Makoto_the_Phoenix

No, Goraks still beat 'em by a mile. But yeah, I've actually got a lot of my stuff from every monster I fought. I never, ever had to buy another Ranarr/Prayer potion after I did Abberant Spectre tasks; saving up charms + cash for a War Tortoise so I don't really have to leave. :D

So everyone can take advantage of these shields? Riiight... I do agree though that a rebalance of the triangle is required; being able to hit a 66 in all forms of combat except Mage is utterly ridiculous.

But you're a high level too...besides, 'socially active' can mean different things to different people; to teens, it means something akin to clique-level friendships; to young adults, it means hanging out with friends on the odd weekend, when you're not working. Anyway, since you wanted a straight answer - be indifferent to the opinions of others around you. Let them think what they want to think. Don't let it get to you. I've been called a no-life on many occasions myself, but it doesn't bother me. The insults that they hurl at you shouldn't bother you, either.

That does seem a little high. What are you doing to make your CPU peak like that? Whenever I do something intense, I don't think mine ever goes above 45C (then again, I'm using a 65W AMD processor). Also, did you make sure to clear your heatsinks and fans from dust? Are your fans blocked?

There can, and have come points in time where goods aren't traded, for instance the lobster example. Although this (for the most part) only happens with major updates, and only affects goods of a certain type (pking gear, for example) for a certain time frame, these markets can, and do freeze. As wholly inconceivable that this will not happen to a majority of goods, I submit that its still possible, and if it did happen, the economy (trade) would grind to a halt. I'll willingly submit that parts of this economy can (and sometimes does) come to a pure standstill. I'm considering only the majority of goods, or the sheer number of people it would take to cause the economy to stop entirely. It's entirely true that merchant clans isolate or monopolize an entire subsection of the market, but I do not think that they alone can cause the economy to collapse. Think about it - the players of RS outnumber any sum of clan members, even if we are also mixed into some of those clans. As zaaps1 said, should an item instantly become insanely high, like Natures, then players will drive to get the RC level to make it incredibly profitable, thus saving the economy. That same scenario is happening right now, with a run on Yew logs over 400gp each (funny that they've stayed that high since '06 though); more players cutting Yews will eventually result in lower Yew prices. Another reason that I don't think merchant clans would gain enough steam to take the entire market over is due to the number of micro-markets comprised into one major market. With most every new update, some new niche market gets created, and in turn, that becomes yet another market to drop resources into (we're talking billions here). Emergent gameplay also occurs, creating demand for an item that was previously thought to be nearly useless (chinchompas). Lastly, the number of niche markets along with potential niche markets make monopolizing an entire economy through merchant clans impossible and impractical. Let's take Karambwan for example - they heal 18, but getting them in bulk is worse than pulling teeth. Should merchant clans take over many other parts of the Fishing micro-economy, Karambwan exists as an alternative, albeit impractical. Oh, did I mention that it would take hundreds of millions, if not billions, to overrun a single part of the economy?

The biggest fallacy is that people think it was the riots that caused these changes. Yes, I've seen riots. Boy, were they a huge waste of time. So damn stupid too - had they been mature about the situation and did the right thing by taking it to the RSOF (without the flaming), then I'd probably give more of a damn about their causes than I do now.

