Yoko Kurama

Gingy, your comparison is somewhat off-base. No one, not even players who hate certain updates are suggesting that Jagex pop out a new server after every unpopular update. EoC, much like RS2, is an exception to the standard list of updates, it's an extremely major update. They can't be compared to standard ones. I don't actually want it for myself, I think it should be there, for historical purposes, like RSC.

Yes, you will eventually have to do that anyways.

With regards to the second article, about separate worlds, I should say that I'm not *entirely* opposed to the idea, and I really liked the idea of Jagex preserving RSC(1-2 servers for pre-eoc couldn't be too bad, even if I have no interest in joining them), or a different model, like say how the PvP worlds used to be. I am open to some of these ideas. Regardless, it's all fantasy, as Jagex has not given even the slightest of indications that they are even considering giving us separate servers(despite their obviously fake tease a few days ago).

On the contrary, initially, Jagex adamantly insisted that the SOF was not gambling because "you won something every time!". Indeed, here's the nonsensical and completely douchey response they gave:

It's better to leave in that case, in my view. If I lost my account, there's no way in hell I would even contemplate working my way back to what I have now. It's inconceivable.

4 Oxheads, is that not excessive?

So, what are the optimal Pincers crew looking like?

My statement about them failing to keep their word was in general (PoP, EoC etc.), rather than that particular instance. I was simply suggesting that if they raised all skills to 120, I'd simply quit, like the poster above me. As for whether that would constitute them breaking their word on this particular issue, I'm inclined to agree with you, I suppose.

My view, too, is the same. And I have also been playing for roughly just as long. I also agree on the bit about them utterly failing to keep their word.

Is that only for Pincers storyline missions, or special adventurers missions too? I am on Pincers and one of the Special Voyages was the Whaler for 5 plates.

Failed 2 Adventurer's missions today. One for the biologist(Bowl Storyline mission) that was at 85%. The other a missionary resource mission for steel at 95%, total bullshit.

I don't understand why farming randoms was so awful, they were so rare as it were. And if they were really concerned about, why wait for so long to do something about? There's nothing more annoying than the sheer laziness that Jagex displays with regards to stuff like this. They make a feature that they later considered overpowered, but they don't do anything to fix it until dozens of people have had plenty of time to exploit it. They should at least remove the holding cap, which is inexcusable.

So apparently Mod Edam has admitted that PoP won't be getting the set effects that they had initially told us they would be getting. What nonsense. I suspected as much, if they were really sincere about it, why wouldn't they have given it an effect the same time as Nex(after all, they managed to changed the graphics)? Apparently for some inexplicable reason, they seem to want to keep Nex armours the best, no matter what, defying, completely the spirit of the EoC.

I made a general comment on your claim about the need for defense, not 'uber max defense'. Pre-Eoc, it was very much important to have the best defense you could possibly have for higher level bossing, now, it's not the case. I agreed with that portion of your post. I was responding to a specific claim made by you, not to the OP. I'm not sure what you're prattling on about.

This not entirely true. While it's true that you can't Void everything as you once could(largely due to them nerfing Void), Defense has diminishing returns, For instance, if you are hunting fairly high level bosses, you can't run around in Void as effectively as you could, since it has the defensive statistics of Mithril armour or something. However, with level 70 Gear(Barrows/Gwars) you can defend yourself almost as well as level 80/85 armour. Level 80/85 armour obviously has much more defense because of the exponential curve, but you really don't need that much defense for most things (including bosses), it's very much overkill.

Apparently you didn't get the memo, Deacon; spending countless hours, day after day, month after month, year after year, playing an online video game is amongst the loftiest human achievements one can aspire to. Before the usual gang commence with their typical tirades, though I disagree, I can understand why people might admire someone like Suomi in the context of RS. However, to insist that his "achievements" are "boldly expanding the horizons of human achievement" is outright delusional and sycophantic thinking. That's the sort of thing that should be propagated by Suomi's PR team/manager(if he ever chooses to get any), not someone writing for the Tip.It Times.

I thought the article on construction was a rather enjoyable read. I found the infatuated fawning over Suomi by The Floating Pen to be nauseating, but then that's nothing new. His continued insistence throughout the article that there is something immensely wondrous about anticipated 5b achievement, and that those of us who happen to disagree with this (for all sorts of reasons) are somehow "malevolent" and jealous was completely unconvincing, irritating and the sort of response one might expect from a devout follower when someone had dared to blaspheme against their God.

I wasn't too fond of merchanting every mission, but at the suggestion of various people I did finally get back to two Jade Merchants. Usually I get from 90-95% to 80%, I fail a lot more missions, and just today I lost my second crew mate ever(a Jade Merchant on a 80% mission, fortunately I was instantly able to replace it). I mean obviously you want the merchants on the trade good missions, but I am not convinced that they do really all that good on standard missions. It's true that statistically they will yield more rewards, but only over a very long series of trials(voyages) will it all balance out.

Sometimes when my friends try to convince me to join RS2006, I jokingly say "I was there the first time, it wasn't that fun." What I really mean to say is, it was fun for its time, but I can't imagine playing it in 2013. It would make a mockery of itself: 2006 just ain't coming back.

Agreed, Jagex are masters of this. They do this all the time, where they basically pacify us into submission by alluding to all sorts of false promises. It's rather irritating.

Dozens of people I know tried to convince me to join RS2006 with them. I declined each time. People need to understand that the particular epoch that was RS in 2006 has gone and it can't simply be replicated.

Can anyone explain to me where this obsession with Port Scores has arisen from? I don't mean in this thread, but everyone, in general, seems to b overly concerned with them. Aside from titles, aren't they useless?

Does the switching back freely also apply to icons?

Though I have the gloves unlocked, I find the fact they no longer have specials and require replacement every 4 hours to be majorly distracting. With the addition of these new gloves, which *may* be as affordable as Glacor boots are in addition to also being non-degradeable, I think they will safely replace Dom Gloves assuming those conditions are met.

I'll be mainly sticking around for the Quest. Hopefully it isn't a case of false expectations like BoE was. A few thoughts: --I hope the 800k XP is in skills of my choosing, rather than useless combat XP. --Why make the Dominion Tower Gloves even more obsolete than they already are? --Why couldn't they start with the Quest, instead of that other stuff? I don't want to wait!