Makoto_the_Phoenix

There is never going to be a perfect update. If you notice, every update includes a select group of players in its account. Examples: Emote TTrails: Those that can't wear Adamant were left out of the loop. Quest Updates: Those that don't have the stats were left out. In-game content: Those that don't meet either QP or EXP requirements are left out. Trading limits: Those that are free or with less than 200QP don't receive full benefits. But that's not a bad thing. It just encourages players to improve their account more, or not (most every update here is optional; you don't have to do trails, quests, or other content, and you can use the GE for trades).

Looks like dribble to me. No sources to back his claims up, no attempt at a real analysis...just raw bashing and dashing the game. Besides that, why should we care who recommends this game for whatever age group? It's the teenagers that will wind up crying over the age, when everyone else in the world just wants to game.

I find it kind of amazing that players [like you] who think they have the end-all be-all suggestion to stop RWT show up, post their suggestion, and don't realize how bad it is. CAPTCHA can't be used to stop bots ingame, and all it takes is five humans anywhere around the world to create a bot account. Seriously kid, if you don't have a clue, don't post. Anyway, people are indeed responsible for gold farmers and their existence. But that's not to say that just one party is to be blamed at all. It was really a mix of (illegit) players and (illegit) companies that did it.

Let's stop and consider the situation. You were flirting online with some random "girl" you just met in RuneScape. If you can't see my point beyond that statement, you're delusional.

But if you look at the SNES now, you'll still have people playing the games because the games were awesome, not because of how it looks. That's exactly right. It's the reason that I'll still whip out my Dreamcast or Gameboy Color/Advance every now and then -- the games were enjoyable, and looks were only the fluff. It's the exact same rub with RuneScape. Sure, the graphics might be acceptable to a new crowd, but if they can't find the game to be fun/appealing to them, then they won't stick around for long.

Your entire post is almost 100% non sequitur. If you had bothered to read the Dev Diaries, you'd note that the draw distance (or distance at which you can see things) has not changed at all. Besides that, are you seriously telling me that someone can't afford an AGP card (at the very basic end) for $60? Forget working at McDonalds, working for one day at most any job will get you that money.

Ha ha, no. I'm lucky to get a whip every 2 assignments there. Even then, it's rare.

Okay, so in the log, you admit to giving a partyhat to a mod friend on a low level account, and then you drop this bombshell: How you missed that is beyond me. What are you, blind?

It's actually quite understandable why you feel so upset over Mining. You never played Classic. If you did, you'd know that Mining resembles the archaic (and somewhat enjoyable) method of gathering resources. In Classic, one could only gather resources one at a time, and if you were a lower level, it was often a hit-or-miss deal. I can recall many failed attempts at fishing for Swordfish... Anyway, there isn't a gun held up to your head to do this skill. If you don't like it, don't do it, end of story. [Although, I'll sympathize that there needs to be something more done with the skill to make the one-ore-per-rock thing bearable...]

While I'm here, I might as well offer a touch of support for the Linux users. I posted this guide (partially) on the RSOF, and I hope that it can be of some help. Note that most Linux users know how to find their own information, but at least this helps a bit. I've tested these commands myself, and since they're all through the terminal, they should work with any distribution. To get to Terminal (GNOME): Applications > Accessories > Terminal To find out how much RAM you have: free -m | grep -i mem [This will tell you (in megabytes) how much memory you have on your system in total, and free. Pay attention to only the first number.] Example: Mem: 1899 < This means I have about 1.9GB available memory. (Multiply the value you get by 1024 to get the real GB value.) To find out the type of graphics card you have: lspci -v | grep -i vga [This will tell you the type of graphics card that is detected on your machine.] Example: 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7000M (rev a2) (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) This means that I have an nVidia GeForce 7000M card. You can ignore pretty much everything else. (You will need to Google this to see how much memory you have, or if you're using a driver such as fglrx or nvidia_new, you can query it directly. Hit Alt + F2 and type in nvidia-settings, then go down to GPU 0, and look at how much memory it has available.) To find out how fast your processor is: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i cpu\ MHz [This should tell you how fast your processor is *currently* running.] Example: cpu MHz: 800.000 cpu MHz: 800.000 It shows up more than once if you have more than one core in your processor. Note that said method above is sometimes inaccurate, since my processor does *not* run at 800MHz. Most newer processors support frequency scaling, and only use as much as they need at any time. If the above method gives weird results, use the following 3 steps to get an accurate measure. 1) Right-click on an empty space on your menu bar and add-to-panel "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor". 2) Add it to the desktop, then click on the maximum GHz possible, or click on "Perfomance". 3) Either note the CPU in GHz or run cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i cpu\ MHz again.

