milky155

I'm looking at around 3.5 million I've gotten from selling a corrupt dragon battle ax, a pretty decent amount for a poor guy like myself. Of course, I wasted it away by now, but it was still pretty fun to have. Around 1.5 million of that, I spent on death runes and the runes necessary for pvp combat (including binds). A grand total of three days later, it was gone. THREE DAYS! I realize that there are costs to every type of combat, but how am I supposed to make a profit with a one that consumes more money than I can gain, and gives me low chance of success since it takes up two rows of my inventory and gives me a max hit of 16. Couldn't Jagex fix this? Maybe they could give an update to free to play mage?

Sorry I lost my train of thought on that sentence. What I meant to say was that the non tradeable holiday items aren't rare because they can be replaced and many people have then. In 2003, new holiday drop items were created to be untradeable. This was because the makers of the game did not like to see players hoarding old drops and selling them for huge profits. Jagex said that all future holiday drops would not be tradeable, because these items were not meant to be worth millions of gp, they were meant to be for fun. Many people were upset because they could not trade the newest 2003 drop items to friends who weren't online for that particular holiday. Things got so bad that there was no Christmas drop. --Rune Tip's article on holiday items/rares

The reason holiday items are so rare is because they aren't tradeable and there aren't that many left. Also, why would you want to drop party valuable items? Your price ranges are also a bad idea. They need to fluctuate like other goods based on supply and demand. If you want a complete crash in this industry, than your idea would be justified. As you don't, this idea is just plain horrible.

Why should they be compared to meleers as such? I'm pretty sure that this particular fighter didn't train only his strength. He trained some other skills as well. Probably Attack and defense, and maybe prayer.

My attack is 58, my strength is 65, and my defense is 50

Compfreak, I'm actually 6 levels above the level 65, and it was a crowded day there at Lumbridge. I was actually clicking on the people instead of the ground. I always forget that the map is a way to move too. If this has been updated than please forgive me, but the receiver of the bind spell is frozen before I finish casting. Even with that disadvantage and my ineptitude, shouldn't I win?

I will refrain posting rebuttals, since I have already posted my reasons. Look at the last three sentences of my first post.

I cast a water blast. It fails to connect. I cast bind, and run for two steps before he is on me. I repeatedly fail to get away and die from a level sixty five who still had his adamant armor on. My magic level is level sixty eight. In free to play, magic is so absurdly underpowered that I don't even bother buying even one hundred death runes, knowing that I'll probably die in the tenth cast. The only spell that is used by the bulk who even trains magic is teleporting, which to me defeats the triangle. I agree with elusefier that magic is underpowered.

Compfreak, Runescape doesn't go banning people for no reason? Please read the six hundred some posts in which is only Rune Tips' Grr I Was Unfairly Banned/Muted thread and tell me that none of those have any basis. Jagex is a company, and sometimes they make mistakes or go corrupt. Also, if I'm correct, only members can have 200 friends, not free to play. Free to players used to be able to mine the essence that members could make into nature runes, but even so that was a bad example. I apologize. I also was getting away with myself. This was supposed to be a rant about what I believe. That basically means that I don't care about what you think is wrong about my beliefs. That also means that I can go on arguing with you until the tenth incarnation of Vishnu, or admit that either you or I was right. I will do neither of those since this is my opinion. I admire your resolve and the amount of thought you put into this, which must of been considerable =D> . I therefore will try to stop posting on this and argue with you on some other topic \ . Goodbye It might also interest you that you probably could be my father, but that won't stop me from arguing with you! is est terminus

When did I ever say that grand exchange was a bad thing? I have implied that a controlled economy wasn't, but certainly not the grand exchange. If I don't like the way runescape is anymore, what is it to you? Jagex has taken a complete control over the economy, that is a fact. I'm not blaming Jagex for making my friends quit, I'm saying that Jagex's changes unintentionally changed their views about this game. Illuminated- Apparently Compfreak posted this about the community =-P. Average age went down, maturity followed. The ignore list\friends chat is your friend

Omali- Correction, when was the last time runescape made a public notice of banning people. One example is enough. Time is money. If you spend all your time gathering your raw materials by hand, then your either skilling, spend a shocking amount of time on the computer, or your lying, while losing money. My friends quit because of the ban, it's a fact. They have told me. I would tell you to ask them yourself, but you don't know them in real life. Insulting me makes you immature, a ironic fact made by someone who is still quite young, but older then 10. My comparison was for the taking away of basic liberties part of communism. If I knew that it would create this much controversy, I wouldn't have used it. Also, as I said before, there are more intricate and better solutions than the one Jagex are using.

