Kashi

You say you have no desire to own a Whip? What about that Whip I gave you Panda .. ? :cry: Sold it, huh? That was supposed to be special how could you?! Rahhh ...

Hey, I'm back after three months hiatus and I've got a story to tell. The story begins with a server crash in the world of RuneScape, about three months ago. The server I was playing on went down while I was PK'ing, leading to the loss of several mildly valuable items due to Dragons. Now I am not, and never have been, a serious PK'er, so when I venture into the wild I bring only what I can afford (and expect) to lose. In this case I was testing out my ranging skills with the help of a Ranging Potion and the 15% prayer. I was very pleased with the results, having PKed another PKer, leaving me with a full set of Rune Armor and a D Longsword. In search of new targets, I ran across the dragon pit located in Lv 13-17 wild, just as the server crashed. A person without a Dragonfire shield can last only so long against vicious, fire breathing dragons, so when I logged back on (after the servers had been fixed) I found myself in Lumbridge. Now like I said, the things I'd brought with me were things I could afford to lose, but if you're like me, losing -anything-, -ever- really puts you in a bad mood, to the point where you don't want to play for the rest of the day. So I closed down RuneScape and looked around the internet for some other MMORPGs. The name I found was 'Ragnarok Online'. This was a game I'd come across before, before I'd even started playing RuneScape, but the long download time for the game client meant I couldn't play it, since as the time I was on dial-up internet. Well, when I found 'Ragnarok Online' the second time I had the fastest internet money could buy, so the download took less than half an hour. After creating an account and locating a few databases and fansites for the game to get me started, I started playing. Now, since this is a RuneScape forum I wont give you all the details of RO, but you are able to make more than one character. It's not like in RuneScape where one character can do everything and anything. In RO, only Mage characters can use Magic. Only Archers can shoot arrows. Only Knights can use swords. It's very class specific. I started with an Archer, since Ranging was always my favorite thing in RuneScape, even if I was never very good at it. I started on the tutorial and met another person almost immediately. This person was an experienced player just making a new character, and he helped me learn the basics of the game. Soooo ... ~~~ Difference #1: In RuneScape, players can't talk to each other in the tutorial, so new players can get no helpful advice from experienced players, and likewise new players can't meet other new players in a closed environment with only other newbs, so when they try to make friends in the real world there are tons of other more experienced players making fun of them for no apparent reason. In Ragnarok, players can communicate in the tutorial, meaning a newbie can get help from veteran players, and newbs can make friends with each other and train together. Advantage: Ragnarok ~~~ When I finished the tutorial and reached the mainland, I noticed there were no people shouting at each other trying to buy and sell goods. ~~~ Difference #2 In RuneScape, the only way to buy or sell anything is to take your money and your items into a crowded area, shout for hours what you want to buy/sell, and hope somebody can help you out. RO has a buying/selling system that can only be used by Merchant class characters, where players can put items in a shop with a brief description of the shop and set item prices. This puts a little window over your head where you're standing, and other players can enter your shop and view your wares just by clicking. This system is so secure to the point of being practically scam-proof, which means virtually no item scamming goes on in the world of RO. Advantage: Ragnarok ~~~ I was sitting in town for a few minutes when another person, around the same level as me judging by the appearance, walked up and asked if I 'Want to party?'. No, this person was not offering me drugs as I first thought ... ~~~ Difference #3 RuneScape's idea of a party system is a cape which changes the dots on your minimap different colors. Ragnarok Online has a very detailed, yet also very simple party system which allows characters to join a group of people with the option to share XP as long as all party members are within 10 levels of each other. There is an integrated party chat system, which allows party members to communicate with each other no matter where they are. You can address the party all at once, or open a private chat room with another member. Advantage: Ragnarok ~~~ I was in the party for a short while, going through a dungeon of undead monsters with a group of 4-5 other people, when a monster labeled 'Succubus' ran up at a high speed and promptly killed the entire party. ~~~ Difference #4 In RuneScape, monsters stay where they belong ... if you want to fight something, you go to the monsters habitat and fight it. They don't come to you. If you want to fight a boss, you go to the boss' lair and fight it. It's always going to be there, and if someone else is fighting it you can switch to a different world. In Ragnarok, there is an item called a 'Dead Branch', which summons a random monster (anything from a lv1 monster with 45 HP to a Lv99 monster with 1,000's of HP) next to the person who uses it. These items can be used anywhere you wish, except inside a town. Extremely rich players can buy hundreds of them and summon a veritable swarm of monsters anywhere they want, killing anyone they want, except the very strong and experienced. Popular training spots are often filled with extremely powerful monsters, which can put a stop to your training for hours, and since there are only three servers, and each character can only play on the server in which it was created, there is nothing you can do about it. Likewise, boss monsters have very long respawn times, anywhere between 30 minutes to 24 hours for some, so if you want to fight a boss you have to camp out on the map where it appears and wait. Advantage: RuneScape ~~~ As soon as I was killed, I got a sinking feeling in my stomach, but then I realized that hey .. I hadn't dropped all my items! And I hadn't respawned somewhere else! A Priest character came along and brought our whole party back to life, after one of his friends had dispatched the monster which had killed us in the first place. ~~~ Difference #5 In RuneScape, if you die you lose all but three of your items. This means you can save up money for months to buy an item, and lose it as soon as you try to use it due to a stupid mistake or whatever. In Ragnarok, if you die all you lose is some XP. Nothing else to say about that. Since you wont be losing your items, you are willing to take more risks, which leads to more exploration and whatnot. Advantage: Ragnarok ~~~ Anyway, those five differences tell you enough about the game. In RuneScape, players benefit off the death of their fellow players, which leads to things like luring, backstabbing, and general scamming. Item scamming is not only profitablle, it's positively easy, and any noob can learn to scam effectively. Without a party/clan system, 90% of all would-be clans fall apart in days, so most people just play alone with the odd friend or two. In Ragnarok, since scamming is all but impossible, and there is nothing to be gained by leading other players to their death, all the would-be scammers leave the game early on, after realizing they wont be able to get rich quick, without any work. This leads to a community of kind, helpful players who are more than willing to give a newbie to the game a helping hand. The people are so nice it's ridiculous. I used to think the community was a minor part of the game, but after a few months playing RO I realize it makes -all- the difference. That's exactly why I came back to RuneScape. Since Ragnarok is based on Players against The Game, instead of Players against Other Players, it lacks the cut-throat viciousness and cold hearted ruthlesness that drew me to RuneScape in the first place. If I want to have a good time with my friends, playing a game and taking out monsters and all that jazz, I'd play Ragnarok. If I want cold blooded, backstabbing, heartless players doing whatever it takes to hurt everyone around them, I'd play RuneScape. Anyway see you later.

