Troacctid
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Can we just get more set bonuses? Set bonuses are cool.
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I fail to see the point in donating bonds.
Yay! Let's pay Jagex $5 so that they give it to charity!... Wait... Why buy a bond to donate to charity when I can just directly donate to any of those charities instead?
Unless we can donate bonds bought from other players, in which case directly donating GP is pointless.
I believe you can donate bonds bought from other players. However, some players may not like the hassle of that. Gotta go buy the bonds, remember only can put in offers for 6 maximum in g.e. at once (1 per slot). Gotta wait for someone to sell them. Thats if you have the gp at hand to donate. If you have items you need to sell those first then buy. With well you can just throw the items or cash in and be done.
Also, of course gp is a worse deal than bonds. Jagex is using their own money when you use gp or items, with bonds they're donating the money of the person who bought the bonds.
Bonds only work in increments of 7m. Gold can be donated in whatever amount you like.
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You can have a personal opinion of something and still hold it separate from doing your duties that seem to conflict with it. Additionally, it's less of a positive statement and more of a "everything that Jagex said about the bonds update has been fabricated nonsense."
Most people don't have a problem with Jagex selling bonds. And while they understandably can't just say, "We wanted a piece of the pie to bolster our profits since you guys don't seem to care" it's still a little frustrating to the average player regardless of what your stance on RWTing is.
It is exactly what Jagex would do if they legitimately wanted to stop gold farming for the long-term health of the game. I don't see the fabricated nonsense.
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I don't actually understand how this was supposed to make it easier to compete on the hiscores. If I'm level 80, how does it help me compete against someone who's 99? They have just as big a head start as they had before. If I have 99, I can prestige and...what? Try to catch up to the guys who already have 5 prestige? Increase my rank from 10,000 to 8,000? Removing the cap only makes it more competitive for players who are capped already.
I think that all the 200m people start even when they reset, actually. AFAIK, the way they described it nobody got extra prestiges for having more than 13m xp.
I also suppose it's possible that it might help use up some of the obscene gold piles many of those players have. Since they'll all be spending +40% ge price on resources to get them quick, so they can be the first to power through another 200M <buyable skill> xp.
I know you don't get extra prestiges for more than 13m xp. I meant the people who have actually prestiged five times. How are you supposed to be in the running if you aren't starting right when it first comes out?
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I don't actually understand how this was supposed to make it easier to compete on the hiscores. If I'm level 80, how does it help me compete against someone who's 99? They have just as big a head start as they had before. If I have 99, I can prestige and...what? Try to catch up to the guys who already have 5 prestige? Increase my rank from 10,000 to 8,000? Removing the cap only makes it more competitive for players who are capped already.
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btw, in case you didn't read the patch notes, head over to the monastery cabbage patch after that one recent quest and talk to the monk there for a good laugh
(if you're nice, you can also help him out)
He doesn't say anything different for me, just "Thanks for saving my rosebushes."
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Sorry, 99 is not the top. Didn't you get the memo? People level past 99 all over the place and it's mandatory to do so if you want to increase your player ranking on the high score board. If you say that doesn't matter, then why complain about Prestige because all it does is change how players are ranked on the high scores board. There's no ingame benefit and in fact its more a detriment.A lot of the (mostly legit) moaning about Prestige comes from people saying that not taking into account experience past level 99. Anything else that says players feel compelled to do it just means Jagex is doing it right. Without a target it now becomes a race against other players. Do you think you can beat SUOMI? Then start leveling everything. Want that top 25 spot in Agility, start running the courses. No endgame bs, just player versus player ranking without the game mechanics limiting the goal line.
Plus, Everto above you claimed only 200 people would care about this. Haleluya, cheese and rice! You mean there won't be this insane leveling to 200m anymore then mission accomplished. Of course he's wrong and thousands will level Prestige because now they all have a chance to be a top spot over those that abandoned a particular skill after 200m. Those in the overall ranking also will start leveling all skills spreading out the love and probably alleviating the stress on expensive skills since they also have to go back to the easy skills if they want their overall rank to continue increasing.
Most players don't care about the top of the hiscores. The prestige system explicitly tells them to start caring.