Where did I say that? All I said is that he's not really upset behind the number of people, he's upset behind the lack of raw materials.

If you just put it in, there's not going to be an operating system on the drive. What you have to do is have an install disc of Vista handy to restore the system's state. The machine itself uses the hard disc to save the OS and all that stuff onto it. When you took it out, you pretty much took out its long-term memory. Gotta do something to restore that. (And no, just copying the OS files from one hard disk to another will not work.)

The real complaint isn't how crowded the worlds are, but how scarce key raw materials are, namely in the case of Chinchompas, various monsters, and the like. I don't think that more servers should be added (in fact, less should be allowed), but more resources should be placed in.

PCI-e is much faster than AGP (I assume you're running it at 8x), but I'm sure that they don't care. Also, RAM is RAM, regardless of its type. As long as the system can access it, that's all that matters. To joey: You'll be fine, and DDR1 ram should be ok. To Makoto:It probably won't make a difference on the PCI-E, but DDR3 is far, far faster then DDR1 in many ways. All RAM is not created equal; ECC, Dual Channel, DDR1/2/3, etc... Fair point. But we're not doing quantum physics here, and as long as the machine can access the RAM, we're happy. :D Yes, you make the cut by a landslide.

PCI-e is much faster than AGP (I assume you're running it at 8x), but I'm sure that they don't care. Also, RAM is RAM, regardless of its type. As long as the system can access it, that's all that matters.

Erm.. how can I go into detail about it? You could explain how the memory results are misleading, and provide graphs and benchmarks showing the performance of different types of integrated graphics vs. discrete graphics to help people understand how their cards perform, and give information on how they will work with the new graphics. Or at least mention it, and say that whatever amount of memory it says is basically useless, invalid and misleading information. :) I'm not too hot with graphs, but here's what I know. An integrated graphics card is simply on the main board, meaning that it draws resources (such as RAM and CPU time). Systems with low RAM (less than 256MB) or slow CPUs (less than 1.5GHz) won't be able to run too many games with high demands on it. You can also tell it how much RAM you give it permission to use, which is available through BIOS. Of course, your mileage will vary; most newer (and some older) PCs will let you set how much memory you can share for graphics card. A discrete graphics card is one that is separate from the machine, in terms of resources (RAM and GPU). Because they use their own RAM, your system doesn't have to share with them, and they don't have to allocate CPU time to the card, either. These cards typically perform significantly better than any integrated card, due to the isolated resources. Of course, your mileage will vary with this, but even if your machine is 1.5GHz or greater, you'll get, on bare minimum specs, a playable game (probably 25-30 fps). That's what I think I know in terms of graphics cards. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the general theory I use. Why do you have such little RAM, first of all? You'd imagine that 2 CPUs need at least a gig or two between them. Anyway...if the display memory claims that it's 128 MB, I don't think you'll run into any hitches.

The oldest and most nostalgic way to make money was to mine Coal, then cert it, then sell the certs at 2K a piece. (A certificate, or cert, was simply the item times five.) Usually had anywhere from 3-400 certs for sale at any given time, and I think that's why I have such high mining now. Barely do any mining on RS nowadays; certs were really fun/nostalgic for me.

Trickery? What trickery?! /me looks at his laptops and tower, and realizes they're *all* Linux For whatever reason though, I doubt that there will be any "trickery" to run it in Linux...I'm willing to say that they're using JOGL, and as long as you have the proper JRE for it, you *should* be fine. Don't make me sweat bullets like that again, please. Please. :ohnoes: Turn it into a dedicated server and get a Dell already. :P

Its a measurement of how many million computing cycles or simple operations (hz) can be performed in one second. So a 3.66 Mhz processer can do 3,660,000 operations in a single second. But can I play the new graphics? Its there instead of Ghz. Think of 1GHz equal to roughly 1024MHz. So, if your machine isn't 1.5GHz (or 1536MHz), then you can't.

The entire update is breathtaking. I just wonder how we'll look when fighting...

