#Turn the Flood Into Value: A Smarter Fix for Near Reality’s Economy

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fresh fulcrum
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Near Reality’s economy is being flooded by boxes that currently reward normal, fully tradeable items. Because these items can be introduced into the game at a high rate and then freely circulated between players, the result is constant oversupply. As more of the same items enter the game, their value drops, the market becomes unstable, and legitimate progression or grinding feels less rewarding.

A strong fix would be to change box rewards from normal items into Lucky Items instead. Lucky Items would be untradeable to other players and could only be converted into half the original
remn points. On PvP death, instead of dropping the item itself, the player would drop only the alch value of that item.

This change would help in several important ways.

First, it would immediately reduce the amount of tradeable gear and supplies being injected into the player economy. Right now, every box opening has the potential to create more market stock. By making those rewards Lucky Items, the reward still has value to the player opening the box, but it no longer becomes another item endlessly circulating through trades, staking, mule accounts, or resale markets.

Second, it creates a controlled value outlet through remn points. Instead of adding raw items into the economy, box rewards would be converted into a contained reward system. That means players still feel rewarded, but the reward is no longer damaging item scarcity or crashing prices.

Third, the PvP side becomes much healthier. If Lucky Items only drop their alch value on death, that prevents these items from being transferred between players through PvP kills. This closes another loophole where items can continue moving around the game despite originally being intended as personal rewards. PKing still remains rewarding because there is still loot value, but it becomes gold-based value rather than another stream of item duplication entering circulation.

The long-term positive effects would be huge. Item prices would stabilize because fewer tradeable items are constantly entering the market. Grinding, bossing, and other content that normally produces those items would feel more worthwhile again because their rewards would retain value. The economy would become healthier, cleaner, and easier to manage. It also gives staff more control over inflation and item saturation without having to nerf rewards into the ground or remove boxes entirely.

Most importantly, this keeps the excitement of opening boxes alive. Players still get rewarded, still profit, and still have something useful to gain, but the system stops turning into an unchecked item printer.

In short, changing box rewards into Lucky Items that can only be converted to havlf the original remn points, with only alch value dropped on PvP death, would preserve player rewards while protecting the economy from being flooded. It is a simple fix that keeps content rewarding without sacrificing the long-term health of the server.

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Also, I am not against P2W I am for it but, this is exactly why Jagex did Lucky Items for the Squeal of Fortune when it was first released.

fierce kestrel
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So the boxes people pay RWM for you want to make those items half rem value and untradeable ?

fresh fulcrum
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yes

fierce kestrel
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My only issue is half remn value, I could maybe get behind untradeable but having both is too big of a debuff IMO the boxes are way to expensive to make them worthless outside of dopamine

fresh fulcrum
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What about adding additional coins as well?

civic umbra
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Or we could redo remnants again to match market values of items more 1-1 so no matter what, from a box or pvmed, it's relatively worth removing them from the game.

severe canyon
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great stuff, i don't know why or how this hasn't been implemented before, those that open a million boxes at once are too rich and thick to realise what they're doing to the eco

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people will be like "what's the point of buying boxes if i can't sell the items reeeeeee"

mate, ults and regals are overpriced and shit anyway, at least this will bring some balance to the whole conversation

remote cedar
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Yeah well 1.5m worth of remns and perks incoming Friday

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💋

fierce kestrel