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He's seriously doing that? I had no idea something that asinine was even in the works! Ha, say hello to rises in the cost of living and goodbye to competitive business, folks!

Does a bear defecate in a toilet? Eh, I'm not at all excited about this game. Long wait and then they come out and cover there mules with this statement plus the fact that I can just get my RTS fix through Starcraft or Warcraft 3, I really don't have high expectations for MA. Just wanted to mention that I've been playing WAY too much Team Fortress 2 lately and so I imagined a spy sneaking into Jagex HQ and backstabbing the heck out of people walking down the corridors. Take THAT head of PR. You're not getting off so easy random QA guy. Just TRY to take me down security guard, I'm a freakin' Spy!

What about price caps? What happens if inflation boosts the prices of certain items all the way to their upper limit? Will the people with all this cash just buy more of the items? Or will they start buying other items instead?

Great Sword? Oversized Sword? Sounds like a God Sword, if only we had one of those... or 4. Also how would you possibly implement a rifle? Maybe not rifles, but we already have cannons on practically every castle battlement, saltpeter is a well known compound, and, furthermore, the Dwarves have a multi cannon. I can definitely see muskets or arqueburses popping up. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a rifle just a musket with grooves and ammunition that contains the explosive compound?

Good, but not perfect. It's still lower than before. And the guy who went to both courses and cataloged the exp is right- with more clicking, conversations, a fail rate, and an item to remember, Ape Atoll may still be better because of the ease of use and the fact that it has a no fail level.

That's not ironic, that's coincidental. A word expressing something other than its literal intention, now that! is! Irony! Sorry, but you set me up for that one... http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=irony You setup yourself for that one. http://www.cracked.com/article_15664_9- ... think.html It's a reference to Futurama. Bender says it in "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" during Fry's opera.

Well, if you're rich, then no. But, amazingly, not all of us are.. I did it at 76 and it's worth it, because I need the money. You get money faster at Monks. And from mining gold, and from killing green dragons, etc. Almost anything is faster than shark fishing. It's under 100k per hour. F2p'ers can make more than that.[/hide]So, I ask as an avid fisherman, what is the most profitable fish? Monks? Swordies? Honestly? No fish is very profitable. Monkfish and sharks are lucky if they break 150k gp/hr at 99 fishing. I can make double that easily with cooking or herblore or combat or any number of ways. Fishing is a horrible moneymaker. Cooking? Herblore? You lost me, mate. I thought, ever since RWTs left and skill capes were introduced that those skills did nothing but cost money, with a few esoteric examples.

no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing You just proved his point. No where on that page, or on Jagex's page is their an official statement about Price Manipulation in Runescape. Sorry, but merch clans are doing nothing wrong...as of now Price manipulation IS price fixing. That's like saying America is not USA either way runescape is runescape, and there are no rules against price fixing/manipulating for the game of RUNESCAPE. (People are so thick) [/hide] Sorry, but that doesn't protect you from the law. Truth is, merchants are criminals, and if jagex supports merchanting, then what jagex does is a crime, and you can complain in court about it. Oh and they don't care about the silly little jagex rules or their game. At Rockstar Games HQ: "You're under arrest, insert President's name here, for murder, gambling, grand theft auto, grand theft, homicide, vehicular homicide, manslaughter, owning a gun without a permit, owning illegal weaponry, encouraging others to break the law, and public nudity." "Um... but those are games?" "Sorry, but that doesn't protect you from the law. Truth is if you support these actions, then what happens in the game is a crime, and you can complain in court about it. Oh, and the Public Nudity charge occurred this afternoon. When you went out to lunch without your pants. Sorry."

No, it is not proof. It does not state that manipulation is against the rules and, furthermore, is a bald faced lie- they have changed prices in the past without the intent to prevent manipulation. Raw bird meat, harpoons, and other summoning seconds had their shop prices increased to match the GE.

If it's unethical, then how is it not wrong? I understand the hesitance on wanting to do anything about it, but I won't accept a shrug and say, "can't do nothing about it." I believe there is a solution somewhere that both sides can agree on. Laissez-faire may mean "let it be," but I don't think it means "look the other way whenever something wrong happens." Sorry, by wrong I meant illegal. Obviously, anything unethical is wrong. My mistake! but it is illegal No, it is not. Unless you can find me proof in the official rules against manipulating the GE prices, than it is, as far as Jagex is be concerned, legal.

If it's unethical, then how is it not wrong? I understand the hesitance on wanting to do anything about it, but I won't accept a shrug and say, "can't do nothing about it." I believe there is a solution somewhere that both sides can agree on. Laissez-faire may mean "let it be," but I don't think it means "look the other way whenever something wrong happens." Sorry, by wrong I meant illegal. Obviously, anything unethical is wrong. My mistake!

no laissez-faire is bad, look at what happened in the 20s and 30s, harding, coolidge, and hoover were all in favour of laissez-faire, this helped to cause the great depression, and it wasn't till roosevelt was elected, and he intervened with the economy, that the situation improved regarding this system, with the trade limit still in place i fail to see how old school style merchers would make any significant profits What about the seventies? Eighties? Those decades had heavy government regulation and involvement. Furthermore, the great depression was caused not only by rampant spending on credit, but also by A. the dust bowl and B. the vicious cycle which was the German reparations. Additionally, Roosevelt's New Deal didn't have time to help or fix the economy- WW II did that. Suddenly, EVERYONE was being employed, factories were running full capacity, men were being drafted and volunteering, women were working. The New Deal did nothing but create slight temporary relief at the cost of future prosperity.

