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I regularly get over 2500 using ice/bloodburst, if the game turns into a stalemate. With full ahrim and 94 mage I hit a lot. Costs a lot in runes though Plus it tends to draw a lot of personal attention from the critters, so I sometimes die two or three times in a longer game, even with prayer on and 92 defense.

I was solo hunting the Kalphite queen when Hunter came out, and switching to chasing butterflies and wabbits seemed a bit like a noob thing. So I`m still lvl 1. I`ll prolly try it one day, see if it is fun. It is already clear I don`t have to do it for the rewards.

My best is 154. Trick: whenever the stream stops, wait a second before moving on. Often another blue stream comes, and thats faster collecting than chasing all over the cave.

The mage outfit bonus might be a bit overkill. I barrow with ancients, got 92 mage, wear full metal gear including shield, and wear zammy cape, farseer helm etc. to end up a -9 magic attack bonus/penalty with ancient staff, and hit the melee brothers 90% of the time. Yes their magic defense is that low. The melee outfit helps a lot keeping damage low in the tunnels, as most damage I get is from the vermin that lives there. For Karil`s you need a slightly better magic attack, I hit only 50-60% of the time with full melee outfit, but if I take off my metal armor and put up protect from range prayer, I hit most of the time. However, dds specs followed by whip kills Karil almost as fast and saves runes.

The total demand is the amount of money in circulation multiplied by the speed at which money is spent. People saving up on cash lowers the speed of spending. So people saving up money for a rare does slow down the speed in which money is spent a bit. The second thing slowing down general money circulation is the speed in which products are made. It takes time to chop 1K magics or mine 1K coal. Buyers have to wait until the producers are ready. Since rares are not produced but held and easily transfered, rares have little effect on this. The third thing that slows down money circulation is trading time. It takes time to buy and sell things. The time you spent on the forums and running around markets cannot be spent alching or producing. Production of new cash by alching however takes time too. As the total amount of gp increases, prices go up, and there comes a point where people start alching less because barrows and other activities make faster money than alching. I myself havent alched magic longs for months, doing other things instead, although I used to alch a lot in the past. There is another factor related to the economy: willingness to engage in the economy. Some activities, like questing or certain forms of training, do not require money. People doing those activities do not spend much money on those activities, and therefore have little interest in making it too. Players buy 2 types of goods: 1) goods they want but cannot make themselves. 2) goods that they could make themselves, but when prices are low enough, it is more efficient to buy the goods. What is a high price and what is a low price depends on the speed at which the player can make money himself. High level runecrafters can make a lot of money per hour, and when the price of essence dropped to below 30 a few weeks ago, there was little point in mining essence yourself, when it was more efficient to simply buy the essence and use the time saved on extra rcing, which made the player more money than he lost on buying the essence. When prices become too high, more and more players will simply do the work themselves, and the economy will slow down. Runescape economy has a unique point in that producing gives xp which is a valuable commodity in itself. Many raw materials have a higher value than the finished product, which is where RS economy differs from the real world economy.

I click the browser back button then the browser forward button. I have to login again, but it is the same server so it is quick (I always forget the number of the server I`m on).

I use it to spy on the neighbour girl taking a shower.

1)These dudes are in desert. So eventually you have to restock water supplies. 2)I have a max hit of 27 with whip. So hitting a 1 or 2 hp monster for xp is a bit inefficient. If I use the time wasted to get water on real targets, I`d get just as much xp, but dont have to be logged in for so long.

Mage arena gives god cape.

> What is this program name ? Either Microsoft Excel or an OpenOffice spreadsheet. Open Office is a freeware version of the Microsoft Office package (of which Microsoft Excel is a part). http://www.openoffice.org/

standard tactics 1) hit or kill spinners 2) kill portal. If free walking spinner pops up go to (1). 3) run to next portal 4) go to (1). Other actions are unnecessary around portals.

Just got killed by Jad...I got there on my 2nd attempt. It is not abolutely necessary to carry Guthan`s to get there. Blood blitz can be used for extra healing too. It is just 2 slots. Do remember to take off your ranger armor etc before shooting, because that will increase your hit chance. I`m 94 range, 72 prayer, lvl 90 magic, 96 hp. I carried 13 pray pot (4), holy wrench (not sure if that`s prudent), bloods&deaths, karils xbow with bolt racks, magic shortbow with bronze arrows (to save money; shooting expensive bolt racks at a lvl 180 that stands still against a corner is a bit of a waste. In retrospect I had better use more bolt racks instead and save the 2 spots for pray pots) and about a dozen tuna potato. I used up 1100 bolt racks, 1K bronze arrows, 500 deaths, 1000 bloods, and all my food and pray pots, but I arrived with almost full prayer and full hp at Jad. I swapped prayer too slow and got killed before my prayer ran out.

