Because skillcapes are members items and no members item can be used or traded to free users.
No, Skillcapes are members' items.
No, skillcapes are a members-only feature! You can simply get 99 in a skill then purchase a one month membership to buy the skillcape. When your membership expires leave your skillcape on your back and you will still be able to wear it and do the emote in non-member worlds. If you take the skillcape off in a non-member world the only way to wear it again is to buy another membership.
Yes, only members can buy skillcapes, however if you are wearing a skillcape and lose your membership, you'll continue to wear the cape on f2p worlds unless you take it off.
Yes. Previously, one could get the skillcape for hitpoints (now lifepoints) from the Surgeon General in the Duel Arena in Al Kharid, even if one was not a member, but now non-members have no way to obtain a skillcape, unless they become a member. A common practice is to become a member for 1 month, buy the skillcape, and never take it off. Skillcapes, and any members item will be shown on a non-members world as long as they are not un-equipped. Then, you must go back to a member's world to equip them again. Members items equiped in a non-member world do not give any of the benefits they would have given in a members server, save skillcapes, which allow you to do their emotes, even on a free to play server.
no,members and non members can wear the hat!
None. Skill capes are members-only items.
Achieve 99 in the woodcutting skill and talk to the woodcutting tutor. to get to the woodcutting tutor from lumbridge court you walk out of lumbridge court. then turn left and go for a little bit. you will see a guy in a woodcutting skillcape. near some trees. talk to him and you can get the woodcutting skillcape for 10k from him.
Easy. Pick any skill and train for 99 level. When you get 99 level. Then head to members (when you paid the subscribtion) talk to the owner, who has the skillcape. Talk to him that you want to buy one.
Fletching is the easiest skillcape
You do not need to be a member to wear a fishing skillcape, however you do need to be a member to aquire the skill cape.
No. A skill cape is only for members - even in the case of skills available for non-members.
Yes you can buy skillscapes, but you don't have to. But keep in mind that you also need to be level 99 in that skill to be able to buy the cape. To buy from some NPC, find the NPC wearing that respective skillcape, which is usually a Guild Master, and buy it for 1k. It used to be that you had to be a member to buy skillcapes but now you can buy them if you're a non-member. However, you cannot get some skillcapes if you're a non-member because some of the guilds are located in Members-Only Areas. But if you have friends that are members and have the skill, you might be able to get it from them by asking them to help you buy it.