#3 : Every day, you learn something new.
Entry posted by Remorse
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Follow a RS veteran on his way to *finally* max out, together with his interesting view on both gaming and real life.
QOTD : "Live you dreams"
SOTD : Celldweller - Switchback
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Weekend. Finally. I believe that weekends were made so people could take it easier for two days. Well, for me that's not the case. Weekends are the moments that I'm usually extremely busy. Luckily I'm Monday free (yea, to study..), but I'm sure I can put a bit more hours in RuneScape as regular Mondays, which is a good thing, I suppose. So what has happened the last two days? French on school is being a horrific pain. Well, I hate the language itself (sorry if you speak French ;)), but the teacher is even worse. Screams the whole lesson, laughs with his students, ... Now, this is already bad of course, but something worse happened. Thursday I was sick, if you remember from last blog. Seems that that Thursday, a test was assigned for Friday. Of course, I didn't know and I didn't study so when the teacher started giving the tests to everybody, I friendly said I was sick and didn't know. He responded with "too bad" and I still had to make the test. Now, I feel that I have been treated very unfair and probably going to complain to the heads of school when I receive the grades of the test. I'm someone who is usually very calm and friendly, but when people start to treat me like that, I get very annoyed. Ah well.. story to be continued. My Friday was pretty much normal and boring (Ooh! Almost forgot, I accomplished 99 cook, my 10th skillcape! Getting closer to maxing..). And the rest of my weekend will be also, erm, pretty normal.
But what about RuneScape? Well, first of all I started with planning daily runs. 99 farming is something you really need to plan ahead, and I thought that, since I'm maxing now, farming is something I should get rid of as soon as possible. I always really disliked farming for some reason, probably because I've never really trained it effectively. This is the first time in my whole RS career that I'm doing farming daily in this so-called run. My run doesn't only include farming, but also the important D&D's to make sure that I get what I want. Example, kingdom. I've decided that I'm not going to spend heaps of cash to farming and keep it relative cheap with all the low-lvl seeds. Kingdom will be my main source for high-level trees to keep everything cheap. Since I started maxing I came to the conclusion that I've learned two important things : A. Farming is actually fun, if you know how to train it efficiently, and B. long-term thinking is absolutely necessary.
After cooking I had to set myself a new goal. And I found the perfect one. Now I'm going to get 99 mining @ LRC while superheating. This is probably the best choice I could make. I get an incredible good xp-output at a relative low cost. Take a look at my skills. Magic, smithing & mining aren't that high so I'm training 3 skills at the speed of one. I do bank my gold bars and I make profit from my farming runs I do in main while. Conclusion : For around (I'm guessing now) 10M I'll gain around (another guess) 15-20M xp. Another positive point is the two options I have. Whenever I'm capable to pay full attention I just superheat gold ores, but when I'm busy with something else, like writing this blog or working for school, I simply can move to the slower coal. Coal mines MUCH slower as gold actually, so it's perfect to AFK with, plus, it makes me quite nice money that I can use again to repay my nature runes. If you haven't come to the conclusion that this is extremely beneficial, smack your head against the table and read again ;). Of course, there's also a negative side : It's a quite slow skill. I'm guessing this will take me around 2 months (at least), to finish this goal. But, I end up with another skillcape (one of my favorites! Mining is the one, next to Hunter which I already have, I wanted since skillcapes were released), and a nice boost to both my magic & smithing, which will make it easier to finish those.
There is another reason why I'm feeling pressure to max out. The release of Stellar Dawn in the near future. Despite all the counter-arguments, I'm still having the feeling that it will only end up working negatively for RuneScape. Crash of the economy? Loss of players? No updates anymoyre? I don't know what we should expect in the future. I have this double feeling. In the first place I want to stick to RuneScape 'till the day it dies. It's the game I first started playing, and I still love it. Secondly, joining a new game which WILL be big (no doubt, It's Jagex) from the start, thus, having the chance to become one of the veterans/elite players sounds very promising doesn't it? So it feels all very strange. I think that, if I would be maxed, it would be far easier to let RS go. Let's admit it, the reason we keep returning to RS is because we've spent so much time to it that we wan't to lose the 'rewards' we've gotten so far. At least, that's the feeling I have, and it's that what makes it so extremely difficult to quit and what keeps this game addictive. Yea, I'm pretty much addicted to RS. Not in the way that, I MUST play to be happy or replace RL assignments for RS. No, not at all, but rather the fact that I can't start something else and leave RS behind, for good. I believe that maxing out makes it much easier for me to say, I've done everything what you can do, and I'm able to quit now. Of course I won't be fully done when I'm maxed out, but it's a huge step forward for me. Don't get me wrong, I'm still having loads of fun, I'm just addicted to my achievements. RuneScape will be a game which will stay alive for years and years. I wonder how long it will be updated too.
So.. I've decided for myself that I'll stick to RS until I'm completely done with it, and I've done really everything what I want to do, and afterwards move to something new. The first idea which jumps in my mind for now, is of course, Stellar Dawn. But yea, the last 2 paragraphs were just me thinking aloud. Don't take it too serious. I still wonder what the future brings, and well, we will only know when the time is there.
Already excuses in advance for mistakes (grammar, ...) and thank you for taking your time to read. Have a nice day.
(Please comment to give your opinion on what has been written in the blog, or to support me on my road to maxing out! You are always free to PM me or talk to me in my CC either way :))
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