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    200M in all Skills

    in General Discussion

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    I've tried to start writing one a couple times in the past, but I always give up early on because I'd rather just go back to doing Agility instead of just writing about it. I'm usually a lazy guy. :P

     

    @Makaveli

    Do you see now why I'd rather be respected for my other accomplishments instead of just for grinding Agility for many thousands of hours? Grinding won't teach you this.

     

    Shame. Maybe one day you'll lose your Internet connection and you'll have nothing to do but write it lol. Hopefully you don't have a RS simulator :P.

    200M in all Skills

    in General Discussion

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    Jebrim, are you planning on ever compiling your knowledge into a guide (or several, as the case will probably be)?

     

    It would be very useful stuff. Maybe only appreciated by a fraction of the RS community, but you don't seem to particularly enjoy associating with the rest anyway.

    200M in all Skills

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Is Jebrim's last posts' content old information for others or have I just spent 3-4 years being unusually 'micro-efficient' to some extent without really realising it?

     

    Everyone is microefficient to the extent they think about the inner workings of the game. Some naturally think quite deeply. Some don't really care because they're watching movies at the same time.

     

    I'm quite sure a significant minority knew about that particular example or similar ones. I'm also sure Jebrim has more sophisticated tricks he's not writing about because they'd take too long to explain.

    200M in all Skills

    in General Discussion

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    That is some very interesting information, and I very much thank you for sharing it with us.

     

    However, that pretty much confirms something I already knew - as a casual player, such micro-efficiency is far more in-depth than I care to go. If I wanted to play for efficiency, however, that would be incredibly useful information, and at the least it's an interesting read and will let me understand a bit more of what goes on when I'm frantically clicking.

     

    Agreed. The effort/exp ratio is horrendous. But it's nearly a separate game in its own right. Closer to general problem solving than the grind RS usually is. I actually think it seems more fun than regular Runescape.

    200M in all Skills

    in General Discussion

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    Thank you for that information Jebrim. Most interesting thing I've read on this thread in ages.

     

    It's evident you're playing RS on the meta-level (Not that it wasn't obvious before lol). No wonder most of RS doesn't appreciate what you're doing.

    What's the player base like these days?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I may be an absolute naive idiot, but in watching my brother play, and comparing it to when I first starteds playing 7 years ago, I have to say that it has changed for the worse.

     

    Although the player base was artificially high due to the botting, I think it's apparent Jagex is having issues maintaining membership issues. At this point it seems as if any member is better than none, and they are catering to the really young crowd. The playerbase now seems to be for the most part a young, naive, annoying as hell group of people.

     

    I know there are certainly groups of good people, but overall it's just sort of shitty, from what I can tell.

     

    Of course this is not to say that it was ever great.

     

    I remember people complaining about the miniclip kids.

    TBH I think the playerbase is more or less the same as it ever was, and it's just us growing older. With the possible exception of early RSC, when everyone knew everyone else (Or so they tell me, I wasn't around then).

    How money comes in and out of RS

    in Data and Research

    Posted

    I think you have most significant money sources/drains. The rest is just quibbling over tiny fractions that would be swamped by the uncertainty in the much larger sources/drains.

    The real question is how you're going to determine their magnitudes.

    I remember some Tip it Times articles on the total amount of gp a few years back. The method used was the same as this thread, but it was just a ballpark estimate, and Runescape has grown and diversified so much that a similar calculation would be a lot more difficult.

     

    Does anyone have any ideas on how to accurately estimate these numbers?

    Jiblix and Ken Genosis Demodded Over Speaking Out

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    So MMG leaves us with two scenarios we can believe in..

     

    1. He's telling the truth and Jagex actually cares about the future of the game as opposed to short term profits.

    Jagex is grossly incompetent at predicting the future. A significant number of people (including on these forums) told them that exactly this would happen, but they went on with it. Also, their super bot-detecting systems didn't work.

    Jagex is grossly incompetent at detecting/removing bots. No elaboration required.

    Jagex is grossly incompetent at deciding where to spend their money. If they're "spending a fortune" on combating RWT, the results tell me they're doing something very wrong.

    Jagex is grossly incompetent at consistency. "We hate bots" and permabans are consistent. "We hate bots" is not consistent with "We'll punish a negligible number of bots, and then give them temp bans with some stats rolled back so they can be botted back up".

    Jagex is grossly incompetent at PR. The existence of this thread attests to this.

     

     

    2. He's lying through his teeth. Short-term profits are now the priority. They are acting according to the shareholders' wishes (as any company does).

    Apparently, it's working.

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