Everything posted by Will H
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15-Apr-2011 - Guaranteed Content Poll: Boss Rematch?
You're voting to be able to fight them again. In what way? No one knows. But you're still voting for which you'd like to fight again. Is it a redundant fight? - Is it simply a follow up? - are the levels increased? Those are the very first questions I had before even reading what they wrote, and they weren't answered. Don't you have those question too? - If you do you're basically voting for black holes, not sure what the outcome will be! Maybe undermining democracy is a bit too heavily said, but it's certainly not the idea which I have when people ask me to "vote" on something. So I refrain from voting for this. You are taking this a bit too seriously and directly. Try to imagine what a rematch would be like with the bosses you've been presented with, how they would feasibly happen (or maybe question whether they are feasible at all!), and pick the one that suits your tastes best. I like a good story about bitter revenge simmering away over the course of my character's career, so I picked Delrith. And yes, Delrith would certainly be more powerful next time. That was what was he was going to become if fully summoned, after all. That would be better than, say, Sigmund, who I've fought too many times and is pretty convincingly dead. A rematch would be gimmicky, boring and just plain silly from a narrative point of view ("You're still trying to destroy the Dorgeshuun? For the fifth time? Really? Wasn't the fact that they defeated Bandos himself enough of a message for you?"). He is, after all, just a xenophobic human with very little abilities of note.
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15-Apr-2011 - Guaranteed Content Poll: Boss Rematch?
Koschei would be my second choice, but it was a very close second. Another character with a lot of potential.
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15-Apr-2011 - Guaranteed Content Poll: Boss Rematch?
I voted Delrith. I love the idea that a demon that I banished in a very early stage of my career has been observing my character all this time on some demonic plane plotting revenge and growing stronger, or gathering an army against me. EDIT: And he's second to none! Hah, geddit? Oh, I amuse myself too easily.
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Don't Hurt The Wall
A mouse coughed on the wall. 7HP.
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Count to ~200~ before a mod posts - fifth round
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Jagex - Popularity Vote
Thumbs up. All in all, they're not doing a bad job, in spite of a small amount of people who are trying (and failing) to sway public opinion against them.
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12-Apr-2011- Clan Camp, Support and Web Pages
Ah, good, they've put out a tutorial video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roylQDDWgQk&feature=player_profilepage
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Frosts Setup
It still amazes me how many people aren't aware of the fact that protect/deflect magic and a normal antifire pot are sufficient to stop all dragonfire damage from frost dragons. If you've been using super antifires, you've been wasting your money.
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12-Apr-2011- Clan Camp, Support and Web Pages
1) Number one would be quests. Some people might not like them, but they are overwhelmingly popular. As much as I love quests, one a month is fine. Quality, not quantity. The balance in that respect for quests is perfectly fine. 2) Skill rebalancing. Not saying which ones, but it could be done across the board. Skills, by their varied natures, don't really 'do' 'across the board' approaches. It's more of a case of a select few neglected skills, and I'll name them for you: Firemaking, Smithing, Fletching and Thieving. And it's the rewards that need the attention, not the training. 3) F2p content. While I don't think F2P deserves a lot of content, I think it needs something new to bring in different players. Eh, nah. Unless you've got something specific in mind that's seriously limiting the enjoyment of f2pers, that's not really necessary. Unless you're talking about graphics, which would be awesome. 4) Mechanics. Let's be honest, RS uses the same mechanics for just about everything. Whether it be degrading or only the best stuff being monster drops. Oh yeah, you're definitely right about that. There needs to be more skill based major rewards, and variety in those rewards. See 2). 5) Finding a way to take some of the grind out of current content as well as new content. Livid Farm is an example of backlash against grinding. Didn't really work though, did it? Still, at least it has nice rewards, but it was for some skills that weren't really in need. And while not a number, I think one of the biggest is the fact that they need to streamline and rework a lot of their code. So much of it is contradictory of so much else because of the way the game was built from the ground-up. So many little updates that have giant ripples to content that has nothing to do with it. Their code needs a serious overhaul. You mean an Engine upgrade? They're doing that as we speak. Comments in bold. Basically, I agree with some, but not others. I can't really support the idea that this update was pointless though, I think this was necessary. It's just not that exciting. Updates that rely on emergent gameplay never really are until later on, I say give it time.
