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I still don't understand Jagex's criteria here. Originality was stated repeatedly to be the focus. Wouldn't an idea that was also done by several other people not count as originality? Or did I wake up today in Backwards World? Of the six, based on Jagex's ACTUAL criteria: 1. Mommakitty2 2. Bum 7. Excl 144. Kkcomics 173. Arrow_Gun 192. JinSr

Creativity and originality, and those are the six they came up with? Just checking, making sure I'm awake.

Fail. I forgot about this thread again. XD UULAR WHERE ARE YOU =( xxxgod: I am not Canadian, although I'm relatively close. =P Just got 2000 total today. Will be revising this thread to post my actual goals for going past.

My experiences may be a bit different from everybody else's... As of today, I now have seven 99s. The first one (agility) is the only skill I can stand sitting and training for long periods of time - I did it at Ape (summer 2006, so it was the fastest course then), and didn't even leave the course between 74 and 94. It took me an extremely long time (74-99 took about 8 weeks, and then I went to 17m to gain #8 rank, which was another 3.5 weeks), but I started to think of this as normal for training other skills to 99. At this point, I was already 1700 total though (BEFORE hunter and summoning, so my skill average was almost 80 already), so from there, training to 99 usually meant less actual xp than the 12.1m I did for agility (in addition to the 4m xp I did afterward). Second and third (simultaneously) were fletching (already 91) and woodcut (already 95). This was before make-x broke fletching, so speeds of 300k an hour were still easily possible while stringing. Because of this (and the recent release of teaks), these two 99s combined took less time than 99 agility. I thought that all the rest of the 99s might be this simple. 99 cooking certainly was. I was already 96 when I decided to finally get it, and I did it mostly on tuna, so it only took a few days. 99 thieving then took a little while more (from 92), but it wasn't too bad either because it was the 2nd fastest skill to train (other than fletching). 99 firemaking then happened during a race (started at 95), so I cheated for a large portion of it and used magics for roughly the last 500-600k xp. (I won.) At this point, I decided to go for 99 fishing, the first skill that was even close to the same xp rate as agility was when I did it (and was actually overall slower, 41k to 45k). Going from 89 instead of a higher level, this was probably the most excruciating thing I've ever done on the game. Since fishing is a SLOW sit-and-click, I got sucked into the check-every-20k-xp mentality, and didn't really focus well enough to get it as quickly as I could. Planning for hunter, construction soon, which should thankfully at least be a bit quicker. I find that 99s really aren't that bad if you first aim for a level between 90-93 (depending on your level of patience).

Looking at the history of Jagex personnel, I'm starting to think it's Iddison's fault for ruining the thing the game had going, and it's going to take a while to clean it up. His experience was 'big internet business' experience, which of course is all about the profits. As suspected, most of Jagex's revenue probably does not come from 'intelligent', 'high-leveled', or even necessarily 'honorable' players, and the most vocal often do not fall into this category either. The updates that came during his tenure reinforced this supposition, and so the updates since then have assumed that these are the typical RS players, leaving people like me (skiller, 1999 total, anti-merch) farther and farther out. As long as Jagex has 21 extremely dedicated players, the rest of us mid- to high-leveled older players can go switch to a more incentive-laden game, such as Minesweeper. I finally quit in about July of 2008 due to the fact that things such as the Exchange were frustrating me to the point that I just didn't care so much anymore. My membership lapsed for about 9 months as I did other things - and when I came back in May of this year, most of my friends had either quit or had deleted me. However, to my surprise, most of the ones that were still active when I quit (probably only about 70 or 80 out of 180...I'm horrible about cleaning old names) had done the exact same thing as I had - gotten furious with the direction RS was taking, left for several months, and come back, mostly in a diminished capacity, for various reasons. Jagex doesn't even seem to have noticed such a relatively large group of people leaving the fold, because it's -not a relatively large group-. If we want to really do anything about it, the thing would probably be to become even more annoyingly vocal about it than those who are more ignorant. And also to vote in the RS Machinima contest to send somebody to Cambridge who will give Jagex a piece of their mind about this issue XD

