dutchdreams

Whenever I see a P-mod I just let him/her be, thinking he/she has (had) enough attention directed at him/her already. Same goes for 'famous' players. I feel sorry sometimes for a P-mod I know on the world I play. He's in a bank for instance, minding his business. The second he says hi back to me, he gets bombarded with questions about his mod-status, questions about the game, scammers/jerks. I've talked to him about it, if he minds that. He says he doesn't, but still I feel guilty of making him draw that much attention to himself.

Another way for Jagex to produce revenue. I would expect them to charge some cash for the name change. The implications of it all are enormous if you think about hardware, software, account registration, account maintenance, abuse report handling. Not to mention the impact it will have on the social interactions inside the game : 'Hi XXXX', 'who are you ?', 'I used to be YYYY' 'yah right. I wouldn't count on this to be implemented any time soon. Such as uhhh POH's ;).

My vote goes to slayer: if it hadn't been for that skill, I would've left RS a year ago.

Uhhhh, I'm level 125 and haven't done the quest hehe. I guess it's time for me to start cleaning up the old quests I never got around to doing.

I think hiding the highscores would be bad. They serve a purpose, as mentioned before, it's an incentive for people to (keep) play(ing). For me personally, it's a nice way to see what I should be leveling to keep me in the top 400 overall ;) The highscores also come in handy to check a person's 'credentials' (for a lack of better word). Say someone is selling un-id herbs, claiming to have a certain herblore level. Check his claimed herblore level against the highscores and you get an idea of what kind of person you're dealing with. I would rather have an option to hide combat level outside of the PvP areas in the game (duel arena, wilderness and the like, your combat level has to be shown always), but for a totaly different reason.

not by a long shot, firemaking is the fastest skill to lvl by far, maybe second to con but it's a lot more expensive. You're probably right. Then again, I don't see myself claiming cooking would be the fastest skill to get to 99, nor do I see the threadstarter asking for the fastest. Of course, when going for 99 firemaking/prayer/construction one also has to factor in the time spent to get the cash needed to invest in the skill, because that requires additional effort and thus makes it less easy. When you burn logs, you get ashes in return: I don't know many people in RS willing to swap my inventory of ashes for magic logs: less easy When cooking a full inventory, it takes three mouse clicks. Burning a full inventory takes 54 : more effort, less easy So, to obtain a 99-skill within reasonable time, with reasonable effort and reasonable money involved: cooking (or fletching). To obtain a 99-skill within a few days, without having to mind money: I'd pick prayer/construction.

Not to forget, that Latin was the universal language of science for about a millenium. It was widely used during the Middle Ages by people of science all over Europe. University lectures were given in Latin, scientific papers were written in Latin, letters/communication were written in Latin. With the rise of the British empire, came the decline of Latin as the universal language. It was also used in Roman catholic church/clergy for centuries (which had a big impact on European history). It's a dead language for sure, nobody speaks it anymore as is. It provides me with insight in English though, e.g. (which is Latin btw for exempli gratia :P ) when confronted with a word that I don't know, I sometimes recognise the Latin root in it. I still remember the first few lines of my first ever Latin text I saw in my textbook in highschool: Marcus et Cornelia in horto ambulant. 'Marce, Marce !' Cornelia exclamat, 'Serpens in hortum sedet' (I probably made some errors in that, but hey, it's been 20 years)

I'd say cooking is easiest: least effort of all skills (auto-cook) and least money to invest. Cookin gauntlets of course are a necessity. Always keep 1k sharks and/or 1k lobs either raw or cooked in bank (only sell the surplus of 1k). Get your behind to fishing guild, keep offering to swap your cooked sharks for raws. Go Catherby fish grounds to swap your cooked lobs for raws. Keep the people that take up on your offer on friends list. The sharks/lobs you burn are easily replaced by the fish you catch yourself. I got 99 cooking myself before auto-cook was introduced and before all the new pies were introduced, so I can't give an accurate estimate of how much cook xp/hour one would get.

12 blue, 10 green, 6 red eggs (two are from wc I think, the rest is from kingdom). I have both sara and zammy pray book, but no guthix.

You fail to explain the rise of RAW sharks to 1k each with your analysis (I have no problem selling them for 1k each atm, even at small amounts). In my opinion, its not the money drain causing the sharks to drop, it's simply people going for an easy lvl 99 skill cape that causes the cooked shark price to go down. Lots of people able to cook sharks, increase the demand on the raws and at the same time flooding the market with cooked ones. Which makes the price for cooked go down, raw up. Fury price dropping is because the death/chaos selling to store has taken a rise: more onyx stones on the market, with a consisten buyers population will make prices go down (not to mention the merchants who do nothing but buy below 50k under market price, then reselling with 25k profit)

I did method 2. It's quite affordable if you can make your own nats. Mud-staff is absolutely required, but after that it's not that bad. Expenses are 200 per gold bar (and available in huge numbers on RS-forums), 100 per pure essence. Regular gold ammies alch for 210 each if I remember correct. The positive of the string-spell is, it works while you walk and you only have to press it once for it to string all ammies in inventory one by one. So load up on gold, have ammy mould in inv and your runes. Craft the ammies in Al-kharid furnace, click into the bank, click on the spell and you'll be stringing while you walk. It uses runes for every amulet made, no balls of wool are required and you get the regular craft xp for stringing as well (4 xp per ammy, wooohoo !) When empty on gold in bank, find a quiet spot and alch the ammies to maximise on the mage xp. P.S I was interested more in crafting xp at the time, so I didn't buy unstrung ammies/symbols as is. Doing that is faster than making your own of course.

