Zibl

Well it seems I don't really have any recent pictures. Atleast none that are any good. The following 2 are both from 2007. The 1st is January 2007 and the 2nd (where my hair isn't fixed up) is from Summer 2007. January 3rd, 2007 - Pre gaming for the club. Summer, 2007 - Idk... some lake party. We call this "pound and explode". Edit: The other dude, who just so happens to be in both pictures, is my best friend. Just noticed that.

Yeah, looks like you're having a tough time... \ Just jokin! Couldn't resist saying it though it was like a sign : .

http://www.drugstore.com/qxp142047_3331 ... r_hold.htm It's not very expensive either as you can tell. I've tried anywhere from 10 to 15 different products, ranging from dirt cheap to some things that were like $30. For some reason this stuff works the best because of it's strength but also because it's consistancy is thick but not TOO thick to work with. Plus you don't have to search all over to find it. Walmart, Walgreens, CVS Pharmacy... :thumbsup: .

Some of these covers are awesome!

Didn't you read my story? Tuesday, October the 5th was my last day. I mean... of course I signed on everyone once in a while right after I quit but it was mostly to just talk to old friends (I never worried with merchanting or skilling). And excluding a breif 2 week period in November 2007, I haven't Runescape since and don't plan to. As my story said my account was taken twice, but I easily got them back because I had remembered my recovery questions. Thanks everyone for the good feedback. I've always been fascinated with old stories from the golden days which is why I wrote and posted my story. There are tons of other stories (especially about Wizardgir... whos name is mentioned in this topic story).

Haha I love these stories! Keep em coming.

