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Anyone who likes this thread will love this site (perfectly safe): http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/ Use the drop-down box.

Yes, so? A proxy is still not the same IP as the person had before. Using one at the same time as a bunch of gold mysteriously appears in an account is beyond suspicious, and as Makoto said, VERY easily detected. You do know that proxies can be blocked, don't you? If you're that dense then the quote gets reported instead. :wall:

Actually, I'm not amoral. I'm immoral ... You can't fix stupid. ... Well, if you're done trying to make me out to be some godless sociopath I really can't take credit for that, seeing as you are doing it all by yourself. Enjoy your new home.

Sly Wizard isn't jealous of me. To understand him, simply look at the title of the thread. He is the sort of person Jagex is trying to clean out of the game. He is completely amoral and doesn't care about anything bad that happens to anyone in the game as long as it's not him. He's said as much. He opposes every change Jagex makes to stop scamming because he thinks people who get scammed "deserve it". He opposes every change Jagex makes to stop luring for the same reason. He said that there was nothing wrong with luring, and that if someone was too young or inexperienced to detect it and lost millions, that this was "good for them". Incredibly, he was even one of the ONLY people I saw complain when Jagex changed the filters so you couldn't say your own password. In his view, having a young player get tricked into saying his password, having his account get cleaned out and then the player quit in frustration would be "not a bad thing. Runescape can only be as smart as it's dumbest player." That's a direct quote. I have the thread saved. Bad rubbish, headed for the curb.

Thanks for helping to keep this thread bumped, Mr. Wizard! Here's a link to the original again, which I am sure Mr. Wizard wants everyone to read. ;) I was thinking the same thing myself. Will be interesting to see what happens.. though obviously this sort of move is not without its costs, so other MMORPGs may not want to follow suit.

Defeat? Hardly. First, the price of RS gold has tripled overnight. That alone is a big step. Second, there's a HUGE difference between paying a few bucks for a guy to come online and trade you gold, and letting some stranger in China have your login details. You think it's "undetectable" that some guy who's been playing with an IP address from Toledo, Ohio suddenly logs in from China and chops yews for 12 hours straight? And the same IP is seen doing the same with other accounts from other places in the U.S., U.K. etc? Anyone who is foolish enough to do this is going to get a well-deserved ban. P.S. Please remove that obvious fake quote from Gower from your signature. Sheesh.

:lol: Because you LOVE it. I can remember your prior trolling attempts, where you'd put this before nearly response.. page after page after page after page of the same "gee I dunno why I am doing this". Begone.

I've got an empty soda can on my desk here with a really neat dent in it. I'm sure it's completely unique -- the only one of its kind in the world. Why, it must be worth millions! Discontinued items are a classic example of the "greater fool theory" -- some guy pays 200 mil for an item with no stats because he hopes he can sell it to an "even greater fool" for 210 mil. This builds up a huge bubble that is only waiting for a pin[puncture]. And we got one on Monday. Everyone always assumes that they can "only go up". Well, people said the same thing about dot.com stocks in 1999. The prices of nearly everything are going to be going down, as all the big money trading and so forth is flushed from the game. I'm sure some will always want rares, but it is reasonable to believe their prices will continue to lower. And maybe, just maybe, one day people will wake up and realize that there's nothing particularly impressive about an overpriced paper hat, and this fad will go the way of the dodo as it should.

That's what trolls do. :wall: Again, appreciate the help, berbatovsky, but I've been through it with this guy many times before. He thrives on the attention and won't stop unless he's ignored, at which point he'll slither back under his rock where he belongs. Remember, you are dealing with a person who thinks there's "nothing wrong about luring" (direct quote).

I'm still waiting for an answer : Don't hold your breath, troll.

Well, I'm sure you're hoping so anyway, based on your past history of opposing every effort Jagex makes to clean the filth out of the game. Meanwhile... once again...

There is little doubt in my mind that the prices of all rares will be going down for some time to come.

Yes, and the price of pure essence is skyrocketing. This is all part of why I said the profitability of RC will be taking a big hit. Whenever some ways of making money are removed, people shift into others, and that puts downward pressure on the profits from those activities. Not a bad thing, IMO.

Well, they better do SOMETHING. Many good, creative suggestions have been made. Leaving things so that nobody can trade more than 3k differential is unacceptable when there are better options. And the GE needs a fix too. If the inability to trade openly were already gone, nobody would be able to trade pure ess for about the next two weeks.

