Syd

Frontpage, blog and the goals updated! Alot of new stuff coming! :razz:

Sorry for not updating.. ..in a while? :P Anyways, alot has happened after my last post (I have kept my blog frontpage updated though). And after 71 days of almost nonstop smithing I have achieved this: Some statistics: During the 71 days I smelted 201,000 bars. Which means I averaged about 2830 bars per day. At the best day I made 7607 bars, and 0 bars in the worst. I also got 930,000 xp from assisting other people (thank you very much for letting me assist), and 91,5k experience from my own effigys and one dragonkin lamp. So, here are some photos: :smile: Finally I was able to accomplish one of my longest RS related dreams. Smith full rune. What's better than playing around with yo-yo, in brand new smithing cape, while having selfmade rune full in inventory and watching while others keep on pushing themselves forward? :-D And here is my BOB after the smithing goal. As you can see, even though the smithing costed me over 50m, my bank is worth alot more than when I started. That's something I'm very happy about! ^ That includes about 17m worth of collectings I collected from Miscellania a while earlier. And 7,5m in the coffins now. So.. What the heck am I supposed to do now? :P My whole last two months of RS aimed only to this moment, and nothing beyond that was being thought out. I guess I'm just playing around with my yo-yo for a week or two now. :D Special thanks for couple good friends who were nice to chat with and helped me keeping this thing going: Scaledwurm Rohanlord Also for alot of people in world 138 edgeville furnace. We had alot of nice chats, gonna miss that place. :grin: There is also topic in the rate-this section if you want to write there.

Hey! Some of you might've seen my blog (which hasn't had that many replies though), but most probably haven't. To start with, I'm 17 years old (very soon turning 18, this level is kinda birthday present. You know 9+9=99 or 18) student from Finland and I've played RS for odd 9 years (started in the late 2001 or early 2002). This charecther is about 8 years old, and it's not my first. I have scythe but I frankly missed bunny ears. I have dozens of memories from the game, about it's development of what it was to what it is now. However, back when I started I found smithing to be very interesting skill. Actually, this account started with "miner" class, which was one of the few options. Mining and smithing (as they were very closely related) were always my favourite skills, and for long they were also the highest. However, the game changed alot - and mining nor smithing were not as useful skills as they used to be. Fishing, combat, runecrafting, farming and eventually skills like slayer and hunter became alot better moneymakers, and smithing was just rather a moneysink. Unless you wanted to do cannonballs or smelt steel bars which took ages and were very slow experience. That's when my passion for mining and smithing started to fade, and I started training more combat. However I've lost interest to the game quite a few times during my journey. For a person who has played 8 years on an account, I have extremely low stats and quite bad bank too. I used to do some merching (and was quite good at it too) but I gave it up and made some "mistakes" by leaving cashpiles to bank instead of rares when quiting for years. That was more of the fact that I just simply didn't care. Anyways, when I started playing (71 days ago exactly) again, something funny happened. One good friend of mine, Scaledwurm, had also started playing after years long break. Few years back we used to compete against each other on everything and have fun while talking. Then we both dissapeared from the game for years. And funny enough, we both come back during same week. After that it was certain I wanted to play again. Fast check of bank (which looked same as I had left it, like 80m worth of stuff) and markets, few clicks of calculator and my plan was set. I was finally ready to get the 99 I always wanted. 99 Smithing. Thats where my 70 days journey of smelting bars and superheating some alongside started, and finally ended today. If you're more interested about the journey and rates of bars made, check my blog here. Some statistics: During the 71 days I smelted 201,000 bars. Which means I averaged about 2830 bars per day. At the best day I made 7607 bars, and 0 bars in the worst. I also got 930,000 xp from assisting other people (thank you very much for letting me assist), and 91,5k experience from my own effigys and one dragonkin lamp. So, here are some photos: :smile: Finally I was able to accomplish one of my longest RS related dreams. Smith full rune. What's better than playing around with yo-yo, in brand new smithing cape, while having selfmade rune full in inventory and watching while others keep on pushing themselves forward? :-D And here is my BOB after the smithing goal. As you can see, even though the smithing costed me over 50m, my bank is worth alot more than when I started. That's something I'm very happy about! ^ That includes about 17m worth of collectings I collected from Miscellania a while earlier. And 7,5m in the coffins now. So.. What the heck am I supposed to do now? :P My whole last two months of RS aimed only to this moment, and nothing beyond that was being thought out. I guess I'm just playing around with my yo-yo for a week or two now. :D Special thanks for couple good friends who were nice to chat with and helped me keeping this thing going: Scaledwurm Rohanlord Also for alot of people in world 138 edgeville furnace. We had alot of nice chats, gonna miss that place. :grin:

