Why not just add runecrafting as another skill. Runes get cheaper and skillers get another skill to make them happy. win win. lol
In turn the rune essence would be the expensive items and rune's themselves would drop in price across the board.. People would still make money and Pkers would be happy with cheaper runes and more access to them.
It also doesn't help that since there is no P2P PK all the f2P items are more expensive and P2P items are dirt cheap. bloods are like 200 or less Deaths are 250+ in AH, Sharks are like 250.. Swordfish are 400+.. the supply and demand of the market is sorta off kilter because not many people like P2P wildy..
There is a reason why PKers prefer F2p pking. The battles with magic builds (flats, 90s) are very 3hit heavy and the wars last 5minutes. After a quick fight the wild is dead for hours.
I got enogh gear to PK but I see a lot of PKers struggling. It would be best for everyone to make pking gear more common. I mean the server already has tons of rare items and the price of those items will continue to go up. Forcefully changing the price of those items would shift the market... not something as common as death runes or rune armour. There already is hardened rune, trimmed armour and some type of armour I am not exactly aware of that is much more expensive than regular rune items. Rune armour and death runes is mainly used for pking. And if a new player really wants rune armour to start out he/she can probably get it just by asking people in edgeville. But if you are someone who is not good at pking but wants to PK, starting out is hard and being ganked and donating tens of rune sets is not fun. New players will give up trying real quick.
Solo Ironman made a great point, you use tons of runes while pking. And new players will be ganked and they will struggle to find a team. And if they do find a team, the forts bank loot will not be shared with them easily. They don t have enough chars to keep up with the pking and only using 1 char is not enough when you are being outnumbered. Keeping all the chars geared is hard. If someone tells you they are making tons of money by PKing they are probably not telling the truth.