DieselX

It is a question of effort, not of luck. Did you think Japan was just born with a good economy? They worked their way to what they are now. All that's needed is faith, and a little cooperation, and great things are possible. It's amazingly simple. Yet you block at "Oh, well, it's not possible", there is no rational basis behind that. It is possible, the only reason it's not happening is because people believe that's it's not possible so they don't even bother trying. Smart building. Since we're talking about Japan, remember how I said 128 million people are on that tiny island? There is roughly 60M people in each of France/Italy/Germany/Uk, etc. If we could reproduce even 1/4 of the space-saving strategies of the japanese, massive amounts of agricultural-potent land would be cleared. If we started applying these techniques immediately, in a couple of decades, it would already show great results. And in the following hundred of years, a massive difference, and a flawless set-up for all centuries to come.

Read on... In life there are good things, and bad things. Everyday, tons of small bad things happen to us. Sometimes it's just a bad thought, you see something you don't like, something happens, or something that's said to you. And just as well, small good things happen all the time too. Everyday, our brain processes all these things. If you dwell on the bad things, they start consuming you. You boil with rage, sadness, out of all the accumulation of bad things. And if you let it, it leads you towards destruction. Of others, or of yourself. You can let go of the bad things that happened. And you can strengthen your resolve about the things that you refuse to accept. Sometimes, people say that you must accept and embrace your situation. But that is not always good thing. When there is something you disagree with, you don't accept it! That would be defeat. You strengthen your resolve and be the change you want to see in the world. You believe and have confidence in your power. The bad memories, let them go. People who say hurtful things, their opinions do not matter. That's an important thing to remember, because it is very serious. Some people say mean discouraging things, learn not to give them any importance. You have to be stubborn. Only bother remembering and cheerishing the good memories and good ideas. And just like that, you can change your outlook on life. Changing your outlook is just the beggining. Identify the things you like, and want to do, and take action to get them. You start moving when you take actions. It is said that time changes things, things change faster when you make a move. But! There are times to take a pause, and think. And there are times to start moving and apply your ideas. Times to take a pause and think are important, you relax and you heal the past. And then there is time to take action and make something new that you like!

Oh, I was told it was the aliens who created it as sort of test to see what it'd do To then of course, procceed to eat the corpses. TheTrueNoob is kinda right though. Rich countries buy stuff cheap off of poor countries. In africa, they make coffee beans grow, then the big corporations decide the price of what they will pay: something like 1 cent a ton(nah but seriously.. like 25 cent a ton). The farmers have barely enough to live. Then the companies re-sell it for major profits. Like, a coffee pot sold for 8$ cost like 1$ to them plus transportation/packaging. So the companies get richer, and the owners waste their money buying islands and building palaces on them. The consumers lose money... the poor famers lose money.. and everyone is unhappy except the corporations. Eliminate the middle-men, and everyone on the planet can afford to eat. That's what's implied when he/she blames capitalism. Sorry if you didn't catch that * :roll: * :P

Please explain so this doesn't seem so disgusting. Are you joking? It's an effective way of keeping the population in check. Without AIDS, population would boom. Can you imagine more people in this planet with the food crisis we're already having? Wow, you're insane. Even with more population, people just adapt and scientists find new ingenious ways to produce food, or introduce food rations(no more obese)! That's the best way to do it. Wishing people dead because you're afraid for yourself is cheap and cowardly. Look at japan, there are more than 128 million people on that little island, do they kill each other for space and food? No, they found all sorts of clever ways to economise space and cultivate/import food, and their culture and economy is thriving, with some of the lowest criminality rates in the world. And at the rate technology is going, in a few dozen years, underwater cities, floating cities or north/south-pole heated cities, space cities, or w/e, will all be possible. Besides, adequate punishment for your cowardise is that you die from aids yourself. We'll see if you enjoy being collateral damage. -.-