I'll keep this part brief. What's your Runescape story? OUt of sheer bordem I typed up what turned out to be a 5 page story of my Runescape "life". It's all about merchanting, though, and has nothing to do with any situations other than that. But still... thought I would shareit with you guys and also ask what ya'lls stories were. If this topic does not belong here or has already been posted then you'll have to forgive me. I VERY briefly scanned the first 2 pages of general discussion and didn't notice any topic related. I've also been gone from the forums for a long time and am unaware of any other place this topic would best be suited. BIG EDIT: Due to the using of an actual players name, I had to change part of my story. I didn't change the story at all, just the Runescape players name. Instead of his actual name I've used the name "Bob". [hide=This is the greatest and best story ever told....]Zibls Merchanting History DISCLAIMER: The dates, times, and prices used within this brief history are not all 100% correct. You have to understand that these experiences and situations were never recorded in stone and all of which are years old. I am human. I can, however, assure you that the stories and situations are 100% true and are in no way exaggerated or diluted. Enjoy. Part #1 - In the Beginning I joined Runescape in very late December 2001. When I first joined I was both confused and excited about runescape. The character class that I chose was an adventurer. I didn't know what in the heck to do first. The first two days ended up being pretty boring because I had no idea what to do and how to do it. On the 3rd day, I was collecting bones that were laying around when I noticed a guy in bright blue armor. I immediately approached the guy, asking what kind of armor he had. The guys name was Rubbermaid (whom I later found out years down the road was one of the 1st 1,000 people to ever join runescape) and it turned out the armor he was wearing was called runite. He was very friendly considering his higher level and me being such a newbie. I asked him how I could quickly earn some money so I could get started. The next day, Rubbermaid came back to Lumbridge and presented me with a free set of full bronze armor + bronze long sword + bronze square shield. I went nuts. I thought I was the best thing on runescape! He showed me the cows that were not far from Lumbridge castle and told me that if I gathered lots of cow hides, that he would buy them off of me for 20 gp a piece. I began slaying the cows. When my inventory got full, Rubbermaid would kindly come get them. The old RSC inventorys held 30 items. Since I had yet to discover a bank, I could only hold 24 cow hides (24 hides + all armor/weapons + coins = 30 slots) at a time. While at the cow pin I noticed something: other people there were trying to sell their cow hides. I thought to myself, why kill my own cows when I could just buy their hides? I began buying everyone elses hides that I could find for 10 gp each. Fast forward to the end of the week. I have accumulated just over 10,000 gp! And for near 2001 for a level 5 whos never been out of Lumbridge 10,000 gp is a lot. Part 2: Bob, Dopen, and a Betrayal. Dopen - Lets fast forward a loooong time. Ive been doing merchanting for months now and have obviously moved on from the cow pins of Lumbridge. Ive learned pretty much all there is to know about the game thus far, but am still not even slightly interested in raising my skill levels. It is nearing the middle of 2002. My skills were pretty crappy. If I had to ball park it, I would put my skill total around 450 and my combat level around 35? I was mining south of Falador when a guy who was passing thru stopped and asked if I had any iron. I told him I had only a few. He begged if he could have it. Reluctantly, I handed over my few iron ores. He thanked me and left. Less than 15 minutes later I received a message from the same guy (Dopen). He asked me to come to Falador bank for a surprise. Out of curiosity I went just to see what he wanted. He sent a trade request and threw up 200 cooked lobster certs!! I just about fell out of my chair. Cooked lobster certificates were worth 1,000 gp each and this was serious money in RSC in April 2002. Especially for someone of my level. He gladly gave them to me and left. I never seen him or spoke to him again, even though I added him to my friends list (he must have blocked me). I immediately went and sold those certs for 200,000 gp. Out of sheer excitement I turned around and bought a rune square shield (which at the time was worth a whopping 200,000 gp). After I bought it I sold it the same day for 215,000 gp. This put my total bank worth up to around 500,000 gp. Bob -- Lets go forward another couple of months. Its summer time! While mining south of Falador, I began a conversation with a guy by the name of Bob. It was simple hey whats up? at first, but the convo quickly geared towards money making. I told Bob of my experiences and methods, along with the random 200 lobster certs that Dopen had given me a couple of months prior. There was an instant click between me and Bob. I understood him and his personality, as he did me and my personality. Whats even more is that he was a big merchant [bleep] like I was. After a couple of days he approached me in game and asked if I had instant messenger, that he had something important to discuss and it would be easier if we did it through AIM. We began talking. Although I obviously cant remember what exactly was said, I do know basically what Bob told me: Bob: Okay so Ive got a friend who is in tight with a couple of high leveled people. Two of them have 99 smithing! Im trying to see if he will hook us up so we can really make some serious money. I was excited. Why? Because unlike the runescape that exists today, there were only a handful of 99 smiths. I dont remember exactly how many, but I know for a fact it was around 7 or 8 (that included Bluerose13x, Musashi22, Yankeeyank1, Whitemagem to name a few). Over the next week or so, I constantly pestered Bob