Kaida23

This is a really good idea and I definitely support it. However, I'm not sure being able to warehouse quest items would be as useful for F2P'ers as we don't end up with a lot of quest items. The only ones I ended up with after all the quests were the two swords (I don't recall what they were called). I would like to also have way to retrieve random event clothing. If you have all 19 pieces (21 if you count the Shade robes, which used to be random) it takes up almost a third of the F2P bank space. I think that just like you can retrieve holiday items/outfits from Diango, we should be able to retrieve random event clothing from Iffie in the Varrock clothing store.

Level 84!!! \ [hide=Woo Hoo!][/hide]I can't believe it, I've gone up three levels in a week! I have a feeling I'd better not get used to leveling up like this. I've still got over 10 million Xp to go. I got really lucky yesterday. I was able to find a free mining spot on nearly full worlds all day and gained over 208k Xp! I made the last 70k sprint this morning in a little under 2 hours. I can barely believe how effective powermining is. I kind of wish I had started this a long time ago... :wall: I originally had planned to try for level 85 by Easter, but at this rate I'll probably make it by Wednesday. I think I might need to pull back on the reins a little bit before I over exert myself and get stranded part-way to the top gasping for air. :uhh: I've also decided to hang on to all the gems that I get. I've always kept the gems I found while mining and they've always been a nice little supplement to my income. I'm going to hang on to them until after I get to 99 and then cut and sell them to reward myself with a nice chunk of both Crafting Xp and gold. I've always taken flak from other players for doing this, though. They seem to think it slows down the training or cuts into profits. Does anyone else keep the gems they find while mining?

Lolz. I'm actually watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail right now! :lol:

Like SheepiTails I try to make a good-looking outfit while skilling, but it's not so that I'm "prettier" than everyone else; it's because I'm going to be looking at that same outfit for long stretches of time and want to see something nice. I even change the outfit up every so often so I'm not looking at the same thing *all* the time (and so I'm not always explaining how I got my full Sara). As a F2P my outfit choices are much more limited than a P2P, but I've got all the random outfits, and even a couple of holiday ones, which gives a fair bit of variety if mixed and matched. I'm actually not that concerned about whether or not anyone else likes it. As long as I like it, that's all that matters.

That would be awesome! :thumbsup: But instead of just having the afro for the day, make it so that when you wear the Dragon Pick it turns your hair into an afro with the pick sticking out. Retro styling whenever you want!

Yup, the Chocatrice cape was the reward last year (along with the Bunny Hop, emote of course). Personally, I like it. I've been wearing it ever since. I think the picture on the back kind of looks like a dragon, and I'm not the only one either, I'm routinely asked where I got my "dragon cape". :lol: Something like the Easter ring would be awesome, but I'm not too concerned about it. The holiday events are supposed to be a fun distraction, remember? If it gives us something cool as well, then all the better.

