I think I read if it gets enough votes for a small development team they may add rares into via holiday events like they did back in the day. And Yea I think it might be smart for them to start everyone with 100k-1M but we'll see.
Starting with cash would be the dumbest idea. Make a bot to make 100 accounts, at 100k per account you'd be getting 10m, at 1M per account it'd be 100M. You could probably make 300 accounts per hour if you had the right bots, so that'd be a lot of cash. Price of gold would be like .2/M as you would be buying in amounts of 10M as you could get 100k or 1M easily.
But majority of people are going to have higher combat stats than fishing or RCing or mining etc.
Sure, people will prolly get like 40 fishing, but when their combat level requires them to have sharks and monks and mantas etc, then they're in for a fucking problem in terms of being able to produce those goods through their stats rather than buying them.
lol nah bro it will be a lot longer then 24 hours before nats are in the game from runecrafting.. I say about a week until the first nats are being sold..
I don't even see why nats won't be in in the first 24 hours. Smart players who want to monopolize the nat market will definitely go after nats in the begining. Also I imagine people will camp at chaos druids in the beginning; those drop nats aswell.
Edit: Idk about you guys but im making my own tuna potatos when I get the level. Best food in the game