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Here's an interesting idea - Items and GP that are never spent/sold and only stored in banks might as well not exist. The only thing (with inflation) that you have to worry about are the items and GP that are traded daily. With an event like XP weekend, there was a brief period of hyper inflation - the prices of virtually everything rose overnight. Now that the event is over, you can expect the price of everything to fall, deflation; there will be less activity on the G.E.

Go for efficiency. Get air runecrafting gloves from FoG (75 tokens, 8-10 winning games). Teleport to varrock, bank, run to air altar. Rest when you need to. Make sure you're using the lumbridge explorer's ring...

You'd think that they'd provide support for communication ports, since nearly every computer has got at least a serial, maybe a parallel port. They nixed support when microsoft changed the drivers in XP, and they decided that "no one uses it anymore". Its serial communication, and unsigned numbers that make java fail hard.

I just remembered I have no money either. Can I has aasiwat? Alright, alright. I know he's not a big deal anymore, but I'll settle for Zezima's account since no one else wants it. Fair enough. I get dibs on Olly3c. By the way, there is only one skill in all of runescape that cannot be fast/cheap/easy. Its called F2P prayer. Costs 550 million, requires about a million clicks, and maxes out at around 20-30k xp / hour. Not to mention making money in F2P can be about 10x more difficult, so the cost balloons if you're comparing it to P2P.

You absolutely sure that clan wars is a safe area, and not just a null area? The bounty hunter volcano bank area is like this on a PVP world - only players within +/- 7 can attack, and the wilderness level is nulled. I'll have to check.

It's still not clear if the buttons you program can move your mouse to an absolute position, or if it is only relative positions... If its absolute positions, it makes programming "helpers" a cinch. If its relative only, it makes programming a *little* more difficult, and more steps will be involved. Whatever, Jagex has opened the floodgates.

I'm having troubles on the RSOF - if you want to have a supporter's list, you have to update it once a month when all the members change their names. Real pain in the neck.

If you're not "safing", by all means, go for it. Don't be a hypocrite though.

Aw... pooor you! Maybe jagex will have sympathy and give you Gertjaar's account details?

Last week I played bounty hunter.... alot. I'm pretty sure I got more kills than I was killed, but I still died a fair number of times. Unless I'm playing clan wars, bounty hunter, or fist of guthix, I don't die.

I've got the programming skills to write my own macro - I could write one to automatically bury the 1 million bones it takes to get 99 prayer. I could develop it, test it, and the publicly release my source code. If I used this to get 99 prayer, I wouldn't have an "unfair" advantage, because its available publicly to everyone. Its still against the rules. Similarly, someone wrote a driver that when they held their mouse down, it automatically clicked at the rate to high alch. They were banned for macroing, even though they weren't gaining an unfair advantage - anyone could do this. My point is that the way the rules are defined now, and the way Jagex polices them needs to change. And if not the rules, also the game to prevent these issues from happening (limits of input in a given update). My biggest issue right now is it isn't very well defined how much input needs to be human, and how much can be programmed. Autoclicking is bannable, while stroking your thumb across three buttons to do a task faster than is humanly possible isn't. Where is the line? Is there even a line? 1. Your not allowed to train afk (its in the rules) and that macro could train afk. 2. You could afk this by taping down the mouse button or similar 3. Your still at the computer if you are using mousekeys but you can afk an autoclicker. The fact that he has to input most everything by himself but the mouse makes it faster makes it ok. If this was bannable disabled people would get gf'd by Jagex. :ohnoes: Exploits are win. The driver was for a tablet PC - so no, he could not do this AFK. I'm also certain that Jagex would ban me if my macro worked by getting keypresses.... Say I tilt my keyboard sideways, and each key represented a spot in my inventory. Pressing 'a' would move my mouse to the top, center-left spot... pressing enter would click it. One input, one output. This would not be AFK-able. I promise you it will get you banned. If you don't think so, PM me and I'll help you make the "exploit" happen.

I've got the programming skills to write my own macro - I could write one to automatically bury the 1 million bones it takes to get 99 prayer. I could develop it, test it, and the publicly release my source code. If I used this to get 99 prayer, I wouldn't have an "unfair" advantage, because its available publicly to everyone. Its still against the rules. Similarly, someone wrote a driver that when they held their mouse down, it automatically clicked at the rate to high alch. They were banned for macroing, even though they weren't gaining an unfair advantage - anyone could do this. My point is that the way the rules are defined now, and the way Jagex polices them needs to change. And if not the rules, also the game to prevent these issues from happening (limits of input in a given update). My biggest issue right now is it isn't very well defined how much input needs to be human, and how much can be programmed. Autoclicking is bannable, while stroking your thumb across three buttons to do a task faster than is humanly possible isn't. Where is the line? Is there even a line?

I'm currently working on a desktop application which communicates with a bunch of cable boxes over a serial port. Luckily I'm using Java, which has great, native, and supported libraries to communicate on serial ports.

Mousekeys has been a feature of Windows since the early 90's. From Microsoft's own website: "Mousekeys is an accessibility feature designed for people who have difficulty using a mouse" If you use Mousekeys for its designated purpose, then no, its not cheating. In fact, I'd say you'd put yourself at a disadvantage because you wouldn't be using a mouse. If you're using it in combination with an actual mouse, then you defeat the purpose of Mousekeys, and I would have to insist that its macroing. When you combine Mousekeys with that mouse, not only do you defeat the purpose of Mousekeys, but you're gaining an (unfair) advantage doing it.

