Money Money Money (updated)
My whole RS life at the moment is in pursuit of filthy lucre. I need 26m. Or 26 magic stones for one demon throne and one magic cape rack.
I'm not doing too badly, though I am going against my instincts. There's often an age old decision to be made in most skills and acquisitions: money versus xp. Take, for example, the things that my subjects collect in my realm of Miscellania and Ectceteria. That's where I get all of my 'free' herblore xp from. I have them on 100% herbs and 50% fish. The fish pay for the herbs. I just have to find the secondaries and I'm away. But not this week. This week, I'm cleaning those herbs and shoving them straight onto the GE. The money rolls in, but I have to ignore the lack of herblore xp.
However, I am getting xp in other ways. I'm falling back on those huge money-making skills: farming, runecrafting and slayer. Though I'm not ignoring the rest either. I've put my share of crafted jewellery and longbows into the GE just recently.
I'm also falling back on self-sufficiency. Need some yew logs to get my fletching stones? For months, I've been buying the yew logs off the GE, because time is money and all. Now I'm hanging around the Gnome Stronghold with an axe, adding to the chronic deforestation problem there. Time is money, people scream. But money is also tied up in the GE, flipping common items. I've currenty got 768gp in ready cash to play with.
The flipping isn't going brilliantly. For about three days, my chosen items were shifting well, but then went splat. It's taking two days to flip one item, while the other hasn't bought at all in that time. I think I need to change items.
None of this is helped by the GE, which seems to be on a general go slow at the moment. I'm guessing that this is post-Bonus XP Weekend blues, coupled with the younger players returning to school. Even the most basic items aren't selling, like that steel hatchet that I found on the floor of the GE. The sleeping cap, that I got from a level one clue, won't sell, even at minimum. My kingdom's herbs take a day or two to shift. It's all a bit depressing really.
However, for all these money making woes, I am gaining money. I started with less than 1m and I've now got 6m. I've also got 7.5m with Advisor Ghrimm, that I'd forgotten about, when I made my first calculations. So, if I bankrupt myself and my nation, then sell the Karils, I'll have roughly 20m. That's nearly there! I still have nearly 400k construction xp to gain before I'll want to start spending, so there's still time to make that extra 6m.
Wish me luck! And oooh! Banksale!
Getcha fresh onions here! Organically grown! No preservatives! Hand-picked for your onion pleasure! Clean Harralander! Imported from Miscellania! Getcha wooden spoon here! Salvaged from the GE floor! Boootiful mint cake! Gnome produced and tasty!
>.>
Edit: Too late. The earth tiara has gone. Sold on the GE.
Edit 2: My banksale went great! Teacuptime said that he'd be buying harralander on the GE anyway, so please could he buy mine? Yes! You can!
Then Kayla turned up, because she wanted my sleeping cap so she could a) look pwnage and b) put it in the treasure chest in her house. I was very happy to sell it to her. But there was more. Kayla said, "I find myself in need of some junk." "Oh?" I asked, wise to this lady of old, "What kind of junk?" "All that stuff in your banksale." There was much discussion. She swore black is blue that she really did need it. Even the wooden spoon.
She'd already promised me that it was because she really wanted it, not because she was just helping me out. It was only as we both accepted and I was wooting over the money, that it occurred to me to ask, "Why do you want all of this junk?" Kayla airily wandered away, "Oh, to decorate this floor..." Nooooo! I spam traded to buy it back. She just laughed at me.
:s
After that, Kayla and I went on the Daily Activities run, that Kuemper had linked for us. I'd somehow got it into my head that it was a 20 minute run, which netted you 1m gp. Re-reading it now, I can't see where I got that at all. I'll just have to admit to being an hallucinating nub here. Teacuptime was coming too, but we somehow managed to lose him before we'd left Edgeville Bank. :s With the guide up on half of my screen and Kayla trailing me on the other, we covered the entire of Gielinor, getting stuff. I then sold most of it in the GE. I'd like to tell you that I made lots of money. However, I didn't take note of how much I made before and how much I had afterwards, therefore I haven't got a clue. -.- My guess is that I made lots of money though!
I've currently got 9m + 7.5m (in my kingdom) + Karil's Set towards the 26m needed for construction. :D
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