Makoto_the_Phoenix

If the Halloween Guaranteed Content Poll has taught us anything, it's that we just can't be satisfied, even if we do choose what we want. I don't think there should be another poll for Christmas; not interested in causing more strife.

Looking at such a narrow piece of information to cover such a broad topic isn't practical. If you want to come up and tell us [no offense, but this is literally the umpteenth time this topic has come up] that RuneScape/Jagex is beginning to cater to the younger people, then you'd better come up with something more than that. Honestly I've seen holiday events and items as a funny change from the monotonous theme of the game. So what if they're a little silly...they're serving their purpose and I'm having fun with them. Your maturity issues with something as off-color as a chicken suit are your own; you'll no doubt fight that demon if you want to play RS again.

How about they cancel holiday items for good so everyone will just shut up about how crappy the reward is. Sheesh, shut up and stop complaining. You say F2Pers whine and scream when they don't get their way >.>. Finally, someone with some sense. I can see that I'm not alone; I honestly do think that history will repeat itself (Jagex barring holiday events for a time due to complaints about the holiday event). @Kosz: Give me a freaking break. You calling the people that voted for the hood young or immature makes you look like a hypocrite.

Take some advice from FooK-A-Ji and get over it. There's no sense in arguing over it; the vote's been taken and this is NOT the Presidential elections, where whining about it would make a difference. 1. When you vote, the simple majority wins. If it didn't work that way we'd have so many more problems with elections, jury duty, etc, etc... If you wanted the broomstick, all you could have done was vote for it; if you're complaining that you didn't get your then you don't deserve the holiday updates period. Remember the Christmas drop of 2003? Guess what? Because of players that couldn't accept what happened, there was no drop. 2. You obviously don't understand the mechanics for the polls. It's been said that they can split the results between both freeplay and members already, taking into view both sides. Splitting it into groups based on level would mean absolutely nothing except that level 3s and level 126s know how to cast a vote. 3. Blaming the younger players of RuneScape for your personal grievances doesn't make you any older; just makes you look like a mule. [by the way, I'm a member.]

A RuneScape without bots would mean that most everyone would have to complain about something else. I don't think the economy would suffer, since there's nothing stopping us from picking up that dusty ol' pickaxe and mining our own stuff except laziness. [Read]

With time, prices fall. It's only natural that it happens. The economy can't crash because the whip dips below 900K, either. ;)

It's always going to be a letdown if we let our hopes, dreams and aspirations of what something that is not yet released get the better of us. Seriously, we actually know the event. We know what's going to happen, and we know what the reward is. We even voted for it. How could you be let down about something like that? Don't get your hopes up. The update goes underappreciated when people float on Cloud Nine and believe that what they "predict" is to be true.

The less of an item the game has, the more desired it becomes. (Whips, Saradomin Godswords, Steam Battlestaves, et. al.) If it's not tradeable but definitely not re-acquirable then it's worthless. It'd be the same with partyhats; no one would care about them until they're in high demand and worth multi-millions (or thousands of dollars; damn E-Bay).

Give it a week and people will complain that Jagex "nerfed" this bow as well. Seriously, it's a bit overpowered if you ask me -- bone bolts but can hit over 19, and the bolts themselves are seriously cheap. But, gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

If this game were half logical, you would probably break your back every time you swung the Barrelchest Anchor around. Forget a second swing. Seriously, what good is realism in a MMO?

One question. Have you ever touched Java as a programming language? A controller has (at most) 24-36 buttons that can be pressed, and I'm talkin' those big old and archaic arcade-style joysticks. Xbox would probably have about thirty, if you counted each direction as an individual "button", I believe; don't hesitate to correct me if I'm wrong about this. A standard English/American keyboard has 105 characters, including at least one Super [Windows] button, a menu button, and the ever-venerable Scroll Lock. Even with its fewer keys or buttons (or hand-gestures), a modern controller would probably give four to ten times more input than your keyboard. Repetition, repetition, repetition. (Namely mashing that "fire" button...) Again, don't feel embarrassed to correct me on this; I'm not entirely sure of those numbers, but that's the way that I feel after playing Super Street Fighter 3: Third Strike on the Dreamcast for an hour... The pseudo-OSes that are run on all consoles actually are running applications, just not applications that we see on PCs very often. The reason for that would be that the programs that are designed to run on the PC aren't designed to run on a console. As for the OS, you only scratched the surface. The OS sits on top of all hardware, not just the hard disks, processors, and RAM. Also, each OS has to be slated or tested to run on that particular hardware form-factor (typically driven by processor; most common would be x86). To run Java, the hardware (Wii) and the software (Wii's OS) must be compatible with whatever Runtime Environment is available. You can run a browser on a cellphone, but that doesn't mean the cellphone can get you to playing RuneScape on it. You also don't quite understand what RAM does to a system. Since I don't have the time/patience to teach it tonight, I'll sum up: When your processor is not processing data, it's stored in RAM. When it's needed, it's called out of RAM, put through the processor, and (generally) put back; depending on the complexity of the program, even more data is placed in RAM than was taken out. Just to let you know, the only programs that I've heard of that have not run in RAM would probably be the BIOS, since that's its own chip; every other program (including OSes) requires RAM. Lastly, when it comes to consoles, anything outside of playing a video game that you get from the store is way beyond the scope of what they are meant for. ------ Study the field of Computer Science and Programming and let your knowledge expand beyond the basics, my friend.

