Kaida23

Not much, I got about 6-8k/hr...but I was probably doing it wrong. Not too bad for free Prayer training.

:shock: That's all I can say. The amount of xp and levels you've gained is simply unbelievable. And the profit you've made from merching in a year, just wow. I thought I was doing well with F2P merching, but you put me to shame my friend. Well done. =D> I'll definitely be following your progress from here on. Thanks for posting in my blog, btw. :grin:

Yeah, I know. The gp price is over 5 times what it was before free trade came back. :wall: Oh well. No sense in crying over spilled milk. I might still get one some day, just not anytime soon. :lol:

I totally agree with The Skillcape Killed Runescape; bots were prevalent before RWT, I'm sorry "free trade", was reintroduced because people were trying to grind their way to a 99 so they could get a skillcape and show off how hard they "worked". Is that Jagex's fault? Of course not; show me a RPG that doesn't involve some form of training to get your character to a high level. RuneScape just happens to do it for 25 skills instead of a handful. I will object to one point, however: How then would you explain the number of F2P lifers with not one, but several 99's? I myself am working on getting one (eventually, it's coming. No, really. :lol: ) and am doing it for nothing more than the challenge it ensues. As for Implications of a Long, I think removing the xp cap would only usher in a new era of competing for the highest rank in a skill and simply bring more bots into the game as more and more players would be trying to get ranked higher than all their friends.

Since you brought up Sanctuary... Amanda Tapping as Dr. Helen Magnus Smart, beautiful and can fight when she has to. That definitely sounds like my RS character. :)

Dag, man! Look at you go. Well done. :thumbup: How many hours a day do you play?

So it's okay because others do it? :-s That's not a very good argument. As to there being enough people wanting to do this to run entire games, why don't you (and the others) simply do that? Running games with people who understand from the start that everyone is just going to sit there removes the frustration from the games where people are actually trying to play.

It definitely looks better that way. :thumbup:

I disagree; the CW requirement doesn't specify that I must actively participate in the games, and there is no activity bar to force me to do so. And sorry to inform you, but if that's how you feel, then you shouldn't respect anyone in the future who obtains the trimmed cape, since it will be highly unlikely that they haven't afked in any of their 5k CW games. I get the feeling that you don't realise just how many 5k games (at 25 minutes apiece) really are. Of course, 5k is 5k, but you don't really appreciate it until you actually try to reach that number yourself. Do you mind telling me how many CW games you've played, assuming that you've never once afked there? And no, I'm not arguing semantics, and I'm not letting other people "do the work for me". See: [hide] [/hide]It comes down to one simple question: Can Castle Wars be soloed, or do you need other people to play? If you could run a solo game, then no one would get upset if you just stood there watching the clock tick down as you're only wasting your own time. Since you need others to play, by simply standing there and doing nothing you are, by definition, "depending on others to do the work".

You should check out mckinzy5's Guide to Agility. It has lots of good tips and lists the quests that give Agility xp.

Thank you! At least somebody else gets it. :thumbsup:

Or the people who do it could stop being lazy and actually play the game. If you just want to watch animated characters move back and forth without interacting with them, there's plenty of cartoons on TV.

Actually, it looks kind of creepy when zoomed in on... And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its riders name was Death, and Hades followed him. Revelation 6:8

To your first question: That's not at all a fair comparison, and I'm having trouble telling whether you're serious about it or just chose to use a very poor analogy. Not actively participating in an online game of capture-the-flag is nothing like slacking off on a real-life work project and letting your co-workers cover for you. There's no real comparison to be made here between recreation and work obligations IRL. Of course it's a fair comparison, there's no difference between you sitting there in a game and getting benefits and a co-working sitting there and getting benefits. It's the mindset that that a goal is long and tedious and you shouldn't have to put in the work to get it. Now you're casting aspersions on my character (the very thing you complain about below, I might add). Yes, I do as much as I can in RS efficiently. That doesn't mean that I sit there and leech of the hard work of other people. It's not about winning or losing, it's about mindset; "As long as someone else does the work, I don't have to" I was making a observation about society in general. People see others all the time with things that they want, but no one wants to put in the effort to achieve them. If they did, no one would buy lottery tickets. People just want things for nothing, and in this case you are one of those people.

:-s Isn't that just one of the toy horses Diango sells?

Well, it is lorded over by a Vampire.

No. This is just wrong. All you're doing is taking advantage of the hard work of the people around you. Why should you be rewarded for that? A pose a question to you: if you and a co-worker (assuming you're old enough to have a job) were given a project, and you did all the work while he played games on his computer, would you want him to receive the same rewards, or any rewards, from that project as you? How long do you think that kind of person would last with that, or any, company? I pose another question: what will you do when everyone around you in Castle Wars has the same attitude as you, and they all just stand around and do nothing? Somebody has to put in the work, and it's obvious you simply want benefits for no work. I hate the overreaching sense of entitlement people have today. "Oh, this is too hard to do properly, but I want to get a reward out of it that I don't deserve so I'm going to lie/cheat/steal my way to it an then I can show everyone how good I am at life." Yes it's hard, it's bloody well supposed to be! That's what makes it an achievement!

Congrats on 84 Def. :thumbup: This may sound like a silly question, but how come you're playing on a German language server?

Here's something no one seems to have thought of: Jagex could simply remove the dice from the game. Now, before I get firebombed to the year 3000, hear me out. Dicing clans seem to be a large source of the debate on whether or not trust games are a violation of the rules, and the push to add items/infrastructure to make them 'safe' (or at least prevent scamming). They have also brought up allegations of corrupt player moderators who, supposedly, get competing clan members/hosters muted and potentially banned. To add to the confusion, every time someone runs and advertises one of these games they are potentially breaking two separate rules, which are worded so ambiguously that it depends entirely on how the particular mod reads them. The dice were introduced to the game with no specific purpose, so it's not entirely clear what Jagex though people were going to do with them, but the point is they serve no effective in-game use except to facilitate gambling; which Jagex themselves have stated is "against the spirit of the game". In summary: Problem: an item has no use in-game except in a potentially rule breaking way that has lead to allegations of moderator corruption Solution: remove the item. I realize that this would in no way remove all forms of trust games from RS, but would resolve a lot of the issues brought up in this topic and would be a lot simpler to implement than adding extra items or locations to make gambling safe.

I'd always wondered what happened to the GTIG, glad to see you're reviving it and I love the new format. :thumbup: I've got a great idea for a grid. Now to see if I can make it work.

Congrats on your 19th 99. :thumbsup: How was the celebration?

Not sure how much I'm going to train prayer right now, although it would be nice to get it up to 70; grave blessing is one of the few things available to free players I haven't unlocked yet. :-k I sent in my application to the Editorial Panel last night. I figure that it's time to try and give something back to this wonderful community that I've gotten so much out of the last 2 years. Wish me luck. :-D

Good luck, mate. I'll keep my fingers crossed for both of us. :)

I do this and it's a great money maker, especially for F2P. It can be a bit confusing to learn at first, but once you've got the basics down it's pretty easy to keep rolling.

That's what I do. It's the easiest option to avoid any confusion on what tasks still need to be done.