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I support this as well. Things should be 'opt-in', NOT 'opt-out'! Hell, how hard could this be (Of course, now that I've asked, Murphy's Law will kick in, won't it?) to change anyway? :mad: ~D. V. "SUPPORT! Yay for 'opt-in' layouts!" Devnull

Glad to see Tip.It Forums are back online. Thanks to all those who have been working in the background on it. I've changed my pass, so my account is back to secure. :thumbsup: As for those who wish to gank whoever did this, I would love to join that party. :twisted: BTW, I've spotted a few issues worth catching. I'll make a thread about any ones that don't already have a thread in short order, that's for sure. I get the feeling I've only spotted the tip of the iceberg, though. :-? ~Mr. D. V. "Welcome Back, Tip.It Forums!" Devnull

Consider me on-board, now that you've got that small hole patched up. FULL SUPPORT, and I hope this gets through to Jagex's ears! :thumbsup: Gonna be fun, though, once they do implement this and I have to go visit my Game Inbox to gather that useful security data. :P ~Mr. D. V. "Woot! I'm in!" Devnull

Calypsan, got an extra question for you, seeing as I haven't run into you in-game yet. What time zone are you in? :huh: Also, realizing you might want to know this, we don't drop partially-inactive users like some clans do. :thumbsup: ~Mr. D. V. "A question, and a thought." Devnull

Congratulations on becoming a TET Leader, RussetAlpha! :thumbsup: Hopefully now we'll see a bit better event planning, even if I can't get in on events lately due to IRL issues. Not to insult the guys, but in my opinion it always helps to have that womanly touch on stuff. :D ~Mr. D. V. "Yay, it's a new TET Lady Leader!" Devnull

Kind of sums up what I feel. Is it really so hard to buy genuine? things cost money, of which i have little. i also happen to have been completely desensitized to piracy due to decades of bootlegging culture. Just to stack on that, there probably wouldn't be so many pirates if the prices for genuine software weren't all the way into 'overkill ripoff ionosphere' territory. That, plus a bad economy, equals drive to pirate stuff. For those of you bent on pushing genuine, go stick that in your sebsi and smoke it, and then come back after the prices for genuine are 33% or less of what they are now. The end of piracy starts with a lack of overly high prices, as people will then better reason between the real mccoy, and the stuff that might be loaded with malware! :angry: ~Mr. D. V. "Sheesh... Talk about a way to get me smoking mad!" Devnull (p.s.: I'm no pirate, but I do get how many of them feel. I'm just communicating that emotion here. "Gotta think like them to beat them", I would say.)

On the serious side of things: Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. I just wish he hadn't left my parents mad at him and Apple Inc., for multiple reasons. BTW, I sense he was one of the few forces keeping things stable in the tech markets. Here goes the neighborhood! :( On the not-so-serious side: The four of you crack me up! Nice jokes! ROTFLMDCFLYAO!!! :XD: :razz: :lol: :P :twss: ~D. V. "From the sad, to the hilarious, and yet I fail for quick summary..." Devnull

Wizz, do you have any extra details, such as specific pieces that you think they might have remixed? Right now, your question feels so vague that I couldn't give you a certain answer even if I tried. I have nothing to use to correlate and narrow the possibilities here! :( ~Mr. D. V. "More Details, please?" Devnull

Seeing as your idea isn't 100% fleshed out, I can't support just yet. However, here's an idea to patch to it... Read on. Idea: "Upon the first usage of this Perma-PIN to recover the account, a new one is generated (changing the attached Perma-PIN) and shown to the player just after they set a new password. This would all happen while in Secure (https) Mode. This could potentially use the same style as the Original Perma-PIN, and would therefore be shown as a one-time-only message in the player's account's inbox, but only as long as the connection doesn't drop from Secure Mode. If it does drop from Secure Mode, the inbox will wait to reveal the message until Secure Mode is re-established with the same computer that first launched the recovery sequence." Yes, this 'patch idea' would mean that the PIN could change, but that only Jagex's password recovery system could change it; and that a player must write down the newly changed PIN for their own account. However, if the player has some smarts, and cleans their PC before recovering their account, then the chance of anyone else getting this PIN basically drops to zero because everything would be happening in Secure (https) Mode! And even if a connection loss suddenly happens, the recovery system wouldn't show the message to anyone except the original user at the same computer where the recovery process began, blocking anyone else from getting the new Perma-PIN. :shades: I'll leave it to you now to decide whether you wish to include this, and I'll check back later. ;) ~Mr. D. V. "Is that secure enough for you?!?!?" Devnull