about the situation to see if his friend would come through for us. After a couple of weeks, I got news from Bob that we were good to go. We would each separately buy as many rune ores/coal/nature runes as we could afford, and get Bob friend to get one of his 99 smith friends to make us rune 2-handers. The only downfall about this is that I never once got to go with them or see any of the smiths. I would always just have to wait for Bob to bring me my share of r2hs. It was sketchy, but I trusted Bob so I was never too worried. Rune ores were NOT easy to come by. Unlike the thousands of rune miners in this day and age, there were not as many back in the day. Not to mention it was the old RSC mining method where you couldnt tell whether or not there was any ore in the rock. All these factors, plus the OUTRAGIOUSLY more dangerous pking system of RSC made rune mining difficult. Eventually I met and added a handful of rune miners so my rune ore supply was pretty steady. What I would do is buy coal certs (5 coal per cert) for 1,000 gp each and rune ores for about 50,000 gp each. Counting the natures (for superheat item) it was costing roughly 155,000 gp for the raw materials to produce 1 single rune 2 hander. As you can imagine, the gains werent huge in the beginning. I only had a little over 500,000 gp so was only able to get 3 r2hs made on the first go. As I said in the disclaimer, I cant remember exact prices, but I believe r2hs were easily selling 350k-450k. I was doubling my money on each smithing session! My first 3 r2hs sold for about 1.1 million gp. I took that gold, bought more raw materials, and would get more rune 2 handers smithed. Me and Bob were absolutely rolling in the wealth. Eventually Bob had earned the trust of the 99 smithers. This made things A LOT quicker. Instead of having to go through Bob friend, me and Bob could now deal with the 99 smiths directly. This made the money REALLY come flowing in. We went from being able to have only 1 smithing session a week, to 2. Doubling our income per week (depending on how quickly the swords were sold). It was nearing the end of summer and my bank had reached heights I could have never imagined. For fun, me and Bob decided to send each other a picture of our bank accounts through AIM. This, ultimately, was my downfall. The day after trading pictures with Bob, I logged in to find my character in Lumbridge with its friend list completely deleted. I frantically made it to a bank only to find everything valuable gone. Coins, ores, rune 2 handers all of it. I downloaded a virus scanner, and found a key logger on my system. The only logical explanation was that Bob sent it attached to his picture while we were direct connected through instant messenger. Conveniently, Bob never signed back onto AIM nor did he appear online in-game. Part 3: The Comeback. I was down, but not out. Thankfully I made it in good with the 99 smiths during my time with Bob. I added my 2 smithers (musashi22 and yankeeyank1), a couple of rune ore suppliers that I could remember, and about 10 or 15 good friends that I could remember. Through the graciousness of some friends, I managed to get my rune 2 hander business started again. It was wonderful! Even though I had became friends with the 99 smiths, I had very rarely delt with them 1-on-1 because Britches handled that. I kicked in to over drive with the shipments, sometimes getting as much as 3 sessions per week. Lets skip ahead a couple more months. Its now mid September. My bank account was bursting. I had managed to do more in 2 months than I had ever done COMBINED. By the end of September 2002, I was sitting on a bank account of just over 40 million! If I had to guess I would say 40 million gold in those days would be comparable to 500 million in todays time. However, I was getting extremely frustrated with my rune 2 hander business. 40 million gp worth of raw materials would get me roughly 250 rune 2 handers. The smiths that I had were naturally very busy with their own lives, and were not about to sit down and pound out 250 r2hs in a single sitting just for me. Even if they had, selling 250 rune 2 handers was not an easy task. I literally had TOO much money for a quick increase in gold. The shipment that put me at 40+ million gp (235 r2hs) was the last rune 2 hander shipment I ever did throughout my entire runescape career. I took a good break from merchanting, focusing more on my skills for the first time. It was the end of October. This meant Halloween! That year, Halloween masks were dropped. Within the first couple of days, a set of Halloween masks was selling for 50,000 (quite a bit of difference from todays prices wouldnt you say?). But thats not where the money was. I decided to plunge full force into the party hat market. 1 full set of party hats would run you about 20 million exactly in November 2002. So on November 4th, I struck a deal with a good friend that got me 2 full party hat sets for 39 million exactly. Pink, being the rarest back in those days, was the hat of choice that people wore if you were lucky enough to afford. I donned myself with my bronze plate, bronze legs, staff, and pink party hat (along with the rest of my hats) to do some merchanting. Part 4: Party Hats, Sexy Money, and a Dupe Party hats continued their steady climb. Things were going good. Great even. But things were very predictable. I logged on, I did some merchanting for a couple of hours in the back (rare) crowd of world 1 varrock castle, and eventually I would wander off for a little bit doing some random skilling. I had met some good friends along the way (most notably Wizardgir, who for the remainder of my runescape career would be my best in-game friend). But it wasnt the exciting golden days of Britches and the rune 2 hander business. Lets fast forward. As I said above, party hats continued their climb in price. At the beginning of January 2003 you could find a party hat set for around 22 million gp. By summer time (June), you were looking at 34 million gp a set. In fact, by the end of summer (august 1st), a party hat set had grown 9 million gp in worth. Lets fast forward to November 2003. I remember almost exactly what I had accumulated. 