The value of a main before/after free trade

It's interesting that people post threads showing off their mains with like 50+M and some pretty good items, but the feedback is often things such as

- "yeah, it's decent. Mines got like 89M though"
- "not bad, my mains have got about double that"

etc, etc.

Free trade returning not only affects in game economy, it also affects overall economy, which doesn't all tie completely in with money, but usually has some connection. Anyway, now that the free trade system has returned, accounts that beforehand were pretty nice accounts, are now only labled decent, and worth even less money in real life when selling.

What are your thoughts on this? Demand is going up and accounts, ulimately, are soon going to have to be ridiculously good to be sold at any decent price! It's just like the value of a dollar, ever shifting. This applies to all accounts, but with the values, it's mostly "mains", IMO.
Discuss.

I've never attempted to sell an account, with the economy in RuneScape shifting now, due to Free Trade returning, you can't base prices off the G.E anymore. So any items obtained, may or may not have gone down in price. Look at the Bandos Godswords, they've gone down ridiculously, so they're not worth as much anymore. Accounts with high level skills perhaps, such as Agility or Prayer along with the right Combat Skills may still be up to par with a "decent price" but there has to be the money and items that go along with it. It'll eventually sort itself out in my opinion, after getting used to G.E and Trade Limits, it's almost like starting over economically.

For me it blows, because DBones were 5k each, and now they're around 6.1K. Doesn't seem like a big difference but when I buy the amount I need for prayer, it adds up to a big difference

The prices for shit like logs and bones are rising which sucks.

I had 50k rune ess and it crashed from 50gp per ess to 15gp per ess sucks. I haven't checked in a few days but I lost alot in that drop.

Godsword said:

I had 50k rune ess and it crashed from 50gp per ess to 15gp per ess sucks. I haven't checked in a few days but I lost alot in that drop.

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Not talking about items.

It's as you've already said, more skill/work will now be required if you'd like to be deemed amazing, and have an account worth a fair amount of money. This type of skill being multiple 99s (not just two, but 5-7 IMO), and over 150M.

Just my thoughts..

When you talk about value of the main, do you mean levels or cash? Well, of course now 100m isn't as much as it was before free trade but IMO I still think the value of the levels still stay the same.

Mostly the account itself, which oops, does include items and stuff. My bad, tired.