I have some good news, and a shameful admission today gentle reader. First, the good news: Level 83 baby! [hide=...and a small fortune in gems. I'm rich!][/hide]Yesterday I went with another tech to a job out of town and I "let" (read: convinced) him to drive. I got almost 4 hours of mining while traveling back and forth, and got paid for it! :thumbsup: Have I mentioned how much my job rocks some days? I got over 100k Xp at work, and another 100k after I got home. It took less than an hour tonight to level up. I even finished in time to watch Dollhouse. I'm hoping to put in some serious mining time this weekend and if the Mining Gods smile upon me I will make it most, if not all, of the way to level 84. Also, this quest of mine has given me a reason to go through a lot of my old CD's for something to listen to while I mine. In honor of Pearl Jam's re-release of "Ten", I got out my copy and gave it a listen, and it's as good now as it was when it was released. I was amazed at how much I still remembered of an album I haven't listened to, apart from "Alive" and "Jeremy" on the radio, of course, in several years. Ah, for the days when I had time to listen to an album until I had memorized every lyric, every key change and every subtlety of music...and then listened to it some more! :lol: I was in a very happy kind of nostalgic mood, until I looked at the release date (I really need to stop doing that. Perhaps one day I will regale you all with my tale of "License To Ill"). Sadly, I noticed that this genre-defining piece of musical genius from the halcyon days of my youth is older than most of you probably are! That's right, 1992! Oy... And now to the shameful admission (no, it's not that I'm an old geezer...). Yesterday, while "working" I called someone else a noob and then proceeded to call him out for his noobishness. It's really not like me to do it. I don't know what came over me. Here's how it all went down: I was mining away in Rimmington when he loged in on the other side of the rocks I've been working for nearly an hour and proceeded to steal them from me even though the pair of iron rocks on the other side of the mine were empty. I got kind of frustrated and we had the following exchange: Me - *sigh*...noobs (as I'm walking to the other rocks) He then followed me to the other rocks and started stealing them too. Me - what's your problem? Him - I'm not a noob He is now following me back and forth from one pair to the other stealing every rock I'm trying to mine. Me - sure you are. Him - no I'm not!!!! (apparently I touched a nerve) Me - you logged into a half-empty mine and stole someone's rocks. makes you a noob. Me - you have no respect for your fellow players. makes you a noob. Me - and now you're following me because you've been "insulted". makes you a noob. Me - only noobs get upset at being called noobs. Him - **** you. All the while we've been going back and forth between the rocks with him stealing every rock I try to get, and a couple of other people in the mine have been laughing at it the whole time. So, I decide to give him one final shot before jumping worlds. As he follows me across the mine I say: That's right noob....follow the leader. This elicited laughter from everyone else and at least two *****-filled messages from him before I logged out. Like I said, I don't do this sort of thing and I don't know what prompted me to do it this time. Though, I do wish that people with high levels would stop treating everyone else like they don't matter. This kind of thing is why I prefer mining on worlds with fewer people. Hopefully, I can avoid this kind of thing in the future. Okay, rant over. Whew...this entry was a long one. See you next time.

Woot! Level 82! \ One down, eighteen to go. [hide=One step closer.][/hide]I was hoping to reach this yesterday, but I got stuck on a job until almost midnight. Unfortunately maintenance knows no time of day and occasionally I get stuck working until all hours of the night. Once after an electrical storm tore through Ottawa, I worked 30 hours straight, got about 5 hours of sleep, and then put in another 14 hours repairing or replacing stuff the storm blew out. :shock: Once again, I was able to get in a few minutes of mining here and there both yesterday and today and then the final stretch this evening after I got home. I also got the gravedigger random event today. The zombie mask was the only piece of random event clothing that I didn't have (that's why I'm wearing it in this picture). One more gravedigger and I'll have the last random emote as well. The powermining has been going pretty good so far. I'm definitely loving the rate that my Mining Xp is going up. With a bit of luck, I should make level 83 by the weekend. I've found a couple of worlds that work well during the day; they average over 1400 people, but the mine is usually empty on at least one of them so I don't have to fight for rocks. This is good as my laptop's wireless connection is a little slow to respond and won't let me fight over rocks lower than coal. After all the time I've spent banking ore and smithing it, it feels a little weird to simply drop the ore on the ground, but I once again have a long term goal. I haven't felt this purposeful since I set out to complete all the F2P quests. Don't worry, I definitely learned my lesson the first (and only) time. I'm now completely chicken soup.

That's not what this is about. The suggestion is to have the ability to remove or put on the skillcapes in a f2p area (right now, you have to be on a member's world). You would still need to be a member in order to purchase one.

