Ginger_Warrior

It was my girlfriend's house, but since we split up, I haven't really had a place to get away from my house, since she don't really talk to me now. Good job my family gets on well I guess... :|

No way. Thats the worst thing you can go by. The customer can be wrong. Agreed. The whole point of it is that the customoer is eluded into thinking that they're always right. After all, the shop's still making a hefty profit from the sale at the end of the day aren't they! :wink:

^ I am an ex-member of Affliction, and yes, these weaknesses with the portals were definitely apparent. The yellow one can be fell with a few swings of a special DDP++ attack...

So, now you're arguing that just because you spend more gold working for that game, you deserve to win the game more? So, in essence, you're saying it's perfectly acceptable to buy your way to victory? The whole cost of ancients point is a really weak argument - no game should ever be a case of who has more money. I'm actually more refering to the simple-mindedness of it all, rather than its strength. That's an argument for a different day, and I don't actually get hit much by ancients anyway (taking off all armour and praying usually suffices). There's just no brains required in waiting outside the castle door for some half-trained player to come along and take it, none whatsoever. If you think such games are exciting, remind me never to give you sugar...

Completely off topic, but look at his sig: Isn't it three letters and an apostrophe... :-k

I can't remmber the name, but it was one of them really stupid beat-'em-ups where you rip each other's heads off and everything... if only the gameplay could have been as good as the graphics were gorey.

You become fluent in 1337speak... Cambridge and Oxford University ask you know a Modern Language... :-k

Of course, basic maths would urge me at this point to say the number of people at Level 99 ÃÆââââ¬Ã°Ãâàthe number of skill cape owners. I have no idea what topic you're on about really either. I'm kinda new to the General board.

Natural wear-and-tear. I would suggest getting a new one if Nintendo weren't so expensive! :|

I thought the EU date was TBA. We never get games earlier than the States... my Pok̮̩̉̉mon copy's an import. Either way, it looks absolutely amazing. If SSBM is anything to live up to, Brawl should be amazing. It's a NWC game isn't it? If so, it should be great playing this online! Button-Bashing FTW!

All of the staff avatars are automatically applied by the forum software. A change to the original is automatically applied to all the staff with that avatar, so it wouldn't be any major work to update all of them if it were done. I'm well aware of how Forum Class avatars work. I meant that, say I had 100x100 avatar, it would be easier for me to reduce that to 80x80 to fit with my staff avatar than for someone else to edit my Crew avatar to 100 width.

Well done on doctoring the picture... you can tell by the inconsistant background around the 'glitched' text. :wink:

I would have thought it would make more sense to put this on the DS than the Wii... then again maybe the whole issue of file space would come in there. If we put it onto consoles though, I can't help but worry about hacking software such as AR or GameShark, which has actually ruined many games before. Pok̮̩̉̉mon is the most recent example (uber hacked Pok̮̩̉̉mon), but games like Mario Kart DS and Animal Crossing: Wild World have also suffered thanks to this system. I would hate RS to hold the same fate, especially after all the hard work that's been put into it!

It seems to me this the stimulus for this debate is how players are wrongly punished for offenses they didn't commit, correct? I'll base my argument based on that. To say the solution to this problem is to just create an anarchic state is a pretty lazy solution TBH, and it wouldn't actually achieve anything. The fact is, while there are a few cases where people are wrongly punished (myself included!), most of the punishments Jagex deal out are actually fair and needed. Scammers have contempt for rules anyway, they almost think they don't exist. Therefore, removing the rules wouldn't actually change anything - to them it would be removing something that needn't have existed in the first place. The only place I agree with you here is how immature kids would cut down on the swearing. Half of the mentallity behind swearing is the feeling of rebelling against authority. To remove that authority would only solve half this problem by removing this feeling - all that it would do is give people a green light to swear. Now, I can take a few moderate swears (in an emotionally-charged situation), but I don't want this game to turn into a cesspool of intolerance TBH. As said before, what's needed is simply more moderation. By that, I don't mean giving more players Moderator crowns. That kind of involvement works on a game with about 100,000 players, not one million plus. Jagex simply need to hire more staff, who's sole purpose in the organisation it is to moderate the game.

I think this idea is stupid. Imagine the number of people with 70+ skills who leave for WoW, where this kind of thing would never happen. However, now that RS has become a recognised online adventure game in its own right, this really is the time to start thinking about an RS3. Only this time, experience in skills doens't get carried over. That way, yes, everyone starts at the same level, and those who start later aren't majorly disadvantaged. Is the fact Zezima's got over 1,000,000,000 exp a testament to how well he plays the game, or how merely how long ago it was since he joined? I would hope in all games, it's the former.

Snare? Fire waves? Zamorak Strike? Lunars to assist your team. In fact, there's countless other spells you could use. Why do mages have to be in an offensive role? Rangers are supposed to be used defensively, warriors offensively and mages for ranged support IMO. As for your sarcastic proposal, I do kinda agree with something along those lines. It's not "nerfing" the game, but what it does do is turn it into a more offensive, attacking style of play, and I personally find that style much more fun, quick and exciting than the old ancient flag-holding tactic. Of course, how stupid I am to imply we play this game for fun! I deserve a slap from a wet salmon... #-o

TBH, I'd be in favour of scrapping any mention of it. I read that a while ago, and I remember thinking at the time I'd never heard anything about a "Nature World". I asked my RS mate if he had, he said, "No". Frankly, I think it would be more worth people's time if they looked for double crafters on the RSOF. That's my two Pence's worth...