Players do what the game tells them to do. If you tell the players to do something that's not fun, they'll do it, and they won't have fun. That's not just a maxim of game design, it's something we've repeatedly seen in the past.
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After giving it some thought, I dislike the idea of prestige. 99 is the top. It's already a stupidly high top. It doesn't need to be higher--if anything, it should be lower.
If I spend 150 hours maxing a skill, I want to be done with it. I don't want the game to tell me I'm just getting started.
The vast majority of players do not have skillcapes at all. And if you do get a skillcape, there are still 25 other skills for you to max. And if you max out every skill, there's still the completionist cape. And if you have that, there's still theAFK Castle Wars capetrimmed completionist cape. We're drowning in pointless post-endgame achievements as it is; we don't need more. The more we have, the more the game becomes about maxing (AKA endless grinding). For Guthix's sake, don't encourage it.
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If the question is ever which god would win in a fight, then what we really need to know is which god is the most popular? Because there is no way Jagex is going to kill off a god without a world event like the Battle of Lumbridge.
Completely unrelated, but after the quest, Azzanadra and Wahisetal seem to be upset that you didn't side with the Zarosians. But if you sided with Guthix in TWW, it doesn't give you an option to support Zaros, this time, does it? Seems shortsighted on Jagex's part. We are locked into the choices from TWW, even though the circumstances have changed and some of us might have wanted to support Zaros now that Guthix is gone. I thought we were supposed to have choice! Why do the Zarosians keep telling you after each quest that they were upset with you, but because you have been useful in the past that you might change your mind, when you can't do this?
Do they say that even if you signed up with the Zarosian emissary?
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I don't remember Mierin being in Die Another Day.Is it just me or did anyone else notice the James Bond reference in the quest?
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If you didn't, when you were talking to the statue of Death, the statue will say "You are cleverer than you look.", and your character will respond with "You look cleverer than you are". These are reference to Die Another Day where just after Q have demonstrated the glass shattering sonic ring, Bond will say "You are cleverer than you look.", while Q responds with "Still, better than looking cleverer than you are."
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I really enjoyed this quest, but I think that jagex needs to rethink their idea of restarting all the quests. As a new player, jumping into MPD as your first members quest would be ridiculously confusing. You would have no idea who most of the characters are (esp. Ichthalarian and Silske). I like the idea of making quests accessible to everyone but I think this should be done by removing skill requirements from all quests and scaling combat (but better then it was done in this quest). Leave the requirements to claim the rewards, and leave the quest requirements in their logical order.
I highly doubt a new player's first quest will be a member quest on the opposite end of the continent from where you start.
[hide]Thing is, if some of the Gods do end up dying, then the few that remain will probably have exhausted a lot of power to kill the others. That would probably mean they'd be easier to kill after the "event" is over.
Also, the moon is called "Zanaris"....so the fairies live on the moon or just a shared planar name?[/hide]
Zanaris is Gielinor's moon. It's on the same plane, but, you know, in space. You can see it in an orrery, orbiting the main planet.
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Well that quest was pretty damn good. Enjoyed it about as much as The World Wakes. Certainly better than that Dwarf quest from the other day anyway.
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Why did Sliske throw the key to us to unlock Death's cage? Did I miss something, or is that something likely to be explained later?
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Isn't that what he promised to do if Icthlarin showed up? So he kept his promise. Bet you didn't expect that!
That Sliske. Always keeps you guessing.
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I hope any cosmetic rewards don't go beyond "Thing with a number on it".
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Huh.
This is interesting.
To be honest, I didn't like the prestige system when they used it before. Losing all your progress is a drag. Having an "off" button helps a lot, though. I'm curious what impact this will have on the game.
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But is it really 'corruption'?
Or is someone viewing thing as a business exactly what a game like Runescape needs to survive?
It's all very well making an amazing game but if the business is not viable it will flicker out and die as quickly as it was made.
I'd much rather have an amazing game with longevity that has a few RWT-esque features I'm not a huge fan of than one that is a forgetten relic because it wasn't financially viable.
It depends where the corruption is.
If Mod MMG was getting a bigger paycheck each time he were to increase income dramaticaly then he may get the idea "Never mind the game, I want my bonus'"
On the other hand, if the additional profits were rolled back into the game, then we'd have to consider the good it does for the game via more resources and a bigger budget. One could argue that funding such investments provides significant benefits to RuneScape's long-term health, easily outweighing the moral cost of allowing some players to trade money for time--which they could already do.
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Help me out here... I'm not quite sure I'm understanding this completely. We can buy a bond direct from Jagex for $5.00. The bond can be used directly for 14 days of membership, 8 SOF spins or 160 RuneCoins. OR...
However, if we want to use it as regular RS coins (gold) to buy and sell items in-game (or gift it to others) the value is set by the current rate on the GE? (this is what I'm thinking)
So let's say I want to buy a Dragon this or that which costs 5million RS gold currently - and I spend $5 to buy a bond - and that bond is trading at 5million RS coins - I can buy my Dragon this or that by selling my bond -- right?
And does that mean if I have a bond in my bank it is worth whatever the going rate of exchange is for them?
I'm not sure why I'm confused.. or if I even am confused.. :)
The bond is a tradable item in-game that you can sell on the Grand Exchange like any other tradable item. It cannot be used for coins. You have to sell it to another player to get the gp.
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Insta-sell prices I got from cashing in some resources tonight:
Tetsu Legs: 4.5m
Seasinger Bottom: 2.3m
Death Lotus chaps: 2.1m
Scrimshaw of Vampyrism: 300k
Tree-shaking scrimshaw: 100k
Rocktail soup: 6.8k
Gem-finding, Log-splitting, and Rock-crushing scrimshaws did not insta-sell at any price, so that was a bust.
Upate: Gem-finding sold at 67k. Rock-crushing sold at 55k. Blech.
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Damn, I was hoping I could buy one of the cool teleports. The helicopter is okay, I guess, but not really my first choice.
Thing is the pricing of the SGS as a whole is pretty arbitrary though, just look at the rediculous cost of things like the assassins pack compared to other items/membership
The shadow assassin was a lot better and cheaper anyways. I forget, but what was in the assassin's pack? You get the outfit, and what else? All the other packs (Guthix/hero) had teleports and emotes, I don't recall the assassin's pack having a teleport.
It has a teleport, an emote, and a title, as well as the outfit.
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Anyone find that they can't access the HTML5 Beta nor the NIS at all, with the pages simply linking back to each other, and the combined option getting stuck loading?
Same exact problem for me on two computers. Hadn't had access to HTML5 previously either so halfway looking forward to trying it out and beta testing while skilling.
I had this problem and fixed it by logging in to the website.
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What's wrong with 17 different looking bones, that's kinda neat or were it actually 17 seperate items in your bank?
They're all identical at icon size. All it did was chew up your bank space for no reason. Baffling why they would do it in the first place, really.
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Insta-sell price update:
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You definitely want the claw just because it's cheaper. Enhanced Excalibur has your offhand covered, so you only need a mainhand weapon, and the claw is half the price of the others. And even if Excalibur gets nerfed and you need to buy an offhand chaotic to go with it, you're still saving 100k compared to a rapier or longsword. They have the same DPS, so no point wasting tokens.
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Sold all my Greenman's Ale (m) at nearly full price. Guess people haven't caught on to the banner boost yet. :mrgreen:
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Wow I feel dumb... Not because I bought any, but just because the only use I'd thought of so far was to boost the barb advanced course for a half hour a day.
I don't think there any boosts that aren't useful--they let you use higher level training methods without having to pot up every two minutes. Some of the skills don't have a lot of options for it either, like runecrafting and smithing. And they work in Daemonheim too, right? You could pot up for free before you start a floor?
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Sold all my Greenman's Ale (m) at nearly full price. Guess people haven't caught on to the banner boost yet. :mrgreen:
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Is it worth having assassins tell you that their target has a hat, when everybody in the port has a hat?
The very first assassin event I did, the first four clues were "The target is wearing a hat. That should narrow it down." There was only one guy who wasn't wearing a hat. Then the fifth clue was "The target is not wearing a hat." I legitimately thought it was supposed to be a joke.
11-Dec-2012 - Player-Owned Ports
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Just instasold seasinger top at 4821k. Little under the guide price today.