Don't worry, we're the same HYT which you heard of back then... And yes, we really sure have been around that long. :shades: In fact, just so you can see it, here's a link to our clan's page... :arrow: http://services.runescape.com/m=clan-home/clan/HYT (I really wish the forums would quit shortening url text...) ...which will help catch you up on plenty of our history. :thumbsup: ~Mr. D. V. "Have fun reading!" Devnull

teezkut, you should get in-touch with Jagex, and see about creating a new department with you at the head of it. Then you could make tons of money to live on from all these fantastic ideas that you keep coming up with. Just imagine it... Living happily because of your dreams! :thumbsup: ~D. V. "Dream-loaded Living... now that's something." Devnull

DuskEclipse, having seen your stats, you need to do a massive amount of non-combat training before resuming combat. Very literally, you're so far behind in non-combat skills that it is destroying your combat trips. Get all of the following before resuming combat: 30 Woodcutting and 30 Firemaking (Possibly 40 on both!) (Needed in order to chop most F2P Trees and use them towards cooking. Always a must for near-all F2P'ers, and I'm no exception myself. If you're going to Dungeoneer, you'll need 10 extra levels on each or you may end up with resources that you can't chop-and-burn.) 48 Smithing (Possibly 68 Smithing) (I don't know how high you are intending to raise your Defense Level, but you need to be able to make even the basic armor to support it. You'll only need 48 Smithing if you're going for Level 5 Defense at most, which will fully unlock Steel Armor. If you're going for 20 Defense, though, you'll need 68 Smithing to fully unlock Mithril Armor. Even if you're not aiming to have more than a full set of Iron Armor, you'll still need 33 Smithing for that. But, having the levels up to either 48 or 68 will provide you with the ability to gain a large stack of gp, enabling you to fuel further gains all across the board. (For reference, I personally gained a 2m stack of gp by leveling this up between 55 and 65, in part thanks to 55 Mage and High-Alchemy.) Oh, I almost forgot that increasing your Smithing level after Level 15, all the way to Level 45 will result in a heavily decreased loss of Iron Ores, so there's still considerable reason to level this up anyway even if you're not interested in Steel/Mithril. Not to push, but since you'll unlock most of the Steel items while decreasing your chances of losing Iron Ores, you might want to go for Level 48 anyway just to finish up the unlocks for the bonus of it... It's only 3 levels!) 50 Fishing (Even with your low levels, this is an absolute need. Being able to fish (and with 45 Cooking, eat for 140 LP recovery) Swordfish and Cook (and/or Sell) them will help you out of many bad situations, both combat-related and non-combat-related. Plus, when you're not Smithing, you can gain a nice mint of gp to help yourself along.) 55 Cooking (Having this should provide access to all of the items that you can cook in F2P. I don't know of anything at a higher level than this. While 45 is critical for cooking Swordfish, 50 gives you Chocolate Cake (3x 50 LP, 150 LP total recovery), and 55 gives you Anchovy Pizza (2x 90 LP, 180 LP total recovery, like having double Salmon)... Having all of the above will enable you to easily stay alive in combat, vary what you do, and/or meet odd market demands and pick up gp for your troubles.) 44 Crafting (Possibly 70!) (There's way beyond more than I can explain here, but the primary target of 44 Crafting will unlock the skill-exp-assisting urns that can boost along some of your skills. 70 Crafting will unlock Diamond Amulets, which can then be enchanted with 57 Magic into Power Amulets, a rather good assist to your stats while in combat. If you want an easy build-up path, or wish to vary what you're doing to level this up, new item options become available at many different levels, so keep an eye on your skill guide as you receive level-up messages.) 20 RuneCrafting (Possibly 50, 54, 65, or even 78!) (This one really depends on a few things. If you don't plan on Dungeoneering ever, playing Great Orb Project for the RC'er Robes, or doing a certain Varrock Achievement Task, then you'll only ever want Level 20. (And that's providing you're not worried about Rune Multipliers.) If you wish to have the RC'er Robes, then you'll need a minimum of Level 50. If you wish to Dungeoneer but aren't worried about using Magic to fight with, Level 54 is a must in order to make your own Law Runes for the Group GateStone Teleport. If you wish to use Magic Combat while Dungeoneering, then Level 65 is a requirement in order to make your own Death Runes for the Blast Spells. I admit, I'm not counting for the required Magic Levels here, but I'm only talking about the non-combat aspects of things. I'll leave it up to you to learn the Magic Combat part as you go, because I really could only learn it by feel myself.) 28 Prayer (Obviously, you've got an insanely higher target than that, Level 95. But, just to get you started, you can bank everything you have, go up to the Chaos Prayer Altar @ Level 12 Wildy, and bury bones while feeling free of worry that you'll lose anything. Reaching 28 Prayer will be somewhat easy there; It's the levels after that take an insane amount of dedication to gain. (Have a laugh, seeing as I'm stalled at Level 62 while aiming for Level 70, and I got at least 35 of my levels solidly from there!)) Having all of the above will enable you to stay constantly stable on all your supplies for combat, as well as enjoy both having a large stack of gp and many non-combat activities. BTW, most of this approach is "Do-It-Yourself"(DIY)-styled in how I wrote it, due to the fact that I had to DIY all this on my own as well. Feel free to refit it as you need, but still make sure that you get all of the above levels or you'll hit a drag in trying to get far. :geek: As for me, I've just spent the last 3.5 hours building this post, thanks to many IRL issues. My apologies that this is such a wall of text as well, due to the fact that I'm providing reasoning with each of the target level numbers. Please pardon me now while I go give my mind a break, because it feels very dead-walled. Uuuuuugggggghhhhhh... <*falls over sideways*> [THUD!] :wall: ~Mr. D. V. "You've got a long road ahead... Good Luck!!!" Devnull