Wow, my first progress report. I'm all a-tingle. Thanks to everyone for the kind words of encouragement. After starting the blog yesterday, I went to check out a couple of prospective sites while I watched a movie with my kids (I don't care who you are, there's only so many times you can watch Shark Boy and Lava Girl). I was mostly curious about the hobgoblin mine in the wild. I had read somewhere, and for the life of me I can't recall where, that it was a good place to powermine on PvP worlds as there were no revenants and hardly any PK'ers. (I'm pretty sure I read it in the forum here somewhere. If you know where, please let me know so I can reference it properly). So I left everything in the bank and wandered into the wild. I jumped over to a PvP world and went to check out the hobgoblin mine. It was impressive, but the hobgoblins are very annoying. I don't think I'll be doing much mining there. I then wandered back out of the wild into Edgeville...and was rapidly dispatched by a high level mage. I had forgotten I was still on a PvP world... #-o ...a rather inauspicious start to my journey. After I brought the kids back to their mother's (they live with her) I had a bit of luck and was able to log on to world 1! I went to the Rimmington mine and tried powermining for the first time. I did it for an hour and was very happy with it. I made just over 32k Xp, more than twice what I was getting superheating mithril. After spending so much time in the mining guild though, I had forgotten how crazy all-access mining spots were. Especially on such a busy world. I felt pretty sure I could do better without all the competition. One of the great things about my job is I have a laptop with unlimited wireless internet access :thumbsup:. Across the day I was able to log on for a 5 minutes here and 10 minutes there. I gained another 27k while I was at work! Excellent! This evening, I was back at the Rimmington mine. Lady Shahdie was right, it's a great spot. I have a feeling I'm going to be spending a lot of time here. I was on a less full world, which I realize will increase the spawn rates but I enjoy mining much more when I'm not battling for rocks or listening to people shout "OMZ!!!1111!!" or "GTF011!!!1!1!!" or call me a noob/newb/n00b because I keep beating them to the ore. I got another 77k Xp tonight for a grand total of just over 104k. If I can keep up a pace of 100k Xp a day, then I'll reach level 99 by mid-July. :lol: Seriously though, I am hoping to play at least an hour a day so I can keep a constant progress going. I'm looking at this more as a marathon than a race. Slow and steady and all that, right? Another day like this and I should hit level 82 sometime tomorrow night!

This is an excellent idea. Please add me to the "support" list. :thumbsup: The fact that F2P already has access to several "member-only-available" items (colored gloves, God armor, etc...) means that Jagex obviously has no problem with crossover items. Also, leaving it so that players have to purchase a membership in order to get one means that they will see all that membership has to offer and I'm quite sure a large number of them will continue being P2P. I plan on purchasing a one month membership and getting the skillcape when I get my 99 mining, and thought I had considered all of the drawbacks of not being able to remove either the hood or the cape ever again. But your list of issues showed different things I had not considered, like the gnomecopter and being unable to complete the Lumbridge/Draynor achievement diary. It would also prevent me from wearing any current or further holiday event headgear or capes and joining the festivities with my fellow 'Scapers (ie: the various Halloween headgear, or the Chocotrice cape from Easter 2008). I would love to be able to remove the cape after my member-month is over and know I can put it back on again.