I've watched the first five playlists in their entirety. Still trying to get through the last few. There are at least 30 videos that I would be okay with pushing me down out of the shortlist. I fear that I'm going to be hurt by the fact that I wasn't the only person who parodied Weird Al, and that other video just happened to show up within TEN videos of mine on the playlist. (MIne was better though ;) ) Since I'm really not a fan of the story videos and find a lot of them too similar, my final five (or more) has more of the other types of videos: I'm liking Evil Yakuza, D00m100, , and then on the next tier Den and . Honorable mentions to , minerme77, (because I have an irrational love of stop motion), and I can't find the other ones I liked a lot. And then there's this, which I'm not sure whether it's so bad it's good, or it's actually somewhat good, or I'm just stupid. XD Best of luck to peoples!

Jagex has pushed many updates to Wednesdays before - somebody also said it was a bank holiday in the UK so we shouldn't expect anything until tomorrow at least. (Hoping for Weds because I have more time then :D )

Hey Den, your video made it up finally. Be happy :P (Mine, of course, hasn't...)

Once again, the point is to have fun. I have 74 hp, but I haven't gained a hits level in over four years. Why? Because I have more fun trying to stay 89 combat than doing anything else.

Training requires no skill. Efficient training requires skill. Useless skill, but skill nonetheless.

Minor non-game-related updates often do get top billing. They simply sort them by time-order, and if they release a bunch simultaneously, they choose their own sort order. Best. Signature-post synergy. Ever. I agree it make them look like they've done something. I'm going to go with this. The lack of updates is getting really irritating. I 4th this...I thought this summer was going to have at least one "epic" update. Maybe it is? And this has all been some trick to throw us off guard. This. I do not remember a SINGLE skill release where Jagex went and released a game content update the week before (all the way back to farming - I was around for slayer but not reading the updates yet). We figured out the construction release this way, because the Behind the Scenes for May '06 specifically said 'chairs you can sit on', and it was the 2nd last day of May with no update the last two weeks. (Off topic: Does anybody miss the simple Behind the Scenes monthly posts? The massive blog volume now is just annoying in my opinion...) Here are a list of all of the weeks skipped by Jagex in the recent past: 04 + 25 August 2009 - figure an epic update for skipping two weeks? 29 Jun 2009 - Mobilising Armies came out the next week 10 Mar 2009 - Next week release was quest PLUS route-tracker server upgrading 03 + 17 Feb 2009 - Soul Wars 02 Dec 2008 - 2 achievement diaries and PvP updates the next week 04 + 18 Nov 2008 - WGS and SC 08 Oct 2008 - PvP world introduction 07 + 21 Jul 2008 - RS HD introduction 24 Mar 2008 - "Summoning 2" 08 Jan 2008 - Summoning 21 Aug 2007 - God Wars 01 Mar 2007 - ...? 14 Dec 2006 - Hunter 11 Oct 2006 - Skillcapes 24 May 2006 - Construction There are about four more that I found dating back up to three years - oddly enough, all of them are before free-play updates. The evidence clearly shows that after skipped weeks in terms of updates, the next week is usually something pretty sizable (or maybe a freeplay update too). Either way, it makes little sense to me to complain about these things - it's usually a cause of a bit of excitement for me =P

I've been reported for 'typing too fast' before a few times. That was...interesting, considering I was making typos and correcting them. (Yes, idiots, some of us CAN type at 160wpm...)

I'm relatively sure it wasn't Neo. He's logged in once in the last several months, mostly to say he was gone for the foreseeable future... Nite was pretty awesome. He added me back when I was a noobly noob (and then I got 99 agility right after he did XD).

This. People only request to be friends with me once they find out I have several 99s, usually...

viewtopic.php?f=30&t=807666 Also, your grammar. It kills. Puppies.

