[First Post]Flyboy's Guide To RSGP

A Definitive Guide to Increasing RSGP
By Flyboy





Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Budget
o Starting Out
o Goals
o Acceptable Loss
• Methods
o High Alchemy
o Enchanting
o Arbitrage
o Investing
o Specials
• My Personal Example
 The Bot Ban Exploit
 
Introduction

I have been playing Runescape since the end of 2001. Over this time I have owned many rares, started clans, pked and had more accounts than I could ever imagine. I soon learned of mouse keys and got my first 99… mining. Soon after the first bots started to appear and leveling became all too easy but I had something different in mind. I began to bot on two accounts for coal. Slow and steady I would fill their inventories, trade them for coal certs, and bank them. At the end of the week I would go to Varrok palace and sell them. Money came in fast but it was slow and tedious so I got my friends to join and before I knew it I made my first Million. This got me enthralled and over the years I came up with a system that has kept me a steady flow of RSGP. In this guide I will explain what you will need to safely and continuously make RSGP in a fast and short time as possible. Some research is required on your part but it is minimal and widely available through resource websites, such as the Runescape Wikia and RuneHQ. So let’s get started

Budget

Starting out

Before anything is started I will quote Titus Maccius Plautus.
“You have to spend money to make money”
You will need capital for my methods. I could sit here and tell you every single money making tip but it would be worthless. It would be ridiculous to tell you how to make money in every skill level, what most money making methods depend on, because the information is widely available. My method is I knock out the first couple of magic experience quests then go to the Mage Training Arena. At 33 magic you are able to attain pizazz points in all areas. It may take some time and will cost you runes but buying Infinity gloves, Infinity Hat, and the mages’ book will make you millions. Once you get the hang of it I estimate my income at about 200k-400k an hour but I get amazing magic experience, combined with my other ways of making money it is no wonder I am close to 200,000,000 XP. If you want to start fast then buy your initial gold through Real World Trading. Prices are about $.25/1,000,000 RSGP. 5 bucks and you got 10mil.

Goals

You have to understand what you really want to accomplish. 99 in a skill can run from 120mill to 300mil easily. If you just want to buy the best gear or even a party hat it will take time. This method is fast but it isn’t overnight. You have to tweak this guide and plan accordingly. I have used my methods to power level, buy the best gear (Sadly usually when they come out just to have it first) and get a rare to look pretty. Set your goals and achieve them realistically. You want 99 in a skill get it but also look at the way you can make a return off of that skill. I have 99 smithing and found out that by making Dragon plate bodies I can make close to a million an hour or 500k an hour making rune bars. Your goals can assist in money making drastically.

Acceptable Loss

You’re gonna lose money sometimes. It is life. Every attempt at Arbitrage (You call it flipping) you initially lose money to establish profit. You have to know what to you an acceptable loss is. At the time of typing this I may have made a loss of 2 million GP. I have an investment in a rare that might not pan out the way I wanted it too. It happens to anyone. I am fully aware that this could have happened. This to me is an acceptable loss. The easiest way to find out what your acceptable loss is to take you bank and think “How much could I live without”. I always choose a maximum of 30 percent. I have put 90 percent of my entire bank ( I sold all high priced items, runes, herbs, seeds, leather, etc.) once for an investment I will explain later on but 30 percent of my cash stash is usually my max. Just look at your bank and decide what is best for you. It is better to deal with RSGP only at first because this is easily replaced instead of let’s say drygores.




Methods


High Alchemy
My greatest friend for money making. More wealth has come to my possession thanks to this nifty spell. As I type this I am high alching black d’hide bodies and have royal vambraces waiting. This is a 1.6mil profit and with mouse keys I will be done by tomorrow (More on this later). Using this method is a very safe way of making money with a little research. When an item is under its high alch values buy it. Buy as much as you can. Not just one but multiple. I suggest do it the moment you realize it. I always have a minimum of 20,000 nature runes. I hit 99 magic before I hit 40 constitution. Just remember this formula for High Alchemy.


Item Cost (GE) + Price of Nature Rune = X

X – High Alchemy Value = #

If # is positive it is a profit

# * GE Purchase limit = Total Profit

This can be done every 4 hours. You can cast on average 800 per hour but with mouse keys closer to 1000 so with my d’hide bodies I can get 250k an hour which is not the greatest but later I will explain how to combine methods to make millions an hour.