3 full hat sets, 1 extra green hat, 1 extra pink hat, and 9 million raw gp. If what little records I can find are correct, my total bank account was worth a staggering 185 million gp. Lets go forward exactly 1 week. November 7th, 2003... The dupe. I log on to a runescape in chaos. I see people selling party hats for under 1 million a piece. Sets for under 5. Im freaking out. I knew it wasnt just a couple of newbs trying to be funny, because EVERYONE was selling their rares at dirt cheap prices. Because of all the panic and confusion, all that was going through my head was get as much out of this bad situation as you can. I sold off every hat that I had. By the end of the day, my bank worth 185 million was sitting at a pathetic 25 million or so. I was crushed. I know tons of other people were crushed that day too, but I had no time to worry about others. I, along with most people, thought that the runescape market would never be the same. Eventually, I noticed that party hats began to rise gradually again. I took the remaining money I had (25 million) and purchased as many pink party hats as I could (which ended up being a stupid thing to do). My thought process was pink party hats were the rarest they will be again once party hats become more popular again. Wrong. Because pink party hats were the rarest (peaking at 17 million a piece prior to the duping), that was the rare that was most duplicated. Thus, the pink party hat became the most common of the party hats. I eventually noticed that pinks were not doing so well, and quickly sold them off. I made a guess that pinks would no longer be the prize party hat they once were, so I turned my focus on the other colored hats. If I remember correctly, within 1 week of the dupe I had re-purchased as many party hats as I could afford (leaving out pink of course), which left me with 1 blue, 2 green, 1 white, 1 red, 1 yellow, and about 2 million gp left over. It was a time for rest and recuperation. The devastating effects of the dupe had sent the rare market plummeting but in various expensive items as well. Rune 2 handers were down to a record low of about 100k-150k a piece, and I hadnt contacted my 99 smiths in months. So that route was out of the question. I was tired and burnt out. I tucked my party hats in the corner of my bank, and forgot about them. Part 5: The End of an Era 2003 had come and gone. What a year. Not only had I neared the 200 million mark (as far as net worth goes), but runescape had also witnessed its biggest chaos in history thanks to the duping. I didnt do any merchanting through the rest of 2003. For almost 2 whole months I had focused on skills and friends rather than the market. 2004 came with new hopes. Rumors of runescape 2 were billowing through the streets, and the best news of all: rares kept rising. Although I had not done any merchanting throughout the end of 2003, I still kept an eye on it and recorded the rises and falls of party hats. It was almost February 2004 when I decided it was time to get to merchanting again. My party hats were up to a total of about 33 million which was a lot better. Blue hats had sky rocketed past the rest, being worth 8 million at this point in time. I wont go in to very much detail because there isnt any. Nothing exciting happened throughout 2004 thats worth noting. No new friends that helped me grow leaps and bounds, no major events in runescape that affected me in any way. Lets fast forward A LOOOONG time. It is the end of September 2005. Runescape 2 had come out by then, and I had also purchased members for the first time. I had managed for the first time ever to create a good balance between skilling and merchanting. I had found a new love in fletching and magic (getting my fletching level to 86 and magic to 75 prior to the fletch X and string X options). But one thing that bothered me was the way runescape had become. It was no longer exciting and fun. On top of that, it seemed like everyone and their mom was rich as hell! I hated it. Back in mid 2002, most people would near crap their pants if you threw up 1 or 2 million gp in a trade screen (or for that matter, a trade screen full of r2hs!). It seemed like with the release of runescape 2, 1 million gp became the new 100k gp. People were also hateful and terribly childish. I was sitting on a bank account of 3 blue party hats, 2 green, 1 white, 1 red, a couple of mask sets, and 20 to 25 million raw gp. All in all I know for a fact my bank account was worth around 420 million gp. Give or take. October 5th, 2005. It was a Tuesday. After getting home from football practice, I brought up runescape to log in. I couldnt. I shrugged it off, thinking I typed my password wrong. Still couldnt. The best way to describe the feeling was an entire wave of sadness and disappointment over my body. I wasnt even mad. After resetting my password, I logged in to find my character stripped of everything. I had no idea what had happened. My Norton antivirus was up and running strong, and hadnt detected anything. Nor had I downloaded any questionable material or directly connected (through instant messenger) with any in-game friends. My password wasnt impossible to guess just extraordinarily unlikely. But I suppose if one of my in-game friends knew me really well (which some of them did), they could have gotten lucky and guessed it. I thought about trying to merchant my way back up the ladder again but I just couldnt. The rune 2 hander business had been long dead, and any really big jumps in money were through party hats and the cheapest one was pink selling at 27 million. I was tired, bored, and hatful for what the game had become. Reluctantly I hung up my hat, and graciously bowed out from runescape that very same day. Part 6: Total Losses from 12/20/01 - 10/5/05 Bob hacking = 27,000,000 gp The 2003 Duping = 185,000,000 gp Oct. 5th hacking = 420,000,000 gp Total Losses in 5 years = 632,000,000 gp (roughly)[/hide]

