In 2 months the only update thus far has been Nerfing skills. There are much better ways to efficiently gold-sink other than Nerfing every good way to make money.

Thieving

Thieving was effectively Nerfed because of botting and/or people thieving on 5 accounts. How is this fair to the majority of players that only play on one account and don't bot. In my 11 years of playing RSC private servers, I've never seen thieving nerfed this way.

A better solution

Reduce the sucess rate and/or Batch Rate so the only way to effectively thieve on 5 thievers is if you're botting. This will make it obvious who is cheating and who isn't

RuneCrafting

The skill is completely useless now. In fact, you're better off firemaking. Least you won't lose money! This skill is extemely slow. In the time it takes to get 90 RuneCrafting (100+ hours) you could cut twenty thousand magic trees. Rewards may seem high for Souls, but in reality it's only around 1M per hour. The walk is very long and unless you're 117+ combat you get attacked by ogres nonstop.

A better solution

* Increase the amount of Runes given with all Runes. Making any type of Rune currently loses money factoring in Essence Cost, with an exception for Double Natures which requires 92+ RuneCrafting and Shilo Village completed

* Increase Ogre Level otw to Soul Altar from 58 to 62. This will make them aggressive to everyone. Expand on this by adding more Ogres to the area to make it a difficult trip

* Reduce Souls from 1.5K to 1K

Effective Gold Sinks

Just a few ideas

* Higher Portal Cost after death for NO portal timer. Current portal times after death are fuckin' terrible. This mainly applies to stakers. If you want to wait 90 seconds for a free ride, by all means wait. Most stakers would bypass the wait for a fee

* Degradeable Skilling Boosters to be bought for GP in an in-game Store. The should not be a cheap XP booster, but an effective gold sink with a small XP boost per hour for a high price

* We have different colored feathers in helms, expand on that with other kinds of small cosmetic changes to other armour pieces. Make this look good and cost a lot

* Automated Lottery with 10% Tax

* Organized PvP with Buy-Ins and 10% Tax

Staff says they're trying to save the economy. I hope that's true and these Nerfs aren't a way to sell more subs. Prove me wrong and fix underlying issues rather than nerf them. It will not matter people can make 1M/hour a year from now when the game is mass flooded with gold. Effective sinks that do not affect the game in a negative way is the best solution. Any other good ideas, please post below.