Psychology
Now how do you choose an item? Use your head. Think about the power leveler. He will buy all the materials for 99 and craft them and then… sell it as fast as possible. I mostly find leather goods but even some rune items have turned up below high alch value. I find dragon bodies to be the go to for me. There was a day when green dragon bodies had almost a full 300RSGP profit (I think near fall of 2012). I usually stick with d’hide bodies and plate bodies. They are always under their high alch value because of power leveling. They are selling these items for low and cheap to get a turnaround for their next 99.

Enchanting
I usually do the ring of dueling but I made some bank off of sapphire bolts. The profits are not as high with alchemy but RSGP per hour can be faster since the bolts and runes stack. With mouse keys and I constant supply of sapphire bolts (Just had a huge buy that I waited to fill over a couple of days) I made close to 1mil and hour in profit.


Psychology
Because of the prayer draining effect these bolts sapphire bolts (e) sell very well and turn a profit. Rings of dueling speed up collecting (Monster Drops, etc.) and some skills (Ecto). The profit is minimal but is relatively safe and remains the same.

Arbitrage
Also known as Flipping is kind of risky but can turn a decent profit. I suggest sticking with runes, ores, arrows, bolts, and logs. The fact that you can buy 25,000 every four hours makes these my go to items. I can usually get about a 3-8 RSGP difference on these items. That’s 75,000-200,000 RSGP in profit but with all six trade blocks that is 450,000-1,200,000. This can be done pretty constantly because every individual rune, log, etc. has its own buying limit. I usually have four going at a time and just do about a 3 RSGP difference to play it safe. I have yet to lose money and I flip in increments of about 6500. I have never had to wait long to sell for profit but I have had to pull a sale and drop an RSGP or two to clear a space for another arbitrage. To determine the proper costs use the buy and sell test. Buy it for above Market price (Usually 15 percent) and write down what you paid. You will then need to sell the item below Market price (About 15 percent) and write down the price that it was purchased. What you bought it for is the max price to sell it and what you sold it for plus 1 RSGP is the price for you to purchase the items. Any item can be flipped and this is the elementary method to actually flipping an item. I prefer the items I have above but I switch it up sometimes. God Wars Items in another nice item to flip because you can make about a 3000 RSGP profit per item but remember that with a low buying limit and high price it is pretty risky. You can multi-buy to bypass the limit like I do below but it is still a risk.

Investing
Many people do not really touch on this subject very much but you can make some long term investments and feel really safe. Think about the items. There are no more, they will not be more. This is it. I have some items that have amazingly had substantial growth. I try to continue my investments by selling when they are high. My greatest accomplishment was buying a couple of rares during the wildy/free trade ban. I had amassed enough RSGP to buy some during the crash and had an amazing profit. Also use the forums to sell the items instead of the G.E.

Psychology
Around the Holidays people will pay a lot more for Items that match (Santa hats for Christmas, Masks for Halloween). They see this as a status symbol that can profit a good amount of RSGP (10 million over street value for a mask on Halloween). People are afraid that they will go away (Christmas Crackers) so they buy and hold on to it. They may never sell it but later I will let you in on a little secret that can make them yours.


Special
How about doing things the old fashioned way. This includes making armor sets, unfinished potions, cleaning herbs, tanning hides, making planks, cook seaweed into soda ash, make tuna potatoes, etc. these are labor but have a good return. Making planks with spells can net you about 400k RSGP an hour. These are time consuming but can turn an amazing profit.

I also like high priced flipping but damn these can be risky. You have to study graphs and it is very nerve wracking. It also takes a little longer but you can make 500,000- 1,000,000 on one flip. It might take a day or two but when it comes to super expensive items this is a small percentage of the total cost. Be careful though. I have had a Dragon Plate armor set take 3 days to sell (But I also made an easy mil off of it).

Get friendly. A team can increase money making dramatically. Buy the supplies for each other so you can do more at the same time. You want to High Alch and he wants to enchant. Bypass the buying limit by both of you helping each other out…. Or do what I do below.





