D. V. Devnull

I believe Ginger_Warrior was making a point by the use of the smiley, please don't come into a topic and accuse someone of trolling publically, thanks. Actually, I wasn't doing this because of the emote that Ginger_Warrior used, but because of the "Trollololol" following. Sort of a +1 on it in an easily-misinterpretable format, which I see you fell right into. I'll admit though, I should have wrote "...this thread is a bad idea of a trolling..." on that sentence part as I look at it in retrospect, as that would have made it far from misinterpretable. :lol: ~D. V. "Hook, line, and sinker... much?" Devnull (p.s.: I'll just consider this a lesson learned. Thanks, though.)

I'm against the removal of this smiley. Other than the fact that it would damage a near-uncountable number of posts, there are people who use it to its' proper effect. Heck, check out my post history, and you'll see proper usage here and there. ;) Also, people could try and make equally useless arguments against a lot of the other smileys. The thing is, each has their use, be it for sarcasm, jokes, or even that "Let alone that, what about this bigger concern?" kind of issues, just to name a few. But should we let ourselves devolve into family-unfriendliness through removal, and therefore lack, of these emotes? Not just "NO!", but "HELL NO!!!", and that's quite well why we should never remove any. <_< Now, if you want something I might support, it would be slowing down the animation of the eyes. They DO move too fast, but that's no reason to junk it. You just simply pull it into an image editor, slow the transitions, and post up the new version over the old one. That would be how to do it right. :idea: BTW, just for reference, I rolled my eyes when I saw this thread. I was thinking "Oh no, not again...", because if you let alone the fact that certain emotes are hard-wired into the IPB Forums, there's also the fact that junking some things is simply bad when they could just be re-worked. :roll: Which reminds me... I can think of a few emotes worth adding to our forum's repertoire. :D ~D. V. "Don't junk the rolling eyes, just slow the animation!" Devnull (p.s.: Like Ginger_Warrior, I feel that this thread is somebody else's bad trolling attempt. Let's let the thread die, unless somebody is going to just slow the animation to defray this issue.)

I got just one crazy little question, since I'm only a mere F2P'er. Where the heck was that spot at which you gained your 120th Dungeoneering level? :huh: ~D. V. "Wha? Where?" Devnull

Pardon my question, but is the "Microsoft Arc" the new one or the old one? :huh: ~D. V. "Just clearing up the confusion..." Devnull

It's worse on single-core systems that are stuck in "Safe Mode", where there's no hardware acceleration to take the graphical weight off of the CPU. Times can go up to an unbearable 10+ seconds, which tends to annoy the hell out of me when I have to get something done fast. :( Personally, I wonder why Jagex doesn't side-stream the map parts alongside the main game link. I would think doing so would prevent and/or lessen these stop-and-start situations, and enable a far more fluid gaming experience, because they could then have seamless transitioning across map sections. Heck, weren't they supposed to be trying to take advantage of the extra RAM Heap that some users have allocated to their Java VMs? Jagex could easily have more of the game map loaded all at one time via the increased heaps, so not as many "Loading - Please Wait" messages are needed. Sure would beat having all this lag with absolutely no good/useful explanation as to why it's happening. For that matter, it's leaving modern systems twiddling their freaking thumbs to not have background processing to do. I can only begin to guess what it's like for multi-core users, as I have only single-core systems to work with here. :huh: ~Mr. D. V. "I feel like I've been run over by the long waits. Isn't there a solution?" Devnull

Simple... You've got a shorted keyboard lead and/or a slightly shocked keyboard controller. If your laptop is still under warranty, backup all of your personal data, downloads, etc. and send it in to the manufacturer for repairs. Good luck on having it fixed reasonably fast. :shades: ~D. V. "Dang laptop keyboards!" Devnull

Damn paradoxes... Trust me, you're not alone. Those blasted bots over at the Mining Guild are messing things up as well. :wall: Good old times..hehehe.. I would have liked to have been there to see that. Videos, please? :( ~D. V. "Ugh, paradoxes... Any chance you got the video reel?" Devnull

