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As other have said, the best thing is lp/constitution (It'll be interesting to see how lp will react to a boosted consitution level) boosting equipment and potions, as well as damage reducers. It's simply far more interesting and strategic than more levels, especially if the consitution boosters sacrifice other things. This is exactly the main reason why life points and constitution were separated. There's very little point in doing that and never following up with it.

May I apologise for the tone of my last post on this thread? I'm not going to edit it, but I was getting a bit irritated at the atmosphere that was developing here, and I dearly admire what tip.it does, which is why I really don't want it to degenerate into a place where it really isn't worth Jagex's time to read. If they're going to get feedback from anywhere, and unbelievably Jagex do look out for feedback, these threads should be one of the best sources of information. I get particularly annoyed when I see people declare that they're not renewing their membership or 'quit' because of an update as if they think one lost account that will probably come back later on is going to make a difference to Jagex. All it does is encourage negativity that makes other people just want to complain instead of suggesting what Jagex should have done and could have done better. Quit if you're not happy with the game, fine, but be constructive if you're going to declare it to the masses.

Can we just make one thing clear. One thing. We are Tip.It, and it is our duty to be mature and rational about what Jagex has done, because we are going to have a hard time finding it anywhere else. This game has a huge community, and its future lies in whether we can build up this community into one which other people want to be a part of. I do not want to see an official update topic degenerate into a flame war. I want to see us, Tip.Iters, outline exactly what is wrong. If that means that we take the KB page and edit it to a standard which we find acceptable, if that means doing our own research and discovering the correct facts and figures, and send it right back to Jagex to tell them exactly what they should have done, SO BE IT. Maybe for once we can actually do some good for the game? At this rate, we're certainly not doing that now.

I use Win7, and in the second case it normally works it out itself, but if not, your headphones should be enabled and default in Playback, and your speakers should just be enabled. Plug in the headphones when you want to listen to them and you're golden.

Ooh, I haven't done this for my university yet. Here goes: It does the job, but it seems to throttle you randomly. I get the feeling I might be being throttled because someone else in my flat is torrenting or something, because I know it isn't me.

Desktop icons are a nightmare, I can't get them to follow any logic either. I only keep a small row of shortcuts to my games on Steam nowadays, but I think of them as small animals that can think independently and get up to no good when I restart*. They normally learn to stay where I leave them after I repeatedly force them back to their proper location, but if they're moved because I've messed around with the display settings, they'll develop free will for a week or so again. They particularly dislike living on a monitor that's not primary. I'd love to know how to make sure that their locations are saved. *I swear Half Life 2 has feelings for Garry's Mod.

That's a perfectly good reason. No point in sacrificing what you want the computer to do (in this case running a browser that you know and trust), otherwise it's pointless. Have you tried running msconfig and turning off some of the programs in 'startup'? I find it makes more sense if programs start up when you explicitly click on the shortcut or icon or whatever instead of starting as the system turns on. For example, I don't see why I'd want iTunes and Adobe Reader running when I have no intention of reading any PDFs or listening to music instantly, so I'll turn those off. Be careful though, it's best to leave anything located in C:\Windows alone, but a lot of things in C:\Program Files are fair game*. Once you apply and restart, it should be fine. *Note: Don't turn off your antivirus, don't turn off drivers or anything to do with hardware that is connected to the computer at startup (such as the trackpad on a laptop), and don't turn off anything that you're not sure about. If you come into any problems, you can just revert them back again in msconfig.

May I ask why? In these kinds of situations, a feature-light browser helps. Not that you have to use Chrome or anything, it's just that I'm wondering what's wrong with it.

That's generalising a lot, and that's not really true. Paid AVs are often more complex and they're more likely to be CPU hogs, and all of those extra processes probably won't be necessary if the users are known to have good browsing and downloading habits, with a pinch of common sense. They'd be necessary if it's a public computer or ones which connect to important networks normally seen at workplaces, but for private ones you're usually better off getting a good free one like MSE.

