Kimberly

Um...excuse my noobiness but I thought this was about runecrafting? There are a lot of people who choose not to train RC through traditional means and instead resort to opening effigies for the experience. That's what he means. Glacors give better cash/hr and the effigies you get could possibly match or exceed the exp/hr you'd get from making astrals.

MMOs generally aren't the sort of games for 'casual gamers' because of how work-intensive they are. And it takes people a while sometimes to realize mmo's aren't their thing.

Neither did I XD Thank you though for your support of the idea guys.

They were granted 1-time amnesty provided they didn't bot again weren't they?

Most people have wireless controllers now and to hook your wireless controller (for xbox) to your PC you need a specific usb adapter. The recharging kit doesn't work.

Madcatz controllers are decent 3rd party ones that are generally the cheapest usb controllers that you can also use on the PC. But if you don't have a need to play via controller on pc, then don't go 3rd party.

My eyes are nearly popping out of my head. I feel slightly bad for the devs. Slightly. Jagex deserves a congratulations though.

You'll find that most clans do "everything" but they have a primary focus. For a clan like you're proposing, that pays equal attention to every aspect of the game, it would have to be gigantic or it'd be really depressing and difficult to gain momentum of any sort. It's really just not practical.

Ik who he is why do you say he's back?

Yup. Edited my first post to explain that more clearly.

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Clan and Friend Chats were created as safe alternatives to things like Skype and mIRC. They were great when they first came out, and they're still getting better--but there's one issue that hasn't been resolved through the many updates the chat systems have seen. Chat statuses, whether a person is busy or actively chatting, aren't evident. Quick mock-up: (ignore the MS paint fails, I suck) Green - Active Yellow - Busy Red - Private (no one knows if you're active or busy, has no hover-over) What determines "Active": -Spoke within the past 10 minutes What determines "Away": - Personally set via chat options (manual set) - Auto setting after 10 minutes of not chatting - Auto setting if booted to lobby after 5 min of not clicking What determines "Private": - Personally set in either Chat Options You would also be able to hover over the status icon to see how long they've been online for similar to the way you can hover over their location spot to see what world they're in and what jagex game they're playing. (ignore the crappy overlay, MSPaint sucks and has no transparency) But why is this necessary? It's not #1 priority, I know. It's something I always wanted to see though. Chat moderators of active FC communities might sympathize here, having dealing with rulebreakers and no moderators are active. And since you join FC's by default if you've joined one in the past, you might easily forget you're in there--but no one else knows that. Meh! That's my suggestion.

I'm with you. I loathe firemaking so much that I did it during BXPW before obtaining 92 herb / anything important in Summoning. >_<'

The moment that Megaupload, or another service like it, is created in its place, we damn ourselves in the eyes of the RIAA lobbyists. It's a lose-lose situation.

I'm looking forward to this. Thanks for hosting. I wiiiiillllll be there :)

As Luelinks would say, we are at Code Kermit. I repeat, we are at Code Kermit. I'm more interested in how the courts will play out.

Here's a Panic at the heart of the Haunted Woods - Uri Emote updated picture as well: Also raw. Sorry :(

I tried cropping it myself but just got too frustrated and sucked at it lol :/ The previous image in the Treasure Trail guide was pre-Mort Myre graphic update and the logs and things aren't placed like they used to be.

It was directed at Stri, not you. "Congratulations."

Fair enough. Now if only the times could get an interview with a member of Community Management to get their (and Jagex) opinions XD

My "refusal"? No. They can't implement it. If they were able to, I'd be for it. Like I said, it works with the duel arena. I do so love people throwing prohibition into the mix as if people were denying the fact that people find workarounds. It's kind of frustrating when words are put in your mouth.

You can never solve any type of rule-breaking. But we still try. So I'm sure while I'm sticking to the moral highground with my (and others) "ineffectual methods", I would rather do that then sit back on my laurels being apathetic about the whole situation, mocking those who want to see efforts to limiting the damage done, offering nothing to the table other than negativity. Bring on the casinos, the be all end all of this issue!

If the issue dicing/flower game/horse game, and prohibiting it stops those activities, then it does address it. So certainly there's a problem there. Break it down with me... If we're going to address the core issues caused by gambling activities, then let's do it and stick with it. Trust trading, and addiction. We agree addiction isn't their job to handle. MMO's themselves can be addictive, and they're certainly not going to shut them down. They can do more to promote awareness, and that's a fair compromise. We can agree that addicts will find a way to get their fix, be it in another mmo, another method of gambling, etc etc. So banning gambling isn't effective (which I stated and agreed to several posts before, which I'm sure you read.) The other component that has made gambling such an issue is trust trading. Giving money with no collateral hoping to get a bigger pay-out. This is easier to fix. Trust trading is where the scamming aspect of gambling comes into play. Stop the methods that are being abused right, ie hotfixes like these, and we're only covering band-aids on the problem. Does that mean they should stop doing that? Certainly not. Trust trading will always have the potential to occur by virtue of free trade. Can't get around that. But by making trust trading against the rules, we can report those who are trying to keep it going. Keeping institutions where these things are monitored, like the duel arena, is helpful in limiting scamming. Without the duel arena, the only alternative would be single combat wilderness, which has obvious problems. But if they make a 'casino', they would hit laws. So, there is no happy medium there...they're either stopping the unsupported systems (ie not institutions like DA, rat pits, betting on matches, flower game, and so on) or they do nothing. And so long as there's a large potential to hurt other players, Jagex has had a history of trying to correct those problems. (Remember the leaf-bladed spear scam?) And why shouldn't they? Protecting their customers protects their bottom line. Reverting that precedence, that practice, isn't smart for their bottom line or customer satisfaction. So...yeah. Forgive me if I don't agree with your argument, since there's overwhelming evidence to the contrary and more well formed arguments against your position--I'd be lying if I said these were original to me, better people than me have expressed the same concerns.

I understand your points just fine, I just think they're completely incorrect. If you're saying gambling is addictive, then that is the bottom line. A person will choose what he does in accordance with his own personal attributes. Tell me that you don't know anyone who isn't addicted to staking, that you never read about people repeatedly getting cleaned and making poor judgement calls because they 'love' staking, and I'll call you a liar. Saying that a gambling activity isn't similar to gambling elsewhere just because it's in an MMO and using it as your defeating counterpoint is thoughtless--if you read any other post about it, you'd know it's not about the currency (real or fake) gained, it's about the win. I'm not proposing that they remove every single thing that resembles gambling from the game. That's like saying because scamming exists they should remove all of trade. But there are safer ways to manage them, and leaving ways where people can be taken advantage so easily is ridiculous. Almost as stating the 'law of unintended consequences' as a way to sit back on your laurels and do nothing because it MIGHT harm people. (Let's not even get into how unlikely that would happen, that's a separate issue...)

That's a really bad comparison then. Citing a rule that's effectively enforced as a reason to not make gambling against the rules....>_>' I'm sensing a trend here. People are trying so hard to legitimize these activities, saying "well people are stupid and they deserve to lose their cash." Or they say, "well gambling in a game isn't addictive". Saying that the rules aren't effectively enforced, and that it's "the consumer's choice"...I'm flabbergasted. If people want gambling in their games so badly, why aren't they playing a different sort of game? I get that people have their own opinions but I don't understand how people can actively want to protect those flawed systems...