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X isn't in high school anymore, by the way. I was thinking of deleting her on Facebook anyway. Game, set, and match. Edit: I didn't really know X that well, but some of her friends (I didn't know them that well either) added my on Facebook last year and they were really nice people. Unfortunately, not everyone is as open-minded as me, and just because they went to my high school or something doesn't mean they are "good" people. This is one of the reasons I'm very careful about lending stuff to RS friends, even if I know them in real life.

While there are many odd/strange/bad/shady people only existed on RuneScape, you must also remember that these people also exist in real life, otherwise they wouldn't be playing RS! :lol: The anonymity given by the Internet often makes people do things that they wouldn't normally in real life. For example, a flamer might go around and insult many people, but (s)he would not dare to do that in the real life due to the possibly of worse altercations. Recently, I had a puzzling interaction with someone else, whom I'll call X, who went to my high school. I talked to X on AIM once, and she seemed very nice. I added X on Facebook (since we had a few mutal friends) and she accepted. However, after a short time, X stopped talking to me. I first thought that she was busy, but I later found that X had blocked me on AIM. I politely asked her on Facebook, and I was deleted within minutes. I don't think I've ever sad a single bad thing about X or her friends. This took place in a span of about two years, by the way. Of course, this isn't a bad thing compared to people trying to hack their schoolmate's RS accounts, but it does make us wonder. I'm just curious; has anyone else ever had a similar experience?

It seems that one of the rites of passage of being well-known is being impersonated or having someone make a similar name as yours for fun. So I'm just curious; has anyone on RuneScape ever impersonated you? Well, here are mine: 1. Back in early 2001, someone created an account with a similar name as mine and told everyone that he was giving away a free rune chain! :lol: 2. Some time ago, someone created a similar username as mine and began to PM me and told me that he chose his name as a coincidence. Right.... 3. A few months ago, I found out that some scammer was trying to sell my character on a rather well-known cheat site! :roll: (On another note, someone impersonated my friend Angelbabeyy, who recently got 99 fletching, on that same cheat site!)

I wonder if "six degrees of separation" exists in RuneScape. For example, that level 15 noob that just passed me might be a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend (four degrees of separation). But since friends are not reciprocal, the return path may be different.

Unfortunately, it is. However, you can try to "honor stake." Agree on a stake and give it to your opponent if you lose, and vice versa. Just don't expect every staker to be "honorable."

Yes, these were the people who were wiped on May 29, 2002 for using Rune Bot. I actually reported quite a few people on that list. :lol: By the way, here's Andrew's original announcement:

Our very own Sunli!

Today, December 3rd, is Andrew Gower's birthday. Assuming that I remember things correctly, he should be turning 29 today!! (Wikipedia says that Andrew is born in 1979, but some time before his birthday in 2001, he said that he was 22. I remember that, on December 3rd, 2001, Andrew made a small change on RS and said something along the lines of "Today is my birthday, so happy birthday to me and everyone else whose birthday is today!" Unfortunately, no-one seems to have saved that piece of news, so it may have been lost forever, because the Internet Archive is blocked from crawling the RS site.) Edit: I almost forgot, it's Lightning's birthday as well!

