siriuskar

Farming? Construction? Hunter? Forgotten skills? Never. Alright, so they may have been a little less mightier than some of the other skills in the game, but all Jagex was trying to do when they added these skills was to put a little bit of variety into the game, trying to orientate away from many of the combat-orientated skills that already dominate a third of all the others. Personally, I don't really see what problem there is with these - farming, it may take long but it's a different style of skill training from all the others, with various perks and benefits; construction, may be expensive but again with its perks, such as being able to compress teleport spells, and even then you still get a nice place which you can call 'home' :D ; Hunting, alright it may be a bit easy to advance but heck, I'm level 69 and reaping in the benefits of spotted capes and high-selling chinchompas. No problems at all with this one :thumbsup: Farming - 35 (But working on it!) Construction - 50 Hunter - 69

The thing that really bugs me about macros is the way their 'masters' often do absolutely NOTHING to try and disguise them! Okay, I know your average joe macro maker is incredibly keen to get in there and start making money/resources etc., and doesn't want to bother with making their bots a bit less obvious - but jeez, the amount of times I've seen that default semi-bald character, running around in green tops and bottoms, combat lvl 3 and with some random name like '16345b53a' is enough to absolutely drive me NUTS!!! :evil: Actually, it's just pretty pathetic . Says a lot about the basic intelligence level of people these days - 'If I made a macro, exactly like the one mentioned above, to chop yews behind varrock castle, do you think people would notice it?' 'Nah.' -.- At least they could do a bit more to disguise it. Such as: :arrow: Clothes - For goodness sake, can't they even bother to click and change even the colour of the clothes they're wearing? Even past that, they should give them a few mid-level items to wear to distinguish them from some of the newbie players that come out only with their bare clothes and a wooden sword and shield. :arrow: Name - Oh come on, this one's obvious. Many of the good names have been taken already, but they could do something better than '6235e23r'... -.- :arrow: Combat Lev - Okay, this one's the trickiest. At least they could stop them from staying at lvl 3. However, particularly on a member's world, even if you are up to about lvl 20 you still stand out as one of the lower lvls who could well be a macro. The only way round this one is to somehow make it clear to other players that you're not a combat-orientated person, but how you're going to do that with a macro I don't know... 'Nuff said. :D

My first ever post :D This article really did pique my interest, which is probably why I decided to join these forums in the first place. I've been sort of yo-yoing on and off for a few months at a time ever since I first joined in Sept 2004 (enticed by a 'friend' who claimed to be a member of Jagex staff, mod, best player...all that kinda stuff -.- ) Anyways, since I recently came back on, I have seemingly noticed an increase in the number of bots and 'noobs' that are making me slightly doubt whether it is worth playing :shock: (I don't want that to happen!!!) Nevertheless, as earlier posts have said, I think the author of this article has been blown away a bit too much with criticizing runescape and making miniclip into a scapegoat. I think that what all the bots, immature players, and 'big money' skill advancers (i.e. 99 skillcape fletchers and people who buy their way to high levels ) are doing is destroying not only the game's community, but also the underlying sense of achievement you get every time you meet your level targets, complete a quest or get that skillcape you've always dreamed of. :thumbsup: Oh, sure, everybody hates 'just clicking', but I don't see why some people should go to such measures and be so noobish just to try and avoid that when we all work hard to get our stuff - for those of you who can't take the monotony, try multi-tasking and doing something else on your comp while skilling (e.g., I'm writing this post while trying to catch enough chinchompas to get to lvl 69 hunting : ) That just about sums up my point on this matter (in maybe more words than needed :wink: ). Hopefully a good first post! :D