I was playing in world 99 and got a team with several big Tip.it names, all 100+, which basically made the 10th wave seem like the 1st in terms of difficulty. This game can go either way for you. If you're playing with a load of newbs, it's going to be nothing but frustration bordering on fury. If you're playing with a group of high level, experienced players, you're going to have a good time. Just make sure -you- aren't a newb without realizing it and drag your whole team down. :thumbsup:

Mine isn't obscure, it's a problem many of us deal with every day. Runes. You can go to World 2, try the official forums, but there are so many sellers for Death and Chaos runes, and relatively few buyers, so if you want to maky any profit at all off your runes you're going to have a time. Usually I give the people a large discount so I can sell them, go back to Barrows and get more, instead of waiting around for hours to get a decent price. Runes are extremely frustrating to sell, and definitely the hardest thing to Merch. Grrr ..

My friend had his account hacked by someone, and the hacker left him a nasty message in his ignore list, just like that! So it can be used for anything huh? But I have too many actual people on my ignore list to do that ... People just get on my nerves I -have- to ignore them. :x Also heh, that IS a good use for it. I'd just keep that in my favorites list ..

AHA! But there is a downside to everything. Now people will be making botss 5 at a time to gather arrows. They will leave at night, and when they get back their 5 bots will have 10k arrows each! Thus making the price of steel and iron arrows -plummet-! It will be hell on earth I tell you!

I dunno'. You ever play Pest Control in a slow world, but with lots of people .. Ahh, all the monsters stack up at the end. One cast of Ice Burst and my damage counter goes from 0 to 250. =P~ If you do it right it gets all your zeal points for an entire Pest Control game with one cast of a spell! Ahh I love it. You can get as much mage XP from a few Ice Bursts as you do from the actual PC points. EDIT: No mention of a limit on number of targets, just a 3x3 grid and you're good.

*Sigh* Let Kashi be the voice of reason here. What POSSIBLE reason would someone have to make a fake like that? Does he profit from faking a picture like that? Does it help him at all? Jesus Christ, stop being so suspicious. This is Tip.it for God's sake, not RuneHQ. -_-

No wonder he keeps his chat off all the time. Meh best friend Panda. ^_^ After a commercial came on talking about something called "RLS". My friend. He went through the fight caves with nothing but a screen of lobsters, to see how far he could get. Actually made it to the 360's, which proves that any noob can do it. :) Told Panda I'd be back after I took a shower. Was sitting there playing in a towel. -_- The BIGGGEST fight pits battle ever. It was a three-way clan war. Believe it or not, I actually won that one ... by hiding, then cheap-shotting everyone left. -_- Something around 20k tokkul. This was just a cool picture. Not really RS related, but the knife he has is a dragon dagger. :) And then take a look at my sig. Those pictures were taken in three different places, you can tell where if you look really closely at the background behind the names. Yuffie was in CW, see the banners? Zezima was in Edgeville bank, you can see through the window behind him. Nite's is from his right-click menu, he was in Ardougne south bank between metal-dragon trips. I put them all together, the fact that Nite's is lit up is purely coincidence, although now that he's no longer with us it makes for a good anecdote.