> Jagex could throw in that selling items for real life gp could be punishable by law. Jagex doesn`t make laws. Governments do.

> yes, the rares protect the economy from the effect of inflation NO THEY DONT Every time somebody buys a rare, the money only changes hands. The money is NOT destroyed. The seller can now use the money to buy other stuff.

you can get zammy full book back for free upstairs at the lighthouse tower. It will still have its pages.

total damage per hour = (attacks per hour) x (% successful hits) x (average damage per hit) At 99/99/99 combat stats, the combat bonus from weapons become less important. Thus making dds better due to its high number of attacks per hour. At low combat stats, you`d be better off with an iron 2-hander as you need every bonus you can get. When creatures are relatively weak, attack bonus won`t matter much, as there is little advantage in raising % successful hits from 94% to 96%

Some people here still don`t understand that players selling party hats and barrows armour to each other does NOT "stabilize the economy". Each time a player sells something to another player, money does nothing more than simply change their owner. No money is created or destroyed. The one who just sold the partyhat now has a big bunch of money to spend. You need to separate the MONEY part of the economy from the ITEM part of the economy, and look only at the MONEY part of the economy. Actions that bring cash money in the game: -hi alch -monster drops (including a tiny amount in Barrows chest) -shops buying things -new minigame. Actions that take money out of the game: -buying from stores, esp. runes and arrows since this is done in high volume. -barrows repair -crystal equipment restore -player with money in bank being banned or quitting -boat and cart trip costs (small amount) -people dying with cash on them, nobody picking up. As long as these two are of equal size, the amount of money in the game won`t change. The amount of inflation depends on the speed in which money is spent. total buying power = total money x speed of spending total sales = number of items people want to sell if the total money increases, total buying power increases (unless people keep it in bank, in which case speed of spending goes down) If the speed at which people want to sell items stays the same, price will increase. As people get more money, more money will go to stores to buy runes etc, until the cash in/ cash out balance is restored at higher overall amount of money.

starev91 wrote: >I've heard that dragon legs drops are about: >bronze dragons-1 in 200 >Iron dragons 1 in 100 >Steel dragons-1 in 50. I killed 500+ iron drags, got 1 d skirt drop. I killed hundreds of steels, no dragon drop. So I think your droprates are a bit optimistic.

1) the members world is huge. Best to learn the world at f2p first, then go p2p. Learn the best training spots. 2) making money and training most skills is a lot easier at p2p. So don`t wait too long before switching. 3) p2p-only areas are usually a lot more dangerous than f2p areas. So if you stay some time on f2p before going p2p, focus on melee training. P.S. elemental shield is nearly worthless. It only gives a bit of magic defense. By the time you fight magic monsters, you should be able to wear dragonhide armour which is much better.

Scarecrows and flowers have to be setup once, and will have its positive effect from there on with no attention needed. I used sweetcorn as these seeds are a lot cheaper to get than watermelon seeds. The bulk of my farming xp I got from the tons of high level seeds I got from slayer training. Sweetcorn has 2 other advantages: 1) you can get cooking xp from cooking them 2) they are needed for tuna potato, which I`m making in large amounts now.

You forgot about flowers and scarecrows protecting allotments. Plant one in the centre and dont remove it (although you miss out on some xp there). I never had a diseased watermelon or sweetcorn afterwards (with super compost). And I harvested 2000+ sweetcorns and lots of watermelons. Sweetcorns are decent cooking xp too.

Basilisks now drop "Basilisk bone". Confirmed.

Just confirmed it: basilisks now drop "basilisk bone"

If you want a chain drop from dusties, prepare to have a LOT of patience. It prolly won`t happen in a day. It might not happen in a month. Of course there are people who brag "I got a chain from dusties after killing only a hundred" but they are extraordinarily lucky.

1) play on quiet times (when there are less than 300 players per server) 2) carry tele crystal. If they ice burst you, click tele and you`re gone. If they teleblock you, run away. ectovial is ok too. 3) Be high level. I`m over lvl 115, and in 20 hours of Rcing I only got PK`d twice (both times I clicked tele crystal).Only pkers plus or minus 5 levels from your own level can attack you, and the bulk of pkers is lvl 60-100