AznSteve

America's Army is a free FPS game, you just need to download it from the main website.

If you want to primarily focus on smithing, buy all the coal and iron, smith into steel bars, then sell. Use the profit you made to buy iron bars. Smith all the iron bars into iron platebodies and then high alch them all. With this method you will actually gain a bit of money while leveling your smithing skill. The reason for iron is because it has a better cost/xp ratio than steel bars. Even though smithing iron platebodies rather than steel will get you only 2/3 of the xp, iron bars are only a little over 1/3 the price of steel bars.

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This is a pretty accurate list for me. http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/galle ... ant-stand/

I run both track and XC, I'm a freshman in college right now so I'm looking forward to competing in track at the college level \ . I don't think I'll be running XC, I don't really like distance :uhh: These were my best times in high school: 100m - ~11.7 (during practice, never actually raced) 200m - ~24 (during practice, never actually raced) 400m - 52.5 (51.0 during 4x400) 800m - 2:04 (2:02 during 4x800) 1600m/mile - 4:45 (during XC season) 3000m - 11:00 (lol :thumbdown: ) 5000m - 18:20 (lol :thumbdown: ) Triple Jump - 41'6" (2nd best in school history, around 25th at the regional meet lol) Long Jump - 19'0" Relays: 4x400 - 3:25 (school record, 6th place at the regional meet, missed nationals by a few secs :( ) 4x800 - 8:25 (top 20 at regionals, don't remember the actual place) I wasn't fast enough for our 4x1 team :cry: Now that I'm in college I'm aiming for a few school records, notably the triple jump record (high 46') and the 400m record (49.5). I'm also trying to see if we can get good relay teams together for a shot at the 4x4 and 4x8 records. For training we usually do (weekly) 1 day of plyometrics, 1 day of hill workouts, and various intervals/ladders/repeats for the rest of the time. The workouts are pretty intense but they're really helpful.

If you're 85+ mining, instead of mining rune ore for pure cash or powermining iron for pure xp you could take the middle road and mine coal in the mining guild. 1 or 2 hitting 1/3-1/2 of a full inventory of coal is not uncommon and the xp gain is pretty good as well. Plus coal is used for all kinds of smithing and even if you won't use it for smithing it always sells good.

I have two cousins that play RS.

Sure, progress is nice, mining just allows you to progress a little differently. While other skills allow you to progress more in terms of XP, mining allows you to progress more by making alot of money.

19205215: F2P

Runecrafting should be kept as it is. If hard skills were updated to make it easier to level up, it would make RS less challenging and therefore, less fun (imo).

why should it cost 500k??? That to way to much.. just keep it 99k. F2p players deserve a "skill cape" but I agree with the no hood :P and specially no lederhose hood. That should look stupid. And emote??? No. Just a cape! By the time you get a 99, 500k should not be a great deal of money.

Mining actually became my favorite skill because it was one of the hardest skills to level up. Keeping the old animation would have been nice as well...

Like Madmanpur3 said, I was more anxious to actually start playing RS than I was in choosing my RS name (hence all the numbers). I didn't feel like starting a new account with a better name so I just kept playing on my current one.

On a really good connection it's possible to get at least 50k xp/hr (1400+ iron ores). I've tested on slower connections and I average around 35k xp/hr. I always mine in Al Kharid and my best was around 52k xp/hr. I'm F2P so I'm not sure if Granite or other mining places are better.

The lesser demons in the volcano are good because there are several respawn points, but you need to be paying attention so that you can get as many demons as possible. -Know where the demons respawn and have your mouse cursor over the spot and ready to click. -Always have an unobstructed view between you and the demon. If your character has to run around objects to get a clear line of fire, chances are your target has already been taken. -There are several safespots, but most are not 100%. This can be easily solved by maneuvering yourself or the demon to a different place where an object prevents him from attacking you. -If you cannot find a 100% safespot when attacking, improvise. Since most of the lower levels go here, they usually take some time to kill a demon. At your range level you can range demons faster than they can melee them in most cases. If there are no immediate safespots, use some of the other demons to block the one that is attacking you.

You could also try the zombies in the same level as the flesh crawlers. If you're there for awhile you can get thousands of steel arrows to save for ranging in the future. Flesh crawlers have okay drops. The body runes can be used to train magic using curse. I also always have a chisel in my inventory so that I can cut the random gems that they drop.

Ankous drop good amounts of laws if you train on them for awhile :)

I switched to the wilderness capes, although some of the bright colored ones look a bit odd to me. I stick with the blue team 30 cape - doesn't stand out much but still matches with rune armor.

The level 35 flesh crawlers in the second level of the Stronghold of Security are good XP. They drop loads of body runes and the occasional uncut gem. Barely any coins, but minimal food usage. You will most likely have to do some non combat skilling in order to get more money to afford the whip. Gaining money solely from monster drops usually takes a substantial amount of time.

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It's possible to get almost 50k xp/hr mining iron.

The actual item will probably stay in your bank until someone buys it.

Mining gold ore to 99 will take forever to accomplish. Even powermining iron will only get you 45-50k xp per hour. From level 75 you will need 11,824,010 xp to get to level 99. Divide that by 45,000 and you will still need approximately 263 hours to get from 75-99 if you powermine the entire way. Taking into account the slower respawn rate of gold, the number of people trying to mine it, and the fact that it's not possible to one hit the ore every time, you're looking at a time frame of thousands of hours to get from 75-99 just with gold.