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Define 'soon'. After six years they will definitely be worth hundreds of millions. Especially if official RWT is introduced. An unobtainable item can't really crash without the economy crashing. Got myself 2 masks from 75 spins. Not going to sell them in the near future. We shall see what will the price be 3 years later!

Yes, I tried doing that (along with rushing c6 smalls on early floors) and the difference is clear as day. Thanks for dg help everyone.

Ahem. Yelp is the ultimate parasite, transforming the reality (virtuality) around him at an alarming rate. In time, the game developers will be forced to change the name of the game to "YelpScape" or "SquealScape" or "Yelp's World", since Yelp corrupts everything around it. They shouldn't have introduced it into the game, and now it's too late to take it out, because it is gaining power. Eventually, removing Yelp/Squeal will not be possible, since it will be the only thing in the game. (don't take this seriously)

Typically I only make runes when absolutely necessary (that may be the reason of slowness) and yeh, I use both gatestones, having spare cosmics and laws in my inv all time.

hopefully = would be great, but usually you can't have it all, so no big deal some = can be highly sub-par to decent XP/time methods About dung: I have done 1 large floor in total. That was pre all the dung updates (shortly after release). Yes, so far I haven't soloed a C6 med faster than 30 minutes. I don't WC, but I do fish since the XP is amazingly fast. On the other hand, I never take more than 25 mins to duo a C6 med (with a similarly experienced person)*. I know it is bad and coupled with my low dung level (< 80) I will not make a good member of a regular dung clan/fc. * - That increase in speed is directly related to the guardian door room clearing speed. With my stats, zerker lvl 5 I still take very long to kill mobs (many misses), even though I handpick the best style (from slash/crush) and use best magic on forg warriors or weak bosses.

I know how to make money on the side. That's why I'm asking for dedicated moneymaking schemes, hopefully with some XP on the side. Slaying - non-powerslaying is just horrible. Horrible combat XP, horrible slayer XP and horrible money. Bossing - you haven't looked at my stats. You can't kill bosses (except for Giant Mole perhaps) with these stats. I do not like to spend money while hoping for a lucky drop - that is gambling.

I thought specifying RSN in the profile is enough, but now I updated the first post with them. Ahem. MtK is a completely passive MM activity, I was looking for suggestions on doing something in addition. Profitable dailies? Generally I only do JoT (free xp), staves (combination of crafting & magic xp AND some cash) and wicked set blood crafting. Sand if I am passing by Yanille. I still remember the times when I was doing it all, that is farming runs, flax, shops (feathers, runes), seaweed, pineapples, bork and others. However, then I noticed they take a lot of time, but I am getting horrible xp/time and gp/time. Roughly speaking, GP earned off 30 dailies wouldn't even add up to (return - investment) of MtK per 1 month (a.k.a. time waste).

Dungeoneering: I have maxed prestige (37) for my level (73), bound prom 2h and SSH. I tried doing as many people suggest: rushing low floors and doing c6 meds since Abandoned floors, but I find it awful, since I am getting extremely low XP (tokens). 0 deaths, of course. Typical c1 rush ends in 2-5 minutes and yields 500 tokens max (for latest floors), earlier ones give horrible xp, like 200-400 per floor. A c6 med I can do in 30-60 minutes (typically ~40) and it yields around 7-8k XP max. Unfortunately, occult floors contain bosses that are nearly impossible to kill without one death (C6) and thus get [nearly] worse than earlier ones. The question is, should I dung with randoms and just how hard is to find a party? From what I tried, even in a duo you get XP at least 1.5 times faster (if the person doesn't quit immediately or AFKs the whole time). However, I never find people who would want to party AND would not try to purely leech. Money making: My combat skill levels are too low for any MM bosses (combat 121), so that's out of question. As I understand, the most viable way for me would be green dragons so: What's better, to KS bots or to actually kill dragons in an uncrowded/empty world? Bear in mind that I would use Neitz + fury + torags plate/legs + c10 gloves + dragon boots + zerker + whip + anti-dfs, so that means I would be less accurate and have less overall DPS than a generic 95-110 level hunter/bot (typically they successfully ks me).

