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TWIRP Special Indexes Report and Analysis (2008/02/25) TWIRP Index Values (2008/02/18)

This is the TWIRP report covering price changes and economic trends for the week of February 18, 2008. Please read on for a summary of TWIRP index results, and be sure to check out the subsections for more index reports, charts and details.

If you are new to TWIRP and have not yet learned about how it works, I recommend reading either the sections Understanding TWIRP and TWIRP Index Details, or the more concise TWIRP Quick Guide. Without that background you may have a hard time understanding this report.

Global Composite Yield (TWIRP): 97.5 -1.5% q
Skill Composite Yield (TWIRP-S): 98.2 +0.1% p
Combat Composite Yield (TWIRP-C): 96.2 -3.2% q
Key Items Affordability (TWIRP-X-KEY): 102.2 -1.4% q

Advancing Items: 129 (42.6%)
Declining Items: 128 (42.2%)
Unchanged Items: 46 (15.2%)

Item "Winner" of the Week: Potato cactus: +59.1% pppp
Item "Loser" of the Week: Banana tree seed: -25.7% qqqq

Index "Winner" of the Week: High-Level Herb Drop Value: +4.9% p
Index "Loser" of the Week: Herb Seed Drop Value: -10.3% qqq

Crude Volatility Index (TWIRP-X-VOL): 457.1

This past week saw a bit of a slump in RuneScape’s markets, with the TWIRP Global Composite Yield index dropping 1.5% to 97.5. The biggest factor in this decline was a spike in combat supplies costs, causing the Combat Composite (TWIRP-C) to drop by 3.2%; in contrast, skills were roughly neutral. The Key Items Affordability index also drooped, by 1.4%, on rising supplies costs, which ran the gamut from food and potions to ranging ammo.

Many of the trends in recent weeks seemed to persist, once again, though there were a few surprises. The seemingly never-ending drops in seed prices continued when examined on the whole, though there was some rebounding in higher-level seeds. The prices of many key types of equipment went down, yet treasure trail items increased.

With the recent overhaul of Bounty Hunter, it should be interesting to see if next week’s report will show movement in any of the goods most commonly used by PKers. It doesn’t seem likely that the new Farming minigame will have much of an influence on the market, due to the low value of its rewards, but of course, this could change if Jagex tweaks it.

For more indexes, reports and analysis, be sure to read the subsections below. Otherwise, see you next week.

TWIRP Special Indexes Report and Analysis (2008/02/25) TWIRP Index Values (2008/02/18)