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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Money sinks&#039;&#039;&#039; (also known as &#039;&#039;&#039;gold sinks&#039;&#039;&#039;) are ways for [[Jagex]] to remove in-game items and money from the system, usually to prevent inflation, and keep the price of items at a moderate level. Various methods of acquiring raw materials, such as [[Mining]], [[Fishing]], and [[Woodcutting]] exist, generating consistent amounts of money into the economy each day. Money sinks are an attempt to keep the money that is being generated from creating unwanted and excess inflation.<br /> <br /> == Examples ==<br /> *[[Construction]] - Large amounts of money must be spent on items such as [[marble block]], [[gold leaf]], and [[magic stone]]s at shops, and are not attainable any other way.<br /> *[[Summoning]] - Ingredients for making familiars and pouches must be bought from Summoning shops at some point.<br /> *[[Shops]] - Money is removed from the game when players buy from them, however these also return some of the money if a player sells to a shop<br /> *[[Degradation]] of armour such as [[Barrows armour]], [[Nex armour]]s and Chaotic equipment - requires a fair amount of money to be repaired and needs to be repaired regularly.<br /> *[[Mobilising Armies]] - Players must exchange raw materials and skill-related by-products to get investment points which can only be used in this activity.<br /> *Tolls - Such as boat rides.<br /> <br /> ==Shortfalls==<br /> Money sinks do not work as effectively as intended, shown by near constant inflation:<br /> *Players may consider training money sink skills to be wasteful and unrewarding for money spent.<br /> *Some methods may be unpopular or only available to higher-levelled players or [[members]].<br /> *Changes have rendered some methods no longer effective, such as [[gravestone]]s increasing the amount of time a player has to recover their items.<br /> *Many updates [[Jagex]] have implemented have reversed many of the methods they put in previously.<br /> *Some toll prices can be reduced or avoided through different methods.<br /> [[Category:Economy]]<br /> [[Category:Mechanics]]</div>

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