qeltar

Snapdragons, period.

This should give you some idea, though the free version only has its prices updated once or twice a month. Black hides are higher now, though they've been dropping of late. Regardless, it's very good money.

This is what it's about. At some point, I bet Jagex will release an update that allows mint cakes to be obtained more easily. That will be a funny couple of days. ;)

The most important update of the year was the institution of personalized shops.

Yawn. People pay way too much attention to Burger King hats.

It's not automatic -- it's learned. You seem to enjoy your societal conditioning; I did not, and I unlearned it. I don't respect people who drive $200,000 cars. I respect those who do good works with t heir money. That's a rather weak argument against charity. Nobody is perfect, but giving charity makes one a lot closer to it than blowing it on luxury items to try to impress strangers. Sorry, but that doesn't make any sense. My world is one where people don't try to impress others with clothes and cars. Yours is the superficial one. I am not speaking in the hypothetical, either. Try getting out of the bar/restaurant/club/mall scene sometime and talking to real people. Oh, the ironing. Address my point. I did. The very thing that makes women feel like they need to look like models is the superficial, image-judging sort of culture that you embrace and I reject. You're part of the problem. My guess is that you're pretty young. I'm not. I've been where you are, and believe me, I know where the clouds hang out.

Uh.. it's possible to have more than one argument against something. The second doesn't invalidate the first. Do you *really* need help with understanding the difference between spending $100,000 on say, cleft palate surgery for destitute children in Africa, and spending it on a fancy car? If so, that's pretty sad. Bringing "civilizations" into this is a red herring. There are some socities -- and portions of them -- where dress is very important, and others where it is of no consequence at all. There are even societies where everyone wears the same thing specifically *so that* dress is not used as a key factor to differentiate people. Well, I think it is a lot more prevalent than you claim, especially among the younger urban crowd, which has been brainwashed into valuing superficial nonsense instead of what really matters. There's a qualitative difference between saying "I wear dragon platelegs because I think they look cool" and saying "I wear dragon platelegs because if I wear a skirt I'll look like a noob". Then they should ask themselves why. Most people won't, because they're afraid of the answer. Ironically, it's the sort of discrimination against which I am arguing, and for which you are reinforcing. I don't care about people spending money to "look good" in RS -- it's just a game after all, and thanks to all the trade restrictions, it's not like you can really do anything constructive with a bunch of cash. But in the real world it is a different matter. If you want to blow your money on frivolous nonsense, you have every right to do so (as long as it's your money, of course.) But there are consequences to choices, and you are judged based on your spending decisions every bit as much as on your clothing. It may be "normal" for some people to want to blow money on looking good. That doesn't necessarily mean it is anything to be proud of. It's a function of social conditioning, and something that people who have better priorities understand and move beyond.

I don't see how my stance has changed.

You brought up the example of blowing an extra $100,000 on a car to impress people, not me. The issue of living within one's means is irrelevant. It's a matter of priorities. Some people use their money to do good. Others use it only to *look* good. I know which group is more worthy of respect. I've been around for quite a while. Anyone who knows me also knows I am a straight shooter. I say what I believe and I say it plainly. That you feel the need to become insulting really says more about your confidence in your position than it does about me and mine. What's interesting is that when you talk to people in the game about their obssession with "looks", it doesn't take much digging below the surface to discover that there's nothing there. Here's a typical dialog of the type I often get at the Living Rock Caverns, where I usually wear my normal outfit, consisting of a granite plate body, dragon legs and other typical armor: Noob: "Ha ha nice granite" Me: "Thanks" Noob: "Why don't you wear Barrows?" Me: "Don't need it, and by wearing it here it degrades when I fight, and I risk losing it" Noob: "Yeah but it looks good!" Me: "Why should I care how my armor looks in a videogame, when I'm surrounded by a bunch of people I don't even know?" <Dead Silence>

I could say the same to you. The difference is that I do what I want, and you do what society tells you to do. Only when money and superficiality are one's priorities.

The loop that I am out of is our society's obssession with status, superficiality and materialism. And it's by choice. That's an invalid comparison. Nobody is talking about dressing for a specific occasion. Are there job interviews on RuneScape? Not the last time I checked. You can answer for yourself, but not for others. "Unappealing" is a judgment call. I'm not talking about people wearing dirty rags. When I see someone dressed plainly, I don't think anything of them "instantly", because I'm not superficial. I also don't immediately assume someone wearing fancy clothes is somone to be respected and admired. You're just buying into societal stereotyping. To me, the car says "Look how messed up my priorities are." I would be impressed by someone who drove a Toyota or a Mazda and used that extra $100,000 on a worthy cause. But maybe that's just me. I think a lot of the answer also is where you live, and where you are in your life. Most of the people here probably live in big cities, and are also quite young and therefore bought into the "need to impress" culture (some of which is a part of society's big Mating Ritual.) But there are millions and millions of people who have moved beyond spending our time and energy trying to look good for strangers -- it's just that most of them don't play games like RuneScape.

Real "noobishness" is not a function of what you wear. It is the difference between doing what you feel is right and works for you, and living your life based on an insecurity-driven need to impress others.

Economics doesn't deal with words like "looks" or "performance". It uses the term "utility". And that is deliberately vague. The value of something is based on how much people value it, and that can be for any number of reasons.

Believe it or not, there are a *lot* of people who really, truly do not care at all about superficial crap like how their outfit looks, or how much they're going to impress friends or onlookers. That's true both in RS and the real world. Honest.

Not sure what you're fighting, but another option is to finish part of the Seers Achievement Diary and use the headband. Saves an inventory slot for drops.

Making standard potions is about 1,000 to 1,100 per hour. Not sure about conversion, but using the GE dude I'd figure on about 20 seconds per load.

The best place is actually the Smoke Dungeon (near Sumona). Very fast to get there, assuming you have a Slayer Helmet and rings.

The first article makes a very good point. A lot of people said that Jagex was "making things too easy on themselves" by getting rid of BTS, but they probably don't realize how atypical it was for a software company to so specifically promise content updates on such a tight schedule. What's amazing is how well they did adhering to that for so many years, even though all they got for it was a sense of expectation and lots of whining when they had to delay something. As for the second article: it's hard to write a piece that people will relate to when you use the word "I" 49 times and the word "you" only once.

The number of people mining a vein at the caverns has no impact on how long it lasts. I've been on World 2 and seen literally 50 people on the same gold rock for 10 minutes at a time. They work differently there, appearing and disappearing on their own schedule, even if nobody is mining them.

In my rough testing, I found a yak better. Even though there's a deposit box, you'll waste a minute each time to bank your ores, and do it less than half as often with a yak. The lava titan makes little difference in mining speed for ores that you are much higher level than.

You have to do the mushroom nonsense but not the levers, I think. But that's based on going back there to mine addy, not go back to the boss. I'm pretty sure, though.

Barbarian fishing is fastest if you drop.

The graahk is definitely worth using. It's at least 10% faster and a lot less annoying.

Yews and magics are about the same money-wise. But to get the most magics you need to use your own tree with a hydra, which cuts into things. But mahoganies are now the best wood for money. http://runescoop.com/html/rs_MMINDEXSKILLSWOODCUTTING.htm

Hmm, was I wrong? I apologize if so. I was sure that I read you couldn't set one up there, and in dozens of hours I've never seen one.