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Even in RSC with less advanced (not saying they were simple) bots and without almost no preknowledge of the way to solve it, they managed to get really accurate anti-fatigue methods. Now they know how to solve that kind of an antiauto function, they probably got old sources still left and so on. It would work for like a week or so and then get passed. Here's again the same old random event story... The bots don't "think" it same way as we do. For them it doesn't matter is the answer logical or not, the only thing that matters is that the answer sends the right answer to the server. Color clickers aren't the real problem. Random events can a lot easier stop them than bots, their number from 1 comp is a lot more limited than with bots and they are the ones that most likely "flip" and get lost.

yellow party hat = ~100 whips. Useless? Not really. Yes, a rare item itself isn't good, but it has its price which makes it useful. With 1 party hat you can buy yourself almost any 99 skill you want, but with 1 whip you can't do much. I so often hear things about it when it comes to drops and luck :P Good point there. However is it luck or playing by the odds? Basically everything has odds: drops, random events, etc. Now the question is, what do we count for luck and what for odds? In theory there are chances for duying with a rare to a random event and then someone logging in with perfect timing to pick up the rare. Yes in normal speaking we use the word luck. I personally don't see it as an attribute or a gift of a person. It's more like randomly odds being on your side, not as a thing you would actually have.

Luck isn't something you can get or really own, it's nothing material unlike items. In this game we can create our own luck pretty well. The drop rates are equal for you, me and everyone else. In a short run someone can get many good drops while someone gets nothing, but the longer they keep going, the more balanced the drops are. If you prepare so badly that a random monster can kill you while you have something really valuable with you, it's not bad luck, it's bad preparation. I personally almost always wear a party hat while fishing, doing my farm run or doing random non-combat skills (during combat it's better to have a helmet tha actually helps) because I don't believe in bad luck. Ring of life will save if the worst scenario happens and the chances for me to get killed during tasks like that is minimal. However if the worst scenario happens, the only one I can blame is myself. Luck or the lack of it is the magic word for lazy people. They can always hide behind it and get a an excuse why they aren't even trying. If you want to get something, you need to go for it. The words "bad luck" or "unlucky" are the weakest excuses why not to go for something you want or "want". Some might still remember how I got the first dark bow. They also tend to forget few things: I was actually the one of the first ones ever to kill them after the update, the drop rate is same for everyone and I've also killed countless other monsters without a good drop. I could immediately show a drop chart of 1000+ iron dragons and the bad history with dragon drops.

The problem isn't that they don't get banned, the problem is that they keep coming back. To stop this, we need to make the bans faster so it's not worth the efford to even create these characters anymore.

3.4 You are disciplined but tolerant; a true American. :lol:

This idea I got could fit here pretty well... As we all know, sometimes selling and buying stuff isn't too fun. You might arrange a deal with someone at forums and then be training in the middle of nowhere when he logs in. You might want to do other things while you'd have to buy stuff. For this we could make a player owned store which is related to your house. The idea is rather simple. You build a chest kind of an item to your house and then add items there and set prices which you will trade them for. In the other words it works a bit like a general store: there's item x and it has price y. Also buying stuff could be added to this: you set up an item which you want to buy, set a price for it and the max amount you will buy. After this people can trade with you by going for house portal and click an option which says something about check other player's market or so. This update would change the merchanting world a lot. First of all people wouldn't need to waste time getting into busy merchant worlds, they could easily buy smaller amounts at once, the chances to get scammed gets lowered and arranging trades would get easier.

Setting up an autotalker isn't a big deal, just go to w1/w2/any other busy merchant world and you'll see loads of them. Btw those website advertisers are pretty common in banks during the night time for Europe and they tend to have multiple characters for it: when one gets muted, another one with slightly same kind of name comes to continue. I personally muted around 6 of these advertisers and now when looking at their names, the only difference is the numbers in the end of their names. You all should report these players under the rule website advertisement. Those reports are checked rather closely and to get the website they are advertising filtered, they need to see at the customer support that it's a problem not to have it filtered.

This isn't the first of their own fundamentals they are breaking. It's a bit like freedom of speech: when it gives more than it takes, it's worth it to allow it. When the protesting goes too far, laws can be set to avoid the unwanted things. In many European countries this for example works with denying holocaust. In various places denying it is against the rules and people are actually even at the moment in jail because of denying it, even historians. However you can deny whole WW2 and that's allowed. Is this freedom of speech?