Randox, I'll reply to you when I'm a lot less tired. As for right now... Internet Explorer? On something that doesn't even natively run Windows/has such little processor speed and RAM? Hell no. First, IE is native to Windows machines, it's only been modified to run on Mac OS X as far as I understand it. Second, the Wii uses Opera, which is a nice little lightweight browser which doesn't have near the popularity as Firefox, but is very nice for those that choose to use it. Third, and most important, the only obstacle that stands inbetween you playing RuneScape on the Wii is the minimalistic hardware. There is a Java Runtime Environment for devices as low-power as your cellphone, but that doesn't mean in the least that RuneScape could ever be played on them. That's the only obstacle that would need to be overcome, and it involves MUCH MORE than just the browser.

Figures. The only problem is that after one or two fights with the bosses your resources would be completely exhausted. No point in going for only three minutes to a boss that takes eight minutes to get to and not getting anything; much easier in my opinion to just do it in a team. By the by, dragon bolts don't work on the bosses...and it'd take a miracle for you to get me to take my Dark Bow down there at that thing's fire-rate.

I disagree that RuneScape needs level - 1000 monsters. My only question would be, what the hell is the point of fighting something that strong? The way I see it, RuneScape has plenty of boss monsters. Not all of them can be soloed by everyone (it took me LONG ENOUGH to get to Jad with decent equipment; like hell I'm going to take flowers there), and they offer the highest challenge we can get at our current skill levels. Think about it - at level 85 prayer, with Piety and Protect from Melee/Magic/Ranged, you're practically immune to most anything attacking you, and you're also "laying the Smackdown" on whatever you're attacking at the same time. Sure, if a boss can be soloed that entirely cheapens his strength, but I'll tell you right now that I can't even solo the KBD. (And I have 95 Attack/Strength and 94 Defense.) It's a bit more of a challenge for myself to do something like that, since anything that could be fought in solo that's over level 250, I usually take at least a friend with me. Besides, in roughly three weeks, that level - 1000 boss monster will become so easy to do with groups of five, then people will do it in groups of four, three, two, and finally solo it. There's always that will to do everything on your own, and believe you me there will be a way to find it out in the end. (By the way, I'd sure like to know how you can solo Commander Zilyana OR Kree'arra...)

does it fit in your sig thing? Legally it wouldn't, since Tip.it forum rules state that it can't be over 30KB. That's at least 60KB right there.

You do realize that 133MiB is bigger than 128MB Yeah, it's higher. However, you should also realize that 133MiB is the full extent of the Wii's hardware, including that which it uses for graphics, internal processes, etc. That's why I say it'll be difficult to port it in.