You sound like you're in need of a Social Clan. Thankfully, since you're a Tip.It'er (someone who uses these forums, simply put), you happen to be very much in luck. Keep your eyes open in the Clan "HYT" (which you can access from the "Visited Clan Chat" section of your in-game controls), as well as the Friend Chat "Shyla", and one of us will get around to coming by and helping you get in. We happen to have no level requirements, mixed F2P/P2P, more about fun/skilling, etc. ... and we're a good place to hang out at. :thumbsup: BTW, if it isn't me that helps you finish joining up, don't forget to holler an "HYT!" to whoever is picking up for me. It will make it easier for you to get in quickly, because they'll be able to pick you out of a crowd of players/bots/etc.! And yeah, don't forget to tell them I sent you! :D ~Mr. D. V. "Shyla's 'HYT!' for Life!" Devnull

Looks like that fixed it for me, thanks to your hand work, Peter! I was able to drop my exception and still have the login work normally. :thumbsup: I'll post back if that changes, though. ;) ~D. V. "Nice Fix!" Devnull

Stormfolk, I believe the registry key you're looking for is the one at the Login Screen? If so, then it's located in the following spot... ...and control of the needed items is then as you thought, marked with... [Change the "(dot)" into an actual dot in your visualization of it... I'm having to work around a rude filter here.] ...which allows you to adjust both time and which screen saver is used. BTW, Windows 7 may try to push UAC at you and deep-six what you're doing if you don't go in with full admin priveleges. (Simply just mentioning that part for the uninformed third party who might read this thread.) :geek: Have fun, but remember the original values (or just make a proper reset registry script) in case you want them back some time in the future, okay? :shades: ~Mr. D. V. "I think that's what you're looking for?!?!?" Devnull

Alright, I'll make sure to set an exception on my browser. Glad to know I'm not being diverted elsewhere, and that we're securing the login step a bit better now. Thank you for confirming this for me. :thumbsup: ~D. V. "Phew... that's a relief!" Devnull (p.s.: I've put a marker on the front of this thread to show the question's been answered.) (p.p.s.: Could someone give this thread sticky status? I think this is important to keep in view for at least a month.)

Hello, all... So, this morning as I was going to log into Tip.It Forums, I ran headlong into a jump into "https" mode, as well as a warning from my browser that it couldn't authenticate the SSL Certificate that was being shown to it. I looked around, and couldn't find an announcement about this change to the forum's login and/or security systems. Unluckily, to get this far and post here, I had to accept the certificate temporarily for the current browser session before I could post here to ask if it was valid. Is there anyone here that could please confirm Tip.It Forums has had a valid SSL Certificate added to its' login system? Or am I now going to be forced to find a workaround to get to the forums, let alone changing my login password? :huh: Also, if it is valid, might I suggest an announcement is put up immediately?!?!? :idea: ~Mr. D. V. "Really [bleep] confused here..." Devnull