And compfreak, the only time I will ever flame is when I commit arson, and I will never commit arson \ . Zierro, I never said the bridge was a bad update. If you can find where I said that, then I'll eat my CPU.

For your first question, its actually in the third sentence, and is actually in the perfect past tense I think. I'll brush over my Latin to check. As for revenants, why would Jagex place something completely overpowered in free to play? Dangerous in runescape would be having a risk of dieing, not a whim of a chance of killing the said "replacement". In free to play, it's rare that a lone player could kill a revenant. Also, a 22 percent growth in members? Do you mean free to play or paying to play? Jagex's long boast of over two million registered members hardly impresses me, since I severely doubt that all of these are active. A 22 percent increase of year would make sense, since so many people left. A percentage is a fraction of a whole and as the whole decreases, the percentage increases. For example- 1/8= 12.5 percent. 1/7= around 14 percent. As for me trying to tie mini games with player to player killing, I was actually viewing it as a reimbursement of sorts, and a rather bad one at that. For free to play not paying itself, they are actually the basis of the members economy. Would you stick around if you had to mine all the essence, which turns into runes, which probably high alched the thousands of items whose revenue your probably now using to buy sharks? I'm not saying that Jagex caused my friends to quit, their changes did. As I said, intentionally or not, they are stripping away basic freedoms that caused my friends to quit. I also noticed that you entirely skipped over my point about the utopia. Do you find this correct? I also like a good debate, but if it ends this quickly at that point... well, what can I say? I apologize for the bad language, I was typing that post late at night :roll: .

Note Compfreak. Number 1- If you read my rant instead of skimming over it and listing 'points' you would realise that i said signify , e.g. stand for something else. I also meant by communist as a taking away of liberties and freedom. Of course you couldn't know that as not reading, so to be fair, I'll make another contrast. Runescape has attempted to make a carefully controlled and safe environment, a utopia. Unintentionally or not, in the process they are stripping away basic freedoms by using solutions that put a block on multiple areas that undoubtedly don't make a few of us happy. They also haven't been looking at the last few attempts to make one. There are more intricate solutions than the ones Jagex are using. I actually used the losing full rune as an example of how things changed. It is kind of shocking when you see an NPC walk through a closed door and killing you in three hits, no? Also, people leaving and coming? Don't make me laugh. People may be coming, but not in the numbers that they used to. When was the last time you have seen a new max players on notice on the front page of Runescape.com? Probably around 2007. I would post a link, but for some reason I can't find it. As for the last so called 'point', why are they throwing us a bone when they specifically stated that member benefits are for members only. I'm pretty sure that if player killing was still in its original form, than we wouldn't have minigames. All my friends quit as a result of the changes, not that the changes made them. If you tell me that no one has quit because of some of these updates, than obviously you need to reacquaint yourself to the world. Feel free to read these comments and correct your own.

The oldest update i could remember while playing was the bridge update in Lumbridge. I've been playing for some time before that, but I honestly can't remember. That bridge signified to me a whole start of updates. "Back in the day" before all the changes I liked playing Runescape. The community was good, there were censors, and I even laughed at the (few) attempts to steal my account or spam me, even though this was after miniclip introduced a series of players into Runescape. I loved playing back then, when all that bothered me was trying to get my levels up. I've met one of my best friends in Runescape ( not knowing him in the real world). All of a sudden, that changed. I've been taking breaks from Runescape in that period of time. When I came back after one, it was January, two weeks after player killing was banned. How I found out was quite humorous actually since I lost my full rune making pizzas in the wilderness when a revenant killed me, which was kind of stupid. Everyone sees a deterioration of friends as they stop playing, but I was shocked when out of my full friends list, only my best friend Bart was still playing. He told me all the changes that have happened. I was shocked, but hoped that it would improve. Runescape continued to change. An effective communist (in my book) takeover of the player economy which was soothed somewhat by Grand Exchange, bounty hunter, which most of you have probably read about in previous rants, and a staking limit, although since it was opened to free players I didn't mind, until I got bored with it. None of my friends came back because of the player killing ban, even after a new player verse player system was introduced. What happened to this game? It seemed no one played for fun anymore. Free players received mini games which were previously members. What is this, a bribe to keep playing? Runescape has changed, and I'm not sure if it's for the worse or for the better. I'm not sure whether to continue playing or quit. I just don't know. I do realize that it's just a game and sooner or later it will end. I hope it will end well and good, despite the changes. Some of you may question the purposes of this rant. Well, it was simply a rant. I hope you can relate to it.