Out of sheer bordem, I took the time to write a much more descriptive story of my old "merchanting career". The story is about 5 pages long in Microsoft Works... so I hope you're ready for some reading. There are no pictures. There is, however, an interestingly tragic story of an oldschool Runescaper. I don't expect this topic to generate a lot of interest. I don't even expect any replies to be honest. I wrote the story out of bordem and since I wrote it there's really no reason not to post it in hopes there's at least 1 or 2 people around these forums who enjoy stories such as this one. Enjoy! Oh and the reason I posted this here is because I really had no other place to put it. I breifly thought about creating a topic in general discussion, but wasn't sure if that's where it should go. I might also create a topic anyways titled "What's your Runescape story?" just so I can read some other people's stuff :thumbsup: . [hide=This is the greatest and best story ever told....]Zibls Merchanting History DISCLAIMER: The dates, times, and prices used within this brief history are not all 100% correct. You have to understand that these experiences and situations were never recorded in stone and all of which are years old. I am human. I can, however, assure you that the stories and situations are 100% true and are in no way exaggerated or diluted. Enjoy. Part #1 - In the Beginning I joined Runescape in very late December 2001. When I first joined I was both confused and excited about runescape. The character class that I chose was an adventurer. I didn't know what in the heck to do first. The first two days ended up being pretty boring because I had no idea what to do and how to do it. On the 3rd day, I was collecting bones that were laying around when I noticed a guy in bright blue armor. I immediately approached the guy, asking what kind of armor he had. The guys name was Rubbermaid (whom I later found out years down the road was one of the 1st 1,000 people to ever join runescape) and it turned out the armor he was wearing was called runite. He was very friendly considering his higher level and me being such a newbie. I asked him how I could quickly earn some money so I could get started. The next day, Rubbermaid came back to Lumbridge and presented me with a free set of full bronze armor + bronze long sword + bronze square shield. I went nuts. I thought I was the best thing on runescape! He showed me the cows that were not far from Lumbridge castle and told me that if I gathered lots of cow hides, that he would buy them off of me for 20 gp a piece. I began slaying the cows. When my inventory got full, Rubbermaid would kindly come get them. The old RSC inventorys held 30 items. Since I had yet to discover a bank, I could only hold 24 cow hides (24 hides + all armor/weapons + coins = 30 slots) at a time. While at the cow pin I noticed something: other people there were trying to sell their cow hides. I thought to myself, why kill my own cows when I could just buy their hides? I began buying everyone elses hides that I could find for 10 gp each. Fast forward to the end of the week. I have accumulated just over 10,000 gp! And for near 2001 for a level 5 whos never been out of Lumbridge 10,000 gp is a lot. Part 2: Britches, Dopen, and a Betrayal. Dopen - Lets fast forward a loooong time. Ive been doing merchanting for months now and have obviously moved on from the cow pins of Lumbridge. Ive learned pretty much all there is to know about the game thus far, but am still not even slightly interested in raising my skill levels. It is nearing the middle of 2002. My skills were pretty crappy. If I had to ball park it, I would put my skill total around 450 and my combat level around 35? I was mining south of Falador when a guy who was passing thru stopped and asked if I had any iron. I told him I had only a few. He begged if he could have it. Reluctantly, I handed over my few iron ores. He thanked me and left. Less than 15 minutes later I received a message from the same guy (Dopen). He asked me to come to Falador bank for a surprise. Out of curiosity I went just to see what he wanted. He sent a trade request and threw up 200 cooked lobster certs!! I just about fell out of my chair. Cooked lobster certificates were worth 1,000 gp each and this was serious money in RSC in April 2002. Especially for someone of my level. He gladly gave them to me and left. I never seen him or spoke to him again, even though I added him to my friends list (he must have blocked me). I immediately went and sold those certs for 200,000 gp. Out of sheer excitement I turned around and bought a rune square shield (which at the time was worth a whopping 200,000 gp). After I bought it I sold it the same day for 215,000 gp. This put my total bank worth up to around 500,000 gp. Part 3: The Comeback. I was down, but not out. Thankfully I made it in good with the 99 smiths during my time with Britches. I added my 2 smithers (musashi22 and yankeeyank1), a couple of rune ore suppliers that I could remember, and about 10 or 15 good friends that I could remember. Through the graciousness of some friends, I managed to get my rune 2 hander business started again. It was wonderful! Even though I had became friends with the 99 smiths, I had very rarely delt with them 1-on-1 because Britches handled that. I kicked in to over drive with the shipments, sometimes getting as much as 3 sessions per week. Lets skip ahead a couple more months. Its now mid September. My bank account was bursting. I had managed to do more in 2 months than I had ever done COMBINED. By the end of September 2002, I was sitting on a bank account of just over 40 million! If I had to guess I would say 40 million gold in those days would be comparable to 500 million in todays time. However, I was getting extremely frustrated with my rune 2 hander business. 40 million gp worth of raw materials would get me roughly 250 rune 2 handers. The smiths that I had were naturally very busy with their own lives, and were not about to sit down and pound out 250 r2hs in a single sitting just for me. Even if they had, selling 250 rune 2 handers was not an easy task. I literally had TOO much money for a quick increase in gold. The shipment that put me at 40+ million gp (235 r2hs) was the last rune 2 hander shipment I ever did throughout my entire runescape career. I took a good break from merchanting, focusing more on my skills for the first time. It was the end of October. This meant Halloween! That year, Halloween masks were dropped. Within the first couple of days, a set of Halloween masks was selling for 50,000 (quite a bit of difference from todays prices wouldnt you say?). But thats not where the money was. I decided to plunge full force into the party hat market. 