First off, dude, I ain't trolling. In fact, I think you missed a boat-load of logic that should be considered. :ugeek: Why, you're dense enough to ask, instead of already being enlightened? Self-Sufficiency can be a very good thing. Look at it this way... Would you rather to have the ability to gain gp easily and save some too, or would you rather have to pay through the nose? For me at least, that's a no-brainer, as the self-sufficient, gp-gaining, and therefore gp-saving path would be the one that I would choose any day. Sure, that doesn't mean I can speak for Bows on this, but I would rather towards showing that keeping one's options open and unlocking stuff that can be done is a very good thing to do. :thumbsup: And BTW, Power Ammys are still used in F2P because we don't have all that fancy P2P junk. Bows could easily make a ton of Diamond Power Amulets in some super-efficient P2P spot, come to F2P, and then sell them. Result? Bows walks off with a [bleep]-load of gp, and F2P PK'ers squabble over who is going to have the most of them. A bit mercenary, but hey, it pays the costs! :twisted: As for Glory Ammys, Bows can just as easily make some after attaining the levels to make, sell them to sub-100-cb P2P'ers, and also walk off with a nice mint there. Put simply, even if high-level combatants don't use them, there's still the option of taking advantage of the lower-leveled ones and gaining gp for moving along with further goals, if not save a ton as well. ;) Hedgehog, I bet right about now, you wish you had thought of all of this. Unluckily, you tried to call me something I'm not, and acted very short-sighted. So, pardon me while I walk off with this extra, logic-loaded victory under my belt. Especially since if Bows couldn't sell what they made for any reason, they could still High-Alchemy it. Which reminds me, Bows would also enjoy all those extra levels and extra exp they would be racking up during all of this, for various reasons stated in earlier posts on this thread by myself and others. :D ~Mr. D. V. "Did you REALLY have to make me resort to a logic-filled text wall, and go 'RS Nerd' on you?!?" Devnull

(names changed to links by quoting author) Well done, all five of you! I guess I'll be seeing you around the forum a bit more now? :shades: ~D. V. "Nice! Be seeing you?" Devnull (p.s.: @ Tripsis -- Hey, why didn't you make links of the names?)

Looks like these two need the following said to them: For those of you dissing the Level 70 Crafting, and Power Amulets, those are just a mere small step on the way to someone making their own Glory Amulets. But unless you head past there, you won't get on your way, regardless of whether they're useless or not! Plus, what you earn from selling off unwanted Power Amulets lends to heading for making your own Glory Amulets. Which, might I remind you that being able to make your own Glory Amulets enables self-sufficiency, instead of having to go to the G.E. for your combat equipment! :ugeek: ~Mr. D. V. "You still have to go that way on Crafting, duh!!!" Devnull

Yeow, Bows! No wonder you lost interest! You're in need of the following... 70 Prayer (Trust me, you want Grave Blessings!) 70+ Crafting (It is worth unlocking Diamond Amulets. You can then craft and enchant to make Power Amulets, a worthwhile combat tool.) 78 RuneCrafting (Earth Runes here...There's a Varrock Task to go with it.) 55+ Dungeoneering (I may dislike Dungeoneering, but I'm also aiming for a few handy Reward Items that I'm finding I may not be able to do without.) ...which will take care of a lot of your current issues with jumping back in. |^_^| ~Mr. D. V. "Get those done and you'll feel a lot better..." Devnull

Alright, that makes things a lot clearer. BTW, who do we have to thank for this new addition? It had to be a near-mind-blower to add on! :o <*checks*> Hmm... It caught the tagline, which wasn't posted to the other post. But at the same time, it missed the date line. I think we need the bot to be modified to catch all of it in the following order... Title Date (Probably put those first two together on the same line, eh?) Tag line Main Article Details Patch Notes (This last one's an "If Applicable"!!!) ...and then add a link back to the RuneScape website's version(s). Also, if it happens to be possible, maybe it should monitor for the first occurrence of a discussion thread on this forum and make a link over to it, or perhaps create one itself? These would sure make good ideas to implement, even if we had to wait a while for them! :huh: :idea: :geek: ~Mr. D. V. "Who to thank? Hey, now you've got me getting technical!!!" Devnull

Hello there... as I logged onto Tip.It Forums this morning, I noticed this name that made absolutely no sense to me... @NewsBot ... and so I am wondering Who, What, and Why are they? I just don't understand this, and would like some clarification, please? :huh: ~D. V. "I think this is my worst chunk of confusion ever..." Devnull (p.s.: And maybe we might need a sticky about this? Wouldn't mind if my thread was used as the sticky...)

5+ "broads"??? You frequent that many women??? You cad!!! We shall hang you for this!!! :angry: (Nah, just kidding! I understand you made a massive typo! :P ) Back on-topic... Since there are concerns about things like the flood limiter, group changes after a certain post count, and all that stuff, might I suggest upping the requirement to go from "Members" into "Members+" to 250 posts or more? It would still blockade spambots, but would alleviate concerns about some spambot slipping far enough through to take advantage of the decreased flood limit timer. :idea: ~D. V. "A joke, and an idea... can't tl;dr this one!" Devnull

Ermin, Octarine, Wait... cake... what? :blink: They look more to me like they were done with clay or something else that's non-edible. :geek: Nice crafting work, though, teezkut! :thumbsup: ~D. V. "I'm thinking non-edible... Well done, though!" Devnull