The debate between bots being good and bad is a two-edged sword. I'll spell it out for you, then reply to some of the quotes going around. First of all, bots are morally wrong. They go against the very rules we agreed to when we signed up, they interfere with legitimate players' activities, and they act as a drain on the entire society as a whole. We players are loathe to be in cohorts (or even on the same server) as one of them, and won't hesitate calling them all kinds of obscenities. I can even recall, on these very forums (and on the RSOF), someone developed a racial hatred towards the Chinese because of RuneScape. Bots are also wrong in the immediate logical sense that they invade our economy and begin to profit off of us; legitimate players that are buying some goods in the marketplace. They also belittle our own strides and efforts when we gather goods in large quantities, and begin to sell it. They intentionally undercut us and then we gain either little or no profit at all. They also have an effect on inflation and the amount of goods that are brought to market every day; I recall that Dragon bone prices fell to 1.5K each and have only now recovered. The good side about bots is that they actually provide a sense of anti-heroism to the economy. In the case of Green Dragonhide, that was always a pain to get and players seldom wanted to risk being PKer fodder. They fell dramatically below 1.3K to a point, but due to bans have risen yet again. They also give cause and alarm to Jagex to help improve the game's vaunted (and well-bragged about) security and anti-macro features. If it weren't for them, Jagex wouldn't have been able to provide the game with updates that hinder bots (and reward, sometimes, regular players). Now, around the horn. Stealing is also against the rules in society, but if your family had no food for the past six days, and this was the only way to get it (conviction, two years since you held a job that paid more than $6/hr), stealing would not be a bad thing to him in his eyes. Depends on how you see it, though. Tell me this: would several ten-thousands of legitimate players that sell sharks at a lower and lower price have just the same effect as the bots? Because according to you, they wouldn't; you rule out legitimate players lowering the price all on their own, out of hard work, and you say that bots and bots alone are killing the economy.

I'll be blunt here. If you can't put a simple dynamic signature together without making it go over 30KB, you don't need to be making one. Do you know what kind of bandwidth that thing will eat up eventually? By the by, 56KB is overdoing it; 80KB is just freaking insane.

In theory, you have the space, depending on how big the card is, but you don't have the operating system [OS] compatibility, which is the biggest and most difficult stumbling block out there, when it comes to programming languages. Java is different in the sense that all you need is its Runtime Environment, but even that RE has some hardware/OS limitations placed on it as well. An environment such as the Java Mobile Environment (JME) exists for handhelds or low-power computers, but my doubts lie with Jagex on that part -- it's extremely difficult to port something that's used to running in 128MB of ram to something that'll run 133MiB. [Yes, there is a difference.] Since I don't know what OS the Wii runs, I couldn't tell you if it would be even (remotely) possible that it could be ported. Only thing that remains to be seen is whether or not the Wii's OS itself could take such a program in the first place.

Considering the multi-platform and flexibility of Java as a programming language, I don't really see why it couldn't be ported (eventually) to the Wii. It'd be painful trying to play RuneScape there, but I guess if you want to, knock yourself out. Statistically speaking, the Wii is nothing more than a Power PC with ~733MHz processor speed and 152MiB* RAM, if you were able to use both the GDDR3 and SDRAM memory modules at the same time. That being said, with the minimum specs for RuneScape being what they are, it'd be a squeeze to run something like this game on there, although it could be done. Typically, new-generation consoles (including the PS3) are locked down to the point where data is not processed like a normal computer would process it. They're [more specifically, PS3 with it's cell processor] literally designed to crunch as much data as possible at one time instead of focusing on a GUI or supporting an OS or even running Flash or Java. By the way - most every browser supports Java, including the portable version of Firefox I have on my thumbdrive. Does this mean I get Java with it? Nope. Java has to be natively installed on the hardware itself (and that's the part that very few of you have managed to grasp). Perhaps you should read up more on what Java is and how it's expanding into our everyday lives ...? *: Mebibyte, or mega binary byte, roughly the equivalent of 2 ^ 20 bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes. Similar to, but not to be confused with, the Megabyte.

Greed consumes us all. At least you were honest until the very end; you were telling the truth, and nothing's wrong with that. You shouldn't keep things that people lose if they are, within reason, reachable and rational about the situation. You did the right thing; don't do something stupid and blow it all away. The game needs more good players. :?

How would that have made you any different from the person that went on about how much better he was at PvP? Honestly that kind of attitude is what I'd consider worse than someone who kept on talking about their combat level, or called me a noob or nerd. It'd have been nice to just ignore him. That's all that need be done with players of that caliber.

Short answer: yes. Long answer: Since the stocks in the stores remains both constant (infinite) and therefore the prices cannot fall (I believe 376 each), players will seek the cheap route rather than the quick fix. It also may be 66-76gp difference between the two, but when you're alching 5,000 or more bows or anything, that could be enough to break even (especially with those yew prices being what they are). So I don't think that nature crafting will stop being profitable. It's just up to the select few whether or not they want immediate (and expensive) gratification as opposed to the patient yet profitable route.

Considering that's about 90gp more than a monkfish for 2 less hits healed, and 540gp less than a shark for two more hits healed, I still believe that it's a very fine training food indeed for that price.

Either way you're going to have to work to get this 99; it's not something that you can really buy, like Smithing or Firemaking or even Ranged [Chinchompas]. Only the people who really want to get 99 fishing will get it. Infinite feathers only made it easier for them.