No, you got a lot more advanced ways to kill the people you don't like.

Horrible qualify there, but it has potential. Sounds still pretty traditional COB song, but no point judging the album just because of one early demo version of their song. Btw saw them live few weeks ago at Tuska festivals. They had a great gig there and still seemed to be really into it. Was a lot better than their gig there in 2005 and personally I was pleased to see Alexi still being able to control the audience in a way he's known to be able to.

Think this suits here pretty well. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6909331.stm So, now Bush has finally banned torturing of people who are suspected to be terrorists. In the other words, torturing was allowed earlier, denied they it or not. The scary part here is that according to their moral, it's ok to kidnap anyone from anywhere aslong as they are suspected to be terrorists. We've seen this already and I provided some sources to one case like this here in tip.it. USA been using the word "democracy" as one of the official reasons for war, other one which could be named is "human rights". How democratic is it when you can randomly kidnap anyone without any solid proof? How democractic is it to punish him even when there's no real evidence of him being anything? Is it accepted by human rights to torture people who might have done something?

It's true that to be interested in Paris Hilton, we first need to know how she is and why should we be interested in her. If you look at it in larger scale, Paris Hilton herself isn't the thing that sells, it's her story: we want to see how celebrities and rich people live. Basically Paris Hilton is the same thing we've seen many times earlier. Also should the media inform us in as neutral way as possible what has happened or will happen? If people don't wake up from it, it's not the media who we should blame for it. I personally was against the whole hype of how this little girl got kidnapped. However people got interested in that story and of course companies threw more fuel for fire. However if we wanted to make this world a better place, we should first get more moral leaders, gun manufactors, car manufactors and basically many other things before we should go for more moral for media. It currently works well enough for our needs as we got many non-political news sources. And like he continued, it's a special case.

However my death is 100% sure, so is yours and so are everyone elses. That would cause a a lot of istant deaths and a lot later due starvation, floods and other things caused by it. However it wouldn't most likely destroy whole planet or mankind, just drop our population to healthier numbers. That's also a thing we cannot avoid when it happens. We can at least in theory do something about asteroids but this is a thing that can't really be stopped when/if it comes. Also it's most likely that within 1000 years mankind has already destroyed itself. We've already been so close to a nuclear war because of computer errors, unthought political moves and falsely informed people that in future with more complicated systems, more nukes and probably more states with them the accident happens.

It's not free at all to run a news company. They need to pay salaries for their reporters, get expensive equipment, in some cases print stuff and so on. To get this money (and no1 ever says no for some extra either), they need to also need to add stuff that may not be informative when it comes for domestic or international situation or get it from taxes. However tax paid magazine could really easily turn into a propaganda machine like said earlier. Also you seem to forget that news are about things that we are interested in. If no1 was interested in Paris Hilton, she wouldn't get the attention she's now getting. If people weren't interested in cases like 9/11, we'd read as much about it as we did from various attacks in places like Africa. If people are interested in it, it's worth publishing. If not, then it can be dumped.

Few things I don't agree with... * The price doesn't seem right. If the guild is actually worth using, that's far too cheap. If it's just like a POH with little extra xp features, it's not worth using and thus not worth the cash. If the xp&gp is better than from normal areas, the price should be at least double that. * I don't agree with the idea of more than 1 players owning the guild. First of all, this would easily lead into scamming problems. Second, if the guild is worth getting, people will get enough cash to get it anyways. You also didn't mention any skills, ways to level there or levels needed to build these things. In my opinion a guild should be the highest lvl room to be build as it would serve a purpose for other skills and other players too.

I'm talking about invisible stuff for normal players, not random events or anything. That kind of an idea you succested was already tested in RSC and autoers could after few months pass it. It was called fatigue and after every 5k xp you had to sleep it away. To wake up you had to type a random word. The problem is that this kind of things are easy to pass. For random letters/words the word can be read with optical screen readers like in RSC. If it's like "answer right to a logical question" , it's a bit like an easier version of the quiz random event. If we want to stop the autoing problem, we need things to stop the ability to auto. Instant bans when logging from a false client is the thing that I'd see the best thing. Random events can be passed and it's more likely that the bot character gets banned before gets a new random event anyways. IP ban would also be a great thing if it was even in theory a thing that could work. However setting up a proxy to pass these bans doesn't require an iq comparable to Einstein.

