monte

I once predicted the amount of quality General Discussion topics on tip.it would increase dramatically.* Man, was I wrong! Current topic excluded of course. *Truthfulness of statement may not be 100% accurate

Thats always been like that tbh. You forgot a word in your post, and you are also wrong. LOL...classic...change his quote and then tell him he is wrong. Actually you are wrong or atleast as you mentioned clueless. Whether the game game bombs out or go halfway thru before ending (leaving the winning team with 500 tokens) depends on *how* the opposing team quits. Going thru the portal won't end the game right away....using other means that I won't mention seems to. The game is still alittle glitchy at times, in particular since the updates last week, but is still less than 2 weeks old.

Pretty much. It amuses me that people will complain that Jagex 'controls' prices and don't let the player supply and demand reflect prices.... ....and then complain when player controlled supply and demand drives the price of a traditional money maker down. Can I have my cake and eat it too?

Sure...go post this on RSOF. It's so well delivered that I'm sure Jagex will jump right on it and deliver your requests stat :roll: Here's some constructive criticism though. This reads less like the 'truth' and 'realization' and a little more like 'bragging' and 'ranting'. There's probably a better way to deliver the 'Hey, what's the deal with ?' query. Just sayin'

I see your overall point but I think you are off on the LOTR comparison. LOTR was definitely *not* a movie for young kids. Alot of parents were caught off guard and brought their children and had to leave the movie early. I saw this both times I saw the movie in the theater. It was a PG-13 movie and I'd say that's just about right. So, the article is pretty much on the mark. If you let your kid watch and he/she can handle LOTR then yeah, that kid is probably ready to handle RS. If you don't want your kid watching LOTR yet then hold off.

Hey, I'm sure that the vast majority of muted people are just wonderful in real life. They probably eat all their vegetables, help old ladies cross the street and always show up at the time they say they will. Who friggin' cares? In RS, you use vulgar language and/or be a general pain to other people playing the game then you deserve to be muted. It's as simple as that and it's the price to be paid. The game isn't an an outlet to hide behind the relative anonymity of your character and act like a jerk. Maybe that doesn't necessarily speak of how a person is in real life but when you are playing this game, it is how you are viewed and you should be held accountable for your actions. So anything I said previously wasn't a personal attack. I don't care what the OP is like in real life. In RS, he sounds like he must have been jerk and quite honestly, he's probably lucky to still be able to play the game. The fact the qc worlds have come along and given him a way to communicate with others just like him is great for him which is the point he was making.

I feel bad for the rs player named monte Caught in the crossfire I guess

He can respond to me in game. Oh wait...no he can't. :lol:

Meh, I'd hold in higher regard anyone who plays the game honestly and with civility over someone who takes away the enjoyment of others with vulgar language and other immature actions. But that's just me Monte - Your geeky, rude, mannerless but blackmarkless and not-muted rs player

You forgot your sarcasm tag. ;) You forgot your manners :| Oh, so you were serious? When you said, 'You're no better than them by playing by the rules in a video game' I got a good laugh. I would have lost a lot of money betting on that being a joke. Guess we just look at it differently. If thinking someone is a jerk (not to mention stupid) for racking up 13 blackmarks and a permanent muting in 4 months *after* coming off a 3 year ban for similar offenses....well, I guess I am rude and lacking in manners. Color me inconsiderate. EDIT: I do give the kid credit though for atleast being honest about the situation. He didn't try to sugarcoat it or rail against Jagex....just a post about how the qc world works for him.

You forgot your sarcasm tag. ;)

Agreed. Can't look at the success the company has had and put those three words in the same sentence. If I was starting a browser-based MMORGP right now, Jagex's business plan is exactly the one I would try to emulate. To do otherwise would be a 'flaw' and 'immature'

Classic :roll: If Gielinor was a perfect place, jerks like you would just be removed from the game permanently. I guess though you are now harmless over in World 160 where you can spend the rest of your rs career convincing yourself that quickchat is the greatest thing ever while the rest of us that can play civilly roam and chat as we please.

You're right -- events of the last few weeks indicate that I really should have said "nearly all". Man, your smugness is just disgusting sometimes.

Wrong. You've bought into the myth. Look at properly functioning stock markets. Prices do not usually go up and down rapidly *unless* there's a reason. The 5% price ranges are what cause people to fixate on the price being "stuck up" or "stuck down" day after day. They also *dramatically* reduce trade volume, which makes price fluctuations far worse. While I see your point, I still don't agree that removing price ranges make a difference. So unless I'm missing what you are saying the scenario could just as easily play out like this: A player looking to sell 10K of p ess throws out 500 at 130 and sees they sell quickly. Seeing a demand, he offers 500 more at 140 and once again they sell fast. He now looks toward 150 and higher. Other sellers sit back loving the fact prices are rising and wait for the time they too want to jump in. They quickly push the price of p ess up to near 170. Then, as you mention, prices reach a peak and they start to slide. Now, sellers are under-cutting each other even faster and potentially more dramatically then prices were rising. Seller A sells at 150, Seller B decides to undercut at 140 but Seller C can go as low as 100 because he's not 'restricted' and he needs money fast for his new dragon boots. The resulting price roller coaster sees the price of p ess go from 130 to 170 and back down to 130 in a matter of a day. How is that better or at the least, less confusing for sellers and buyers alike? The problem we are facing with p ess right now as I mentioned and other have as well is that noone knows what the price should be yet. The recent changes have made it difficult to predict. RCing is generally considered one of the better remaining money-makers in the game and yet the recent updates have crippled the resources for that skill. It looks like the price for p ess will settle somewhere between 120 and 170 since that's where it has been trading for the last few weeks. Eventually it will find its price. I just don't see how unrestricted price limits would have made finding that price any easier and I certainly wouldn't buy the argument that it would have gotten there less chaotically.