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Well you asked me personally so I answered you personally. But there are other people who may have other legitimate reasons for not wanting to be messaged by random players as well. As one of many examples.. do you have *any* idea what it is like to play as a girl/woman in this game? I changed my sex once briefly to check it out and man, I would *never* have private chat open publicly if I were female. The bottom line is how I concluded my prior message: not everything is as simple as it may appear. I use public chat for this, which I *usually* have on, unless I'm in a place with a high concentration of morons like Catherby. But even this is a reason not to keep private chat open to everyone. Because a large percentage of the time that you help someone with something using public chat, they then start sending you PMs expecting you to be their personal manservant, or worse, their friend for life. As Turnipsi2 implied.. I would definitely help a stranger on the street with directions. But I wouldn't give him my home phone number!

Could be on F2P, but for members, ranging is a joke in Daemonheim.

Ranging is the most underpowered skill in Dun. It should be avoided except for bosses that really require it. And there, a longbow is much better because of a vastly higher ranged attack bonus.

Sorry, hope I didn't step on any toes by posting that link. I just didn't think it would be a good idea to paste it all here since it is long. PS There are 35 floors atm, so that's the maximum atm.

This will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about prestige. :)

The kewlist thing about the Off-topic forum on this board is that every time you see something really idiotic and think "wow, nobody could *possibly* post anything more ignorant than that!" -- you're wrong. It's like real-life confirmation of Einstein's quote.

Am I the only one who is finding large maps unplayable in Dungeoneering since this update? Even with the lowest possible settings, every door open and every movement in the boss room leads to 5+ seconds of "Please wait..." lag. It's deadly.

You asked nicely enough, so the least I can do is answer. I think part of the problem here is that you don't seem to be able to recognize or accept that people can be very different, in terms of not just personality, but how they use a game like RS. So consider the following. 1. I run an RS fan site. My name is fairly high profile, and I end on a lot of friends lists. So sometimes I log in and get multiple people I don't know messaging me. Sometimes this happens when I have logged in literally for 30 seconds just to check a stat or look at something in my bank, because I'm in the middle of writing something up. It would be MORE rude for me to ignore messages coming in when I don't have time to respond properly, than to just continue to appear offline, which I basically am. 2. Ever looked at my Beastopedia? It contains hundreds of hours of drop logs and timed tests. I can't do timed tests while people are messaging me. Friends understand this; strangers do not. 3. Lately I've been doing a lot of Dungeoneering. Public chat, again, means I often end up being rude to people because I just don't have time to respond to them. It would be even ruder to my teammates to ignore them while I am chatting. 4. I am not looking to make new friends via random PM conversations. Sorry if that sounds conceited, but I meet enough people here and via my site and my dealings with other RS groups. I rarely find anyone via random online encounter with whom I have any basis for a long-term friendship. 5. I'm guessing you're pretty young. Maybe I'm wrong, but that would be my guess. I'm not. I have a wife and kids and a house and chores and dinner to make and shopping to do and maintenance work and lawn mowing and errands and picking up this one and dropping off that one -- and sometimes in the evening, or early morning, I just want an hour or two of peace and quiet. I don't get that when random people are messaging me. I then feel annoyed, and risk taking it out on someone who doesn't deserve it. Not everything is as simple as it may seem.

What kind of computer is it? Many laptops have S-video out ports and all you need is a passive cable.

Teaming is generally about double the speed of soloing... but it's not everyone's cup of tea.

I understand the point of the thread. I just think you are blaming the tools instead of the people who misuse them. Cell phones are incredibly useful devices. In fact, so useful that people don't even pay attention to just how important they are. They can be literally life-saving. And while you are focusing on how they tie people down, I wonder if you've forgotten how much they free people as well. I just don't see this horrible reliance that you're speaking of. I think people use phones a lot because they like using them a lot. Sorry. :)

I'm not distressed at all, actually. I have been and will continue to do what I want. Your opinions on it are more amusing than distressing. I like being PMed by friends. It's random people I sometimes don't want to be PMed by. People like, well, you.

Mahogany, and has been ever since those special logs were introduced.