Figures... Regular Jagex Idiocy... When will they ever learn to not monkey with their own damn login system? Further, did any of the data on it get copied by some black-hat hacker? :roll: ~D. V. "I'd like to know, damnit." Devnull

Hmm...let the other players throw rocks at the characters convicted of botting and then take their stuff? :-k It would certainly make for some interesting community events. :lol: Oh, you two crack me up. :XD: We don't even have to go anywhere near that far. Anyone who has been around since -- and done -- the 2007 Christmas Event that gave us all the "Snow Globe" holiday event item can all shake their Snow Globes, get together, and go pelt bots left and right. Heck, I'm surprised I haven't already done this a lot more. Oh, that's right, I didn't think of it before because I was alone! :roll: ~D. V. "No rocks needed... Get your Snow Globes out!" Devnull (p.s.: Maybe meet me in Codguy's "FishScape Chat" channel when I'm not having to deal with advertising bots, and we can discuss a meetup to go enjoy pelting bots with snowballs?)

Hi there, ! Well done on getting into the Tip.It Forum Staff, and their stack of Board-Specific Moderators!!! :thumbsup: ... Heck, I even do bolded names better than @Rainy_Day. :P I got just one question, though. Which Board are you helping Moderate? :-s <*Leaves a bag of muffins for and runs off...*> <3: ~D. V. "Nice, but which board? Oh, and Muffins for You!" Devnull

Tch... If Jagex were serious, then they would have a Clan Channel that happened to have J-mods on-hand 24/7 to handle these in-game, advert-spamming, nausea-causing bots. As it stands, these bots are slowly making me sick just about every time I go on RuneScape now. Heck, I wish Jagex had somewhere I could tell them about the nausea that these bots are causing me, so Jagex could go after the RWT'ers in a court with evidence that the RWT'ers are making Jagex's RuneScape players sick. :-X ~D. V. "Can't stand the nausea from the bots..." Devnull

Everyone, I would say this is due to up to three things: Ever-Unavoidable Internet Lag :( Something probably at the server end not sending back whatever TCP/IP and/or HTTP message that keeps the computer and/or browser on the client end willing to wait for more data. <.< Some bozo's router probably blocking packets that were meant to reach you and/or the forum server. :x Any which way you put it, all you can really do is have patience with these forums. If you attempt to keep on pushing against it, you run the risk of a duplicate and/or multiple post(s) plastering along the page. In my opinion, Killerred005 has at least found a trick to check if it posted or not, and the rest of you would find it handy to follow suit for now. ;) Heck, now that I'm aware of it, even though I haven't had it happen to me, I can at least keep my eyes open/watching in-case it does happen. :) ~Mr. D. V. "I wish the internet didn't have these issues..." Devnull

Alright... lol, your reply does indeed answer my question. Sorry to hear we won't get the validation feature. I'll admit I was looking forward to it. :anxious: On other notes, how's the toolbar button for posting QFC's coming? If whoever (Yes, I've forgotten who might be doing this.) is making it happens to be short on ideas, I think I posted an idea back in the previous thread about QFC's. :) <*Leaves a bag of cookies for Tripsis, Rainy, and all the other staff replying to this thread, and runs off...*> ~D. V. "Question answered... how's the button?" Devnull

Support, including Sy's tweak for it in the post above mine. :thumbsup: Heck, I would like to link my Random Events to the RNG with a definite minimum of a 7-in-12000 (to 7-in-24000) chance, instead of a fixed exp/time amount. (Yes, Random Events are currently linked to an exp amount, making them not-so-random. Just go check the Dev Blogs and Interviews with Jagex if you don't believe me.) It would probably be a lot more fun (at least for me) once a Random Event did come along. Honestly, I think it could be more hilarious as well. ;) That, and I've been missing Random Events since their frequency was lowered. :unsure: ~D. V. "Let's change it, and make random madness ensue!" Devnull

There were precursors, I think... ;) I don't think that's possible without a serious server-side modification being added to the forums. :? And on other notes, what finally spurred the early announcement about QFC Tags? Honestly, you've left me insanely curious, confused, scared/disturbed, and puzzled. I was standing back until May 31st before I was going to talk anymore about this, in order to leave time for Tip.It's Forum Admins to get more into place. :wacko: ~Mr. D. V. "Wishing for a little understanding here..." Devnull (p.s.: Not trying to be annoying or anything like that... The announcement is good... It just seems early to me...)