When you put it like that, perhaps it would make more sense not to create a sticky. As said, it's just not a big enough board. Like I said, this was more inspired by a few comments I saw about the amount of Pok̮̩̉̉mon-related threads spamming up the board that got me thinking. Thanks anyway. Just a suggestion that's all. :)

From my work on Tip.It's Bestiary, I certainly notice this pattern among monsters. For example, in case none of you noticed, the Level 166 monsters from the new update seem to have exactly the same drops as each other.

What do you do to lure fish onto your rod? You put bait onto it, this is luring, and it's completly sad. The person who made the video said "safes and teles, sad", that makes me so angry, he's the sad pathetic fat loser sitting behind his computer, being a coward, not even giving the other people a chance. He doesn't look like a guy I'd like to spend anything more than 5 seconds with, I'll agree, but then again this thread isn't about whether I like him. TBH, I don't much time for most PKers, especially not the self-proclaimed "ownage" ones. But this thread is about whether he's doing anything wrong. Don't compare this example to fishing - one's a prgram generating a load of random numbers to come to a final conclusion, the other is another human's emotions, actions and stupidity. I can't see what the PKer has done wrong. He's not 'lured', at least not in the way that Jagex banned. If people are stupid enough to fall for this trick, it's their own fault. Perhaps more pertinently, in direct reply to the author of this thread, how would removing the ditch solve this? I'm intrigued as to the logic behind your argument there... :-k

why? it's part of the game and has every right to be used. Just because some idiots don't know how to protect themselves against it doesn't mean it should be taken out. You seem to imply there is a way to protect yourself against it. For m̮̻̉̉l̮̩̉̉e, I can simply run away from whoever's attacking me. Same really for range. But Ancient Magicks have the ability not only to attack from afar, but to freeze you so you can't get away. This is what really unbalances Ancient Magicks. Maybe it would be better if you could only attack within a four-tile radius, but you can literally freeze someone ten tiles away with no effort whatsoever, and with no hope of them escaping.

Actually, yes they were entering at their own choice. The 'book' glitch had already been fixed when the ditch was introduced. The reason for the ditch is because people were entering the wild under false pretences of people selling an item at the prayer guild. Therefore, the 'bait' was the good deal. In this case, the 'bait' is an item dropped on the ground, it is still luring the person into wild. If this is a case where someone has offered a trade, and has then said they dropped it in the Wildy, then of course, that's against the rules. It's trading under false pretenses. However, if someone decides to spontaneously drop an item at the edge of the Wilderness, and then someone sees this item having had no contact with the item dropper to go and get that item, then that's not the kind of luring that's banned. It's a form of baiting, but as said before, the person that enters the Wilderness does so in full knowledge that there's nothing stopping them from getting killed in the action of retrieving the dropped item. They agree when they click the confirmation box that they are doing so at their own risk, and that at any point, someone could kill them, and that there is no rule set by Jagex to protect their items. Maybe people should actually look at the potential solutions to this problem of Trade scamming on the edge of the Wilderness. i see two solutions: A) Jagex decides to protect everyone that goes into the Wilderness, and at this point, the difference between PKing and luring becomes smaller and smaller, and reports involving such incidents become harder and harder to deal with. Some PKer accounts wrongly punished, some lurers slip through the net (so it doesn't solve the problem entirely either), not to mention a PKing community completely up in arms over how anyone who enters the Wilderness has a case to say "They scammed me", and potentially falsely report them. B) The RS community eventually comes to the realisation that if victims didn't go trades at the end of the Wilderness didn't go wearing Guthix Full Helms (etc.), or if people were sensible enough to not trade near the Wilderness in the first place, this problem wouldn't actually exist in the first place, or if it did, the luring 'market' (for lack of a better word) couldn't sustain itself. Therefore, Jagex releases a public announcement clearly warning people of the dangers of the Wilderness, and the inevitable scams that are due to these dangers, and any other case after is labelled as the victim's fault for entering the Wilderness on their own. Of course, I don't think luring like this is a particularly good thing. In fact, I think it's pretty lame people do this. But I'm not going to blame them for what is frankly other people's stupidity. I supported action being taken on luring, because there were cases where people were entering the Wilderness without giving consent to do so. However, that has been removed thanks to the ditch, and now you have to give consent enter the Wilderness, and in doing so, you accept the dangers of the Wilderness. So, in short, this is wrong if the victim and lurer had an agreement prior to the PK, however, if the PKer drops a high value item, and the victim accepts the danger of losing their items in fetching that item, I really see no crime there. Noone has been deceived...

Atheism isn't a religion, just a set of common values to a group of people. I am one however.

It's like in CW when you set cades up, and people flame you because it stops their easy route to the flag, or when you pray when you have about seven people on you. They're just immature people who need to grow up fast, and can't get over the fact there's no easy way to victory, and they can't 'own' everything. :x

How is it? They're clearly warned of the dangers of the Wilderness, and that no-one else apart from them takes responsability if their tiems are lost? The know the dangers when they go into the Wilderness, so how is the PKer in the wrong? Just because he set the bait doesn't mean he's a lurer.