Wouldn't the maximum number of items held in your inventory be 28 times the (bank)limit of a stackable item ? e.g. 2^31 arrow shafts + 2^31 water runes + 2^31 fire runes.......= 28*(2)^31 ?

If you got a fire cape people would think you had some fun killing stuff.... But come on oh yeah you can click on the same few spots for hours on end, Amazing! And ooh yeah you spent a few million pixel money achieving it too... achievement indeed... Why do you post achievements in your sig ? Would be just as 'geeky' as a lvl 99-skiller showing his achievement inside the game (according to you) except of course for the time the 99-er has spent on the skill, which makes him/her the geek. As long as new people will get lvl 99 skills, they'll be getting one, even if only for just the heck of it. They're here to stay till the next fad. No im not calling people with lvl 99 skills geeks, but that is what a vast majority of the rs community will look at it as... You know its the truth. Is a cape worth being called a geek and no lifer all the time? For myself I haven't had anyone call me a nolifer/geek when ppl ask me about lvl 99 skills. The say 'wow' or 'cool' and quickly move on to whatever is next on their agenda. It's usually followed by how long I've played the game and that's it. I don't remember it ever turning into a no-life insulting game (and you do get asked alot on any average day). And yes, it's worth it having that cape for myself, as in being reminded that I spent all that trouble, clicking away and having fun doing it, achieved a goal I've set. Like I said in a previous post: the insulting kiddies are one click away from the off-button. Turn computer off and I've forgotten all about them.

If you got a fire cape people would think you had some fun killing stuff.... But come on oh yeah you can click on the same few spots for hours on end, Amazing! And ooh yeah you spent a few million pixel money achieving it too... achievement indeed... Why do you post achievements in your sig ? Would be just as 'geeky' as a lvl 99-skiller showing his achievement inside the game (according to you) except of course for the time the 99-er has spent on the skill, which makes him/her the geek. As long as new people will get lvl 99 skills, they'll be getting one, even if only for just the heck of it. They're here to stay till the next fad.

I've seen you post this another thread already as well, with the same contents basically: that you think people will be called no-lifers/geeks. In this same thread you don't want people to know you've been playing over a year. This is not a flame, let me ask you this: why do you care so much about what others think of you ? Are people's opinions about you so important that it would affect your way of playing Runescape ? People you will never meet in person, people you will not meet in game either: just passing-by. These people are one push of the computer on/off-button away. Grow attitude, self-confidence and filter through the bad to get to know the good people, who will value a cape as an achievement. The people that do have multiple 99 skills, are usually level 120+ already and thats more a dead give-away they've spent alot of time on the game (myself included). I walk around in bronze armor at the Catherby fishing grounds as a level 125. The kiddies that start the insults right away, I ignore. The people that actually get the joke of the bronze armor, are the ones I will most likely get to know better. Play your own game as you see fit and don't let others opinions bother you too much (same goes for real life btw :P )

I walk around pretty much in whatever combat armor I happen to be raising at that time, but these are my two favorite non-combat outfits:

Good for him: taking over number one spot in such a short amount of time is already unhealthy to say the least. Actually *staying* number one for a period of time afterwards, would be killing.

My bronze armor, I see too many level 90+ people already wearing full drag.

its the over-dramatic things like that is what i'm trying to get at. not at like zamorak empower me type things. I guess my example at top is not very good then. Please read this one before posting now. Since when is coming up with an eloquent, creative, living up to the role-playing element of the game (see mentioned example), original answer, that shows out-of-the-box-thinking, considered noobish (see thread title) ? People can play the game as they see fit. As for myself I would rather much more play the game with an over-dramatic as you put it than with someone who can't think of something more original then: '125 fish/wc/str/def/hp/pray/range/mage/mining/smithing lvl', which seems to be the standard way nowadays.

-DRAYNOR VILLAGE- :roll: You will find DRAYNOR VILLAGE bank is equally close to Lumbridge as Varrock east/west (use the south entrance). Of course, if you stick to the roads to Draynor (like a newbie would) and not go through the woods that is. They both take a 2.5 min walk :roll:

When you're completely new to the game and would walk off tutorial island for the first time, usually on f2p, the closest bank used to be Varrock (since you probably dont know the bank in desert and dont have many coins to spare for the guards). Navigating to Varrock when completely new at the game is quite tough (dark wizzards at the stonehenge). So my guess would be they added it to make life a little easier on the completely new people that come to the game.

I would go for : Neckrai - el (it's always tough to put phonetics into writing ;) )I just call em Necks though.

I never considered myself a noob. I ceased being a newb when I discovered tipit and its guides about 2 months after I started playing RS.

Jagex has already taken enough out the effort to level up combat. So a big NO.

Appearantly I'm a noob for not wanting to trade my mud-staff for a crystal key. A crystal key that was worth 1 million according to the seller. A key, so he told, that would raise my agility level to 90, as well as my magic level to 90 (too bad mine is at 96 already) and it would increase my 'power'. And all of this was achieved by just a single rub on the key ! I was such a noob for not wanting to possess this awesome key, all I had to do was trade in my mud-staff.