Runescape's brand new update is called The Grand Exchange. The idea is to allow players to put up items they want to sell, and allow any other player on any world to be able to buy those items without a need for a formal trade. Also, there are security measures to keep somebody from trading too much for too little - or for merchanting. And this is where this whole thing sucks: you can't make money anymore by buying low and selling high. I remember when I was able to buy rune ore for like 15k and sell it for 25k. Not anymore! Now you have to buy it at the same price that you can sell it, which means: no profit. And finally, Jagex has now squashed merchanting. All players will now have to resort to skilling and PKing in order to gain money.
Last week, they placed a cap on staking. So, even less ways of making gold coins in Runescape now! Great!
hink it's first come first served. For example, if 10 people are trying to sell at minimum price, the first one sold will be the one who put in their order first.
This makes it very important to find out when they update the prices. If you're trying to sell an item that is overpriced by the exchange, it's critical to get your order in at the minimum as soon as the price ticks down. Same thing if you're buying an item that's underpriced.
---> Anyone know when they update prices BTW?? I know it's in the early AM Eastern time.
This is why I think the whole 5% rule stinks. If I need to get some cash quickly, I should be able to sell items for like 20% below market to get my money right away. And if I need to get a rune scimmy to go PKing, I don't want to wait 4 hours to finally get my order done. I want to pay whatever it takes to get it now.
And yeah, it would be nice to see the actualy buy/sell offers. I'd like to know if there are 500 rune sets to be sold before they get to me. Then I wouldn't bother putting in a sell offer, I could sell something else instead.
This is horrible for us smither/miners. Go on the forums, RIGHT NOW. Compare the forum price of coal to the EG price, and you'll see the horror. Everyone is trying to sell out, get their cash, because they KNOW the market is going to crash. The force of Low Prices vastly exceeds the price of pre Nov. 26. I have 18k coal that I bought at 180 ea, and I don't want to lose so much money. Now fortunately, I still have time. I smith addy, and the addy GE min is in my range, but I predict that I have less than three days to save my cash, or crash.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Runescape's The Grand Exchange Update
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Mechscape Links
I found some more Mechscape links to provide better information. The first mechscape website is of course http://www.mechscap.com (you can check this fact yourself because lots people are claiming that THEIR website is #1).
A Yahoo group is also formed for Mechscape related discussion. They are a Russian group that speaks in English.
In real world news, here's a pretty cool sketch (notice the copyright by Jagex) of some spaceships for the Mechscape game. These will later be used to model the 3D spacecraft vehicles and put inside the game. I think you'll be able to purchase these vehicles and fly them around.
are up to. By closely analyzing the attached sketch, you can see how the spacecraft transforms into a robot of various shapes. So the robots ARE the vehicles themselves. They switch shapes like transformers! This is indeed a great discovery.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Player Guides on Zybez
Now, the public can write guides on Runescape Community and they will appear on Zybez Runescape Help.
Here's a list of the ones that are on there now:
Pretty cool :-D If you want to get your own guide published there, start off here. Sphere: Related Content
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Mechscape Screenshots and Pics
Here are some pics from Thomas Woode's website (he works for Jagex, the creators of Mechscape and Runescape)
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And if that isn't enough to convince you, here's something I made. :-)
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Age of Conan Game
Everybody was waiting for Age of Conan to come out and as we all know, it's been delayed.... which sucks big time. FunCom, the company making AoC is probably inexperienced and I think it's known for delays. The game is good. I wouldn't say it's revolutionary. If you want to see revolutionary, try Bioshock (style, story, etc) or Crysis (graphics, directx10, etc).
So... the question persists: Why Age of Conan? What's so good about it? Well, according to ConanHQ, there will be "large scale siege warfare" and "player built cities". Cool. To me, this seems another example of experimentation where there is a lot of potential but we're not sure if the developers took advantage of it 100%. I'm really excited to make my own cities (being an RTS lover); however, there's that lingering doubt in my mind. What if the city making system is ... crap? Instead of Age of Empires-like system, it is something like Tribal Wars (yes, that online game)?
I have hope though. FunCom isn't completely inexperienced. They made AnarchyOnline after all.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
More Mechscape and FunOrb Clues?
I promised you that if I came across any new Mechscape-related news, I'd tell you about it. Well, I have. It comes from a press release by Jagex Ltd. In it, Andrew Gower says:
“I, like the rest of Jagex, am excited about how Geoff will lead the business. There are many exciting projects in the pipeline and we can't wait to further improve our service and the games we offer.”
Obviously, Jagex doesn't want to put all their eggs in one basket. So no doubt, they're using their money and momentum to keep going and make more games.
Also, check out these FunOrb logos. (FunOrb is another name that Jagex has trademarked).