1 full set of party hats would run you about 20 million exactly in November 2002. So on November 4th, I struck a deal with a good friend that got me 2 full party hat sets for 39 million exactly. Pink, being the rarest back in those days, was the hat of choice that people wore if you were lucky enough to afford. I donned myself with my bronze plate, bronze legs, staff, and pink party hat (along with the rest of my hats) to do some merchanting. Part 4: Party Hats, Sexy Money, and a Dupe Party hats continued their steady climb. Things were going good. Great even. But things were very predictable. I logged on, I did some merchanting for a couple of hours in the back (rare) crowd of world 1 varrock castle, and eventually I would wander off for a little bit doing some random skilling. I had met some good friends along the way (most notably Wizardgir, who for the remainder of my runescape career would be my best in-game friend). But it wasnt the exciting golden days of Britches and the rune 2 hander business. Lets fast forward. As I said above, party hats continued their climb in price. At the beginning of January 2003 you could find a party hat set for around 22 million gp. By summer time (June), you were looking at 34 million gp a set. In fact, by the end of summer (august 1st), a party hat set had grown 9 million gp in worth. Lets fast forward to November 2003. I remember almost exactly what I had accumulated. 3 full hat sets, 1 extra green hat, 1 extra pink hat, and 9 million raw gp. If what little records I can find are correct, my total bank account was worth a staggering 185 million gp. Lets go forward exactly 1 week. November 7th, 2003... The dupe. I log on to a runescape in chaos. I see people selling party hats for under 1 million a piece. Sets for under 5. Im freaking out. I knew it wasnt just a couple of newbs trying to be funny, because EVERYONE was selling their rares at dirt cheap prices. Because of all the panic and confusion, all that was going through my head was get as much out of this bad situation as you can. I sold off every hat that I had. By the end of the day, my bank worth 185 million was sitting at a pathetic 25 million or so. I was crushed. I know tons of other people were crushed that day too, but I had no time to worry about others. I, along with most people, thought that the runescape market would never be the same. Eventually, I noticed that party hats began to rise gradually again. I took the remaining money I had (25 million) and purchased as many pink party hats as I could (which ended up being a stupid thing to do). My thought process was pink party hats were the rarest they will be again once party hats become more popular again. Wrong. Because pink party hats were the rarest (peaking at 17 million a piece prior to the duping), that was the rare that was most duplicated. Thus, the pink party hat became the most common of the party hats. I eventually noticed that pinks were not doing so well, and quickly sold them off. I made a guess that pinks would no longer be the prize party hat they once were, so I turned my focus on the other colored hats. If I remember correctly, within 1 week of the dupe I had re-purchased as many party hats as I could afford (leaving out pink of course), which left me with 1 blue, 2 green, 1 white, 1 red, 1 yellow, and about 2 million gp left over. It was a time for rest and recuperation. The devastating effects of the dupe had sent the rare market plummeting but in various expensive items as well. Rune 2 handers were down to a record low of about 100k-150k a piece, and I hadnt contacted my 99 smiths in months. So that route was out of the question. I was tired and burnt out. I tucked my party hats in the corner of my bank, and forgot about them. Part 5: The End of an Era 2003 had come and gone. What a year. Not only had I neared the 200 million mark (as far as net worth goes), but runescape had also witnessed its biggest chaos in history thanks to the duping. I didnt do any merchanting through the rest of 2003. For almost 2 whole months I had focused on skills and friends rather than the market. 2004 came with new hopes. Rumors of runescape 2 were billowing through the streets, and the best news of all: rares kept rising. Although I had not done any merchanting throughout the end of 2003, I still kept an eye on it and recorded the rises and falls of party hats. It was almost February 2004 when I decided it was time to get to merchanting again. My party hats were up to a total of about 33 million which was a lot better. Blue hats had sky rocketed past the rest, being worth 8 million at this point in time. I wont go in to very much detail because there isnt any. Nothing exciting happened throughout 2004 thats worth noting. No new friends that helped me grow leaps and bounds, no major events in runescape that affected me in any way. Lets fast forward A LOOOONG time. It is the end of September 2005. Runescape 2 had come out by then, and I had also purchased members for the first time. I had managed for the first time ever to create a good balance between skilling and merchanting. I had found a new love in fletching and magic (getting my fletching level to 86 and magic to 75 prior to the fletch X and string X options). But one thing that bothered me was the way runescape had become. It was no longer exciting and fun. On top of that, it seemed like everyone and their mom was rich as hell! I hated it. Back in mid 2002, most people would near crap their pants if you threw up 1 or 2 million gp in a trade screen (or for that matter, a trade screen full of r2hs!). It seemed like with the release of runescape 2, 1 million gp became the new 100k gp. People were also hateful and terribly childish. I was sitting on a bank account of 3 blue party hats, 2 green, 1 white, 1 red, a couple of mask sets, and 20 to 25 million raw gp. All in all I know for a fact my bank account was worth around 420 million gp. Give or take. October 5th, 2005. It was a Tuesday. After getting home from football practice, I brought up runescape to log in. I couldnt. I shrugged it off, thinking I typed my password wrong. Still couldnt. The best way to describe the feeling was an entire wave of sadness and disappointment over my body. I wasnt even mad. After resetting my password, I logged in to find my character stripped of everything. I had no idea what had happened. My Norton antivirus was up and running strong, and hadnt detected anything. Nor had I downloaded any questionable material or directly connected (through instant messenger) with any in-game friends. My password wasnt impossible to guess just extraordinarily unlikely. But I suppose if one of my in-game friends knew me really well (which some of them did), they could have gotten lucky and guessed it. I thought about trying to merchant my way back up the ladder again but I just couldnt. The rune 2 hander business had been long dead, and any really big jumps in money were through party hats and the cheapest one was pink selling at 27 million. I was tired, bored, and hatful for what the game had become. Reluctantly I hung up my hat, and graciously bowed out from runescape that very same day. Part 6: Total Losses from 12/20/01 - 10/5/05 Britches hacking = 27,000,000 gp The 2003 Duping = 185,000,000 gp Oct. 5th hacking = 420,000,000 gp Total Losses in 5 years = 632,000,000 gp (roughly)[/hide] Well I hope that some of you have enjoyed the read. It was done in a rush and without very much worry for grammatical correctness. I'm sure there were also parts that were hard to understand/read or didn't seem to fit together good. Sorry about that.