Skillscapes don't really show anything. I'd like to tackle that habit that people have to "worship" skillcapes, or hold them in high regards. It's a virtual game possession, like anything else. It's misplaced to give it respect or admiration. When you play Runescape, it's for fun, you ought to know what you're doing won't be useful in your life, and that you're basically just sitting on a computer and clicking. Everyone would want to play games all day long if they could. I guess what I'm trying to say is that game achievements should be "Cool, you got a 99, congratulations!", but don't start taking yourself seriously because you achieve something like that, it's still just a game! When people start being defensive, arrogant, and dead serious about game achievements, it's time to stop, take a break, and think things through. It's no coincidence that people who argue about 99s showing "skill", "talent" or "intelligence" are people who have several 99s and dedicate a lot of time to this game. Everyone would like to be able to play games all day long. If you could get a salary for playing Runescape, then everyone would play it, and everyone would have 99s. Nothing special about it. Like I said, a 99 deserves a kudos, but don't start taking yourself seriously about it. In the end, the difference between a skillcape and another, or having no skillcape, is the amount of time you are ready to put into the game. The more time you're ready to put into it... the more virtual skills and possessions you will have. That's time you will never get back though. People who play like its a job, to become the "best", and don't enjoy themselves have obviously lost sight of the point of playing: fun! And I'm not saying that because I'm jealous or w/e. I have a skillcape (thief) and some 90s+ in difficult skills (farm, craft, magic, mining, etc). And I can say: Virtual achievements in video games don't get you anywhere, don't be serious about it! Every once in while you have these people with 99 RC, 99 construction, or similar, acting like they're better than everybody else. It's like their ego is on the line all the time when talking about Runescape. That's a sign the game has taken too much place in their life when they get emotional about silly things like that. Ok, I'm done talking n__n

I never really pked, I wouldn't know how it was back then. But I will say this: The PK now sucks. It's way to easy for people to run away. The 3-hit rule back in RSC was gold. You couldn't run away from a fight until the enemy had hit you 3 times. PVP characters were made to have as much power as possible, to KO their target during these 3 hits.

Get 99 in a skill you really like, it doesn't matter when! People feeling obligated to get 99s as status symbols get 99s in skills they don't like, and the road to 99 can only be long and boring if you don't like the skill. It's like work, which kills the purpose of playing to begin with.

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Rune Armour Sets (l) Before: 147K After: 207K Big increase in that so smithers with high smithing are happy. The value of money has diminished since RSC. Getting 100k was several times harder than it is in RS2. 100k in RS2 doesn't buy you anything interesting. While in RSC, with 200k you could get a santa, or a partyhat for 1-3M. So even though the price has raised, the actual value of rune armour is a lot lower than it was. In RSC if you had 95+ smithing, you could get rich beyond belief. Now, you barely cut even.

PVP is all about the KO factor. You want strength to KO your opponent before he can eat, or in a non-food duel, before he KOes you. Someone with high def in PVP can't KO the other person, so they lose.

Jagex servers are fallible. Sometimes the lagg is due to one's computer or internet. But the jagex servers lag a lot themselves.

This topic is to suggest the closing lol of this topic. Yay or nay? I vote nay. This topic should remain open for further voting to adequately decide if the suggestion of closing it is valid.

But let's pretend it happens. How can we know it was really really 5% chance of happening? Maybe it was 86%, or 1% or 38349384903%. But it happened, so it's the same as if it had a 100% chance of happening. Meaning that something either happens or doesn't happen, statistics don't werk ^___~

Because some random shadowy website says so doesn't make it truth, or relevant in any way. Tip.it is the best fansite information-wise, community-wise, not so much.

Yep, that's basically what RS is. People start really wanting something, they get it, realize it's not that great, then run after the next whim.

Uhm, clashing of two philosophys. I like to do the same thing over and over again hours upon hours for crappy revenue. Me and my fellows tend to think only hard work should be rewarded, and that people who manage to get money quickly are lazy bums who don't deserve it. We frown upon everything that requires hand-coordination, only mind-numbing cheap work should receive respect. We consider ourselves righteous and everyone who disagrees with us is stupid, and evil. I like to run around killing people with my buddies. I call people names constantly, 'cause I know it annoys them and that satistifes my psychopathic tendencies. I can feel my E-ego growing longer and larger every time I manage to kill a victim. I like looting my victims and showing off my expensive stuff in edgeville. I'm generally an [wagon] with people, and don't expect much good conversation from me except LOLOLOLGTFO. :twss:

Don't make assumptions like that. I have four people on my friends list that are girls. How do I know this? One, three of them use Tip.It, and two, there typing style is different. News flash: it works. One way or another, when you meet someone, you picture them in your mind roughly, either you assume the character is indeed female, or a male with a female char, no tweener on this one. If I'm going to have someone as a friend, I'll ask them if they are male/female, but no surprises there: 90% of the time the girl character is a boy inrl. There are girls in the game, just in an abysmal amount, there was a poll that got hidden on the Jagex website, it showed that most players were little kids and that 90% of players were male. Those who were there back when they made that poll will testify. If you're going to assume something, assume whatever has the most likely odds: 90% boy versus 10% girls makes it a no brainer: girl characters are mostly boys. But yeah, girls type differently and have a different attitude than boys, you can spot a real girl if you stay somewhere for a while. Though sometimes it's hard to tell. But if you're just meeting someone 30 seconds, assume the female char is male inrl, the odds point towards that, thinking all girl chars are real girls is just stupid.

