Blutters

It's the first newspost on the main site... It was interesting to look at the names on my FL but I've no idea what they show. I know most of my friends' original names and many of those friends' display names were not shown as their original.

Saw someone in corping gear (Gano, fury, etc, not rags) with white/silver boots with orange bands, which I'd never seen before. I know, a picture would be helpful, and a picture I had, but Paint botched it inexplicably. I'm curious because they were the exact same colors as Goliath Gloves (White), minus the particles of course. I don't think they were base clothing. I believe they had some small spurs on the backs. EDIT: :wall: I see now. They were these sandals but with different colors. He must have had a darker skin color. The spurs are there too...

More bloom! Also, hadn't been there in a while before today, but FFA ClW kinda sucks now. There's a bunch of people using unicorns, polypore, OVL, etc. What's the point? To show how pro you are tryharding vs people who just want simple fights?

Wondering how he managed this, lol. Originally only clicked because I saw the black thing on the left side of the helm...

I dungoneeer solo pretending I am like Indiana Jones. Tell that to the C2 Fishing people :P I would generally agree, except that I don't mind if people make armor (or what have you) if it's at least helpful and they try to do it quickly. It's just that a lot of the time people who make armor (randoms, anyway) don't try to be quick about it or end up not helping afterwards. It's just so engrained in higher DGers' minds that skilling is wasteful that the only people doing it are inexperienced and going to perform badly in other categories too, thereby giving skilling in general a worse image than it deserves.

These trailers get more entertaining and further from reality every time.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but my friend brought to my attention that it is no longer possible to report for RWT. I'm not sure if this is new or not, since I usually just report bots that message me for encouraging rulebreaking.

The current system works fine, you can spend a few minutes making the armour if you wish to do so or you can spend your time finishing the dungeon. So you don't have a solution. At least you're honest about it. About the actual update, hopefully, the belt will be modified by the ring. The more you upgrade the skiller slot, the more higher tier items you can store on your belt. Hate to see it like the in game belt where there's no pre-requisite for the slots and what goes in them (besides the untradeable quest specific items). I'd love to see some other things like that. Maybe upgrading the Tank class all the way allows you an additional bind for off-hand items?

Microtransaction isn't really new to jagex. Their new game, war of legends, you need to pay £69 for 1000 jagex credits, and with these credit you can upgrade armour, buy chest and buy rare item that needs hundreds of hours of work to get without any jagex credits. Initally there werent much people buying jagex credits because frankly they were damn expensive. soon enough jagex started offering double top up weekend, triple top up day, and some amazing offers. This is where the game start to collapse. A small amount of people started buying mass amount jagex credits and their army grew and grew, while the rest of players gets conquered and quit the game. Now, two years since the release of war of legends, each server have about 30 active players out of 20k slot. I really hope this isnt where runescape is gonna end up. Thanks for the info, and yet another example of this mmo-killer pattern. This is exactly what I'm worried about, I'm yet to see a single exception where this idea doesn't becomes the reason a mmo dies or goes to zombie state. All of the above is interesting because A) it sets precedent of J having already killed off one of its games and yet continuing on a potentially similar path anyway. B) the Requiem game has more parallels to RS than immediately apparent. At RuneFest it was announced that Player Owned Ports would have you sending out ships in search of rare recipes and resources to create endgame equipment.

Starting out with all the tools would slightly encourage me to DG. It's like I can go straight out the door. I don't like the sound of stackable resources though. It made sense for Essence since they're just a bunch of tiny uncharged runestones around the size of coins. It does not make sense for logs, bars, hides, etc... They're relatively large. I'm forced to wonder what will actually be filling our inventories now without tools and keys. I'm guessing herbs will remain unstackable, but there's really no guarantee. These days, the only dungeons I do are with friends, and although we're active the entire time, we each perform some unnecessary skilling, so I can dig starting out with a T9 pick/T10 axe, and I suppose the stackable resources will help with that too. Maybe these are J's attempt to get people to skill? I'm on the fence about a key belt. It's very frustrating to lose keys or have someone maliciously take them (not that that happens often) or have to collect them at HT if someone DCs. But this seems like too much. A spell to teleport the keys would fit better. Honestly, though, I will enjoy having that little bit of extra ease.

