[sidvit]

In the past couple years they added a tax to all GE trades that adds gold to a pool. Part of the pool is deleted and the other part is used to buy back items from players on the market which then also deletes them. This has helped with some rarer boss/raid items but the game still has a real issue with base resource inflation (runes/logs/etc) because the trend recently has been adding these drops to boss tables.

[LordDragonfang]

>base resource inflation (runes/logs/etc) because the trend recently has been adding these drops to boss tables.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't that lead to price deflation? I definitely remember skillers complaining about the price deflation effect that the huge quantities of boss drops had on the price of logs and herbs.

And runes were/are the outlier, because everyone hates runecrafting and Jagex kept pumping demand with FSOA and arch ancients (smoke cloud?) making other combat styles obsolete, or at least making magic a mandatory switch for top level PVM?

[sidvit]

Yeah sorry, that's what I'm getting at. The most optimal way to get many supplies now is solely through bossing rather than actually doing the skills. These bosses also drop huge piles of them so their prices have crashed like crazy (herb seeds are one big example)

Runes were the outlier before the rc minigame was added. Bloods have crashed like crazy the past year, nature runes are almost at alch value, which is kinda funny

[kevviiinn]

Resource inflation means too much of a resource, not too much of a price per resource