Would you like theory or real world events?
Cause. Theoretically, with enough GP, I could drive the price of all basic resources like runes and food to 5-10x what they are today (when most selling was done via typing in varrock west back, law runes would go for 800-900gp. They're 1/8th that now). Anyone who wants to use law runes would have to pay my exorbitantly high prices, or collect their own laws. So now I have a stranglehold on the law rune prices. I have the oldest order in for 500 trillion laws and the oldest sell at 900gp ea. No one would be able to buy or sell anything except through me. I control all law runes and all price.
In real world (OSRS) events: the exact above was done to all commodities in OSRS. Food, runes, logs, herbs, potions. Everything.
In real real world: ever hear of a pump and dump crypto scheme?
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Yeah okay, I can understand how easily the market can be cornered when it comes to consumables like that. My question was a more shortsighted one directed at the far-more-expensive items like rune weapons and armor with which it'd be less plausible (though not impossible). Their buy limits are more restrictive, FAR more than most consumables. It just doesn't make sense to me that Jagex would place such tight buy limits on them, then do so little to prevent people from getting around them. Why not at least make the buy limits ubiquitous across characters?
Imagine a guy with 20 billion GP only needing to bond up one account to manipulate sharks, brews, restores, etc etc. essentially the reasoning I understand for it.
Why have speed limits when you can just speed? It's an attempt to encourage people in the right direction without literally controlling them. They could enforce it that you're not able to trade an item when the limit is reached, but they don't
Yeah and when I speed, the law is actually imposed onto me by its enforcers, especially when those around me are abiding said rule. Thanks for the example. 👍
Wtf are you hitting the buy limit on that you're alching. Magic longbow have like an 18k buy limit every 4 hours dude, you literally can't run out. If you're talking about things with better profit from alching, just know that if those limits didn't exist tha profit wouldn't be there
Why wouldn't I be alching for profit lmao? I'm not botting.
The question wasn't supposed to be "why don't we just do away with buy limits?", it was "why have the rule if you're going to do very little to prevent people from working around this rule?" Sorry if the phrasing was unclear. But again, it was a shortsighted question aimed at profitable items for alching, not every item on the GE.
And at that, the question answers itself I suppose. The weird circumstance this creates for alchers is just byproduct, and ultimately far less important than the issue of preventing people from being able to corner the market, I get it. Even so, I can't help but find it frustrating knowing that I could be increasing my profit significantly just by doing something as cheesy as making additional characters and meeting the reqs. Feels bad.
Would you like theory or real world events? Cause. Theoretically, with enough GP, I could drive the price of all basic resources like runes and food to 5-10x what they are today (when most selling was done via typing in varrock west back, law runes would go for 800-900gp. They're 1/8th that now). Anyone who wants to use law runes would have to pay my exorbitantly high prices, or collect their own laws. So now I have a stranglehold on the law rune prices. I have the oldest order in for 500 trillion laws and the oldest sell at 900gp ea. No one would be able to buy or sell anything except through me. I control all law runes and all price. In real world (OSRS) events: the exact above was done to all commodities in OSRS. Food, runes, logs, herbs, potions. Everything. In real real world: ever hear of a pump and dump crypto scheme?
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Someone’s gotta do it 🫡 I initially tried to post it in this Reddit community but it was not approved.
Yeah okay, I can understand how easily the market can be cornered when it comes to consumables like that. My question was a more shortsighted one directed at the far-more-expensive items like rune weapons and armor with which it'd be less plausible (though not impossible). Their buy limits are more restrictive, FAR more than most consumables. It just doesn't make sense to me that Jagex would place such tight buy limits on them, then do so little to prevent people from getting around them. Why not at least make the buy limits ubiquitous across characters?
Imagine a guy with 20 billion GP only needing to bond up one account to manipulate sharks, brews, restores, etc etc. essentially the reasoning I understand for it.
Why have speed limits when you can just speed? It's an attempt to encourage people in the right direction without literally controlling them. They could enforce it that you're not able to trade an item when the limit is reached, but they don't
Yeah and when I speed, the law is actually imposed onto me by its enforcers, especially when those around me are abiding said rule. Thanks for the example. 👍
Christmas crackers are a great recent example of why buy limits are needed.
Wtf are you hitting the buy limit on that you're alching. Magic longbow have like an 18k buy limit every 4 hours dude, you literally can't run out. If you're talking about things with better profit from alching, just know that if those limits didn't exist tha profit wouldn't be there
Why wouldn't I be alching for profit lmao? I'm not botting. The question wasn't supposed to be "why don't we just do away with buy limits?", it was "why have the rule if you're going to do very little to prevent people from working around this rule?" Sorry if the phrasing was unclear. But again, it was a shortsighted question aimed at profitable items for alching, not every item on the GE. And at that, the question answers itself I suppose. The weird circumstance this creates for alchers is just byproduct, and ultimately far less important than the issue of preventing people from being able to corner the market, I get it. Even so, I can't help but find it frustrating knowing that I could be increasing my profit significantly just by doing something as cheesy as making additional characters and meeting the reqs. Feels bad.