Hypothesizing is mostly fantasy anyway. You should've read at least the summary. Anyway, I read it [ALL of it], and I've got to say, throughout the 6 or 7 years I've played this game (I can never remember), I've heard the doomsayers proclaim that the economy was ruined, once and for all. I couldn't say it was B.S. at the time (since I didn't have the facilities to prove it), but even I knew that it wasn't true. Grand thesis: the RS economy is bulletproof. Here's my rationale. 1) All items that are traded fall into three distinct categories: junk (items that we have no value on, or are a useless byproduct of a skill), high-wealth items (easily anything that's over 12M and has no intrinsic use to the player), or the typical traded goods (coal, Yew, essence, and so forth). The only way that the economy could be wounded, let alone "killed", is if merchants could buy up a majority of all typical traded goods. While their value is significantly less than high-wealth items, they come into the game at a rate almost incomparable to anything like a Godsword or Spectral Sigils. That being said, there is no way for the typical traded goods to become scarce, untradable, or undesirable. 2) We will never run out of money to spend. Think about it - every NPC in this game drops cash. We steal cash from Guards, Watchmen, and so forth. Lootshare/Coinshare gives us perceived cash when we split a drop, regardless if the item is sold or not. High alchemy still exists. The list goes on and on, you know. So long as we have a way to accrue cash, goods will still be traded. 3) The amount of cash to raise skills is staggering in many cases. Consider the amount of cash it'd probably take to get a 99 in Construction or Smithing or Fletching or Cooking or even Crafting. It's easy to balloon ballpark the total cost at 350M, although it's a lot less (or more) in some cases. As you said, we place a critical value on skills rather than items; in turn, so long as we want to raise our skills, we will spend at least some fraction of money on resources to level. There are a handful of DIY skillers out there, but for the most part, we all buy what we can in our skill. 4) The junk we create has some value. Barring some some apocalyptic event that merchant clans were able to buy out the common goods, the stuff we could still churn out on our own would have value. At this point in the game, we can create almost anything to get raw materials (pickaxes, hatchets, harpoons with Hunting), and it's a matter of skill to process that to make cash. That being said, all items have value, irrespective if that value is less than the total amount of cash needed to produce the item, and irrespective of the item's demand. I don't have the time nor computer resources to prove this yet, but the RS economy is something like a bell-curve. The biggest amount of wealth in any one part of the curve is at the high end, but the bigger part of trade occurs in the middle. I suppose this is why merchant clans don't bother me so much; so long as I can buy Iron at 75 each and sell coal for 150 each, then all is well in the RS world.

You'll realize someday that your idea conflicts (polar opposites) your view for the game. There is no way that you can make the game less tedious AND more fun at the same time, not without that almighty infinite-exp lever in the Wilderness.

lol... so by disliking immature behaviour, and by recognising that it's 99% of the time younger players that are [wagon] to others... that means i'm immature? it seems like i struck a chord with someone by not wanting to talk to children. and i act like an adult... mostly because i am an adult. i work with kids and i have to be professional or i get fired. i have no respect for young teenagers mouthing off, doing their best to display bullying behaviour on a game that some of them are too young to play. there's a reason i don't talk to teenagers outside of work in real life... because 99% of them don't have the capacity to talk in a mature fashion with an adult. To begin with, I find it ironic that, based on your own metric, you'd be the first to be filtered. Moving on... 1) It's not that disliking immature behavior makes you immature, it's trying to split the population based on perceived notions of maturity that makes you immature. 2) You can't deal with teenagers mouthing off? Hey, that's what they do, alright? You should've known that when you got into that kind of work anyway. Perhaps you're not cut out for helping kids/young adults. Lastly, this is a MMOG. There are going to be people that are younger than you, or act in a different manner than you believe to be 'mature'. If you don't want to deal with it, go out and buy yourself a freaking DS.

Sooooooo, what happened to your sig? That's what I'd like to know. It almost all fits - Rants forum, veteran Tip.it user...but hey, what do we care? It's better that he (this mystery person, whoever he/she is) leaves in silence rather than noisily.

I resent that remark.

I don't think that's the case...I think this occurs until you tell the Microsoft Security Center to "quit complaining about my security". That's why it appears for firewalls and AV. It's benign, nothing major to worry about.

Yes, you can hack your firmware, and after looking at the documents for this router, it's probably the only option. No, I do not recommend it, since one thing could go very wrong and you'll brick your router. I didn't see any way to get what you wanted out of the firmware your router has not, but my advice to you is that you find another one of those, just in case, then experiment with it to your hearts' content. This way, if you do botch one, you'll still have a perfectly working one in the end.

