merch clans. Be smart with your money and pay attention to the market and you won't get ripped off.

I said Good day. I am just playing. I don't see where you disagreed with me. It looked to me like you at least partially agreed with me. I personally don't play that way. I mess around getting measly gains and xp and then I go about my day. RS is simply a way for me to relax while I watch the same episode of Hannah Montana that I have seen a million times. (I have small children and a wife that doesn't like our kids watching mainstream TV even though Disney is as bad as anything else), but I digress.
I am just curious about what exactly it is you disagree with.

Thnks for the feed back.

Well, it is a part of the game. Yes, however Jagex has said its not really in the spirit of the game. I don't think anyone foresaw that people would band together in order to completely choke out an item until a certain price was reached. Given if you can read the G.E. even just to buy things you need you can get a decent bargain when items crash whenever they may.

Given the subject is based on the view of one person.

I never said you didn't have a right to your opinion. I agree that it stinks when I need some p pots but they are really too expensive to buy. So, I guess I could make some and sell low and still make a good chunk of change (if I farm or gather the herbs)

Felter Laur, getting XP by chinning or safespotting is completely irrelevant. Doing so has no direct affect on everyone else. Only the people operating the clan, and the other people that dump early, get any profit. The rest are probably LOSING money. I agree, it's a game, but that doesn't give other players a right to unfairly take away the pixels that some kid spent many many hours wasting their life trying to get.

I must say that the conversations about Runescape sometimes are more fun than actually playing it.
I agree with you for the most part. I wasn't saying that chinning of safespotting were the same as Merchanting? Does it affect everyone else? Absolutely? I don't have alot of cash. I can't afford to chin. So, someone who does have alot of cash can meaning they have an unfair advantage. It isn't an unfair advantage? Sure it is because I say it is?

This is kind of how I feel about Merchanting? If you can see that p pots are being targeted why not join in and make a profit yourself? It isn't illegal, and it can get you what you want.

That being said, I do feel that it is against the spirit of the game and that is why I don't do it.

Perhaps, I should clarify my posts. I am simply giving a different look at some of the subjects to create.....discussion.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say... I am just giving different viewpoints to stir the pot a bit. Nothing hateful mind you. I am being respectful and will continue to be respectful. You guys have your own opinions, and I like to read them.

Thanks,
cjw

By the way guys...here's a great thread that shows my example of what a despicable clan Smokin Mils is.


http://forum.runescape.com/forums.ws?34 ... 315,goto,5
^page 5 look for K77's post. Or just goto the first page and read through it all.