My Personal Set-up
I use multiple at the same time. I flip at the G.E. and High Alch/Enchant while I wait. Sometimes when I am bored I will start all my Arbitrages and go make planks until they sell. I just rinse and repeat. I make millions a day doing this and while some days are better than others I am making money all day. Multi-tasking is essential to making real RSGP in a short amount of time. Don’t sit there and wait for things to sell. Just do another money making method and have the game chat on. IT WILL UPDATE YOU IN THE GAME CHAT WHEN ANYTHING IS SOLD. This can easily double or triple you income an hour. So much money is wasted by wasting time.
You might be wondering about the buying limit hindering you. I had this problem until I started Multi-logging. It is against the rules but having multiple accounts playing at the same time but really I have never had one of my accounts banned. I have 6 accounts that my wealth is divided too and can run all at the same time using a virtual machine and a VPN. I learned the set-up in a computer science course were we used virtual machines to check downloaded items for Malware. It runs like a program and mimics a PC in every way. With this set-up I have all my accounts purchase and flip multiple items at the same time while my main will high alch/enchant/make planks. When I sold RSGP one of these accounts would be Auto Alching while the others were buying more Alching Items and flipping (I have stopped botting completely for a while and do not plan on returning.). My average time for a full arbitrage is 15 minutes. Between each arbitrage I will do a farming run, check on my kingdom, make planks, and check my other accounts. This will mix it up a bit and keep you from suck starting a 9mm. Money will begin to pour in and once you get the hang of it you will see that it is all too easy. I have tried to High Alch on two accounts while flipping on all of them but it got insane. I suggest one account with mouse keys and all accounts flipping instead.


The Bot Ban Exploit
This is the ultimate money maker. It takes a long time (Until recently thanks to Bot watch) and has made me close to a 2-4 billion RSGP profit per item. No one sells there Party Hats or Christmas Cracker in the Grand Exchange. So I, like most players with a max cash stack, would keep it in the exchange with a bid on a Party Hat or a Christmas cracker. I was making good RSGP and never touched my cash stack for about 6 months and they started banning and rolling back people and their banks. I used a color bot that a buddy programed and taught me how to manually update using GIMP and paint so I was not worried. I thought nothing of it until I log on and look what I bought. A Christmas Cracker. I could not believe it. Someone put a Christmas cracker on the Grand Exchange for a max cash stack. So I sold it for 6 billion RSGP in cash, shards and some items. Put the max cash stack back in the Grand Exchange for the same thing and never touched it. Recently Bot Watch hit and knocked out a bunch of max players. I got my Cracker again (Sadly I HEARD one account had multiple so If I had two bids in I could have gotten a 8 Billion RSGP profit) but this one I sold for 5.5 Billion and sold the RSGP to a gold farming site for an easy $800 (Yes I know I could have gotten more but I got bills and shit) and have since been waiting on another to hit except this time I have bids on some more rare Items instead of a cracker because they sell at exactly Grand Exchange Market price. Hint. Hint.

Psychology
The reason I have accomplished this not once but twice is because the community has always wondered, and feared, what happens to rare items that are in the bank of a botter/Lurer/Dicer/etc. Most people who owned these items were the ones above so if they get banned and there bank is deleted we will eventually run out of these items. So Jagex decided that they would put the items on the Grand Exchange and put them back into the economy. The problem is that because of Java the max number of any item is 2.14Billion. This means that by releasing the item back into the Grand Exchange they cannot meet the street value of any item. This is why I have been able to do this. I cannot verify if this will keep happening but it is happening NOW. This is a great tip but it is not guaranteed. The only thing that is guaranteed is that YOU WILL NOT LOSE MONEY BY PUTTING A MAX CASH STACK ON A CHRISTMAS CRACKER. IT IS 100% SAFE.


The Idea for this guide came on June 22, 2013 as I was High Alching Black D'hide Bodies for a 250+ RSGP profit while flipping and watching people talk in the Grand Exchange about there Merching and whatever. I decided to make a guide and post it since I have not seen anyone really combine Money-making methods. The last tid-bit was a strange thing I just fell upon.

 

Very nice, detailed guide you put out here. I appreciate the time and effort you put, seeing as you aren't one of those new accounts that post to scam.

How about methods like gambling?

 

Well if it is dicing I have a method that can make you money but you need a big bank, a dicer with no max limit, and a maximum 60/40 ratio but it also got me banned from allot of FC's. It is not scamming and is legal but they hate it because you will not lose money unless they refuse to let you bet after a loss. As far as any other gambling I stick away from it. I would not tell anyone to gamble or stake to win money.