^ Click to read about my party ^ Kaida23's F2P Blog! "Goals don't have a deadline." - Lady Shahdie Welcome fellow 'Scapers! It is I, Kaida23, and I invite you to join me on my quest to reach the pinnacle of Mining greatness: level 99. First, an admission of sorts: I am a G.I.R.L. (ask your friends). That's right, my name is Ken and I'm from a small town south of Ottawa, Ontario. For some reason, I've always played female characters in games whenever possible. I'm 31 with an ex-wife, two kids, a mortgage and a dog. That's right, I'm living the American dream and I'm not even in America! :D I work for a service station maintenance company fixing gas pumps and related safety/control systems. No, really. Someone has to do it, right? I've been doing it for about 8 years and am the senior tech in my division. I have achieved this partially due to my mad skills, but mostly through attrition; everyone else who was with the company longer then me has left! This is my second RuneScape character, my first having been smote by the mighty Jagex gods for, I'm ashamed to admit, botting :shame:. I now am strictly legit, not willing to risk all of my hard work a second time. Mining and Smithing were the first skills I started training and are what I like to refer to as my "focus" skills as they're the ones I've spent the most time on. Unfortunately, unlike other complimentary skills (like Woodcutting and Firemaking for example) these do not level evenly with Mining outpacing Smithing by a wide margin; sometimes as much as 10 levels! :shock: So I have decided to max out Mining before focusing on Smithing. Alright, enough with the back story. Time to get to the meat of this blog: Mining! Here's a pic of where I will be starting from. [hide=Level 81. This was earlier this morning.][/hide]Level 81 may seem like a fairly high level to "start" from, but it takes more Xp to go from level 81-88 than it does to go from level 1-81. So the best days of my Mining career are yet to come! I'm going to try and play as often as possible and update this blog as regularly as I can. I'm hoping to make at least a couple of levels by the end of the week. Hopefully I can find a good spot and get some serious powermining in. I've never powermined before and I'm curious to see how effective it is. Lastly, I freely admit that this blog was inspired, in no small part, by Lady Shahdie's recent ascension to Mining immortality. Her blog (read it here) and level 99 party were epic, and I will not do her the disservice of attempting to recreate either. I will be going about this in my own fashion, most likely alternating between stretches of powermining and superheating, and will be sharing my experiences and thoughts along the way. I hope that you enjoy it. Goals & Achievements. [spoiler=Here's where I brag about what I've done.] My current stats can be found here - [qfc]48-49-464-63404296[/qfc]. They can remove us from the hiscores, but we will still let our voice be heard. [spoiler=My stats before the hiscores purge] - Achieved 3 June, 2012 (this is as far as I got before F2P was removed from the hiscores) - Achieved 28 July, 2009 - Achieved 20 November, 2011 - Achieved 6 April, 2009 This is a secondary merching goal I shall be working on while focusing on my primary goals. - Achieved January, 2011 - May not ever be achieved. The darn things just keep going up in price. :( My Clan. [spoiler=Because we all need good friends.] The Total F2P Skillers Current rank: Sergeant Usually, I'm in the 'F2P United' friend chat (where I'm ranked Lieutenant). A place for all free players to connect, hang out and talk about how awesome it is to be F2P. Why don't you come and join us? We're not always crazy. Okay, we're usually crazy, but it's a fun kind of crazy. :P Sometimes I also hang out in the HYT friend chat. Join 'Serpent Eye' to chat with your fellow TIF'ers and watch your chat box get spammed into oblivion! :lol: Quests and Holiday Events. [spoiler=Click on a picture to read to the blog entry']These are just the ones I've taken proper pictures of. I may update it for previous ones I've mentioned. [spoiler=Lumbridge/Draynor Hard Diary] [hide=Blood Pact quest][/hide][spoiler=Gunnar's Ground quest] [spoiler=Halloween 2010] [spoiler=Christmas 2010] [spoiler=Golden Joystick Award 2010] [spoiler=Easter 2011] [spoiler=Freminnek Saga] [spoiler=Cryptic Clue Fest 3] [spoiler=Halloween 2011] [spoiler=Thanksgiving 2011] [spoiler=Christmas 2011] Mining Progress Pictures. [hide=Click on a picture to read to the blog entry]So far these only include my Mining levels and a couple of RC levels. I might get around to adding all the other random levels I get. [hide=Level 82][/hide][hide=Level 83][/hide][hide=Level 84][/hide][hide=Level 85][/hide][hide=My first Runite Ore mining trip!][/hide][hide=Level 86][/hide][hide=Level 87][/hide][hide=Level 88][/hide][hide=Level 89][/hide][hide=Level 90][/hide][hide=Level 30 Runecrafting][/hide][hide=Level 35 Runecrafting][/hide][hide=Level 91 Mining and Level 37 Runecrafting][/hide][hide=Level 40 Runecrafting][/hide][hide=Level 45 Runecrafting][/hide][hide=Level 49 Runecrafting][/hide][hide=Level 92 Mining and Level 50 Runecrafting][/hide][hide=Level 51 Runecrafting (full-screen image)][/hide][hide=Level 93][/hide][hide=Level 94][/hide][hide=Level 95][/hide][hide=Level 96][/hide][hide=>> 10,000,000 Mining Xp!!! <<][/hide][hide=Level 97][/hide][spoiler=Level 98] [spoiler=>> 99 Mining and 1000 total!!! <&lt] [/hide]

Congrats on 95! :thumbsup: Good luck on your quest. One day I hope to also join the illustrious ranks of folk like you and Lady Shahdie.

Wow! :shock: A big congrats on 99 smithing! :thumbsup:

So now that you have reached mining godhood, what will be your next goal? Smithing, so you have complimentary 99s? Woodcutting? Fishing?

Gratz on 99 mining! \ It was an awesome party. So many people showed up. I've never seen that many skillcapes and party hats in one place before. :shock: I'm just sorry I couldn't stay longer, but the demands of family and home can only be put off for so long. Enjoy your success Shahdie. I'm a miner myself and know how much work must have gone into it. PS - the cape looks awesome! :thumbsup:

WOW! :o Congrats, hun! :thumbsup: Mining and Smithing have been my main skills since day one, so I will definitely be there to congratulate you. I just wish I had heard about this sooner so I could have focused on getting to 85 this week. BTW: Will you be wearing your Saradomin armor? I'd love to see what it looks like with the skill cape & hood.