Mayjest

Erm, I have a vague recollection of when the cat-speak amulet came out... didn't Bob claim to be Zaros?

After my long absence from the game I was unaware of the latest PKing techniques. While I was at the Green Dragons a Pker came and attacked me, I have plenty of food left so I thought I'd tease him a little before tele-ing out. He gets me down to around 24 HP and whips out a DDS (the 's' aspect of it was completely unknown to me at the time, I left before the new poisons). I have never clicked on the ectophial so fast. Got a hilarious PM message from him afterwards. He seemed to think he deserved my anti-drag shield and a load of hides and lobsters simply because I just stood there and took the damage... muppet.

Best bet it to wait a while until everyone stops coming here then spend your time looking for them. Or get a small team together, if they spot one you're after, get them to message you.

Anyone managed to get exp figures? I think an Eclectic Impling is worth 17 hunter exp. I think.

Said in the style of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, merely for my own amusement... Oh my god... get a freaking life will you!? I LOVE it when some gay little punk who has absolutely no understanding of economics decides to call someone else "cheap" and that they "don't deserve" updates F2p makes enough money from adds to pay for ALL servers... YES little kiddy that includes your oh so precious p2p server... They could run runescape off f2p alone... the wonderful p2p is for profit only... OBJECTION! Jagex have said multiple times if you look for it (I believe most recently in the Development Diaries, it might be the one that released before it should have been, I forget) that F2P breaks even. Ads make enough money to pay for the servers, and maybe one or two customer support people (if they're lucky). And that's it. A few years ago Andrew mentioned that they looked at paying some other company to look after F2P because they couldn't be bothered with it any more, but decided against it because there'd be absolutely no profit in it for the other company. In summary: Jagex doesn't make a loss on F2P. Nor does it make any money. it breaks even. Anyone saying that members is there purely for profit obviously has no idea of the costs involved in running a 150+ staffed company. xpx was out of line when he said that F2Pers were cheap little kids. But he was right when he said they don't deserve any updates either. A player who stays 'F2P for life' contributes absolutely nothing to Jagex and thus will gain nothing from them. As for the implication that because "F2Pers are hard working gamers who enjoy the game even if they don't get all the items they could" and that they deserve updates because "They aren't bad kids"... To put it bluntly - Jagex run a business, not a charity. F2P makes them no money. To get money, they want you to pay for members. If you will not pay for members, they will get no money from you and thus they couldn't care less about. It's heartless, but welcome to business world. Yay for evil capitalism!

The last one is gelatin isn't that also an explosive? hate to eat that :shock: I'm pretty sure glycerin is the explosive. Not gelatin. If gelatin exploded... The world would end. Gelatin is the stuff that makes jelly, well, jelly. And it makes most chewy sweets (Haribo and such). Glycerin is a component in an explosive, but it not explosive by itself (other ingredients are commonly found in soaps and pencil lead, and they're not explosive, are they?). Gelatte I have never heard of (is it a type of Starbucks coffee or something?), but Gillette is a brand of shaving foam.

Student loan all the way! Oh, you mean in RuneScape? Huh, probably whatever skill I happen to be training at the time. They all make money eventually.

I have most likely been reported for something stupid, but I never pay attention when someone says 'reported'. If I've been doing something wrong, I doubt telling me I got reported would scare me. If I've been innocent (which has always been the case) then I have nothing to worry about and I just laugh.

Any of the one's that appear after Tears of Guthix... mine is pretty much always "You feel homesick" - I haven't spent a penny on Construction since level 40 and I'm 51 now (I think... maybe 52).

You mean people actually spend time crafting those runes? Huh, I've never needed to craft fires. Air's occasionally, but never fires. Unless I wanted fast Runecrafting exp and had several Rings of Duelling wasting in my bank.

This is and has always been useful when fighting monsters, and most experienced players try and take advantage when meleeing. It's not always possible however. In PvP it's a bit more difficult. There's no way to actively predict what a random opponent in the wilderness will be wearing and so you'd have to bring along several different weapons and two or three types of armour. You've now got less food, and suddenly you lose a lot more if you die. Not really worth it for the wilderness. Might work in Duel Arena, I rarely go there and can't comment.

Yeah, but Cook's Assistant was finished for a great many years, and then RFD came out... Just because it seems completed now doesn't mean it will be in the future!

Hehe, you wouldn't call a carrot Jasper... Jasper Carrot would be a british comedian. I'm I the only one who got that joke?

Mars has moons? :shock: Huh, go figure. Learn something new everyday I guess. Good post though. I'm worried you may be taking this game a little too seriously, but I'm impressed. Decent calculations and you made an attempt to actually think, which not many on these forums do. As for Gleinor (or however it's spelt) being a planet... it's a nice idea, but I doubt. Each time new land is added for an update it's more of an 'ad hoc' nature rather than seriously considered as if it was a planet. I think they just add stuff when they need it, cold stuff in the north, hot stuff in the south...

Are we allowed to bump on this forum? Anyway, I don't go anywhere when noobs are about because I've genuinely yet to see one. I've seen autoers, level 3 skillers, but I've seen no one just hanging around asking for free stuff. Possibly because I mostly spend time in places that need a bit of work to get there...

Well, it depends on if you use a guide on it I suppose. I personally use 'semi-guides'. I check what items are needed and gather them in advance to save time and work out if there's some boss monster I need to prepare for. The rest I do myself. So I'd say that solving the puzzles and actually doing the quest is the hardest part, even though I have a vague idea of what's gonna happen.

I honestly did a little happy dance when I heard about the right click option for Entrana.

Soooo by that you mean an impossible task when it's first released, but in 6 months time, 6 guides will have been released and every level 80 and his mother will have done it?

