Thedra

Good for him, but when did this become a competition about who has the most 99s? I honestly couldn't care less how many 99s ppl have. In fact, I couldn't care less if I was paid to. :roll: Besides, I have the only 99 I want...ever.

Wow. This is just...wow. If there's a God in Heaven the new skill will teach proper spelling and grammer. Wow.

I gave up on the Mining Guild long ago. Between bots and greedy ppl, many of whom are one in the same, it just wasn't worth my time and effort. I get far more mithril ore by killing cockroach workers than I would if I spent the same amount of time mining it anywhere on the RS map. I swear. Give it a try.

OMG, where to begin? Let's start with snot-nosed little brats who tell me I'm too old to play RuneScape. I'll be the judge of that, thank you! Where were they when some of us had to walk everywhere and deal with idiotic things like fatigue? I'll tell you where. They were filling their diapers and smiling about it - that's where! Suppose I tell you that you're too young to play RuneScape? Hmmmmm? Then there are the morons I ignore and don't talk to because, well, they're morons. They start accusing me of being a bot and saying things like "Reported". Go ahead kid, report me. Jagex just loves false reports! This one really ticks me off. Someone will ask me repeatedly to borrow my Dragonfire shield, refusing to take no for an answer. Then they ask the current price of the dfs. I tell them that I'm not sure what it is atm. They respond with: "Learn how to do a pc noob." If this person had ever owned a dfs or just knew the basics about it he'd know that you can't do a price check on a fully charged shield. Edit: How did I forget this one? How maddening is it when ppl (mostly low lvls in F2P) click 'Follow' on you? Yeah, that's just what I want to do - haul your useless wagon all over creation while you bombard me with an endless stream of questions and requests to borrow this or that and ending with: "Can I have 5k?" I would absolutely love it if the only ppl who could click 'Follow' on us are the ppl on our friends list. Alright, I think I've vented enough steam to avoid a major meltdown...all the Munchkins can come out of their hiding places now. :ohnoes:

Support! :thumbsup:

I think it will be Ranching, a skill that can be linked with Construction and Farming. Perhaps people will get the horses they've wanted for years.

Silly rabbit, RuneScape isn't dead...it only smells that way.

Alot of nice ideas. Here are a few of my own, primarily for the purpose of freeing up some bank space. 1. A new room - The Armoury. Think of the bank space freed up if you can store some weapons and armour in your house. Perhaps even put your best armour on display for house guests to admire? 2. A Circus Trunk in the Costume Room to store all the little goodies we get as rewards. 3. A Jewelry Box either in the Bedroom or Costume Room for storage of rings and amulets of all shapes and sizes. 4. A Farming Patch. Herbs, Trees, Fruit Trees, Flowers or Veggies - but only one, not all of them. Maybe a compost bin also. 5. House Lending/Renting! You could let a friend borrow your house and use your altar, lectern etc. whithout you having to be there or even online. You could also Rent your house to other players for the same purpose. (I just don't want to return home to find it trashed by a wild party!)

On and off (mostly off) since February 2001. When the RS2 beta was released I took it for a test drive and left RSC in my rear-view mirror. I rarely miss anything about RSC.

I think anyone who works hard to get a 99 in any skill deserves a cape. However, I would not give F2P "Skill" capes - let them have a generic "99" cape with no emote. They can proudly display the fact that they have a 99 skill, but if they want the cape for that particular skill and the emote that comes with it they can pay for the privelage.

I like to think that untrimmed HP/LP capes are fairly uncommon, but I'm slightly biased in that direction as the owner of one. Still, the number of them that I've seen, including mine, I can count on one hand. I have seen maybe 3 untrimmed Thieving capes, but I think the most rare is Runecrafting. I have seen 2 of them - a friend of a friend has one and Aubury in the Varrock magic shop has the other.