First of all I want to say, I'm sorry for not writing in a long time! That's due to the fact that I'm quite lazy to report my daily progress (I don't have much to tell to you) with long paragrams. However, I have updated my daily log (on the first page) every day, so if you're interested to know how I am doing, you can check there. As you can see from my daily log, I have been doing many things alongside smithing. That should explain why the rate of bars done per day has been quite low. But it's cool, I'm still doing allright on my schelude, which is to get 99 smithing by 12nd - 14th of November. That's the weekend before my birthday, so it should be the "birthday present" for myself. When I started playing again about 2 months ago, I wasn't extremely keen on the game. I just wanted to get 99 skill that I always wanted. Kind of finally achieve something, after eight years of wasting time. Well - now however - I have started likeing alot more of other stuff in the game aswell. I've tried minigames, raised skills I didn't like that much etc. But biggest impact was with slayer, that I tried again after months of no slaying at all. It was really more fun than I could remember. I certainly remember now why it was my favourite skill back in the days. After months of monotonious smithing, combat really seems like a fresh change! That's why I've already planned my next goal. After 99 smithing, I will go for 127 combat (99 attack, 90 strenght, 90 defense, 94-95 hitpoints, 85 slayer, 80 prayer and 80 summoning). It should be fun! Anyways, here are some sweet pics I got: 95 Smithing!!! 15m total exp, ever since I started playing again. It's very much to me, if you consider it's over 1/4 of my total experience over 8 years of playing! And I also have few questions. If I want to use [hide]tag like this[/hide] tag like this, how do I change the title that it shows? And how do I change title of my whole thread? I mean after I have 99 smithing, I would want to change my title but not to start whole new blog for it. :grin: Keep you tuned!

Got 93 smithing yesterday. On my way working towards 94 now. :wink:

Haven't updated in a while, so I guess it's a good time to do that too. Well, the exam I had, went decent (atleast it's over now) and I have all of the time in the world in my hands again. My coursetest week also is behind now, so I could fairly say there is no single worry in my head right now. On the other hand it has affected my gaming a bit. I feel lazy! Always when I worry, I tend to end up playing just to draw my thoughts to something else. And end up being effective, hehe. Oh well, atleast couple checkpoints are behind now. 100k bars done and 92 smithing! Effigy assists are always welcome!!

Just go play the game and have fun, kids. I couldn't really give a damn what someone thinks about "how this game should be played". My highest skill is 93 attack, and played since 2001. Efficient? Maybe not. Do I look like I care? :grin: Why would someone change the way they want to play, just to be on hiscores? I find all kind of bragging rediculous, but people bragging in online games are the biggest joke of them all. :-D

I think it's time for update! Today was great day in RS, as one of my long time semi-goals came to it's end. 90+ smithing! I also did my 2 first effigy assists (free 30k xp, damn!) today. So if you guys have smithing effigys that need assistance, then please drop me a line. For now I can only help with 91 smithing ones, but will be able to do 93's in a week and 95's and 97's later too. All the free XP is very welcome. If I could maximize the use of effigies till the level 99, I could get like over 1,5m exp from just assisting. That would mean like 28k bars! That is 10 days of work in my rate! :blink: So, please help out a fellow 'scaper with his road to his first 99. I would greatly appreciate.

Very impressive account, but the story really crowned it. The most impressive part is that you haven't trained combat in what.. 5 years? Jeez, that is sick. The video was also awesome. Good luck buddy with your goals, especially the slayer and dungeoneering. Level 89 with dungeoneering cape would look very hot. Or slayer, if we start from that. :thumbup:

Oi lads! It's been a while again since the latest proper update. Well I think it's time to update about how I am doing. In terms of the goal itself, I'm doing fine. I'm ahead of the schelude just a bit and trying to keep it that way. Rather try to push myself now instead of leaving it to last days. I rather take it easy when I'm close to the level, instead of then having to do thousands and thousands of bars in a day. I also started to do some barrows every now and then, and I got couple drops already. Shame they weren't the most expensive ones (example: Karils coif, lousy 60k, and some others). I'm trying to earn some cash while I do this, so I won't be completely broke after smithing is done... Yeah I already start to think about "when it's done", instead of "if I get it done". I'm starting to believe that this time I'm going to take this to the very end and get what I'm aiming for! Next week I will have week full of tests and my first part of my final exams at friday. Getting a bit nervous already. It's supposed to be the "most important thing" in our lives so far. So better try to succeed well in there. After that exam is done, I will be having alot more time to play and do other stuff aswell. I will also be less stressful and happy, so I can't wait to get it done. After that I can really start to think that this RS goal is also going to succeed. Best of luck to myself, lol. :grin: My magic level is now 87 and smithing level is 88. I also got runecrafting level earlier from lamp. The halfway is closing in! It's weekend soon, cheers! :cool: By the way, I do get bored with superheating. I just would get more bored if not doing it. This way I don't have to play so much, to achieve same thing. I just try to mix my day with different kind of activity so couple hours of playing here and there won't get me bored yet.

