Fairness

If you didn't care, you wouldn't have read my post and you certainly wouldn't have replied. Thank you though, it's nice to know people care.

Your name is still terrible. Get rid of the "hot pker" fad of surrounding your name with I's, it's old. I can assure you as an outside viewer, Kinpin6 is a less sucky name. False.

Apparently, some biology experts disagree with you: "Neurons of the adult brain do not generally undergo cell division, and usually cannot be replaced after being lost, although there are a few known exceptions. In most cases they are generated by special types of stem cells, although astrocytes (a type of glial cell) have been observed to turn into neurons as they are sometimes pluripotent." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron)

If you can't defeat him, it's a bug. Report it.

Gotcha! Fell for it, didn't you? As though any sane man could possibly have a chance at getting 200M mining exp. (Women might, since most Jagex employees are probably men, but I digress.) This topic is also a protest against the words "bloggeh", "siggeh" and other [developmentally delayed - no, probably never even started] words. Each time I see such a word, a few million of my brain cells die (not to mention the severe eye damage and temporary depression for the rest of the day). Did you know you will get no new brain cells during your life? Not a single one, so don't do anything that destroys your brain cells faster than they die by themselves. Like, getting 200M mining exp or typing out the forbidden words. Yes, I sacrificed a few million of my brain cells to warn you about this. I hope this sacrifice shall not be in vain, and that I shall be remembered as the savior of braincells after I die for centuries, even millennia. Sticky please.

No i could, but like i said, most of the stuff in my bank right now is either valuable, or worth a lot of money. and the difference is...? :P It might mean personal value. A blurite sword might be valuable because he can't get another one (although I made an extra, then a few minutes later discarded it without a second thought), while a godsword is worth a lot of money.

The next skill will be Racketeering. Players will be able to build up their own personal mafia, first consisting of lowly muggers and thieves and later on branching out into more serious stuff like dark mages, renegade paladins, evil elves etc. You'll have to invest into these, of course, and pay their upkeep; in return, you'll be able to perform robberies, thefts of large value, assassinations etc. with your crew. Of course, recruting them might not be easy - you might have to pay only an amount of cash, but you may have to pass some kind of test to prove you're worth working for, while others might only want to work with an accomplished mage etc. Jobs would involve you and your NPC companions in a separate instance just for you. You would have to work together with your allies to triumph over your foes or to evade them and get to the treasure - for example, there could be a door that only opens while someone else is standing on the switch to it. You would have to coordinate all this and give instructions to your teammates. You'll receive a gold reward from whoever contracted you to do the crime, and/or will be able to reap the bounty and make off with the loot on the spot. If you're not successful, at best you'll escape with your crew, at worst the guards or the target person could kill you! If you get spotted (someone reveals your true identity and survives to tell the tale) then the local guards (for example, if you had to steal from the Ardougne palace, then all the guards in Ardougne) will attack you for a set time (in real time, of course), which may be shortened in some cases by bribing the authorities. This would also mean that your actions would have more consequences than ever - say, you but usually train agility at the advanced gnome course, but get a contract to steal some crates of gnome food from the Gnome Stronghold. You'd have to be careful to do the job well, or not to it at all, or you might find you won't be able to train agility as the gnomes deny you access to the course and will even try to kill you if they can! Or even more serious business - if you want to assassinate a high-ranked captain in the Varrock army, but get busted, you will lose access to the Grand Exchange for some time! Of course, gold and the loot wouldn't be the only reward. You could take your strongest crewmembers along into normal battles. Each time you summon them (via the summoning skill, what else?) you would need to pay them an extra fee so that they would risk their necks to be your bodyguard. And there could be other miscellaneous rewards - do business with an enigmatic mage and he might teach you a new spell, although the job would obviously be hard. Or do some jobs for an important person and he might put in a few good words for you with the charter ship managers, so that you could travel cheaper. You know, permanent, more or less useful rewards. Well, that's what I'd like to see anyways. I think it's obvious why it'd help the game. I like it when your actions have consequences. EDIT: I like this idea so damn much, I'll refine it then suggest it on the RSOF. Jagex probably won't care, but why not delude myself into thinking they will? <.<

Crashing = good. From my part, that's it.

Simple solution: become a member again. F2P is terrible, but for an ex-member it's even worse.

This caught me. According to your curve, the poorer you are, the happier you are. So if you give away money, you're making others less happy. Way to go, jerk.

Or they could do something like, doubling the amount of knives you get/bar.. That would nearly half the price of knives, and allows you easily to compare adamant knives to broad bolts. And since it would half the price of knives exactly, it would also make smithing *a bit* more profitable.. Making knives even cheaper would probably do nothing to rebalance ranged.

For example? What - having the levels to complete a quest and get a quest cape/some other rewards! Oh, how could I forget, a skill cape! Easy EXP for other skills! Wow! Firemaking currently has almost no practical uses as I know of. For example equipping the hand cannon, getting additional prayer exp. burning pyre ships, the Inferno Daze. Handcannon- No. The handcannon was a failed attempt to balance range in the combat triangle. In all scenarios you should use a rune crossbow instead because the rune crossbow is vastly superior. (I know people will argue with this statement) Adze- Your training firemaking for another way to train firemaking. Yay. Additional prayer xp- Are you talking about lighting burners for altars? FM requirement could be removed either way and nothing would change. Pyre Ships- Same thing as above, have the FM requirement replaced by a more useful skill. These are terrible arguments. (except for the hand cannon one) If you removed the smithing requirements off making metal armor and put it into mining, Smithing would be useless. Your point is?