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12-Apr-2011- Clan Camp, Support and Web Pages
Oh yeah, you can drag the dividing line back and forth, and there's a sweet spot to be found where you can get rid of the '...'s. It's a bit weird. I've tried not to think about it too hard, because I don't think a certain developer did. I wonder when they're going to update the rest of the trees? One thing that people haven't really talked about are the graphics of the Clan Camp. I think they're nice.
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12-Apr-2011- Clan Camp, Support and Web Pages
I noticed that too. This thread is surprisingly empty for the biggest update of the month. To be fair, everyone was on tip.it yesterday because they got kicked out of the game, but that still doesn't explain where everyone's disappeared to this time. Seriously, guys, where are you?
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12-Apr-2011- Clan Camp, Support and Web Pages
I thought it was really obvious how different they looked. I can't believe this is a problem for some people.
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12-Apr-2011- Clan Camp, Support and Web Pages
Because what we have is perfectly sufficient. Skill capes are longer, have the tassels at the front and the shoulder pads. You really can't confuse them. Go find something worthwhile to complain about.
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48÷2(9+3) = ????
Mathematics is strictly a logical system of numbers and symbols, there is a right and a wrong way of doing it. If it's ambiguous, it's wrong. Written/spoken languages only use a logical system as a guideline, you are allowed to use creative and ambiguous derivatives to get across subtleties. They are not the same. There needs to be another bracket to clarify, or the question needs to be fully displayed to show where the (9+3) lies relative to the division line. It's not too much to ask for.
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Expensive skills becoming cheaper?
It could be a lot of factors and we are never going to resolve an answer. Simply not enough data. A lot of people here would love to say it's bots, as if they got a treat every time they say the word, but it's a lot more than that.
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April 11th, 2011
Effort into support because of downtime for the first time in over a year? Are you taking the piss? Players will have to learn to be happy, because life can't always be a smooth ride; problems do occur, and everything can't operate as it's supposed to on every given day. I can do nothing but laugh at the sudden attitude that some people have adopted. I wouldn't say it's sudden. It's been an annoying attitude some people have had for a long time now.
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April 11th, 2011
There ya go. Figured there would be an explanation. Wait, It was a DDOS attack?
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April 11th, 2011
Possibly, although you can get it back for free at white wolf mountain. EDIT: Woah, ninja army. Double EDIT: Damnit, Ice Mountain, not White Wolf Mountain! Need more coffee...
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April 11th, 2011
Ugh, looks like I'll just have to go out and make the world a better place now, Jagex. Look what you've made me do.
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April 11th, 2011
And now I can't even get on the title page. This is looking good.
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April 11th, 2011
*scene at MMG's office in Jagex Towers, MMG playing office golf when phone rings* *click* 'Hello?' 'Uh, sir, I think we've managed to work out a way to solve the bot problem once and for all.' '...' 'Uh, sir?' '...I'm listening.' 'Oh, ok, well, uh, basically we figured that since every single Runescape bot happens to be playing Runescape, the best way to stop them doing what they're programmed to do is shutting down all of the Runescape servers forever.' '...' '...sir?' 'Brilliant! Get to work and shut everything down!' 'Yes sir!' *click*
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48÷2(9+3) = ????
I'm pretty sure that it's 288 following BIDMAS, but the syntax of the question is poor. It should read (48/2)(9+3)=. When you express equations in text, you have to be really rigorous with the brackets. Honestly, one of the first rules of maths, don't screw up the syntax when you're asking a question. It's better to have redundant parts than be ambiguous. And if all else fails, stick it in Wolfram Alpha.
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ever been *tempted* to cheat?
It's human nature to be tempted to cheat in the most basic sense of the term, but I'd never do it because I value my character far too much. It's my only account and I've poured an absurd amount of hours into it, and most of them were for enjoying myself as opposed to being efficient.
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Jagex - Bot Busting
This in a nutshell. I hate it when people complain about something when they don't tell us a better way to go about it. Telling Jagex that their bot detection systems are worthless without elaborating is a wasted post. As far as I'm concerned, the Turing Test is the last line of defence, you may as well use it.
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Drinking/Drugs
I probably will try cannabis once at some point in my life out of curiosity, but I think that if you take harder drugs, you're dumb and you deserve all of the side effects and health problems you get from them. Think of it as more of a contract regarding your health. I won't judge you for signing it, but I will say that you're doing the wrong thing. Also, if you're trying to hide behind ambiguous health statistics to justify drug use, you're deluding yourself. Spare us the drivel and don't try to delude others as well.