That's simply habit, and habits can be broken. If they are used to always being able to reach you, then they'll be concerned if they can't. If you stop being reachable all the time, they'll get used to that as well. I had a cell phone when they were quite novel.. I think it was around 1989. It was one of those big beasties with a rubber knobby antenna. It took only a few weeks before people started expecting to be able to reach me on it.. and only a few weeks after I got rid of the phone for them to stop. The problem here isn't the cell phone, it is that you care if people think you're a "freak". You can't simultaneously complain about societal norms and then force yourself to adhere to them in order to fit in. It's all habit and expectation. Make a stand and stick to it.

But you're "begging the question" here. You're starting with an assumption that people are "expected" to carry cell phones and asking if this is a good idea or not, when it's simply NOT TRUE that anyone is "expected" to carry anything.

Why is this any concern of yours? There is a spectrum from people who are online all the time to those who never use anything electronic. I think you are exaggerating, or you hang in a rather strange crowd. So what?

This entire thread is based on false assumptions and generalizations. Some people may feel obligated to carry a cell phone at all times. Many others do not. My wife and I have one cell phone that we share, and we use it so little that it's on a 25c/minute prepaid plan. We mostly use it only when one is out and needs to contact the other. People who feel tied to a cell phone get that way because they buy into bogus societal dictates that insist that their time is the province of anyone who wants to take it. I don't. There's nothing wrong with cell phones. You just have to use them intelligently.

You seem to have a disturbing inability to differentiate between "fear" and "dislike". I am not afraid of being PMed. I just sometimes don't like being PMed. Do you really not get the difference? Well, that's your choice. And good on ya for it. As I said already, I sometimes put my private on "all". And sometimes I don't. It is based on how *I* want to communicate, because it is my chat and my decision how to use it. And what do you expect me to do with this information? Do you really think I care if a rude and selfish person considers me rude and selfish simply for wanting to be left alone? Goodness, that makes little sense. The more you bluster and froth at the mouth about this, the more you confirm in the minds of those who prefer being left alone that they made the right decision. Then look in the mirror, bub, because that's what you are doing. Except that you have no reasonable basis for deciding how I communicate, whereas, I do.

And I support turning chat OFF when you dont want to use it. This topic is about dependancy on an object of technology. The other topic is about un-necessarily limiting your interaction with strangers in an online gaming community. The two threads are different. I'm sorry that you feel the need to draw illogical parallels just to validate your view. Actually, the two threads are nearly identical. People turn chat off for the same reason they turn phones off: they don't want to be disturbed. People turn chat to friends for the same reason they use caller ID: they want to choose only to be disturbed by people they know and trust. Caller ID exists for a reason. The same reason why the "Friends" setting exists in chat. :) Just two different forms of communication. And in both cases, it's important to always be in control of the means of communication, not let the means of communication control you. That of course doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the technology. There are just people who don't know how to use it properly.

There are adapters that can convert the yellow/white/red RGA auxiliary plugs on a TV to something that will input to a laptop if that's what you're after. I'm not entirely clear on what you're trying to do.

I don't have a fear of strangers. I just happen to find the majority of the people on RS to be tiresome morons, and I don't feel the need to have them PM me except when I am in the right mood to deal with what happens when I turn my chat on. You try googling "introversion" and educate yourself. Here's a summary: Read the bolded part. Several times if necessary. Free clue: a lot of introverts play games like RuneScape for a reason.

A cell phone is not a necessity unless you need it for business, or you have personal obligations that require you to always be reachable. In all other cases, it should be used when *you* want to use it, not when others insist on demanding your time. Exactly like chat in RS.

My phones don't own me, for the same reason my email doesn't own me, and my chat in RS doesn't own me. You have some oddly contradictory views when it comes to phone use and in-game chat.

The word is not used in the way you are using it. It is generally used to mean fear of foreigners, not in reference to those who want privacy. [cabbage]. Some people are extroverted. Some are introverted. Neither are mental disorders. I think it is incredibly arrogant and rude to think that you have the right to place demands on my time. And selfish. Guess what -- you don't have any such right. I give back plenty to the community. I do it on my terms, not yours. And if I don't want to be bothered at any given time for whatever reason, that's my choice. nurserymaid is right -- people like you are why I often turn my chat off. Private AND public.

So basically you're a xenophobe. People should probably deal with this problem by seeing a psychiatrist, not the chat option on runescape. You should probably look up what "xenophobe" actually means before you start accusing people of being one, much less recommending psychiatrists. :rolleyes: Wanting to be left alone is not a mental disorder. The fact that you're telling people to "go to hell" simply for having a different viewpoint on this issue suggests it is not nurserymaid who needs professional help.