Sorry for not writing update in few days. I have been updating the log on the front page though, so if someone is interested how am I doing, you can keep checking there. Overall I had good weekend, felt good, played quite a bit and so forth. The week however is all about stressing about school and the final exams that are closing in. I'm trying to prepare to those atleast a bit, but I'm quite lazy to start with. Well, good thing there is still like three weeks time to prepare! Last week I got 80 smithing for example (yay), and I'm already closing in 85. Will get 85 (and finally get one of my longtime dreams/goals done: being able to smith runite) today or tomorrow! I also got this one (teleblock cool, though I never use it), and it's quite good one for me too. :) Trying to keep the 2,8k bars/day rate and still have time to do other stuff aswell. It is manageable! :P

Impressive job with the runecrafting so far! Keep up with it and good luck for the future. Thanks for posting to my blog aswell. :grin:

Ok, so I did some calculating with experience left and how long I could estimate this would take. So thereforth I got a neat idea: Why not to get this on my 18th birthday? I estimated I have 191316 bars left to smelt and 67 days left (17.11.2010) = 2855 average/day. This is quite "tough" rate for me, but it's not exactly impossible. I can make like 3k bars most of the time, and if I just try to top that to 4-5k every once in a while, I could keep up with my semi-slacking rate. I have life to live, and not that much time to play after all. However, getting my first 99 skill after 9 years of playing, would sound like a decent birthday present for myself. :P And it won't stop there. I also decided to save my MTK to that day + I'm also collecting sort of another birthday present that I can reveal to you guys later. In overall this would give me a nice timeline to work on my projects, keep having decent pace, but not exhausting myself. Also this would make certain, that day will be one of my greatest days in RS, hopefully like that also in real life (I might not be able to "party" in RS much, cause I probably will be going around town all day, but I can party day after or so). :grin:

Beer is always good, thanks for asking! So, I was sick with a fever for few days, and even though I had time, I didn't have will to play that much. Made some bars of course, but the headache beat me often to it. So I just chilled out and did some bars here and there. In overall it's coming along allright. Sometimes I have a bit desperate feeling, thinking about the 200k bars left to be smithed. But in the other hand it pays off to be patient. It's not as easy as it sounds always, though. But I bet most of you hardcore gamers know what I'm talking 'bout. :blink: Anyways, sometimes I feel I would want to do some another goal, instead of sticking to this. So I will be doing other stuff aswell (as you can see from my level ups), instead of smithing only. Maybe this takes longer that way, but atleast I can do what I enjoy. I even did some dungeoneering, even though the XP rate was horrible. Maybe that game is not so bad after all, just need to get into it. Bad thing I don't have alot of friends who could either teach me the ways of dungeoneering, or who would want to do it with me. Maybe in the future when I get some levels first? Real world news! It's weekend again (I was only 1 day at school) and I'm feeling great! I could basically get couple beers again or something but I'm not so sure! On the other hand I feel like gaming today, so we will see. By the way, I also updated the blog outlook (the stats part) to look a bit better. Added some neat colours to make it easier to track. Colours are kind of selfexplanatory. And here is what got me a bit proud yesterday. 80 Smithing! Wohoo!

79 Smithing and 84 Magic achieved today. Also gone past 20k gold bars smelt, which means ~ 1/10 of my goal is done. It's a long way but I have time! :shades:

Hey guys! Sorry for not updating blog lately. Reason was the stupid "glitch" with the goldsmithing gauntlets, which didn't give proper XP during the bonus weekend. I got actually less XP than normally, thereforth I did zero bars, and had no proper reason for update. Anyways, I did lots of other stuff (making money) to afford my way to the 99 smithing eventually. I wasn't very effective XP wise, but not a biggie. Maybe next time then! I got 78 smithing today, and will probably get 84 magic aswell. Laters!