I believe it is possible with the DS, although I don't own the web browser software, so I cannot be sure. It is not possible with the Wii, as the browser does not support Java. And the keyboard wouldn't be possible (the OSK only comes up when you click on a box that would need one. As the RS client is all within one 'box' it wouldn't pick up the differences between the text section and the rest of it). That said, it's still possible they're release an update that does allow Java. Sorry if this has all been posted before, but I know nothing about the 360's browser capabilities and thus spoke about the only thing I know.

It has already been posted... I believe in a thread that looked similar to this one...

[hide=Reply to Guide debate] Ok. Yes, Jagex sold the rights to an official guide to Scholastic. They sold out to a children's author. Big Whoop. However, in the process of selling out, they lost control over what Scholastic puts in said book, and whom it was marketed to. Although it does not say it explicitly, the letter certainly implies that Scholastic got the rights, THEN hired the children's author. And although a large part of Scholastic's stuff is 'real' children's books (i.e. Spot the Dog et al), a large part (indeed, the major part) is designed for older readers - you can hardly call Harry Potter, with many characters deaths, depictions of torture and other horrors as a true children's book in any sense of the word. I'd hazard a guess that Scholastic played the 'teenage' card when they acquired the rights. You can hardly say that the Runescape Guide is a major profit earner for the company anyway. And it's very unlikely that teenagers (the games intended market) would buy the book. So Scholastic lowered the age in order to gain more sales - gullible parents buying a book for 'darling Jonny and his cute game' are far more attractive to the wallets than teenagers who want to look cool on the outside but are happy to play games when no one's looking. I am not willing to say that Jagex specified 'we want a book designed for 6 year olds and up so that we can get them to play without actively marketing to them, so we can still say it's designed for 13 and up'. I am willing to concede that Jagex sold out to a children's author - but one who doesn't market exlusively to under 13s. You could say that most of their profit comes from over 13s, and a sizeable chunk from adults. I reckon Jagex sold the rights to a guide, expecting that it would be for teenagers and not paying attention after that, while Scholastic didn't pay attention at the beginning and bought the rights to a guide expecting it would be for children. And as much as you may not want to admit it, not paying attention happens a lot in business. [/hide] As the article itself, I believe I commented on this ages ago, but I don't remember what I said. What I will say now is that this Charles M. Kozierok has either deliberately hunted through looking for all the bad parts and exaggerating them or did not play the game himself. It honestly sounds like he got a bunch of complaining emails about the game and wrote the article merely from that. Users are being too insulting to each other? That's what the filter and the report button are for. If the users are getting insulted by the word 'gaye' (which last I checked was a blokes surname) then they're probably too young to be playing the game. Users are young and vulnerable to abuse? They shouldn't be playing the game then. What ever some may claim about Jagex's marketing tactics, you have to be 13 to play the game - younger and you're breaking the rules. My favourite one - Jagex sets no limits to how long you can play for! If you're over 18, you can set the limits youself. If you're 13-18, you're parents can and should set the limits (mine did even when I was 19. Although that was more for internet use in general because we couldn't afford the download bill I was racking up... thank God I've moved out now. Unlimited broadband!) If you're under 13, you shouldn't be playing anyway, so no time limit needed. I also love how the article pins the blame on Jagex for the scam websites out there than sell fake gold. You know, the ones that claim you can buy RS gold but then don't give it to you. Like those are Jagex's fault. It like blaming Madeline's parents for all the fake sites out there claiming that giving to their site is giving to the save maddie fund. I don't think we can deny than RS has problems. But blowing them up so such ludicrous proportions is just gonna do more harm than good. Oh, and a tip I learned a few years ago when I was researching stuff to build my old PC - never trust ANYTHING from Tom's Hardware. Ever. Edit: oh here's the best part. Right in the middle of the articles speech about addictiveness, the word game is highlighted. What happens when you roll your mouse over it? A little speech bubble pops up with "Search for: addicting games, fun games, games." Well, I followed the 'addicting games' link and not a one of them is RuneScape. There are evidently a lot more addicting games out there on the internet, RS didn't even rate in addictinggames.com's top 10! I couldn't even find it in the list! Kids could be doing far worse than RuneScape, it seems...

I think we can agree that, with the benefit of hindsight, some of what the chaos elemental has said has 'come true', and thus we can infer that the Postbag could have some hints in it. I'd first like to point out that this is the first ludicrously obvious hint, and as such I think it's more of a red herring than anything - if there is a hint in this post bag, it's not gonna be obvious. This does not necessarily mean that we will see the release of the dragonkin any time soon. Jagex has a habit of telling us that they will do something and then either not doing or taking their sweet time over it. This is for many reasons. They range from "Huh, we forgot we said that." to "Yeah, the programmer who was developing that kinda slept with Andrew and Paul's sister, so he's fired now."* The only news items from Jagex you can use as actual predictions are the Behind the Scenes, otherwise the only way to reveal that the Chaos elemental predicted something is to use hindsight, which is always 20/20. *May not actually have happened, but if Andrew and Paul have a sister, Jagex is a big company with office Christmas parties... you never know what might have happened...

YEAH well i heard free to play wasnt going to be updated anymore either =; Technically it was members that was updated, F2P kinda piggybacked along for the graphical ride.

I assume it's just like a regular lamp, as it didn't look anything special to me. I just put everything on herblaw. It may restrict you in the usual ways - no herblaw without druidic ritual, etc.

Did you talk to him again about another quest. I did a bunch and then he asked about me showing him the book for the What Lies Below quest. I retalked to him and then i mentioned one extra quest I didnt before and also handed over the book and got another lamp. I've talked to him like three times and all I get is a major hint that I should do some quests. Maybe I'll finally get around to doing Regicide...