45 RC. It's terrible and I hate training it. I tried the Abyss and hated it. And the worst thing is, there are so many reasons for me to train it (quests, achievement diaries, etc.). Most of my skills are above or exactly 60 (Summoning, Construction and Herblore are the other ones below that - most of the moneysinks, basically), but this one I really despise.

Several times. The second time, I emptied my bank and dumped it into the Falador Party Room chest because I didn't want to return. Of course, I did. Luckily I didn't have incredible fortunes built up (I probably would have returned even if it had been a christmas cracker I had dumped, it would have just made it more painful to build back up). I don't have RL issues out of it though so I don't mind returning to it once in a while anymore.

Agility, 66k from 92 right now. I'm planning to get a 99 in it once again. It's my favorite skill to train for some reason (I can't explain it, maybe the skill's benefits in itself motivate me or something), although as I've learnt from my first few attempts which have died out, no-lifing it won't work for me. I'll do it in a more relaxed manner this time.

I never had anyone else to help me out with the game so I just plunged into it, and after exploring around for a while, I figured I'd need to make money somehow. Someone took me fishing to the spot near Draynor, where I dodged many dark wizards to fish a haul of shrimps (of course, I was doing it in the newby, inefficient way, with 10 free spaces max. in my inventory), run to the nearby tree, cook it and then take what I could back to the bank. Eventually I left the guy who took me there because I wanted to do some mining (that's what I wanted from the start actually), so I asked around for ages where a useful mine was. I was eventually guided to the SE Varrock mine where I started mining copper and tin, doing it in a somewhat smarter manner because I banked about 2-3 inventories of tin and copper before going to Falador to smelt it all then smith it in Varrock. I made some money off the general store by selling this to them, keeping the best I could make for myself. Later on I discovered Knight's Sword and was happy when it turned out that upon completion, I could make my very own set of iron armor! This mining-smelting-smithing-selling sequence went on to the point where I could make some parts of a steel armor set already. Then I thought that smithing was getting awfully slow, steel bars were on the other hand quite valuable. So I mined iron and coal in larger quantities, smelted that and sold that. This was probably where my "newb" days were finally and irreversibly over, but it took me some time till I got to the "buy iron, mine coal, smelt" phase, then to the "mine coal and sell that" phase. Coal mining remained my moneymaker for the rest of my F2P career... nice days, I would actually be glad to be back to those times. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure what else I did in my first few days. I think I got into a close encounter with the Wilderness; someone who I've been talking with a bit told me to come to the wildy and so I did. Having food on me, I escaped him and left the place. :) I think my first death was in the Wildy too, although I actually prepared for that trip, or so I thought. Turned out I wasn't much of a PKer at that point. As for other skills, I fished a bit and cooked a bit, but unlike many other F2Pers, I didn't like woodcutting, and I didn't practise too much firemaking either.

Your thread doesn't make sense, sorry. You say you're being forced into doing it RIGHT NOW as well, but as far as I can see, only you are forcing yourself to "get those damn rocks". Just go catch red sallies and ignore the whole minigame if that's what you want. You even have the option to switch it off. What's the problem here?

Yeah, instead of the members' equipment we are paying for, let's play with suck-[wagon] weapons and armor that are still completely unbalanced! F2P can host their own events, they don't need members to do it for them. If F2Pers are bored, they can either become a member or play something that's free. Instead of telling us to babysit the F2Pers those F2P-aware mods could release new content or update old, flawed content for them.

Stop necro-trolling.

Grinding it to 99 via powermining and then using your best moneymaker to make enough money to buy the others is much, much more efficient than what you are trying to do. So why do you make things purposefully hard for yourself? A 99 in a skill like mining is no joke, but doing it slowly and inefficiently is terrible. What is to prevent you from enjoying hunting? Relax. It is not like you are forced to finish by 2009.xx.xx, are you?

Topic. I just kept mining copper, tin, and eventually iron ore, banked it, then every 50-100 bars' worth I went to Falador, smelted it all down, and went back to Varrock to smith it. Usually I sold the items to the general store, though I tried selling armor sets a few times. How about you guys?

Actually the people aren't. The rapid-draining bar is FORCING people to click on orbs, therefore GOP is now a mess. People are failures. If they weren't, they'd stop freeloading. ;)

The GOP activity bar isn't a failure, people are. Otherwise, I agree with all your points.

If there is a both deposit booth and a bank booth, I use the bank booth. Seriously, even if I save 1 second with the deposit booth chances are I shouldn't care anyways.

A better discussion would be about the puzzles you get in MM and level 3 clues - since people often have to do those or miss out on a clue. (I personally can do them easily, but I've seen plenty of people, some older than myself, who have discarded clues because of them - dunno how they can afford it, I get at least one per level 3 clue!)