Left pocket:A packet of chewing gum with one piece left. Promptly eaten. A black false leather cheap wallet that I got for free at a meeting about something important I can't remember. Contents: Debit card, Provisional Driving License, laundry card, a fiver and a pound coin, post box key, Subway loyalty card, National Insurance number card, and magnetic key card for my accommodation wedged behind the license so I don't have to get it out to scan it. Lint. Right pocket: HTC Wildfire phone I got yesterday (yay) Some weird black thread. Don't know where it came from. Black ballpoint pen. More lint. I've never carried a knife in public. I'm the kind of clumsy oaf who will just find a way to accidentally stab myself with it.

How strange. It's perfectly possible this could be a scam, a prank, or even legit. Has anything like this ever happened in any other country? In any case, the House of Lords is right to enquire about this. It's kinda exciting, yet worrying.

Good point, I forgot about those guys. Jagex has the right idea then, and I hope that they pursue it, it'll make combat much more balanced and interesting as a result if they take this approach. It's best to remain optimistic, they've clearly recognised the ammo problems that mages have compared to the other styles.

I second this, and all the other notes please :thumbup: Yes, something. I can't believe I can't find them anywhere else. As I suggested two pages back, if you skip to the end of new boss fight videos you can find at least the boss specific lores. Of course I feel people may have ignored me before because it's too much for them to do this... :rolleyes: It would be much more helpful to collate them, and this is the place to do it instead of simply throwing them where some of them might be found. The lores make a lot more sense if you have them together.

Isn't that a good thing? Having teams with a variety of styles should be encouraged. Ideally, it should be designed so that the ideal team has a mage, a ranger, a meleer, a keyer, and perhaps a balanced player who can supplement the others. It's far more interesting than four 2h meleers and a keyer.

I did any my conclusion was that it was the weakest "justification" for piracy I have ever heard. The guy is effectively saying that if people pirate, the blame falls on the maker of the product for not making a better product. That only works if you're willing to ignore the fact that people pirate because it's free, not because the product isn't worth money. If some guy came out tomorrow with the universal greatest song ever created, people would still pirate it, regardless of the cost. The music industry could go through an amazing change that would make it the paragon for all industry and people would still pirate. Which is why music should be a service, not a product. If the delivery of music was streamlined to be better than piracy (and believe me, piracy leaves a lot to be desired in this respect), people would pay for it (the service).

I have to agree with this view. It's not much of a big deal to change your first name, since it's your own and ultimately your own choice. After all, people shorten or alter what they call themselves (I normally call myself Will, although my birth certificate and documents have William on them), and nobody bats an eyelid. Changing your first name entirely is just a bit further along the scale but it's no more objectionable. On the other hand, changing your last name has serious consequences because it relates to others. The generations before you lived with that name and sharing a last name is a physical way of establishing which family you are related to, even if it's a crude way of doing it. Changing your name severs that link, which must not be taken lightly. My family has a tradition of keeping with a few choice names for both the middle names and last names of boys. It's pretty much a choice between Antony, Victor, David, Paul, William (which can be varied to Bill), Martin, and Joseph. William was really popular at the time, hence my name being William David Victor (Holmes), my dad being Paul Martin, uncle Antony, grandfather Victor Joseph, great-grandfather David Martin (i think), great-great grandfather Joseph something and so on. It's gone on for about 12 generations now, and it's one of those quirky traditions that I like, so I'll keep my name. If I have a son, he'll probably be called David or Joseph unless one of the funkier names like Victor catches on again. Also, Clifford is a great name. I don't see the hating, but there's no objections from me if you do change it.