Okay today I didn't do any gold bars at all. :---) That was because there is some stupid bug with the bonus XP, it gives less XP than I would normally get with smithing with goldsmithing gauntlets. Thereforth I decided not to waste my time on that, and instead went doing some slayer. Managed to get 93 attack and also did some summoning (got 63 there). Overall I didn't play much at all, because my friends came over and we had few drinks and so forth. Tomorrow (i will have a bit hangover most likely) I will play more. :D

Hmm.. I was bit dissapointed to find out that the goldsmithing gauntlets effect didn't stack up with the bonus XP. So when smithing you get bonus XP only for the gold ore smelt without gauntlets. Meaning at most I can get like 60xp per bar, while it should've been more like 120xp+ with goldsmithing gauntlets (56,2xp x 2.7 or so). Superheating gave crazy amount of magic XP though. So today I've been doing alot of different stuff. Rounded up my 84 cooking till 85, finally got that silly 56 agility that's needed for Regicide (I've been supposed to get that like 3 years ago, and it was always 55, god I hate agility). Eventually I realised what a good time it is to raise summoning, and used some time for it. Managed to get 1 summoning level, and still waiting for GE to buy me secondaries needed for using crimsons and gold charms. Thereforth won't be doing much of bars now (until the bonus XP percentage goes down). Oh yeah, I also got 65 crafting by doing some gold bracelets. :D

2,5k bars today and 77 smithing. Had quite bad day in overall due to some stuff happening in RL, so didn't feel like playing much. And I was very slow at smelting as my thoughts wondered around the globe. Just finished my philosophy essay and I'm off to bed. Ready for weekend and for the bonus XP! :shades: (and the beer)

Today I didn't enjoy smelting as much as previous days. However I managed to do decent bit (I think), over 2000 bars atleast. I had quite long day at school and there were some quite interesting stuff. Had alot of more important stuff (girls) on my mind so focusing on RS was hard. Well, not a biggie. Atleast I managed to get 76 smithing, which I'm fairly glad about!

Today I was already feeling better and managed to go to school aswell. I didn't have much of stuff to do after the school day, so I had quite a bit of time to make bars. I managed to do well with couple smithing levels, over 3000 bars, magic level and 6 dungeoneering levels (Tears of Guthix). I also collected my Miscellania (to sell while graphs are still up before the XP weekend) and it gave me decent 2,5m+ profit. I'm still wondering whether my money supply will get me to 99 smithing (and by using superheat aswell, not just smelt) or not. I was thinking of maybe starting a semi-goal of making some bracelets out of the gold bars. That would give me some crafting XP aswell as it would also cut my losses a bit. On the other hand it does sound quite timeconsuming, and would probably slow me down alot. Will see how it goes. Here are my MTK collects and 75 smithing (+ update of my resources/money/bars situation). :???: Miscellania 75 Smithing

So today as I wasn't at school and had that annoying stomach ache, I had a bit more time on PC than normal. I ended up making quite a bit bars (which won't happen most likely again in a while). So I managed to make over 5500 bars today, which is alot for me. Quite happy, even though the day itself wasn't the best I've had. Also my smithing level is now 73. :smile:

Congratulations for 99 mining. Such an epic old school skill. Used to be my favourite skill back in the days - aside with smithing. :thumbup:

Thanks for the feedback guys. I remember you both aswell as being active members for long. Nice to see you still around. And about the bonus XP weekend I'm not too sure. Obviously I will play some time, but not sure if I can maximize the effect. I mean, it's weekend after all and I could meet some friends and so on. On the other hand taking a pack of beer and just playing RS wouldn't hurt for a change. ;) Haven't done that in a long time! Though I will use some time to use some herbs for herblore or train some other skills too. However, I will be spending most of time at the Edgeville smelting / superheating bars. Even small bonus is bonus! I think today I will make alot of bars. Point being I had annoying stomach ache in the morning and decided to skip the school day. I haven't skipped a single day yet this semester, so I gave myself the freedom this once. ;) I also got 70 smithing (picture below) and my silly kitten finally grow to a cat (after running away twice for me forgetting to feed the hungry hairball). I also got 71 smithing aswell, but I prefer posting circular numbers. And the GE has been doing it's trick while I was sleeping, so I managed to buy quite a bit of more gold ores / natures. I still have 50k more ore buying. That won't get me to 99 yet, and I'm already getting a bit worried with the money part. I wouldn't like to sell much of anything I could actually need. Oh well, I hope MTK will be the one funding the last part of bars/nats. However, here is a picture of what I have bought: Also my final exams are closing in, so I suppose I should start reading a bit. There is plenty of time to do it I guess.

I'm afraid I'm a bit too lazy to go through all that. Will see. Anyways, the first day behind I managed to do 2607 bars which was alot more than I thought considering the time spent online. I also estimated rough sketch of about 1700 bars per hour with quite slacking rate. That is something I try to aim per day as it sounds reasonable and easily not too hard to keep on going. It wouldn't take me more than barely few months with this rate. And most likely there will be days with alot more (and most likely days with alot less or none) but will see. Atleast if I can just keep it up I will eventually reach it. Which most likely will be the case. :shades: I also got three smithing levels from 66 to 69 today. Off to bed, early wakeup. :sad: