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I would point out that there isn't a monster in Runescape called "Troll." There's "Mountain troll" and "Troll general" and "Ice troll" and "River troll" and "Undead troll." No "Troll." :ugeek:

If you're planning on getting 99 slayer you definitely should not go out and chin to 99 range beforehand, because you're already going to be getting millions of ranged xp from your cannon, which you'd probably be using on a bunch of tasks. I would recommend getting your melee and slayer goals first. Chinning at high levels is cheaper than chinning at low levels, so you'll save money by getting the slayer first...if you're not in a hurry, anyway.

No, it isn't. What, do you honestly think that players will become mods by indiscriminately reporting anything they see? That's ridiculous and simply not true. Autoreporting would be unnecessary. We have something called the censor that already neuters offensive phrases. An autoreporting function would only catch words that are already censored, and that would be pointless. And if they can make the autoreporter detect censor evasions, the obvious solution would be to give that ability to the censor...not create a whole new waste of time. They're still baseless generalizations, that's where. Reading what you've written gives me much more cause not to believe you, as I've never seen a player mod acting the way you portray them. They get their status primarily by being a helpful and polite member of the community whose abuse reports have all been accurate and fair. Except you don't know how these players get their status. The crown isn't there to be a status symbol. It's to prevent mod impersonation. If players do view it as a status symbol, it's hardly the fault of the mod in question. Yes, gleefully report others who are breaking the rules. That's why the reporting system exists. And if it turns out the reports are false, well, they're not likely to become a mod, are they? False. False. Threaten to mute you because you were breaking the rules, I imagine. If you saw a mod abusing their power, then the proper course of action would have been to report them for it. As it stands, unless you have provided a transcript of this incident, I'm not inclined to be sympathetic to you.

I don't know if you're really an idiot, so I won't make any assumptions...but if you aren't, then you sure do a good impression of one. :roll: The reason rares are dropping is, y'see, the Grand Exchange bases its prices on actual transactions that occur. Before the Grand Exchange, players decided what they wanted to sell for, and the assumption was that rares would rise over time. So they would buy and sell them at prices that gradually increased over time. With the Grand Exchange, in order for the price to go up, players couldn't just arbitrarily decide to sell for more, because the price is set. In order for the price to go up, the item has to actually be traded at a higher price. And as it turned out, the prices people were really willing to sell them at were a lot lower than buyers thought they were before the GE. So they ended up being sold at lower prices instead of higher ones. The demand for rares has always been pretty dry, and now it's drying up faster than the supply, especially with the introduction of newer, more useful high-end items like godswords and spirit shields.

Obviously all of the above. It's not like you need to pick just one and never use any of the others...this isn't WoW. The best one would be the lv138 with 99s in all of em. Duh.

Free potions would be less important than free runes and arrows, and we don't get free runes and arrows.

It's not like AFKing was hard to do before the 5-minute auto logoff...it was fairly simple to put a weight on the keyboard to keep yourself logged in. And just because you don't die from randoms because you are AFK now doesn't mean you can just AFK and get away with it, because you'll get teleported to some random location and you won't be training anymore. You know, I once died because I lost connection while I was fishing and a river troll picked that moment to show up and attack me. This change is definitely for the better.

Yeah, the whole wildy is a hotspot. And I believe it is multicombat there.

You could stay in single combat spots.

I disagree. The Miscellania tree is much closer for topping up your favor than any other method of going to Miscellania (the lyre teleport is actually pretty far), and it lets you stop to plant a poison ivy bush for a free ~1k farming xp on the way. Plus you don't need to bring an axe because you can just help the farmer with tools from the leprechaun or hand-fish some swordfish for the fisherman. Definitely not useless. That's where I was planning to put mine, anyway. The Brimhaven spot is good for tree runs if you still want experience after maxing out your farming already, and it's good for metal dragon tasks if you don't skip them, which you should because they're a horrible task anyway. The Port Sarim spot would have been useful for quick access to the Spirit Tree network except that you can teleport to the GE with Varrock tele now, and it's just as fast. There's not much of interest in Port Sarim that can't be accessed just as fast or faster in some other way, and you can already charter boats there, or use the cabbage teleport and end up at the Spirit Tree patch pretty much just as fast as you could get there by going to another tree. So that's the one that's really useless IMO.

Well you agree with him anyway...I'm sure we can all concede that anyone who wants to train slayer is free to train it all they like, it's just that they'll be sacrificing some speed and profit to do it. The hole in the theory would come up if you're a crazy fast slayer who can somehow get faster experience from slayer than from some other method, and even then it would still be a relatively poor method for obtaining charms because of all the tasks that don't drop a lot of them.

Familiars will attack other players, yeah, but you'd need to call them because their AI is slow to respond to you being attacked. It only works on players who you are already in combat with, which I suppose is the purpose of those scrolls that tell familiars to attack...I guess they let them attack guys that aren't already attacking you. As for barker toads, their timer is bugged and they last less than 10 minutes, so you'd never want to use one anyway.

Some p2p'ers might be PKing in f2p. There are definitely advantages, such as not getting hit with a near-instant KO from D Claws.

I tell people to train slayer for charms all the time. It usually goes something like this. Someone: What's the best thing to kill for charms? Me: Waterfiends. Someone: I can't kill waterfiends, they're too hard and/or I can't afford the equipment. Me: Then kill dust devils for charms until you're strong enough for waterfiends. Someone: I don't have 65 slayer. Me: Then train slayer for charms until you can kill dusties, then kill dusties for charms until you can kill waterfiends. Someone: Okay. Basically, slayer is the third choice at best when it comes to charms. And I don't even consider rock lobsters because so few people can truly afford to be killing them.

That's just it though. If holiday items are only re-obtainable after so many years of holiday events, it doesn't take away from their position as a symbol of your account's longevity, because you still need to have been playing for a long time to earn it. So nothing would be taken away from you. And if completion of 5 or 6 Halloween events to get a scythe and 5 or 6 Easter events to get bunny ears is too low for you, you can always wear your scythe and bunny ears at the same time if you really care all that much. You'd still have 5 years before any new players can get new copies of them anyway.

Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet That was :roll: , not :cry: . Which only further shows that you are indeed ignoring what I say. :P Having the ability to dress up in a different costume is an advantage. It proves that not everyone can go out and get their hands on a rare. Bank space falls under "not technically possible at this time", as they have to upgrade the system to allow for bigger character files before they can add more bank space. Servers fall under discussed to death. They've already said in past threads that they will not make it possible to obtain holiday event items if you weren't there for them, as it goes against the intent of the items in the first place. They said they had no plans on completing the dragon armor back in runescape classic, but changed that because of demand from players. There's a big difference between releasing a piece of armor everyone wants, and removing the exclusivity of a couple dozen items just because of about 20 whiny players. You said it deals only with things that are not going to come out. Plus, a couple of suggestions on that list were actually responded to in the latest Q&A. So it's not like it's just stuff that is flat-out not going to happen. Even if it was, this is not a speculation thread. I'm arguing that this change should be implemented, not that it will be implemented. Obviously Jagex's current policy disagrees with the suggestion I'm advocating, because I'm talking about a change in policy. I'm not trying to describe the status quo. I'm trying to argue for a change in the status quo.

Source? I've been playing for years. Your whining isn't new. People complained when Santas/Phats/etc. were becoming collectibles. People complained when there weren't enough Bunny Ears dropped. People complained when they weren't home when scythes were dropped. Jagex doesn't give a flying [bleep]. They're not going to give another chance years after and you're a joke for thinking otherwise. If you're just going to flame and ignore me, you might as well not post in the first place. Yes, things like "More bank space" and "New servers." They'll never do any of that. :roll: Agreed. Those who think that selling an infinite amount of a rare item at an expensive price will not cause a drop in value are wrong. The point of a rare item's price is it's exclusivity. People are willing to pay millions for a holiday rare because of the fact that it's a) rare and B) discontinued. I guarantee people won't buy a Blue Partyhat for 300mil when ANYONE and EVERYONE could eventually get one. Hell, I doubt anyone would buy one for more than 10 gp. Because as soon as everyone has the potential to get their hands on one, Partyhats, Masks and the Santa Hat become nothing more than another "Chef Hat". How are the prices going to drop if the shop sells them at the same price as the GE? Are you thinking that every noob will just go out and buy one? A chef's hat costs under 100 gp. A green mask costs about 100,000 times more than that. Not something every noob can go out and buy. Today's player-submitted poll had a question asking, "If you could have one of these things for a day, which would you want?" One of the options was 10m gp. I just checked, and it's only about 100 votes behind "All capes of achievement" at the time of this post, with more than 20% of the votes. Not to mention the additional 15% who voted for a godsword, which costs less than a phat. Besides, if you haven't noticed, rares have already been dropping steadily for months.

Do you and everyone that agrees with you lack the brain cell that helps you understand that the whole point of holiday items is to show you were there for the event? Got a source for that? I would have thought that if the only intention was to show you were there, you'd get a plain old receipt instead of a funny hat. My impression was that the rewards are meant to be fun little toy-type things for your personal enjoyment. And santa hats, h'ween masks, easter eggs, pumpkins, party hats, and cornucopias seem to contradict you. So...source? :-s

Magic isn't weak. It's just prohibitively expensive. I guarantee you that if runes were free, magic would be considered overpowered. As for "End Game" gear, the spirit shields require the equivalent of level 82 to wield (75 in def and 75 in prayer add up to about the same experience as 82). Elysian and Divine are the most expensive non-discontinued items in the whole game, and they're pretty damn powerful. I think they fit the description of what you're looking for pretty well, as do the Godswords. Probably the most fertile area for Jagex to explore in new armor is damage reduction rather than evasion. For example, an obvious place to go would be to make some sort of shield that reduces all the damage you take by 1.

How about just leaving it the way it is? Because there are problems with the status quo that could be fixed? Say for a moment that I, like more than half of 'Scapers, consider the in-game appearance of my character to be an integral part of the game. Or perhaps I want to have a friendly snowball fight with some friends. Or maybe I want to dress like the Grim Reaper and crack jokes like "You're next," or "See you soon," or silly things like that. Now say I joined the game last year. While other players will be able to have scythes and hoods and snow globes that allow them to dress up the way they want, that will never be possible for me unless a change in policy occurs. Never. And that is a problem. Just because it's arguably a minor problem doesn't mean it isn't worth fixing. Jagex has shown that they're more than willing to effect fixes to minor annoyances like these in the very recent past. So in response, I ask you: why shouldn't it be changed?

I liked the BTS, but if it means better Quality Assurance then I'm willing to give it up. Frankly, the QA team has failed spectacularly on a lot of the updates this past year or so. Vinesweeper sucked and needed to be fixed. Stealing Creation sucked and needed to be fixed. Bounty Hunter sucked and needed to be fixed. Clan Wars sucked and needed to be fixed. The trade limit sucked and needed to be fixed. Summoning sucked and needed to be fixed. Duel Tournaments still suck and still need to be fixed. If giving up Behind the Scenes means that these updates won't effectively still be in the beta testing stage at the time of release, then goodbye and good riddance.

Ooh...someone's been buying gold... :lol:

Making rares available to everyone does not necessarily mean making them free. If phats were fixed at an unlimited supply at a price of 100m each, they would still be available to everyone willing to get 100m to pay for them, and their status would not be diminished in the least. Similarly, a holiday item can be made available to all players and still remain symbols of seniority. If a chicken suit can only be re-obtained after completing a minimum of three Easter events, then you still need to have an account at least two years old to wear one...just like you would today. The problem with this that I can see is that while it shows a certain amount of age, as the game gets older it will become less useful for showing the age of your account. And I've thought about that and come up with what I think is a fair solution. If the exact year you started playing is something people are interested in displaying, perhaps Jagex could release some sort of cape or something with the year of account creation on it? They do have that information, no? I could imagine a "2003 Cape" that's just a solid color with "2003" on the back. Since newer players could still obtain more or less the same cape (just with a different number on it) there would be none of the same problems that other items have. The major downsides I could see would be that for one thing, you wouldn't be able to wear it with a skillcape, which would be sad. And for another thing, players might not like the color or design. For the first problem, the cape is the most visible equipment slot, so it would be ideal for displaying a number, but it could just as easily be put in the head or chest slot as well. Or, in Barbarian Assault your cape slot is used to make the little glowy thing around you...the item could be worn in a different slot and project the year number elsewhere on the character's sprite. That would be fancy. For the second problem, perhaps they could come in different colors the way Team Capes do. I think these solutions would be a good way to solve the various problems associated with discontinued items.

Probably both.

My thoughts on evil trees is that they should be faster experience than chopping normally if you happen upon one, but that'll happen infrequently enough that you don't need to change your woodcutting habits to fit them unless you want to. However, if you did want to, the best way to spend your temporary unlimited inventory space would be on willows. I don't plan on adding a section on evil trees until I know more about them, because I don't want to give out false information when I can help it. And since I'd rather not personally investigate the sort of rewards you get from them, it might be a while before I can fit them into the guide.