For the same reason that you say it isn't a macro, I say it is. You say that a macro is remapping keys? lol... EDIT: Quoted from a website "Macro: A series of commands, keyboard or mouse actions that are recorded and performed automatically when a certain key is pressed or a certain command is entered." That's right, even though its one-to-one, it's still a macro. Also, the fact that you've admitted that you're able to "auto-click" and scroll indefinitely makes me highly suspicious of this mouse. If I made "a" click the mouse, "s" move the mouse down 30 pixels, "d" move the mouse right 40 pixels, "f" move the mouse up 240 pixels, and so on until I had enough keys reassigned to bury bones, I would be banned for macroing. EVERYTHING DONE WITH THIS MOUSE IS DONE IN SOFTWARE, NOT IN HARDWARE. When you change the mouse, you don't flip DIP switches or solder on a new capacitor.

They said it was an update for beginning players; I'd have to say I agree with it. The new staff also shows how pitiful F2P magic is - it gives a magic bonus of +4 atk / def, the best staff you can use is either the talisman staff or the magic staff (depending on the magic defense you want), which are +5 / 10 atk respectively, +15/10 def respectively. 40% of the best item's stats versus ~25% for the sword, or ~30% for the bow.

For the same reason that you say it isn't a macro, I say it is.

Sometimes it really irks me when someone yells "O M G S A F E R!" when I eat at 240 hp, especially after they just hit 250 with their rune scimitar, or if I eat at 300 hp and they're 99 range and 99 strength (with a high probability of hitting 300+ in the space of two turns). It ticks me off even worse when they yell "safe", and they do the exact same thing... or they "safe because you are". Shut up, filthy hypocrite. After fighting someone who was particularly vocal about it, I went back, and commentated on his next fight, saying the same things - omg so-and-so safes... check out that safe.... nom nom nom eat up safer... etc. It was pretty gratifying to watch them skip eating to get me to shut up, and then die immediately after. I also think its pretty stupid when they call me a safer after they red-bar me; I didn't safe, you're just unlucky. That's probably why I PK - its to kill those punks. +1 I found that the most fun I ever had pking was during the mu glitch, everyone had public and private turned off. They couldn't say anything stupid.

I'll say this again - 5m experience is more difficult to attain than to whine, kick, scream, and beg your parents for 15 minutes to get them to subscribe.

I noticed that swordfish dropped in price, from 500 ea to 489. I wonder if the time savings contributed to an increase in supply? Glad to see the price isn't stuck anymore.

I noticed I have the opposite "problem" - I'm usually at the high end for my level. The fact that I have an outlier (93 strength, 51 defense), and that I'm pure F2P probably explains most of it. Who cares? Whenever you level up, you jump over an entire class of individuals (those with lower experience but 1 higher level, or those with more experience and 1 level lower). My advice - keep playing the game how you like to play it. The only wrong way of playing is to not enjoy it.

I built my first computer. Even before I had the operating system installed, it still received keyboard input. After I installed the operating system, it had mouse input (there was no need for mouse input when configuring the BIOS). Even though my keyboard and mouse had about 20 non standard buttons total, THEY STILL FUNCTIONED NORMALLY AND WORKED WITHOUT THE BUNDLED SOFTWARE. And no, I did not hook up to the internet, so there was no downloading drivers. Unless you're using a crap OS, the mouse drivers are built in.

You know it'll be nearly impossible to rewrite those rules without some loophole or exploit... And, to be perfectly frank - normal mice and keyboards don't need extraneous software, its all built in to the operating system. Same with mousekeys, its built in. When you start getting people that write their own software, or use *special*, configurable multipurposed buttons, it starts getting into the area of "advantage over others". Whatever, it'll be his problem if he gets banned, and it'll be Jagex's problem when they can't see distinguish their own lines separating cheating from legit.

I still stand by everything I said. Also, if its not cheating, and the user knows this, why would they have to take down their youtube video?

No, this is very easy to define. In java, when you click your mouse, you produce up to three MouseEvents - MOUSE_PRESSED, MOUSE_RELEASED, MOUSE_CLICKED. If you move your mouse, you produce up to two more events - MouseMotionEvents, called MOUSE_MOVED, and MOUSE_DRAGGED. But, this is the key - A normal player that clicks their mouse will only produce one of each event. If you hold your mouse down for 10 minutes, only one MOUSE_PRESSED event will show up. When you release your mouse, only one MOUSE_RELEASED and one MOUSE_CLICKED event will show up. For the keyboard, there is KEY_PRESSED, KEY_RELEASED, and KEY_TYPED. It is very similar to how the mouse works. For this guy to generate events at 9000x the regular speed, an action that should have produced one KEY_PRESSED, one KEY_RELEASED, and one KEY_TYPED event produces 9000 of them. This is modifying input so that one input does not equal one output. The guy that did this with the touch screen was banned, he broke the rules for macroing. What I saw in the video looked to be the same thing - macroing. Unfortunately, we could not see what his hands were doing, so its impossible to tell how much was automated, and how much was "skill". I'm willing to bet that more than 90% was automated, and that he was breaking the rules.