Hate to say it, and I know I'm missing the moral of the story, but always check the final trade screen, especially for a big purchase. I didn't know you, so I can't say I hate to see you go. It's always bad, though, when the RS coomunity loses another honest, upstanding citizen. You will be missed, I assure you.

Heheh .. Mw853721. :cry: The moral needs no further explanation.

Sorry, Panda ..

Hey, people. I've gotten bored with RS recently and am soon to move on to bigger and better things. Now I wont be quitting RS entirely, and I'll post on Tip.it from time to time, so don't cry over me yet. But in any case, I want to do a "Find Me" event, or perhaps a series of them, so without further ado ... -=*=-!~> Kashi - Find me! <~!-=*=- (Say the name out loud ...) -=-=-=-=-=- Find me number: 1 World Number: 99 Current Prize: 35,000Gp Clue #1: A room with a view? That'll be 35Gp, ma'am. Status: Finished! Location: Paramaya Inn in Shilo Village Winner: Folmer Veeman -=-=-=-=-=- Find me Number: 2 World Number: 77 Current Prize: 20,000Gp Clue #1: At least in here I'm protected from those bugs .. Status: In progress Location: Winner: -=-=-=-=-=- Hopefully someone will get it, DO NOT POST YOUR GUESSES ON THIS THREAD!! When you find me, if you find me, shout in white text "HYT Kashi!" (Very important; If it's not white text it wont be accepted.) More clues will be given, and if nobody gets it after 5 clues then I'll reveal my location and a new find me will be started. Every time I add another clue, 5,000Gp will be taken off the prize money, so it's to your advantage to find me fast! If you come to what you think is the right place, and I'm not there, but you really think that you have the right location, then I might be offline. Send me a private message on Tip.it Forums and if you have the correct location I'll award you your prize money when I next log in. Now, what are you standing there for? Get looking! EDIT: I guess it might help to know that my RS name is "Mw853721".

You know, I saw a suggestion for skill capes on the official forums, oh, a year ago .. This may be the first ever case of Jagex incorporating a player suggestion into the game. O_o

I have some and I can use them, even though I never got the spell.

Hey, I'm already a member of Affliction, but I always forget the main site URL. Give me a hand here?

I've hit 200+ damage in one hit with Ice Burst. You know, in Pest Control at the end of the game when all the monsters stack up. It's niiiiiiice ...

They took out the rock-hitting-you-in-the-head random event?! Man have I not been paying attention ..

Hahaha, you're all going to hell ... When the bears rise up against the humans and take what is theirs!!

You could still macro pure ess ... Getting your mining to 30 would take maybe two hours, and then a $5 membership. If I'm making hundreds of dollars a month selling GP, that $10-15 a month for my macro accounts is like a drop in the bucket.

Well actually, per Galileo in the 16th century (cannonballs, leaning tower) all objects fall at the same rate. Only outside forces affect the rate of descent, i.e. Air resistance. Anyway, I know what you mean though. But I wanted it to be clear that this gun was randomly falling out of the sky into a person's hand.

Of course, you can always take a Lvl 2 or 3 clue scroll casket onto Entrana and open it. Then, if you happen to get some armor in your reward (if your reward happens to come from a casket instead of an NPC or something) BAM! you have Black, Addy or Rune armor on Entrana. Or, you know, Gilded or a Robin hat or something.

Basically, see, Mexico is so full of criminals that they make it illegal, because if there was a legitimate bounty hunter there he'd have to arrest half the population. Most of the wealthiest people in Mexico got where they are through .. questionable methods. If he's convicted the US will do something about it. Whatever I may have against the American government, the least you can say is that they watch out for their won. Especially when the person in question is a public icon and millions of people are watching for the outcome of the case.

It's a mystery we're not likely to solve any time soon.

Hey, check out this spiffy GIF I just made! Yeah I know, that's not a great thing to animate, but I wanted to try it out, couldn't think of anything, and in my family violence equates to humor. I made this by drawing out the images in paint, turning them into an AVI with Hypercam, and cropping them down and animating them into a GIF with AVD Processor. The point is, the whole thing took me about twice as long to get into a GIF than it did to actually draw, and it wasn't half as fun. Is there an easier way to do this? Anyone know of a good program? I'm rahter proud of the finished product, though. ^_^