From the looks of it, your laptop *can* play, but it'll be so painful that you'll never get a chance to go to a big city. :D Anyway, I wonder what a "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model\ name" says... model name : AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57 model name : AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57 2GB of RAM, and this processor's clocked in at 1.9GHz. Also have an nVidia GeForce 7000M on this lappy. Ooh, I feel *confident* that I meet these reqs. Even the machine I found -- Intel 2.93GHz with a gig of RAM -- can run this without any hiccups. By the way, I doubt that this graphics system is using DirectX. It's more or less using JOGL, so I doubt it'll matter whether or not you have DirectX, and I *seriously* doubt it'll help. @Faideelah: No dice, you need at least a 64MB card. Sorry.

Apparently, you didn't get my point. So, let me restate it for you. The GE will not work with high value, low demand items because they are almost never sold or bought, and a player with a high value, low demand item will not use the GE because they feel it is broken. The cycle continues on and on, and in reality Jagex is doing what they can to fix it. It's just a matter of willingness to use the GE to buy/sell those high value, low demand items, and that's something that only the player can "fix". All you have to do is be willing to use the GE for these types of changes. One more thing -- I don't see thousands of players lining up to buy partyhats. Do you? Because if you do, I'd like to know where to find them. Just to see it for myself. First of all, I don't see how the GE knows there are still "unresolved" trades out there. From what I can tell from the specs, the GE only pays attention to the result of the actual trades that took place. Here it is, if you didn't catch it: ...Ergo, if it hasn't been traded from one player to another, it doesn't care. Now, if it were to automatically lower 5% after a set period of time, that would be rather nice. However, I believe that I've noticed such a trend already occurring... Take a look at the 30-day history of Partyhats, and you'll a 5%-like dent in their price, every 15-25 days. Lastly, it's not that Jagex is refusing to do anything about this. It's the players that are stuck on stubborn about the issue. At its core, the GE is nothing more than a tool. This tool's *only* purpose is to take the average of *completed* trades, and set the new prices of the market. If it's not used, there's no way it's going to reflect accurate data. That's all there is. No one, not even Jagex could take the stubbornness out of people when it comes to this. My guess is that people will won't be fully satisfied with whatever resolution Jagex comes up with when it comes to high value, low demand items. Sure hope something can get figured out...debates like this sure do get tiresome. 1) No item on the GE exists like that. 2) Where are you getting the 15M from, if an item happened to exist like that?

There are two things that could change this loop. One is a change in player behavior, with people spontaneously deciding to all throw money into a black hole at once. The other, far more reasonable option is Jagex fixing their broken system. If the prices were right, players wouldn't think (read: know) that the GE is flawed. But God forbid the company we're all paying would solve their own problem. No, so many people seem to think that the customers are supposed to interrupt their playing to solve it. Let me know how that works out for you when/if you actually get enough money to be affected by third age and rare item prices. Thanks for proving my point. The reason that the GE is "broken" is not only due to a lack of trust between players and Jagex, but a misconception of just how popular the item they're trying to sell really is. Before a price can become "right", players must use the GE to trade various goods. Then, and only then will it auto-correct, based on supply/demand for that particular item. Players that come along, saying that the GE has too many faults for it to be used [for high end, low demand items] aren't helping the situation -- they're making it ten times worse by ignoring the GE altogether. It only makes sense that if it's not being used, the "real" value of items isn't going to be reflected in it. As far as the demand goes, let's think outside of the box for a second -- how many people want to buy a partyhat or 3rd Age as opposed to coal, yews, or monkfish? Don't ignore that part of the equation when it comes to the GE, okay? By the by, you don't have to interrupt your playing to solve it. You can just continue along the path of junk trading, not like anyone will stop you. I'm just letting you know that it's not helping your alleged situation.

Forgive me if this logic may sound flawed, but here's the reason that I don't believe in/condone "junk trading". 1) Players believe that the GE is too strict/tyrannical 2) Players come into possession of a high value, low demand item (e.g. rare, 3rd age) 3) Players want to sell item in GE, no buyers, complain that GE is too strict/tyrannical 4) Players "junk trade" to another person for significantly less (in GP) than its worth 5) Price is never updated in GE to reflect the new possible trade 6) Players continue to believe that the GE is too strict/tyrannical (Continue 2-6 until you get bored) People don't think that the GE works, so they avoid using it. Little do they realize that by them not using it, they're really breaking the "broken" system even more. This is known as an infinite loop, and it seems like the only way to break it is to get the players' confidence in the GE. [While I'm very confident in the GE myself, I don't see many other players willing to believe that it works...]

No, RuneScape is not a democracy, nor is it some institute that has to uphold freedom of speech. It's not even American. That means that it's a privilege, and it can be revoked at any time if you break their rules.