Hilramorre

I'm not going to touch the question of whether or not they are still confident. If you have the most popular free to play game and aren't then you would have to be crazy. About the post cards, by law they have to allow entry without charging you because otherwise it is considered gambling akin to a lottery. They use post cards because very few will go through the effort. Many companies do this, for example mcdonalds with their monopoly game and subway with their scrabble game. Just like how those companies have the contests for their customers Jagex is having it for its customers. Ie, members.

Yuriqiu explained my opnion very well.

I did, he's hypocritical. He prefaces it with "it's my fault" then says "has free trade made anyone else feel this way?" It's like me betting my life savings on a single hand of black jack and when I lose saying it's the casino's fault for being there.

"I'm not blaming free trade." "Does anyone else feel discouraged because of free trade?" Stop lying, you are quite obviously blaming free trade.

Hello everyone, I've noticed a trend recently of players complaining about scammers and bottters now that free trade is back. These people say free trade should be removed because of this. Botters - Botters have always been around and always will, it's an unfortunate reality. But taking away free trade is not the way to deal with this. Punishing everyone for a minoritiy's abuse is ridiculous I fully believe Jagex has the capibility of dealing with the majority of the botters (law suits against rwt companies for example.) Scammers - Scammers are only as successful as their targets are dumb. Take it as a life lesson, if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is. I've heard claims that "everyone gets scammed atleast once but that is not true. I have played for ten years and stil have not been scammed. So does anyone else agree that this whining is ridiculous?

As much as I like how the OP is trying to think outside the box and bring new ideas to the table. I must say I find this to be a terrible one. There are problems yes, but this is not the solution. This is far too complicated and makes combat way too predictable. I will not get into the issue of how this system is very easily abused as many others have already pointed it out. Instead I am going to bring up a different point. What made the wilderness so exciting was the fear of the unknown. You did not know what you might encounter even in a one on one fight and that made it very exciting. The OP seems to want to be able to have evenly matched fights without fear of your opponent having skills or items that are not easily recognizable. However you already have that option. The Duel Arena allows you to set rules such as; no potions, no prayers, no food, no summons. You can tailor your fight to exactly what you want. If you want to make sure that both players are using the same type of food then you open up a trade screen and show your inventory to each other then immediately start the duel. This was used all the time in the old system and worked very well. The way the old wilderness was, while perhaps flawed, was very fun and I can not help but imagine that this type of overly complicated system meant to take out any surprise from a fight will only make the game less enjoyable. Good initiative, bad judgment. But I like that you are trying to think outside the box.

If I were running a business (which the game is), I would go for the money. That's the goal of a business, something most people here don't seem to understand.

It could be either one all depends on who the person is.

I've played since the beta of RSC and all this comes across to me as is whining. Of course they're more distant now. They have 5,000,000 players now instead of 50, it's impossible to keep a close link with all of them. Faulting them for being a business is just idiotic. They have to make money to keep runescape running and updated. And don't even try to say they are greedy, Jagex gives massive amounts of money to charity and spends a lot on improving the work life of their employees. What's the last company you ever saw that provided fresh fruit every day to their workers. So what if the link between Jagex and the players is getting bigger. Are you playing Runescape for Runescape, or to be buddies with the gowers?

I don't see how anyone could possibly put Runescape over Real Life. Now if you have an important event and a friend just randomly calls you up seeing if you want to hang out, then I could see you telling him to wait just a bit. Simply because it's no different than if you were doing some other thing you really enjoyed and just wanted your mate to wait a bit on you. However for anything even slightly important how on earth can you put Runescape of Real Life. I just don't even know where to begin. I suppose it's simply a case of some people having their orders way out of whack. Kind of like that overworking business man who puts his work before his kids.

Well of course after the 50's the exp becomes negligible. However below 50, when you need to do the quests anyway (since I assume most people want to have completed all the quests), it can be a great way to get an early boost on your levels and therefore speed up the leveling process, or at least in my experience it is.

After getting my account unbanned after several years, I got a new members subscription and was stunned at the amount of quests. Just tons and tons. So, I decided to do all of them (or at least all they I could do). Many were useless to me, other than simply unlocking new quests, however I understand that they were made for lower level people. However when I looked into the requirements for a fairy tale part 2 and noticed I needed 49 farming (was level 1 at the time). It hit me that I could do other quests in the mean time, quests which give farming exp as a reward to help me get there while still doing more quests. So I started on a fairy tale part 1 (needed it done anyway, obviously) and the 3500 farming exp boosted me to level 17, quite a jump. Obviously that 3500 would mean little once I'm level 40, but instantly going to level 17 by doing a quest I would be doing anyway means when I start training my farming I'll already be getting a higher exp rate. After finishing a forgettable tale, it'll go from 17 to 25 (almost 26) too. So, the question is. Have you ever used the method, of completely quests to help raise levels for other quests?

Returned3, although I didn't do it, I did sort of "admit to it". Because from everything I've read (and my experience) Jagex will almost always assume they're right (since they usually are) so your best shot is to just apologize and say you'll never do it again and that you love runescape.

It worked! To top it off, I have 1.3mil, lots of rune, and a red mask on the account still ^_^. So happy. Oh, and apparently I had yogosun as a friend back in the day O_O.

Well, from everything I've read recently it seems simply saying that you realize what you did was wrong and apologizing is the best method. So I sent this in, which was essentially taken from a guide to getting your account back and altered to fit my way of putting it a bit more: Dear Jagex, I am deeply sorry for the mistakes I have made. I love Runescape and now that my account is at risk of being lost forever I realize that my behavior was inappropriate. I promise if you give me one final chance I will not break any rules. I love playing Runescape and will never do anything that would put my account at risk ever again. Thank You I sure hope it turns out well. I've put a lot of work into that character.