Eh, I guess. When I first started playing Runescape I had JUST turned 13 and in 7th grade I believe it was. I'm now 20 years old and a sophomore in college. When I was younger I was really in to Runescape and the forums (although this Zibl account says I joined tip.it in 2004, I had a different name I used from 2002 to 2003... so I've been apart of these forums nearly 7 years). But I never took it farther than my room :shock: . I didn't talk about it with friends, or play it at school on the computers... just... played it. You could probably imagine me playing back when I was a kid at 12/13 years old. Since I "fell in love" with Runescape at a young age, it never occured to me it was wierd to play as I got older. Of course now I think it's goofy and boring :thumbsup: . As far as [bleep]ey hair goes: the only reason I prefered fixing my hair was because I looked so [developmentally delayed]ed when I didn't. I felt like a freaking woman half the time because my hair's so thick and heavy it would take like 20 minutes to get it fixed right, and even then I would get all pissy if my hair wasn't doing what I wanted it to. If I looked good with longer hair without fixing it, I would have my hair like that. But the shaved head is just too simple. Plus, I have a friend's ID that I use to get alcohol and drink out at places and stuff since I'm not 21 and his picture on the license is him with shaved hair like mine (long story short if I wanted to grow my hair back out I would look nothing like the fake ID).

#2 the best? Odd. I look like a goofball when my long hair isn't fixed up. In fact, my brother would sometimes calls me Lloyd Christmas (Dumb & Dumber) because of the way it sometimes looked when it was down... -.- . I've always been told that people liked my hair [bleep]ed. Maybe it's a bad [bleep]ey hair picture... hmm... *searches facebook* Ah-ha! Well here's a different one: [hide=[bleep]ey #2][/hide] [hide=And as an added bonus][/hide] And to answer your question all 3 girls are different. The first picture is a girl I was dating beginning of 2007. The 2nd picture is of a girl I never really dated but was more of a "friends with benefits" type deal. And the 3rd picture is of a girl I dated around October but am no longer with. In the 'WHO SAID PIMPIN AIN'T EASY!?' picture in this post, the other blonde headed girl is just a friend. :?

