Makoto_the_Phoenix

Why the hell shouldn't you be proud of your achievements? Just because it's common doesn't mean it's ludicrously easy. Besides, what should you care of what everyone else thinks of your 99? If they like it, they like it; if they don't, they don't.

I'm kinda scared to upgrade. There's some kind of OpenGL bug with Jaunty that totally cripples full screen RS. So, until that works, I'll be hiding over here with my Ibex. :( Oh, and I've never had a problem with running RS on Linux. Shoot me a PM and let me know what your problems are/were specifically.

I'm probably one of the few folk here that recalls the old, old music tracks from WAY back when (I'm talkin' post-RS2 beta), and I've gotta say, the tracks have significantly improved over the years. Keep in mind, my tastes in music are eclectic; I'll be listening to trance one moment and probably have metal on in the next, then probably Classical for all I care, but for whatever reason, I usually enjoy the sounds in RS. One of the major reasons that they won't move to a MP3 format is simply due to file size. Someone posted a(n) [evil, evil evil] link to 400 songs at under 12MB. Do you think you could achieve that kind of compression on a single MP3 (let alone 400), and let it still sound good? If you figure it out, I'd be curious to learn; I want to stream my music to my laptop in such a way that it doesn't affect network performance too much. :P FWIW, the quality of sound with these MIDI files is actually decent. A handful of my favorite songs: Sound of Guthix Technology Fe Fi Fo Fum Fanfare 3 Attack 5 Tears of Guthix Claustrophobia ... and about 400 others. Not many songs in RS [or RL for that matter] that I reject with a passion...

100K experience a day. That's one helluva pipedream. I've seen (and experienced) that the median experience for Slayer is about 20K experience an hour, and that's if you get five good tasks in a row. Get a slow task (Irons or Gargoyles) or a bad task (Mutated Terrorbirds, Kurask, Scabarites, or Steel Dragons), and that average dips easily below 8K. Oh, not to mention, you'll have to do what's required of yourself in the span of a day (personal hygiene, food, homework, job, social life, etc), so rare is the person willing to spend five hours to get 100K experience in an entire day. No matter how efficiently you train, no matter your stats, you'll always be limited by the chance you'll get stuck with a really crappy task in the end, in which stats aren't as effective and rate of experience falls like a rock. To cannon aficionados: Yes, you can cannon tasks, and they really speed things up [read]. But not everything is cannonable, and some of the best tasks are either inefficient or not feasible to cannon. I use one in my training, so I know its quirks. When I was a boy, we didn't get to ride the bus to school, no! We had to walk! Ten miles! Uphill! In the snow! And then we had to walk back home! Ten miles! Uphill! In the snow! Those were the days! Best reply ever. Ironically it was just what I was thinking. :D

I haven't combined it with any other soda yet, but I am a huge fan of Disaronno anyway. It's an Amaretto, and it's really potent if you put ice in it. Be forewarned. [i have heard good things about combining it with Sprite though...perhaps someday I'll give that a shot...]

For starters this is the most active and creative and mature fansite out there. Good timing JAGEX We are at your service No, we are not at their service. I wouldn't be welcoming their openness with fansites if it meant that Tip.it had to become subservient to Jagex's will, anyway. ;) Oh no. Don't...uh...don't get your hopes up; I don't want to have you fall from Cloud Nine back to reality...

I can definitely relate to the Early Bird article. It happens every time I go there, or when I go to kill Dagannoth...

Torrented both the 32 and 64-bit distros the other day, plan to install the 64 bit on my laptop and tower (32 bit is there for redundancy sake; I have a separate /home partition and I can recover all of my installed programs, so yeah). Dsavi, I advise you go with the torrent, since it's just way faster (managed to download the 64-bit ISO within an hour before I had to leave on a 7MB line; not bad for a mad rush to get the ISO anyway). After some trial/error and I put the 64-bit version on my thumbdrive, and I'm rather pleased with it. Seems a bit zipper, but I was warned about the new notification daemon that does weird stuff with programs, I think. I have to give it a fair shake and see how things run after I install it, so I'll probably post grievances temporary minor setbacks later.

True but I'm sure they get discounts since they always have 4 or more in one locations. Probably, but this isn't a website server - this is a game server, undoubtedly requiring top end power to manage 2,000 clients simultaneously. All drop\hit generation as well as running\movement AI for NPCs and players is handled by the server; it's far more then "run this ASP page". It's not a web server, but I'm willing to bet that the footprint for a single server is pretty small. Jagex is clever with their compression techniques, and I'm sure that they've managed to figure out how to get 2,000 people running simultaneously on a single server client. All that would matter at that point is the amount of connections allowed to each server, which is somewhere near 2,400.