A typical high level? Pfft, be yourself. If you don't act like the rest of 'em, that's good. Whether or not you act mature as a high level is a matter of public opinion, which doesn't matter much at all.

i'm well aware that getting the true ages of people would be the hardest part of my idea... and to be honest if there was an idiot filter in real life i'd be clicking that button like there's no tomorrow! i'm just sick of stupid younger players. they're the only game-ruining thing for me. [and note that i'm only talking about maybe half of the younger players in runescape] Don't you realize that you're being immature yourself?! Filtering out other players based on perceived notions of maturity is nothing more than segregation. You don't have to like everyone you talk to in RS, but filtering them out because you think they're immature doesn't make you any better than them.

Did you then try to run the binary installer by using ./NVIDIA-? I'm sorry if I left that out, but making a file executable without running it defeats the purpose.

What do I think? No, not necessary. If we could filter out all of the "idiots" in our life, we'd never talk with anyone to begin with. Besides, that kind of testing means nothing - it's plausible to cheat, lie, and all other manners of deceiving the tester to get through.

It's supposed to succeed silently, so it's fine. Glxgears not working is not fine. Did you complete the steps?

To start with, it's a shame people didn't get the point of his whole idea of "opening his wifi". To be honest, for some time I've been meaning to open my own WiFi, with a B/W limit of 5Kb/sec, and if they went over, their MAC address would be glued to BadgerBadgerBadger for all eternity. :lol: I looked at the pages you linked to (one linked to the other one with all the scripting and stuff), and I'm still racking my brain around Windows networking to see if that's possible somehow in Windows, or even your router. Which specific Linksys router do you have? I'm not sure if any of them support redirecting, and it's highly improbable that they'd support the Perl.

GLX missing entirely? Hmm...Perhaps it was never added in xorg.conf, which is bad. (Of course, the newer xorg files don't really need the conf file, but still.) I want you to give this a shot, alright? Bear with me on this, since I haven't had to reinstall my nVidia drivers in nigh on 4 months. Please make sure to write these instructions down, since you won't be able to see them when you go to runlevel 3. 1) Go to http://www.nvidia.com, and get the latest drivers. Put them on your Desktop. 2) Drop down to runlevel 3 by pressing CTRL+ALT+F3. 3) Type the commands: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop && cd ~/Desktop 4) Make the driver binary executable by running chmod +x NVIDIA-, where TAB is when you hit the TAB button ;) 5) Run through the installation, agreeing to most everything (some nonessential things may fail, that's fine). 6) If all goes well, type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start and you should be able to use glxgears. If it doesn't, let me know again.

I'd like that a lot. Maybe it would revive smithing? :thumbsup: Did the dragon plate "revive" smithing? Nope. That's because all it does it look shiny. :? If it (as a whole set w/o shield) reduced damage, I guarantee you there'd be a rush to 92 Smithing. Anyway, I'm more for the damage reduction armors than I am raising the HP cap. Rune and Dragon can live again if they have damage-reducing properties against melee (and no such bonus against Magic).

Could you tell us what it says when you try to run glxgears? This usually helps debugging things more than ya think. ;)

At this point in the game, the question shifts from "is it technically possible" to "why even bother". The amount of teleportation/transportation tools we have at our disposal already eclipses the need for any sort of mount; besides, the RS game world isn't big enough to justify it yet. You should've said something three years ago, when people wanted mounts.

Probably not; think smaller. It's probably OGG with some low quality, or some super-fancy way of doing MIDIs...

Tf2, CS:S, and UT are not MMOG's. I have already watched a 10 page argument on VALVe forums about this already. In what way are they not; Massive(ly), Multiplayer, Online or a Game? Well, the fact that those three games usually fall under the FPS genre...and to that effect, I don't consider a MMOG massive until its active account total reaches about 50,000 (in my mind).