People would just stop using the AH.

People would just stop using the AH.

The opposite of this has been proven with other games in the past. And I understand the prices are good and economy is booming. But there is still mad amounts of money in the game. There is still a verry verry small amount  removed. IMO there is too much money in the game right now. Has nothing to do with the economy booming or not, it only has to do with how much money is added vs how much is removed from the game. The value of gold isn't changing ever.... I would like to see it go up and be worth something again.

Skill-capes are a huge gold sink if people bought them for each skill they had maxed. Maybe we need more incentives to buy the capes such as fishing cape makes slightly more likely to catch a fish, cook's cape like a pair of cooking gauntlets, mining cape makes you more likely to get the ore, and that type of thing. Plus batched bonus for the relevant skill if the skill batches. Then I think people would be sinking more gp into them.

I bought a cooking cape saw the stats and abilities (lack of in this case) and laughed at the 500k I had just dropped.... Just saying.

Mills for useless capes or mills for exp..... not a hard choice

What about offer special subscriptions that only last a limited time.
2m - 3 days extra batching
2m - 3 days bonus exp (same or lower than plat or gold sub)
3.5m - combination of the 2m subs
5m - 3 days extra batch and 5 days bonus exp.
5m - 3 days bonus exp and 5 days extra batch.

More can be added or these changed and yes this would make cash paid subs go up in price.