I'm still not sure if this should be looked at in this light. Take the objective phantasmal medieval approach to it. Of course, this isn't to say that I'm against it at all, I'm just considering the angles at which this is to be examined under. Yeah, about the same amount of chaos that it creates when you see male characters saying, "Wanna b mai gf?" :wall:

This is an impasse, and in truth, it doesn't tell us squat about a single server, or its particular bandwidth limits. Consider also that much of the work done in rendering the game is done client-side anyway, so the footprint of the actual server "image" could [in theory] be small enough to run more than one server, or more than one type (freeplay or member). You know, the cost for buying bandwidth in the US is different than buying it in Australia, or the Netherlands. Your math is almost correct Compfreak, but consider we still don't know BW rental nor hardware rental. Since we can assume, and take 43% of $8,067,081, that'd give us $3,468,844.83. Divide this by the number of F2P servers available (a strong estimate would be 85), and you get about $40,809.94 per server. That seems just a little high, with the average rental cost per physical server deal being $3,400.82. That being said, it's still perfectly reasonable to assume that one physical server could host any number of virtual "worlds". It'd be stupid simple to figure out how much each individual server (specifically F2P) cost to run, if we had an average of equipment rental and bandwidth rental. I'm just not convinced with the servers costing upwards of $3400 yet. It's realistic, but I'm not thoroughly convinced yet.

The way I feel about it: Why should it matter? It'd create one hell of a PR mess, and not to mention, in the olden days, homosexuality was looked down upon as weakness or against the better good of the kingdom (since kingdoms needed families to prosper, that sort of thing). Look at this in a medieval sense, not in a present-day sense. Do you think a king of a country would let you marry his son if you were male, too? You'd probably be married to the pike before him. Religion: Not that it matters [to the rest of you], but Christian. Orientation: Straight

I didn't even know there was a bug with them for attacking people outside the clouds from the inside. Must not have been a largely used bug. As far as I remember, you could hide in a cloud, rob some mage, materialize, then disappear again into the cloud. I didn't believe you could *attack* from the cloud. Anyway, this little quest looks interesting. When I find the time to catch up on my quests, this is #2 on my list.

Then what the hell do you want? No skill in this game is so easy that you can click a button ONCE and get tons of experience. Besides, the only way to alleviate toil and repetition is to reduce the amount of repetition within repetition, such as bury-X, offer-X, burn-X, converting Mining to use a system similar to Woodcutting and Fishing, and so forth and so on. There is NO skill in clicking a mouse. My 3 year old nephew can do that. However, all it takes if a few [hundred] thousand clicks to get 99s in RuneScape, or max your level out in any major MMO out there. What you're proposing is changing the very foundation of MMOGs the world over, and I don't think you have the skill or knowhow to begin tackling that problem. Exactly. Well that's the way it is. It isn't like you can show skill online anyway, unless you were designing something to solve the 88th derivative of (449127x^919-1221x^912)/(sin^3x). No, clicking does not equate skill. But how the HELL else are skills going to be represented in a fantasy game? Do you want us to draw our weapons and armor from now on? Do you want us to cook the real fish we catch in this game to prove that we are master chefs? You're not being clear about this!

As I see it, the problem isn't that it's impossible to moderate what torrents are uploaded, the problem is that Pirate Bay didn't even try. Also, I don't think it is impossible, although I do concede that it would take a lot of work. All they would have had to do is make it so that each torrent had to be approved before being posted to the site. If they could not prove that a torrent's content was legal for distribution, then it doesn't go up on the site. Simple. It's just not that simple. TPB gets tens of millions of hits daily, and new torrents are created every other second. The amount of staff, processing work, and extra lines of programming required to actually get that moderation system in place would make TPB all but useless to use for generic, fair-use torrenting. And yes, it does go on. There's also the matter of cloaking a torrent to throw off this system, which makes it more of a headache to implement than simply trying to trust the end user. In the end, they're the ones that abused the system. I guess it works both ways, since even though a convention was broken, it isn't like the rule could have been enforced anyway... Granted, that's a fair assumption, but again, all TPB did was provide the service. The users are the ones downloading illegal copies of stuff. Since it's almost impossible to moderate, I ask the question again - is it really TPB's fault for providing the service, or the users' for abusing it? Hint: it can go either way.

I guess my intent is to at least bring notice to the problem and perhaps stumble upon a solution, maybe more. Alright...well... I don't know a decent solution off-hand, simply because there's no real way to go about this. People can be (and still are to some extent) rude, immature, thoughtless, and inconsiderate of other people, or their opinions. What's the way to educate them? I don't know if there's a definitive answer to this - no matter which forum you go to, the smart, considerate people are always the minority, and they're always shrinking at an alarming rate.

The only problem is that you cannot guarantee if the user has had permission to upload a single file. What's being torrented on TPB isn't always movies and music; there's a lot of other stuff that might fall under abandonware, or their companies are defunct and the copyright holder can't be found (Look up a company called "7th Level", and you'll see what I mean). Now multiply that with the number of torrents that are active on a daily basis, and you have a system that is absolutely impossible to moderate. Yes, it's true that TPB should have monitored their torrents a little closer. But the real people at fault here are the ones that kept uploading illegal/copyrighted content. If the service is provided to the public, and the public abuses it, does that make the service provider liable? I don't think it should.