I feel confident that they will do *something* to avoid having many of the social aspects of the game ruined. What it is, only they know.

Ah, more rubbish weighs in.. lovely... I don't feel negatively towards reasonable honest merchants who filled a need, and people who staked moderate amounts of money for fun. In fact, I wrote articles criticizing both the GE and the duel arena's excessive limitations. But dishonest merchants like yourself who took advantage of people and engaged in price manipulation? Rubbish. And stakers who made millions and sold them for real world cash? Rubbish -- off to the curb with ya. You sent me a snarky PM saying that I should be happy that you would be quitting now, and I replied back simply saying that I would. It contained no insults whatsoever. Do you enjoy lying? I've never claimed to be "pure and good", and I'm not "past my 50s". Where do you come up with this nonsense? At any rate, I thought you were quitting. Do you need help packing your bags? Do let me know if any of your hats need alching.

As someone else said.. take a break. Or, find a quiet activity you enjoy doing on the game and just do it for a while. It's not all bad.

Even if true -- who cares? I mean, honestly.. does it matter if some guy I don't know has 2 billion gp or 22 billion gp? Frankly, I'd be bored stiff if I had that much money. It's this whole obsession with wealth that I hope will start to fade from the game now.

Jonni, you make some very valid points, thank you. I do hope that Jagex will listen to the needs of clans and adjust things as they have claimed they will. I certainly will be watching and commenting.

I'm flattered that you like my articles.. but at the same time it pains me to read these sorts of comments, for several reasons. First, I hate the idea that some people think that there is some sort of "competition" going on here. There isn't. The Internet is a big place and there's plenty of room for lots of quality sites, which Tip.It certainly is. Second, I have been cooperating with the fine folks at Tip.It and plan to continue if they want to -- I don't want them to think that I'm out to replace anything here because I'm not. Finally, that comment really does a serious injustice to the many very fine writers who contribute to the Times. Let's try to keep focused and on the positive here. Thanks. :)

Jonni, I've said several times that I don't think all Pkers are bad. But the community as a whole was a very negative aspect of the game. I believe that Jagex will tweak the recent updates to make clan wars and other legitimate PKing activities fun again.

I doubt this will work. The price controls mean that any item locked at its highest price has a list of waiting sellers. As soon as the item is offered to buy at that price, the existing sellers will sell it.

Thanks for the replies, both positive and negative. A few responses. First, to those saying they never liked my articles before but they like this one, or now I am worth reading or whatever. Or those who say "before I was biased but now I'm not" etc. This is an editorial, not a review, so yes, it's biased. And rest assured that I will again in the future write things you don't like. I'm an independent thinker with values and beliefs and I speak honestly. If you don't always agree with me, great - that means you are using your brain. Just remember that an article can be good even if you don't agree with it. klankaos: It's natural that PKers would take issue with my comments, since many of them were addressed to PKers. And some have made intelligent arguments, to be fair. berbatovsky: Thanks, but just so you know... Sly Wizard has had a "thing" for me for about a year now, going back to the RSOF. He's also been opposed to every single change that Jagex has ever made to try to clean up the game in any respect. He even went so far as to cheer on Jagex in February when they tried to legalize luring, and then oppose Jagex a month later when they changed their minds. It's not surprising that he'd react in his typical childish manner to this article, given that he's at the very top of the rubbish heap of which we are being ridden. Just ignore him -- I do. EugenyG: You may have missed my earlier article, published on the day of the update, which covered the problems with the new changes in detail. You can find it here: http://www.truthscape.com/html/ts_TheTr ... ethePa.htm

One more reason why it's good that these were done away with. People are WAY too hung up on "making loads of money". The updates this month will change that, slowly, I hope. And BTW, the profits from Runecrafting are going to drop -- dramatically. The days of 91 RC earning 1 M/hr are over for good. You heard it here first. I don't see why you seem happy about this. People who chose to get 91 rc not using the law company, or ourania alter, worked for multiple months to achieve that level, so they could make the money. I never understand this attitude, that even when people work for money, put in hundreds of hours of play, there's always someone saying they shouldn't be proud of that money, they shouldn't be hung up on it, that they're "pixel huggers". You misread my post. I do not have a problem with people making money with Runecrafting. I am just saying that because of recent changes, it won't be as easy as it once was.

Fletching has never been a good way to make money, and never will be. The money is in the materials, not the fletching. Hunter.. if you like fighting over 3 or 4 chinchompas I guess. Runecrafting is going to drop a great deal. Barrows is still okay but there are so many people doing it...