Over the history of RuneScape, there have been constant cat-and-mouse wars between Jagex and macros and bots. Jagex often updates the game to make this type of cheating more difficult, yet cheaters still find ways around such updates. For those of you who may be curious, here is a brief history of macro use (actual program names are not listed in order to discourage people from searching for them): The first-generation macros were very primitive. These macros simply recorded and replayed certain sequences of mouse clicks or keystrokes. In fact, many of these macros were made to help people with repetitive tasks and were not specifically designed for RuneScape. The auto-clicking macros were mainly used for collecting stackable items, fishing, and mining, while the keystroke macros were used to keep a player logged in, often in a place with aggresive monsters. Jagex tried to combat this type of macro by making the screen shift occasionally, but it was mostly ineffective. Jagex also made monsters below half the player's level unaggressive, and it was somewhat useful. There were not many second-generation macros, except for one made by Vee and some color-based clickers made by Evil Cowgod. The former was the first bot to interact with the server directly, and could do things that normal macros could not do, such as follow a monster. Players could disrupt these macros easily by trapping them into certain areas and closing the door or gate. All macros became ineffective when Jagex added the fatigue system. The third-generation macros were bots that could be scripted. There were many of them, and two of the most infamous ones were made by Kaitnieks. These allowed players to automate even more tasks and level skills that could not be easily done with first- or second-generation programs, such as smithing. Many of these were made to work with OCR programs designed to work with the RS fatigue system. Jagex was able to stop many of these programs using advanced detection systems and by changing certain communication protocols. The fourth-generation macros are the same as the third-generation ones, except that they worked on RS2. In recent times, these bots have been mainly used by gold farmers rather than members of major cheating communities. The newer ones offer more advanced scripting, and could communicate with other bots. So here's my question. Will future bots be almost impossible to detect, especially if they do not interact directly with Jagex servers? Granted, artificial intelligence is a very difficult problem, and so far, even the world's best computer scientists have been unable to make a program think exactly like a real human. However, with advanced programming, bots could respond to messages almost like a human would. Scary thought, eh?

That makes sense. I think I've seen a picture of someone's suggestion of that, and it would easily allow another column.

With 23 skills, the skills interface is filled to the brim. Yet, Jagex plans to add a new skill, Summoning. What do you think the skills interface will look like? Is Jagex going to make each icon smaller? Or will we have a scroll bar? Or even another page, like the quests and achievement diary?

I know that on many messengers like AIM and MSN, you will appear offline to anyone you block. It doesn't seem to work that way in RS, despite popular belief. There are advantages to both ways. If you appear offline, then people can find out that you blocked/ignored them simply by creating another account. They might be offended to know that you blocked them and might continue to harass you on another name. If you appear online, then the person may not know that you are blocking them, and are unlikely to create another name just to harass you. For some reason, people on AIM seem to be more likely to block someone than on RS. I've had quite a few people (including real-life friends) block me on AIM but I doubt more than five people have put me on their ignore list on RS. As for the OP's question, it's not necessarily "mean" to ignore someone, though it might be a good idea to give someone a warning or to before putting them on ignore. I haven't had to put anyone on ignore for six years now, though there have been times where I was close to doing so.

Have you tried selling the prayer potions at Edgeville? Some people still might buy for a lot?

It seems that other people are picking up on this idea as well. On the RSOF, there's already a few people offering "trust staking" services. I'll have to admit, if someone gave me 50m to hold on to, I'd be tempted as well, although I'd never scam.

People don't have to buy all at once. Surprisingly, when I put up dragon arrows up for sale at 7.5k each, they were gone in minutes.

I have a feeling that "ulwelcome" players are going to be abused. "This is a private party, leave, n00b!"

Personally, I prefer the old-fashioned way of manually dropping items. It makes the party last longer. Plus, I can choose what order the items appear in (from cheapest to most expensive).

Theoretically, if you're extremely rich, you gain get fletching EXP very, very fast. Fletching a set of 10 dragon darts gives 250 EXP, and you can fletch about two sets every second. Thus, in an eight-hour period, you can gain around 14.4m EXP. Of course, you'd have to be a billionaire. :P

It seems that items are also hard to sell outside of the GE now. A while ago, I easily sold 3 rune warhammers for 55k each, and they went fairly quick. However, I've been trying to sell one for some time now, and still got no buyers. The same goes for mithril bolts, even though I lowered the price to 115 now.

OMG! You took the words right out of my mouth! And what's amazing is that although our guides are independently designed, they are very similar in format. Great minds really do think alike!

Nice guide. Was it inspired by mine, by any chance? :)

I've made a few minor updates. Nothing much, though.

I tried mithril bolts at 120 gp each for around 10 hours, and no success. I'm going to lower it to 115 each later.

I was going through an area with butterflies that could be caught for hunter, and I've noticed that it's really hard to catch them. A long time ago, all I had to do was click the general area and I'd be able to catch it. However, now, it seems that I have to click on the butterfly exactly, which makes it very hard.

What price did you sell the rune arrows at? I tried 400 each before the maximum market price dropped to 399, and got no buyers.