You call that music? Good lord that's the worst thing I've ever heard. No offense to you or anything lol, I mean if you like it then thats awesome... but wow... Ontopic: that David guy (black guy) who plays piano covers of songs has a lot of good work. Although I didn't think she could sing THAT great, the Handlebars cover is pretty cool the way she makes it flow w/ the acoustic sound.

Aww... poo. :cry:

Anyone know any good videos of people doing covers of songs? I dunno why, but I like finding random videos of people doing their own version of a famous/good song. Here's a couple that some people might like: Fat Grizzly Adams-lookin dude sings his acoustic rendition of Outkast's famous song 'Hey Ya'. Singer from a group of brothers who do covers. Group's named Boyce Avenue. Singer's only 19/20. Another Boyce Avenue cover. This time it's of Linkin Park's song 'Shadow of the Day'. EDIT: I tried using the youtube button, but none of the videos were showing up :-# .

I'll have a go at this philly. Well here are 3, in order from long ago to most recent. [hide=Beginning 2007. Long hair [bleep]ed up.][/hide] [hide=Near the beginning of summer 2008. Long hair not [bleep]ed.][/hide] [hide=October 2008. Shaved head.][/hide] Which is better? I shaved my head mid-summer because I was drunk and one of my friends was like "dude... lets shave our heads". Although I don't think I look very good with short hair, I've kept it short because it is SO much easier to deal with. Plus it saves me about $15 a month on the reworkable putty I used to [bleep]e it up with :D . Which is my best look? :shock:

Not in the slightest. At first I didn't even have the link in my post, but I went back and added it just to show what exactly the box looked like. I'll gladly remove it if you'd like :roll: . On topic: I've tried right: 50% but it doesn't even do anything. I've also tried veritcally-align:center (I believe that's what I used :-# ) and that did nothing either. It's also possible that I've used the correct code but another code (i.e. width: 200px) interferred making the code not work.

I've coded a javascript for my website. It's a message popup automatically generated when you first visit the website. The only problem is I can't get the thing centered both vertically and horizontally. Here's the current part of the code that positions the box: Now obviously, that is not correct. I realize this. In that current setup my popup box is appearing in between the very right and center. I don't know if I'm just having a brain fart or if I've just never centered something both vertically [b]AND[/b] horizontally :? . Either way.... help anyone? [color=#FF0000]EDIT #2: Website link removed. I wasn't trying to get hits, just showing you people what exactly was wrong :roll: .[/color]

Wow. It's been MONTHS since I've even visited Tip.it's forums :ohnoes: . Noticed in my signature this link to my old Blog I posted nearly 1 full year ago. I read over my 'Merchanting History' section and it damn near brought tears to my eyes :cry: .

Real world traders are behind all the chaos? Wow. Genius. But on topic: I find it funny the guy who made the "fake suicide message" is laughing because Jagex said "if you have anyone to talk to". Some people these days. I just dont get it.

What I do for fun on Runescape, these days, is not play at all. Sadly. I know that isn't the reply this topic was particularly looking for... but still. I was a merchant at heart. After the Grand Exchange killed that, I kinda did some other stuff but I've never really liked skilling. I bought a month of p2p just to have a bit of fun last week and then dueling, pking, and anything else was destroyed. I was actually wanting to start up a little mage pker (nothing big.. just for goofying around). Plus, I wouldn't be able to get any items/gold to any other accounts to help level it up because I can't hand over anything to my friends without it being considered an unfair trade. Honesty: not playing Runescape at all is about as fun as Runescape gets for me in light of all these recent BS updates.

Jagex is going downhill. Yes, they are working hard to what they think is the right way to go, and for that I tip my hat. But they are killing their game for us players who have been here - whether it be 6+ years or 1+ year. I predict that within a year, RuneScape will be nothing more than a boring ole regular MMORPG with a bunch of 10 year olds running around. Nothing more and nothing less.

I get really sick and tired of people like you calling F2Pers freeloaders, noobs, whiners, blah blah blah. It's Jagex' fault they have such a huge part of their game free to play. You have no right to flame/judge anyone who chooses to enjoy the game because of that reason. P.S. - Before you start flamming me, I am a paying member to RuneScape. F2Pers whine a lot, yes, but so do members. Good god have you seen the OFs lately? On topic: No. F2p will not get summoning. Aside from graphics updates, this is the biggest update you guys have gotten since RS2 was released. Clan wars, dueling, bounty hunter, AND more bank space? Don't expect much of anything else for the next couple of years at least. But even as member, I do think it was due time you guys got AT LEAST some more bank space. Perhaps a bit overboard with the dueling and such.. but then again, Jagex managed to kill that so whatever :-k .

1k+ buckets = . Party hat, rune sets, pure cash... very nice. 9/10. I would give you a 10/10, but you dont have 7k+ wizard hats :thumbsup: .

The same kind of rate people expect when they post monster drops. The same could be said to them ("Great. You killed a monster.") but nobody ever does. Gah. People here at Tip.it are becoming jackasses :roll: . On topic: VERY nice luck. Wish I coulda been there :anxious: .

Spoken like a true newer player. What ticks me off most about these crappy updates, is the overwhelming group of "newer" players that don't know anything about what RuneScape used to be and what it used to represent :roll: .