Influence, Death and Kept Items

I would train with new construction stuff

yep

I love construction

Urgh... the odd quest isn't a source of money, and minigames do not provide an income. So what else gives monetary rewards? Monster drops is usually less than 10k gp - and the monsters which drop it, this will barely pay for the fight; quests, that's one in a blue moon that provides a coin reward; Pest Control, probably the largest non-Alchemy source of gold in the game; and stores. As a low level stores are the largest source of income - you get more money selling your Bronze and Iron equipment there than you do on the GE. But why does this not continue as you get higher level? Or why can't this, rather. Receiving loot to sell happens everywhere in the game - but the fact remains, the other players needs the money to pay for it (unless they trade items). The source of money is, currently, Alchemy - other sources are too little.

It's amazing aint it

*reads 3mpty's post*

In response to 3mpty...there also is this new pking loot system...that will be sending loads of money in...

Ok, here's my opinion:

Influence
Sorry, but I'm not entirely persuaded. I believe the current quest point system works quite fine. I'm not so sure if Influence should affect selling prices either...

Death
No thanks. Although I agree that the current Respawn system is flawed, I would not like a rip-off of World Of Warcraft. Again, the ideas are pretty good, but I'm not entirely convinced.

Items Kept On Death
Durability? Sounds a lot like WoW . I do agree with the "stacks" counting as a single item.

I prefer to keep RuneScape original in as many ways as possible. All the ideas you mentioned would certainly improve RS, but I wouldn't like to see them all implemented.
Do you mind if I try building on them? I'm sure I can come up with some original variations.

The PvP doesn't bring money into the game, it brings items that you have to sell - players require money to buy those items off you. There is an exception, those little figurines, which an NPC buys. Again, NPCs buying items is one of the few non-Alchemy sources of money because the NPC has an unlimited amount.

Durability, Wear, Charge, etc. Whatever you want to call it. It could be a percentage - finding your items could be a 10% decreases (as in, knock of the value of 10, not multiplied by 0.9). By all means, give it a rewok!