Someone foolishly tried this with me back in the days when the Wild was actually wild. I was instructed as to which rocks were his and which rocks were mine. I still wish I could have seen his face when he suddenly arrived in Lumby and all the rocks became mine. :-D

Ah, the good old days. Fatigue and sleeping bags. Worst idea ever! Fighting a duel on the spot. No need for a trip to the Duel Arena, you simply put your money where your mouth was and lived or died on the spot you stood. Walking everywhere - and I do mean everywhere.(kids today with their new-fangled running!) Anybody remember when a Rune 2-Hander sold for over a million? You could count on one hand the number of people who could smith them and the price reflected it. If you had legendary smithers Musashi22 or Bluerose13x on your friends list you were a rock star. Yeah, I've been around for a while. I've been playing RS on and off since February 2001. Thanks to PC and SW I got my one and only skill cape in June 2009. (why should the kiddies have all the fun of easy experience?) I agree that Jagex dumbed down the game to make it easy for the swarms of kids who invaded it like hungry locusts, but the flip side of that is the fact that veteran players no longer have to work their fingers to the bone to accomplish something. I guess we just have to take the bad along with the good. Awesome story/rant. Bravo!

I love my Gilded Altar. I love my Teleport Rooms. I love my Eagle Lectern. I love my Telescope. I hate people who can't spell.

Time to give this rant a lil' bump. :)

I don't mean to nitpick, but I think we're getting a wee bit off topic with people's sleeping habits. :roll:

Theres a very obnoxious stench at the Fishing Guild these days and its not rotting fish. Sadly, its players using programs to do their fishing for them. Most of them are high levels, too. Im talking about players who are level 120 - 138. Gone are the days when I had respect for high level players because of the time they spent getting there. Now when I see a high level that is obviously cheating I seriously question all of their achievements. Ive been playing RuneScape on and off for almost eight years. During that time Ive seen a lot of disgusting and irritating things, but this goes right to the top of my list. Where are the Mods? I rarely see them anymore. When I do see one, theyre generally hanging around in a bank or at the Grand Exchange. Get out there and drop the hammer on some of these cheaters! I will quite often fish in one specific world. A Mod could walk into the Fishing Guild in that world, cast out a net, and catch it full because some of the offending players using programs to fish for them could be spotted by a blind man! Because I usually fish in the same world I know who the regulars are. These are the people I frequently see there. After fishing around the same people for a period of time it becomes very apparent which accounts are operated by human beings and which ones are operated by a program. Here are just four examples that I have seen players guilty of. No one example is exclusive to any one player. In fact, I have seen players guilty of all four examples. Since we cant name players in the forum, I shall refer to these four players as Larry, Curly, Moe and Shemp. Example 1: Larry gets attacked and poisoned by a strange plant. Fight or flight kicks in and Larry runs to the center of the bank, waits there a few seconds, and then returns to the dock to resume fishing. The poison activates, knocks off 1 or 2 hitpoints, and then Larry runs back to the center of the bank. This process repeats itself until the poison is gone. An account operated by a human being does not act this way. A human being avoids getting poisoned in the first place, unless they are careless and not paying attention. Still, a human goes to the bank for a dose of antipoison or just lets the poison run its course unless the loss of hitpoints would mean certain death. Example 2: Curly has a barb-tailed harpoon wielded and is fishing sharks. A random appears and spits his harpoon onto the dock. An account operated by a human being will pick up their harpoon and go back to fishing. Not Curly. Curly just continues to fish because he has a regular harpoon in his pack. A little while later his regular harpoon gets spit onto the dock. Again, Curly continues to fish because he has yet another harpoon in his pack! This is not normal behavior for a human being. It would seem that Curly has several harpoons so that if he loses one he can continue to fish until his owner returns to check on his progress. Example 3: Moe is busy fishing when he is approached by Dr. Jekyll. Moe ignores Dr. Jekyll until Mr. Hyde makes an appearance and starts beating on Moe like a bongo drum. Moe just sits there and takes it until he gets low on hitpoints, at which time he starts running back and forth like a chicken with its head chopped off. Every time he runs past Mr. Hyde he gets slapped upside the head. Needless to say, this scenario always ends badly for Moe. (The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play pinochle on Moes snout.) Again, human beings dont respond this way. Example 4: Shemp. (The lesser known of the Four Stooges.) Shemp is the statue you see on the Fishing Guild docks and various other places in RuneScape. He doesnt fish. He doesnt talk. He doesnt log out. He doesnt even get randoms. He just stands there like a mannequin while the squirrels cover his feet with leaves and the pigeonswell, you get the picture. Once more, this is not normal behavior for an account operated by a human being. I have seen statues in the same spot for as many as three hours! Remember the level 3 bots and how they would run from tree to tree looking like a conga line on the dance floor? Of course you do. Well, Ive seen this at the Fishing Guild. Instead of level 3 bots that all look like they were created from the same mould these bots are all high levels. Many of them with skill capes. Doesnt it make you wonder how they earned, or rather didnt earn, those skill capes? Why would a human operated account chase the same fishing spot from dock to dock, running past identical fishing spots in the process? They wouldnt. These are accounts programmed to fish from a specific spot. Wherever that fishing spot goes, they follow it. The genuine non-cheating players are just as easy to identify. These are the people who slam on the brakes at the end of the dock and retrace their steps to the nearest fishing spot. Another interesting observation I made was that no matter what time of the day or night I logged in to do a little fishing, the same individuals were always there. These are individuals who display all the telltale signs of using a program, so I conducted a little experiment just for kicks. I selected a few of them and made note of their fishing experience in the hiscores. I checked again 24 hours later to see how much experience they had gained. The amount was staggering! There are only three ways I can think of for someone to gain that much experience in a 24 hour period. 1. Using a program to have that account fishing 24 straight hours. An offense you can be banned for. 2. Multiple people logging onto that account to keep it fishing 24 straight hours. Another offense you can be banned for. 3. You have no life. Therefore, you sit in your parents basement and play RuneScape until the men in white coats show up and throw a butterfly net over you! I think its a very sad state of affairs for the RuneScape community when high level players feel a need to cheat like this. Now dont go thinking this is skill cape envy on my part because it isnt. My fishing level is 84 and my woodcut level is 92. I will eventually have a cape for both of those skills and I am very proud to say that they will be earned honestly. I wish some Mods would get busy and start cracking down on this problem. Ive used the Report Abuse button on several of these players, but its gotten to the point where I feel like Im trying to hand out speeding tickets at the Indy 500! UPDATE: I had an hour or so to kill today, so I thought to myself, Self, lets go do a little fishing. (I often have little conversations with myself as Im such a fan of good conversation.) So anyway, Im at the Fishing Guild making life difficult for its aquatic residents when a level 138 catches my attention. (It probably got experience for catching that, too!) The level 138, whom we will now refer to as MoeRon, had committed Example 2. Everyone else on the dock now faded into the background like scene extras as MoeRon took center stage under the glow of a baby spotlight and my ever watchful eye. I continued fishing while I watched for some more abbienormal behaviorand then it happened BAM! MoeRon got owned by a random like a narc at a biker rally! (Insert laugh track here.) This explained why MoeRon didnt have a skill cape or some pricey item on display, like most level 138s, and was carrying only harpoons. No tears were shed, but I will confess to a little dancing. Curiosity got the best of me so I looked MoeRon up in the highscores. Imagine my dismay and total disgust when I discovered that MoeRon is one of the top 10 players in the game! I didnt even consider pressing the Report Abuse button. Whats the point? I might as well press my belly button for all the good it will do. I have very little faith that Jagex will take action against any high level cheater, never mind one of the top players. There are probably better odds of bumping into Paris Hilton at a Mensa meeting! Now before Im accused of painting with too broad of a brush, just let me say this: Im not saying that all the top players cheat. Im sure there are many legitimate players who have worked long and tedious hours to get where they are. If youre one of these players and have taken offense to what I have posted, then I offer you a very humble apology. Disclaimer: MoeRon is a completely fictional name. Any similarities between MoeRon and a real moron are purely coincidental. No sharks, swordfish, tuna or lobsters were harmed during the posting of this rant.

Don't be alarmed people...this is only a test. :)