When I see a girl character, I go on the assumption that the person is male, not female. Females on mmorpgs is just a dream. Closest you get is girly males :mrgreen: Well, who knows, going by the same logic maybe the real femaled are hiding in males characters :?

It's not bad, it will stop manipulation, but it hurts honest investors who were trying to make some money with the normal fluctuations of the market. Meh, anything to stop manipulation, right? What's worrying is that tendency of Jagex's to put their noses in absolutely everything. They can't just let people trade things freely, nope, they just have to screw with it. Can't let it just go naturally, no that's just not right, they have to "fix" it. They just have to put warning messages everywhere, a million words to filtrer, a heap of silly rules with no real use, a controlled market, a set of defined chat phrases already typed up. They just can't help themselves, they have to put stops on everything. I don't play RS anymore, btw, the updates are pretty useless nowadays, and the community is awful. In the game I'm playing right now, the company doesn't intervene at all, apart from hosting events every 2 weeks or so. They don't touch at the economy, there is no filtrer, no warning screens, no report button, no ignore button, no random events, none of any of that. Is it chaos, anarchy, name-calling? Nope. That's just jagex trying to make you believe that you need all those stops, you don't. For instance, in RS, Jagex makes such a big deal out of transferring items from a character to another. In most games, obviously it allowed, it's your items, you do what you want with them. But jagex just has to make a big deal out of it. What's there to say? Congratz, manipulation is gone, but you had to gave up, yet again, some of your liberties for it. That's really what it boils down to. Jagex will just rip away from you all your liberties, and all your rights, and they will put in place "safer" measures because they think they have better judgement than you do. They just have to screw with every single thing that get's too fun, or too profitable. You're allowed to have fun, but just the kind of fun that Jagex judges you have the "right" to have.

Its amazing how much slayer gets all the time. Thats an outdated point of view, slayer is not good anymore. In its beginnings, slayer was pretty hard. All you had were dragon weapons or a whip if you were willing to pay the big price, no godswords, piety or anything like that. I reckon it took 6 months @ 4 hours a day for my friend to get 85 slay. Back then, to have 85 slay was a guarantee of richness. Time passed, and more and more people got high levels of slayer. Several updates speed up the levelling speed quite a bit. Dark bows and dragon boots gave slayer a boost, for a while, but when there are so many people with these levels, its bound not to last a long time. People keep saying all the time Slayer is good exp and good money. You do get exp, and drops, since youre killing monsters. But, good exp? You get twice that powerleveling. Good money? Not anymore, you can get 20x that boss hunting. Slayer is useless as it is right now. The only reason to train slayer is if you plan to go beyond level 90 slay, ~95+, in the off chance Jagex decides to add a new monster with good drops that requires a very high slayer level. The new whips. Thing is, thats just wishful thinking. They might never, in which case it was all a waste of time and you could have gained a lot of money using that time boss hunting. As for people who are training slayer right now, and dont plan or are not capable of going beyond level 90, then youre wasting your time. Its great if its your passtime, but dont kid yourself into thinking the time youre putting into slayer will have any rewards, it wont. Slayer used to be good money, not anymore, that's over since a long time already.

If your level is pretty high already, only pick blue and crimson

Thing is, at some points you have to let the old topics go. And ironically, when someone bumps an old topic, even if what they're saying is VALID and isn't spam at all, you have a troop of people coming in and screaming "OMG YOU BUMPED AN OLD TOPIC!". So really, what are we supposed to do? We can't bump old topics, we can't make new topics because someone 3 years ago made one exactly like that. If someone made a similar post 5 minutes ago: OK. But if someone 6 months ago made a similar post, I'm not going to go dig through heaps of garbage to make you happy.

Same principle, the monsters wont 2 hit us because our armor will become better overtime. Except the fact that the corporeal beast pretty much ignores armor... And what we have is tougher monsters. Not smarter. Just tougher. Bigger, stronger, with more hp and special abilities, but still capable of being soloed. This one is the first that will probably NEVER be soloed, but the tactics for this one seem pretty simple so far: Take a weapon. Take two pieces of armor. Get twenty warm bodies. Send said bodies in to be two hit until beastie eventually collapses from hp loss. Or exhaustion. I was responding to him that no, jagex won't raise HP, they will just create better armour. Just like they did now. About the armor ignoring thing: as long as it doesn't have huge KO power (haven't seen it personally) it's not a problem.

Well you're right, it's one of those annoying things people do.

Same principle, the monsters wont 2 hit us because our armor will become better overtime.