I'm certain that JaGEx incurs no net loss with players quitting. Players willing to buy these will cover those lost memberships. If anything, all they did was get rid of those early who would've quit when J releases direct item buying. In a way it's like they've transferred your collective loyalty into a smaller group of players that are unlikely to quit anytime soon because they'll continually invest more currency into their accounts. On another hand, there are those that've paid using larger subscription packages that J has been pushing more in recent times whose quitting will matter even less. Of course, I understand that some people are legitimately concerned with security issues than "punishing" JaGEx. I happen to think however that those people are in the minority. I'll still remain, although I will be transferring to my "auxiliary" membership queued from when I went with a friend to get green skin since there's no refunds. Because of that my membership's end will probably coincide with finals anyway...

Yeah, I noticed that I had 0-1 FPS in Varrock Square, until I lifted my camera overhead. If I lowered it, my FPS would instantly die. Thanks for the tip. I think if I log in now though I'll be stuck in this hell of slow motion, which I'm in no mood to deal with right now. Will probably just end up having to go to a foreign world to GTFO V Sq...

I have no framerate in Varrock Sq. Zilch.

This month pretty much plays into my current goals. Was on the fence about getting back into DG, but I'm pretty certain I will now. I'm not sure how stackable resources sound though... Maybe a little too far on that one. It sounds more like they're just dumbing it down than improving it, but I really don't care anymore. Loved the last Thok Saga which showcased the old J humor. Looking forward to more. Aside from that, Taskmaster is my personal endgame goal, so an RC minigame sounds great.

450+ people on RSOF RU lol. I think I'll resume going to bed...

Okay, everyone appologize to Blind_Auror now...

Not sure what this is, saw it on RSWiki's image feed...

Ah, I'd completely forgotten about those. I'd say probably not, unless they're confident that afterwards they've completely removed every single one, which, optimistic or not, seems unlikely. It probably won't be as "huge" a change as it was the first time, so there won't be as huge a celebration either.

Not to validate the original "slippery-slopers" but most people have become accepting of gamecard bonuses which would have more than likely been the "first step" to a "gentle introduction"... That said, you should change your title to something with less exaggeration. It's quite misleading and will probably lead others to believe that microtransactions are ACTUALLY here. If anything the expansion to more platforms and partial or total abandonement of the now crutch-like Java are far more interesting to take from this.

This is what I was hoping for. However, I believe they'll release it after the combat rework that transfers special attacks to special "abilities". Hopefully said combat rework is extensive and makes slow weapons useful for at least the levels they're targeted at, but I don't believe we were given enough information to conclude such. I wish they'd just throw the DWH in the Heroes Guild shop and the Dragon Shortsword in at Zanaris as an "in other news..." kind of thing for the time being...

If I switch to DirectX then go to full screen, there is no change. Likewise, there is no perceptible change between OpenGL resizeable and full screen. However, if I go full screen with OpenGL then attempt to switch to DirectX, the screen will freeze until it times out and switches back to OpenGL. The same is not true for the reverse. Curious I suppose, but what effect was going full screen supposed to have anyway?

[qfc]15-16-994-63650714[/qfc] ??? I think it would be a bit lazy to have an "everywhere else" diary...

Does look pretty cool :thumbup: . If only we could recolor DFS.. :ph34r: Also, anyone else notice that Dragoon's rs character and tif avatar are facing the same way?...kinda went wtf at first lol. Happens with auras, amusingly including the new eye ones. Strangely it persists until you log out, but only if you hold the same items in your hands you were when the water effect activated. You can even unequip everything, reequip your held items and the eyes will go back to blue. :)

Killed one abby spec for the task, got that clue. Not bad even if it's only 360k :D Now all I need is 594 tt and I can finish elite. You can get your familiar to appear on the boat event pretty easily actually. Just try walking on all 6 steps, usually works. I had to direct my titan to attack the tentacles but it did help. :)