Where did all the platinum come from?

[kgallowaypa]

I had a discussion with a friend yesterday about where the p99 blue and red economy came from when the server first launched. The server firsts who rushed to 50 then 60 and got geared out of course had access to the top item camps in Classic and Kunark and later Velious..but the items wouldn't be worth much to sellers until buyers had enough plat to meet demands. According to the p99 wiki, item prices in general have been rising since the server's launch but was it always 10pp per stack of bone chips, if you get my drift?

My buddy mentioned a glitch/exploit regarding a banker in rivervale back in 1999 live..if you gave him something like 50 gold and hit "change" he would give you back 50 plat and so on and so forth. This was apparently a thing in live until it was patched out and I am not sure if this was even a thing on project 1999. Did everyone just farm vendorable plat such as seafuries for months on end to amass hundreds of thousands of platinum and then control the market from this emulation's inception on both servers?

I do recall at one time in 2015 there was a glitch with the necromancer guards in West Cabilis that [unnamed guild] exploited to generate a ton of platinum but this was reversed by the server staff here.

Perhaps a long time player can shed some light on how people had over 1 million PP in the bank around 2010-2011 on project 1999. (Not regarding item duping/RMT because the platinum has to be there in the first place for there to be an economy of buyers and sellers.)