Both of these are right! This isn't a commodity market. It's a labor market, the wage is XP. In RuneScape, raw materials are also tickets to XP. process them, that XP opportunity is gone With @maxbittker setting the GOAL to 'level up!' becomes rational to value raw materials >> finished product Mechanism Design is the concept of designing the rules of a system to produce the behavior you want. won the Nobel in 2007. Change the reward & you change the behavior, that's why 1 game isn't…