RuneScape Name: afk5min

With current settings, no lower than 45 fps wherever I am at. At maxed I would have 30+, but with random spikes (that unfortunately occur both in empty closed areas as well as large open areas swarmed with players) that usually drop to ~15 FPS, but sometimes <10 (including closed empty areas). Because of these spikes, I never play on maxed since it makes the game feel very unresponsive (even though it only happens every once in a while), sluggish and acting like I clicked the mouse around 300 pixels to the right even though the mouse wasn't even moved/moving 5 seconds before the spike happened.

RuneScape engine tick needs to change, because having a 600ms tick is unacceptable. And having better combat while keeping the 600ms tick will not make anything more competitive. Also, they are seriously going to destroy PvE with this update. Just saying you will regret it.

Yes, the "new, better combat system" made me drop all activities in RS and run afk-train combat. As I understand, they want to completely destroy PvE and boss hunting in favour of hopefully more balanced PvP? How are we going to train combat, if PvE is *ed up after this update? (including non-afk) The boosts to magic vs melee... I really hope this doesn't mean that whoever has the most gp in bank wins it all.

NFC

Regardless of everyone's suggestions, there is no way to combat DDoS. Sure, you can have a router the prevents known special types of attacks or which would ignore ICMP, but days of handcrafted exploits are long gone. Yes, that's what I said. No more handcrafted exploits. No way you can protect your IP. The typical DDoS attack nowadays (and yes, DDoSing is something that a 6 year old could easily manage to pull off) is.... Sending perfectly valid packets to exhaust your bandwidth. That's right. VALID packets. Not some packets that contain fake/null header info. Relatively small packets, not maxed payload. If we had a DoS, then you could either call your ISP and ask to filter off the DoSers packets, as they originate from a single IP and the ISP can easily validate the excessive volume of incoming packets. You could also mail a complaint at abuse@attackersISP, but typically THAT DOESN'T WORK. However, a typical failmaster will have 20+ (most likely a few hundreds) bots of various capabilities. So you are getting a large volume of packets from many hosts. Yeah, you can configure your router just to drop all those packets, but if they send faster than you can receive, nothing will change. You will be dropping all (with rare exceptions that manage to reach you from RS or other normal services) packets you receive and that's it. Yes. That's it. You will not be able to play/browse the internet/whatever. tl;dr Create an account noone knows about for staking.

http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/The_Runespan (Available since the update) Here's what seems to be (arguably) the best choices. For most XP, it's calls > (shifter+)* nodes > highest creature > nodes > lower creatures; runesphere takes too much time to locate, plus, moving away is not recommended (camping your highest creature is best). For most points, it's highest creature > lower creatures > nodes. Explanation: Wizard finding takes little time and the XP reward is significant. Calls happen at most once per 5 minutes, so you can camp all the time. Nodes give larger chunks of XP per rune and last longer than creatures, but they only consume essence (creatures give you essence on death), so you are sacrificing points. * - some also include nebula and chaotic cloud.

Well, my laptop is unaffected, but my old computer is: a year ago I could use it to play FoG on maxed details, now even with everything min and CPU maximum the fps is 4-6. However, my main problems with RS are: 1. Extremely small world regions (try to run along the road - a few seconds and a "Loading... please wait", because you've ran through the whole region and an adjacent must be loaded + the previous unloaded. However, after getting information from a trusted source that JaGeX is deliberately keeping this type of grid and will not even consider preloading adjacent cells, not to mention increasing region size, I gave up on this. Luckily, the problem is [nearly] solved by adding teleport destinations to every other cell vast amount of locations and generally moving quests and minigames "indoors". 2. FPS spikes. The worst thing is, they have no apparent reason and were present as long as RS2 is around. It happens on every computer I have access to (this includes tens of computers I do not own), regardless of their age, vendor or performance. For a very long time, I (along with many others) believed that the nature of these constant FPS spikes was related to automated heap management (garbage collection). Recently I've investigated this issue in depth and to my dismay, this is completely not the case. During these constant spikes heap memory is neither allocated nor GCed (less than 10KB allocated / second). You can observe changes ~50MB/s after a Soul Wars game in world 45. There is one thing I have found out that's useful: due to the nature of the graphics engine, many short-lived objects are generated, which results in garbage collections even if the heap is far from full, therefore aside from increasing maximum heap size, eden (new generation) size should be set significantly larger. This results in fewer collections. By the way, the fps spikes are ~30 FPS drops every few seconds; generally they only affect outdoor areas (so the ground floor of Gielinor) and are most frequent if you do not stay ONLINE in the same world region (see #1) for more than 30 minutes.