No, just in general.

No more disgusting than parents who grow their children to sing about their religion or other political system, like communism for example.

The only difference between that and a higher leveled RS player's average time at RS is that studying might actually pay off in future.

Guthans are helpful in many things, but they are not really needed in anything. Wouldn't call them the best or most useful item. Also 1 cracker is worth 80-90 full guthans, so which one would be the most important for you? For a rather long time the knife was nothing but an useless item. Before p2p and fletching it was only useful during the knife bug and that's only if you see that as an important thing. Also in the early days of Runescape there was no such thing as harpoon. We'd also be able to play this game relatively well without a woodcutting axe, that would just mean fletching would be rather useless or unexistant and we'd only use bows which can be bought from the store. Also firemaking wouldn't have a real reason then.

That would cause either the need of hire a lot more staff or give normal players rights which could and most likely would be abused too easily. Random events have been passed earlier than they will be passed later. Also you can count the odds to get a new random event with these current randoms: yes, even tho the bot couldn't pass it, it would be pretty unlikely for it to get it before it gets banned. I personally for example haven't visited the maze for weeks. The best way would be to randomize the client just a bit every few days in this way: As you know, your client sends and receives packets from the server. This is how bots work (not simple colorclickers which aren't a real threat) and there lies the way to stop them. Just randomise the packets every few days in away that the real client sends new packet instead of old, even tho the old would still work. However when the old packet is sent by a bot, it equals to an illegal client and instant ban. If these randomisings have been done enough and its been done right, it'll be really hard to find the banpackets. Also changing few packets isn't too big of a problem.

In the other words we should be able to create our own items, autocomplete quests and change our stats in P2P just because we've paid them the monthly fee? When you sign up for membership, you pay for the extra features there. This does not mean you would be a god or something.

Seriously, how blind are you? The goverment has its goals and motives which always don't meet with the needs of the people. I already gave you examples how biased media was in your paradise called USSR. The media shouldn't brainwash the nation to believe it's right to do things that actually hurt themselves or that are morally wrong. According to the Soviet media, UK, USA and many other western nations were neofacist/nazist countries after WW2. Do you see it like this? Were UK, the land bombed by nazis, a radical rightwing country? Was USSR same kind of a paradise which their media preached about? The answer for both is a big no. Second, the US media doesn't brainwash the political elite, not even in USA. They might bring up unwanted things for politicians, but in my eyes that's a lot better than the media running political motives. The only way how free media could affect to politicians is that they are nation's microphone and might pressure the politicians in the name of people. The more power the goverment has over media, the less truthful views we get from daily situations. If you want to be free, you need a free media. Good thing for 21st century is that internet can be counted to be part of media.

How you do in tests doesn't only depend on the time you've wasted studying. If you have been awake during classes and actually done something during your schoolyear, it helps a lot. Same goes with the way spend your freetime: reading helps at certain systems even when it's not directly related to the subject, doing things were you need to think mathmetically help at some and so on. Also the qualify of your studying is more important than the actual time you study. Have enough rest and try to get the things seem logical&relate them to something you already know instead of trying to learn things by heart.

And usually not even what they even needed to know. Media companies are companies just like Jagex, Microsoft and the others. They need to make profit in order to keep providing us the facts we need or want. If people pay for hearing the newest gossip of Paris Hilton, then that should be put to the magazine. The worst scenario would be goverment run tabloids. That would give the goverment free hands to censor unwanted stuff and add a lot of propaganda to boost and defend their own motives. We saw this during WW2, we've seen it before it and we've seen it after it. The link between my 1st and 3rd chapter is rather obvious. In USSR for example the media was centralized and censored really roughly. This wasn't only during Stalin's time, it was before and after it. The ways of propaganda were different during different times, for example after WW2 the fear of facism&nazism were used to demonize western worlds, hide unwanted facts during worse times and in general gave a picture of a country which was a paradise. Of course too radical (truthful) editors were punished.