Here's a better solution: laissez-faire, let it be. They're doing nothing wrong, maybe unethical but nothing wrong, and any solution implemented by Jagex will, undoubtedly, be far worse than what we currently endure. I do not want them to touch the economy again.

You misunderstand. They didn't make the two courses high level courses, they simply added high level PARTS to them. So if you want to do the old Gnome course, you still can, and you lose nothing. The Goblin course has gone from 70-80 for requirements. Well I was referring to the Gnome and Barbarian ones specifically, but you're right that they increased the Dorgshuun course's requirement. That doesn't matter though, because before level 80 it was worse xp than Ape Atoll anyway. That means that anyone who was using Dorg agility course would've been level 80 (by "use" I mean "actively train there regularly") or higher, so this increase does not impact them. However they said they have made changes to it so you fail less which would make it more usable. Yeah they did...what's your point? That doesn't change anything either. Fact is that BEFORE this update, Dorg course was only good after 80 agility. Now all they did was make the minimum 80 and make you fail less. It still means that only 80+ agility players will use it, so there's no net change in player level usage. Actually, it looks like no one will use it. Since Ape Atoll's no fail level, at least previously, was 75, and this is five levels higher, and, furthermore, now gives roughly 44k exp an hour, as opposed to Ape's 48K, I believe, the only pros for using this are strength and range exp.

It's obviously a billboard for various gnome foods. And I also know doogle is a kind of leaf, in game, that is used as a spice.

What's with all the praise, people? Sure, the extended courses are VERY nice, but, along with that, Jagex has nerfed the Dorgesh-Khaan course, making it worse than Ape Atoll or very close, and has simultaneously boosted its requirements by ten levels. Heck, the only real reason to train there now would appear to be for the strength and range experience you get in addition to the agility.

That's not ironic, that's coincidental. A word expressing something other than its literal intention, now that! is! Irony! Sorry, but you set me up for that one...

Go there, and all will be revealed.

If they ask for it and I'm not using it. Or, if they PAY to borrow it. I can just change my plans until I get it back.

These things are consumables, right? Therefore, I think the highest would be several hundred thousand, maybe up to 500k. And only for an unbuyable skill, like mining or agility. You could just invest that money into resources for buyables.

Lamps, when I'm far from a bank. Everything else takes up space, so when you're, say, mining gold in the Arzinian Mines, it'll just be a (metaphorical) Albatross around your neck.

Sorry Jagex, but I'm voting for Lionhead. Fable? Black and White? Another game on the tip of my tongue that I can't quite remember?!?

You have to remember Facebook is not going to be a legitimate medium where we found out ground breaking questions, rather they're using it for more publicity. I never said they had to be ground breaking or w/e Just not moronically stupid that in the grand scheme of things doesnt tell us anything about Jagex other than they are humans Then harass Andrew. It's not like Jagex picked from his questions, he was given the chance to ask five questions; obviously he wanted to ask these rather than risk wasting it on a "we can't comment" in regards to future updates. Or he's eleven years old and the typical Runescape customer...

But there is NO point in killing them. No drops, hit higher than every other F2P monster, and are spread apart. The only reason for killing them is for the challenge or kudos from others. Plus, the craters also contain Greaters- a far better monster for F2P to train on.

It's set during the Renaissance. Actually, different areas are set in different times. Most human kingdoms are set during the High Middle Ages. You have monarchy's, for the most part, and the equipment and architecture supports this. You may point out cannons to refute this, but fortresses had been utilizing them for stationary defense in Europe since the 1000s. The Dwarves are mid Industrial Revolution. They utilize steam power, advanced metallurgy, and are ruled by corporations. The Dorgeshuun are probably in the early Modern Era- think 1910-1930. They still use steam power, like in the train, but they utilize electricity for a great many purposes. True, their weaponry is primitive, but that's only because they rarely fight. Al-Kharid and the Kharidian Desert are somewhat mixed. First, you have the more advanced cultures, very similar to the Middle East in the 1500s, bar the application of gunpowder or medicine. Menaphos and Sophanem are basically bronze age Egypt with Middle Age tech. I have no equivalent for the Gnomes or Elves- given the heavy application of magic, there is no real world example. It's set during the Renaissance. actually with each new update it looks like Runescape is advancing in time, from the dark ages to the renissance The Romans had plumbing before then. This knowledge was lost when the Empire collapsed. You know what would be cool? If Jagex released quests about a prior civilization the collapse of which allowed the current distribution of power throughout Geilinor's human populas.