Affected page: http://www.tip.it/runescape/index.php?rs2item_id=7530 It's obvious that this description dates before the hitpoints->constitution update. The description should match that of the full slayer helmet: http://www.tip.it/runescape/index.php?rs2item_id=9074

Also, we have red chin bots. In those few worlds where each part of each spot isn't infested with several bots, here's what they do: Lay all traps in a line Dismantle + setup NOTE: modern versions of this bot will not lose traps, sadly. So you just start an area of fires and maintain it. Each and every hunter will then stand still in the fire, unable to place the trap. It will not move to a free spot. Do you surely think it's a player? In more infested worlds, they will be placing traps wherever possible. However, if you time to light a fire just in time, they will lose a box trap and never pick it up. They have full inventories of traps, but if you exhaust them, they will stand and do nothing (there are bots with lunar that use the kit spell, those are harder to push off). Obvious bot is obvious. Just I've never seen any of them get banned (even though I made reports day after day). My theory is that member bots are classified as "courageous" and are not banned while they provide cash flow. On the other hand, 6mo/12mo prepaid time may get them banned instantly.

How early is early AM? Do you mean 0-1 AM GMT (let's assume that DST is automatically applied, so GMT is GMT+1 at the moment), then.. perhaps. I usually come TO WORLD 6 at around 7-10 AM GMT+2 (+3 due to DST) and the BA is completely deserted. On the other hand, if I come around 9 PM GMT+2 (7 PM GMT), there is usually something going around, with up to four teams being formed @ wave 1 (additional teams already in).

wow i expected 15-20 at least Getting a fighter torso takes 3-4 hours at most, and that's 4*375 points iirc. You need 1400 total points to get level 5 I believe, so that's a little less, and they can be all attacker points which are fast and easy to collect. So 3 hours would be the most, if you were a pro with a pro team you may be able to do it in 2 or less :). Wait, this doesn't make sense... W6 (not to mention other "dedicated" worlds) barbarian assault is deserted nowadays: you need luck to get a team in wave 1 (no luck will help you in higher waves if someone drops out).

@ 1st article: I doubt we are talking about self-induced bankruptcy. It's more of making money through obviously (as the author pointed out) highly sought after methods. Now you do not need time to waste while botting or having someone else to level up your character (myriads of "players" did this openly), you can buy stuff directly. That's how you solve someone's problems and get money out of them. @2nd article: Long gone are the times I could train a skill that is extremely low xp and impossible to afk *cough*agility*cough*. I am impressed that in the past, I wasted so much time on that useless skill... I could have my combat stats @ 99 now, which would be ten (or more) times better to have. Anyway. When I came back to RS recently, I felt exactly as the author. Most people are maxed either from the past or botted (not necessarily their main character; earned money through bots that are alts), so the options for a lowbie like me are all bad. So now I just take my time and do something that I feel like doing (new TT caught my attention). Also, I hate the new quests, since the monster/boss NPCs are definitely not balanced properly. Just giving them high LP, high accuracy and max hit along with ability to ignore player's prayers (incl. stat boosters) does not make the quest tough. It makes it... annoying. That's why I don't see myself doing those new quests, even though I had met their requirements ages before they were released.

Affected page: http://www.tip.it/runescape/?weekly_locations#penguins The Canifis and Mort Myre penguins have "completed Priest in Peril quest" as a requirement, however "In other news" (http://services.runescape.com/m=news/a=135/morytania-tasks):

This update introduced RWT combined with gambling to RuneScape, both of which are were declared "against the spirit of the game" by JaGeX (dicing?). Way to go, this explains why myriads of bots are everywhere to behold (you can get tired reporting bots that act like 100% bots nowadays) - the rules are being "changed" to better reflect on the current situation - a dead game where you either cheat or can gtfo.

Completely wrong. You must be forgetting that current RS client applet is coded by JaGeX themselves (and not some 3rd party). Or perhaps you forgot that the unsigned applet is no longer available? With a signed applet (regardless if it's CA or self-signed), you can do everything, including native OS kernel calls (CreateProcess/CreateResource & co.). Back to the topic: the hardware (MAC) address cannot be obtained from a remote network, but since the client applet runs on the target computer... You get the idea. More details can be found in NetworkInterface. Completely right. Unfortunately, getting a new MAC address on a NIC (regardless of it's type) takes maximum of a few minutes (in a case when you don't know how to do it and don't have any software at hand).

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