Huge fan of Mr. Scruff, glad another tifer likes him too. :) His style is really difficult to pin down because his songs vary so much, I've never really found anyone similar. I hope he comes out with some new albums soon. Link if you have spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/2B0PgHZi2zaDqjKe86Gaip

Eagerly awaiting a video of a team taking on f60. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S DOWN THERE ARGH

I heard it's coming over to the US pretty sharpish. EDIT: Ok, maybe not sharpish. Seems that Apple (of all people) and some music labels (again of all people) getting a bit huffy about it. DOUBLE EDIT: Ok, seems like this whole thing has been complicated, but it's coming soon. http://www.bloomberg...id=alThNVAN9drE http://www.wired.com.../#ixzz0jJC1Lyge http://erictric.com/...-united-states/

This guy speaks the truth. Satisfying the customer comes first in capitalism, and the profits come when you achieve that. The way music is sold is wrong in this day and age and the industry is refusing this truth. People are moving away from listening to music as albums and singles ('particles') and are instead making playlists ('waves'). People have been 'shuffling' their music since the dawn of the mp3 player and the iPod nearly a decade ago, and you would have thought that the industry would have noticed by now. Customers should be subscribing for their music as a whole, and the money is distributed according to what they listen to. Do you mean the thing that many companies currently embrace called Spotify? Yep. I personally use it, I can't remember if I mentioned it earlier in the thread*. If you use it you pretty much never pirate music ever again. Still, this kind of model shouldn't be a niche that only Spotify has, it should be an industry standard. Spotify has a few things that could be improved, and a healthy bit of competition will really set it off. Maybe someone should call Apple? *I am too lazy to search for it. I don't care.

Actually, I haven't seen very much of that at all, even in the RSOF. It's pretty much one or two guys. And nobody seems to be agreeing with them. Looks like an awesome month ahead. I'll grab members again once they release the quest. I don't mind letting my account mellow on two unfinished ones, especially being GMs, but three will be intolerable. I'm going to be keeping an eye out for footage of F60. Funnily enough, at the time of posting, only 38 people IN THE ENTIRE BLOODY WORLD would be able to even attempt it. Would this go into the record books for the piece of content that can be accessed by the fewest people on release ever? EDIT: Bonus points if it can only be done with a 5 man team. *Walks away muttering* 38... Tsk...

This guy speaks the truth. Satisfying the customer comes first in capitalism, and the profits come when you achieve that. The way music is sold is wrong in this day and age and the industry is refusing this truth. People are moving away from listening to music as albums and singles ('particles') and are instead making playlists ('waves'). People have been 'shuffling' their music since the dawn of the mp3 player and the iPod nearly a decade ago, and you would have thought that the industry would have noticed by now. Customers should be subscribing for their music as a whole, and the money is distributed according to what they listen to.

I can understand your view. I'm completely ok with piracy, it's just how the market reacts when the industry isn't satisfying the customer. It's like entropy, you can fight it, but you'll never win. On the other hand, Limewire was a blight on the Internet. Even pirates wanted to lose this site, it tarnished the name of piracy. If anything, the pirates have been done a favour. People will look for and find much cleaner and better services, and the positive experience will only spread it further. It's funny how these things backfire. It probably cost the authorities a lot of money to take it down too.

As someone who worked in a computer repair shop, all I can say is about goddamn time. As soon as we see Limewire in the list of programs, we know that the problem is almost certainly a virus. We didn't care or mind if people pirated stuff, but we just told them to stop using possibly the worst way to pirate stuff ever. Seriously, people should use a streaming service like Spotify. Beats downloading pirated music any day, and it really isn't expensive at all. It's the kind of service that the industry should be turning to, not individual album sales. If they don't, they'll just crumble.

I've come to the conclusion that the first 18 years of my life hasn't been that representative of how the real world really works at all, and I've disregarded most of it. Sure, there'll be the memories of social interactions, both good and bad, but this is the part of your life where you simply have to let go. I worry that by writing this book, you're determined to keep these events real and anchored in your life, and I think you'll regret it in the long term. I'm not trying to force some kind of selective memory or make you look at the world through rose tinted glasses, I'm just trying to tell you that relatively little of your life before around the age of 18 actually affects your future, and it's possible, if not easy, to start steering your life right now. If you want, write this book in 10 years time. You'll find that you'll look at it in a completely different light. To be honest, you've got some extremely valuable things that most people at 18 would love to have: A real goal to look forward to, and an interest in something creative, in this case writing. College is probably the best thing you can do at the moment. Try to get your foot in the door, and for the love of God, do something you really enjoy.