I wish you had linkified that using the "QFC Tag"... Knowing my luck, you must not have known of that one. :| BTW, if you don't keep up with that thread at least once every 12 to 24 hours, it will die. I had a suggestion thread up in the past on the RSOF, and failure to do so (caused by IRL issues) killed it. :geek: ~D. V. "Darn RSOF Threads..." Devnull

Uhh... When did Cosmic Runes come into this?!?!? We're talking about Chaos Runes, for which the altar entrance is placed in the lower-level areas of the Wilderness. :? ~D. V. "What the heck?" Devnull

Ask everyone else about this, please. I already support getting the Chaos RC altar, along with the Law RC altar. And I even accept the caveats with both of the RC Altars. :thumbsup: So you have the idea, my initial post to this thread was primarily meant to make clear the pros/cons clear to everyone else. I had never intended to cause any thread derailment. Anyway, as for Nature RC'ing, that's just simply beyond our grasp, but I wish it wasn't. (That's why the vote marker from me is on 'Maybe' instead of 'Yes' on the poll up top.) :geek: ~Mr. D. V. "Indeed, and then some." Devnull

That's good to know. I was starting to get worried. :unsure: Oh, [bleep]... I see exactly why that would be handy, as it would avoid dead links most of the time. Although, wouldn't that potentially require coordination with Jagex, in order to avoid accidental hogging of bandwidth? :ohnoes: Ah well, I'll give up on poking further for now, and I'll definitely look forward to seeing that additional piece of the feature come into being. But I'll definitely be back at the end of the month to check in on what's going on with the QFC Tag stuff. Until then, I'll see you all in-game and/or in other threads. :-s ~Mr. D. V. "I'm buzzing off for now, but I'll be hoping for the best." Devnull

Meh... I could live without the shortcut for the Chaos RC Altar. Learning the maze would be fun anyway. Having the Chaos RC Altar, even in the least of its' forms, is better than nothing. Having better than nothing, and the ability to RC Chaos Runes, is what we need. :shades: ~D. V. "We F2P can live without the shortcut, and not feel tormented." Devnull

Any chance you wouldn't mind telling us what this extra feature was that you were aiming for? :blink: Also, any chance it might be something like a "Page Targeting System"? Or is that already possible? :huh: ~D. V. "Now you've got me confused and curious!" Devnull (p.s.: BTW, where did Peter disappear to?)

I'm not trying to patronize anyone, damnit! I'm just seeing posts that are causing an obvious need of this getting done, and therefore trying to make the push to get it done before it stacks into a nastier molehill. That, and the lack of a button for the QFC Tag is making things a bit clunky, which is probably leading to some of this mess. :angry: ~D. V. "Now do you get where I'm coming from?" Devnull

Hi again... Sorry for the almost-a-month-later resurfacing, but I think I just saw a reason to move it up in the list of priorities. Just have a look at the "200,000 Members!" thread which you started. We've already got people causing others issues by not "QFC Tagging" the RSOF QFCs, so they don't get turned into the useful links that they're really meant to be. And there's already many previous occurrences, which I just don't have the time (after 11:30 PM PDT, GMT-8 here) to go find right now. :( ~D. V. "Yet another reason stacking up..." Devnull (p.s.: BTW, the handling for the "topic" tag is also a bit clunky. IMHO, titles should be allowed in the syntax of the identifier that it handles.)

Hi there... While I haven't used the blog system, it sounds on the surface to me like someone put an anchor tag in the wrong place and/or mis-wired it. Honestly, I hope it isn't something that's so deep that it requires fixing by IPB themselves. :uhh: ~D. V. "I'm glad this landmine didn't find me!" Devnull

EDIT: Just checked in-game. It's taken. :( What about a variant, such as "DragonsBeard"? :huh: ~D. V. "If you don't get your first choice, try a variant?" Devnull