I've always felt that Farming was a bit too easy, especially with Trees. But hey, that's what people use after they max out allotments - Palm and Yew trees. Adding more stuff to an allotment doesn't seem to make sense, since there's scarcely any use for the allotments we have now.

It's too bad that the media industry doesn't learn from innovation. It's not that torrenting is bad in and of itself, it's just torrenting things that companies don't want torrented that's bad. How do they fix that instead of litigating innovators into the ground? Change their model. It's been done with several Anime distributors that I know of (and illegal distribution of those series has stopped totally), so why can't media/movies/Hollywood figure it out?

It sounds like a lot of hot air to me. This topic also came up in a class of mine a few days back. The scary part was people thought it'd be better for Texas to secede than to stay a part of the Union. Of course, the notion of it is still silly...

Don't you mean not feeding the trolls? Hopefully... :| Yeah, that's what I meant. Doing Calc and replying to threads leaves people with many half thoughts of (the integral) sec²xdx and an actual response. Anyway, I do agree with what you've said. There was only a handful of people that were friendly back then, and there's only a handful of people that are right now. That hasn't changed too much. Not to mention, when people are posting, we have to weigh the first statement (such as arguments against Slayer or Drops or what have you), and not flame people who just don't understand. Flaming accomplishes nothing, of course.

I haven't noticed anything super bad (especially on the level of the RSOF), but if your intent is to restore Tip.it to a former glory, feeding the trolls is one way to get rid of 'em. (Perhaps I'm blind, but I haven't noticed any intentional trolling, except for maybe one thread.)

I'm looking at this, and I think you paid Membership for the wrong reasons. First, the thing that keeps me interested in this game is not what is coming on the horizon, but the remaining things that are left unfulfilled by my account. I'm not an "update junkie", where I feel my $6 is justified by updates; I take a more conservative approach, and consider what's already there as "enough to earn my cash", and the updates as a little incentive. Next, explain what you mean by "innovative creativity". There are many people that take a subjective stance to this, and I'd like to hear your take. What's left to introduce, an item to make you only go there once or twice, an exp incentive, or both? You should also consider that this game has radically changed from when you were in middle school. What was new back then was never seen or done before; what's new now is starting to get tiresome. Also, what do you think the developers have been working on lately? They haven't had time to churn out quest sequels like they did back in '04 and '05; I mean, Devious Minds is still left totally unresolved. So? The whole point of the Dev Diary was to give you an insight on how the process is going up to that point, not as a timetable of what's to come (a-la BTS) or a progress report (the older dev diaries). I'm a little stunned that you're disappointed in the requirements...what's so hard about the Dwarf quest up to this point that would mandate that you be some soft of Legend? Nothing yet. Your last paragraph further reinforces my point about you being an "update junkie". You only care about what the future holds, and you're just not satisfied with the game in its current state. Chosen Commander was an alright choice for 150 (although it was admitted it wasn't *the* 150th, no big deal there if you ask me), and programs can have many issues with them that take months to resolve. While I feel that Jagex's updates to date have not been whiz-bang, they haven't just been sitting on their hands. These upgrades might mean that older skills and content will finally get looked at in depth, such as modifying Mining (before we EVER breathe another word about the Dragon pickaxe, FIX MINING FIRST), or adjusting the rewards for Shades of Mort'ton, or even the Blast Furnace. You've got to accept the little stuff as it comes, and appreciate what you've got. You didn't, so you're obviously upset. I do feel that Jagex is doing something right with their updates for the first time since RS2 (fixing stuff instead of just adding new stuff that gets abandoned just as quickly). It's a shame you can't feel the same way, but go ahead and enjoy your summer-long sabbatical.

Consider rebooting your router. There are times when that helps, regardless of how inexplainable (in certain situations) it can be. Test your connection speed by a simple ping routine, do it indefinitely. Ping some server that has near 100% reliability, like google.com. I think that it's the -f flag to ping indefinitely. Check with your ISP to see if you have your bandwidth capped. It might explain some of your symptoms. Make sure that your father's (or any other computer for that matter) is NOT using torrent services while you're online. Upload times will instakill your bandwidth, that's a fact. I have a 7Mbit line, and I couldn't remotely connect into my machine from school while I was uploading an ISO of Ubuntu. Run a virus scan on your machine. It could be a virus that's hogging your bandwidth as well. Make sure your machine is 100% up-to-date. Or, if you do have it set so it automatically updates, set it to a time when you're sure your machine isn't going to be doing anything online.

It's like using a nuke to deal with cockroaches. Anyway, my advice to you is this: Look into Spybot Search&Destroy. Get that, and install it. Boot into Safe Mode (mash F8 until you get the special boot prompt, then select Safe Mode). Run Spybot S&D from Safe Mode. Repeat this process for one other antivirus program of your choice (a few good ones were already linked here). I say run these scans in safe mode since many of the OS frills are turned off, and it's all the OS needs to run competently. It's been eons since I did this, but IIRC, running Spybot in safe mode should still work.