Statswise, I have to hand it to Soul_in_Pain and Neo Qdon (as a skiller, of course). Maxwaterman was a fellow nerd, and was pretty cool. Old Nite was pretty awesome as a person, and was always nice under any circumstance (I mean, he put up with me pestering him for a two years...). ...and probably most of my friends for having some shred of intelligence on this game.

Zez is ubiquitous. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY else, had the same fanboys following them around 24/7. I knew both Old Nite and N0va personally, and if I were with them, only occasionally would people be like "omg dude its them". Barely anybody I run across will recognize either name anymore. The fact that Zez is the only -previous- #1 that everybody knows says something. I was around in RSC, but didn't highscore-watch until the end of 2004, with people like Daverick and Yuffie and Yogo. I know Xxx Neo Xxx7 was pretty famous among us RSOFers, since he had the 200m Fletch Xp thread, which (if I remember correct) was the first G+A to max at 2000 posts. (Either his or Ff Lover's, don't remember) Lover Romeo is not nearly famous enough for getting 200m mining and agility xp. (Moreso the mining - I can attest to agility being 100x easier than people claim it to be... ;) )

Well, if i waste several years of my life on it, I want more than a couple hundred bucks to show for a complete trashing of my character (which as I outlined below, has been training with several restrictions for several years).

I have 115 people on my friends list - however, only 20 of them are ever online due to the fact that I quit for a year not very long ago (either they have also quit or they've deleted me). My criteria for adding people are mostly intelligence and discussion value added - if the person's a lvl33 with 247 total but they know what they're talking about, I'll add them. I have deleted people with nearly max total before, though, due to their unbearable ignorance.

I've had this account since 2002. I have 263 quest points (and would have had a quest cape for over 3 years had they been around at the time). I've built a reputation for longevity as a skiller, and still remain in the top few in terms of midlevel skillers. I don't have much money, but I have enough to set up a fair few levels (or a pretty good outfit short of any wearable rares). If somebody took my account and got 90 combat, I would be the angriest person ever (especially considering I'm 2 levels away from my five-year goal, 2000 total). I've turned down offers of $1500-3000 before for this account, and with good reason, I would think (in addition to that whole it's-illegal thing...). If I were looking at where I would want to go from here, I'd think that getting enough money to get decent music recording equipment (and maybe a fair chunk of tuition) would be only fair...considering that I have had a front-page skill and several 99s, we'd certainly be talking five figures (and I probably wouldn't go south of $50,000 if it were somebody I didn't know).

New playlist! (And mine is still nowhere to be seen...be it known Jagex that if mine isn't up by midnight tomorrow I will KICK A PUPPY - k?) My highlights and lowlights: made me laugh...probably the best non-duplicate on this set. I'm surprised idea wasn't used more...it's really not a great video but it's solid. Another idea I'm surprised there haven't been more of - the video's not the best though. I will either kill or woship this person. I'm still not sure. Thoughts?

The 'evidence' that I was allowed to view was a screenshot of the game from the time of the report.

Jagex CS can be stupid, though. I got reported for offensive language once when something got accidentally bleeped while I was IMPERSONATING a stupid person (the report picture specifically shows quotes over everything I was saying), and I got permanently banned (although that was quickly repealed). Note that I was previously an RSOF forum mod for nine months, and had zero black marks up to that point. A tangentially related thread that was previously up around here would be the 'Waste?' thread.

Morphic hammers will double up to 25375 construction xp or 32000 smithing xp. (Total xp per hammer using oak dungeon doors (430 planks) is 51175, oak larders (424 planks) 50815.)

Hear, hear. Two of my friends quit in the last four months and wished to give me all their money (about 95m between the two of them - my bank is worth at most 18-25m). Obviously, they couldn't. I can see why this is a wanted side effect for Jagex, since it effectively takes usable money out of the game, but it really does take away from the real charity that did go on between the rule-abiding players that did do that kind of stuff. Also, at almost 83 slayer, my best drop ever was a snapdragon seed (once), followed by rune scims (twice). Welcome to my luck. :cry: