Kimberly

Of course 50k a day isn't gamebreaking, nor does it destroy achievements previously gained. I was arguing on the basis it was a blanket 50% boost to XP throughout the whole month, which on the information available at the time, including precedent of XP giveaways earlier this year (one million XP literally handed away in summer just for being a member), was a perfectly reasonable conclusion to jump to. There is no aura that has a duration of 24 hours and a cooldown of zero. We knew straight off the bat that the bonus exp was awarded via an aura because of the login banner. I don't think it was a reasonable conclusion to jump to unless you failed to recognize that it said "aura". Although that is an understandable mistake to make, that doesn't make the conclusion any more sensible.

That's what we all knew he meant, he just didn't go to any sort of lengths to explain it :P

Yeah, if you're some young kid fresh out of university with impressive strengths in design/coding/whatever or you're hired to the Customer Service side of things, it's a great job to work up a resume and reap the benefits (assuming you're hired under the conditions that allow you to have access to those perks, I have no idea how that works within Jagex and England.) EDIT: At least, it seems like it anyway.

The gamefaqs board is pretty damn active given how long after release it is. http://www.gamefaqs....crolls-v-skyrim (360 board) or http://www.gamefaqs....crolls-v-skyrim (pc board) or http://www.gamefaqs....crolls-v-skyrim (ps3) Just be warned that the regulars there can be complete dicks if you're in the wrong about lore or game storyline. Best to go in there making no assertions and being more neutral than those guys from futurama or they will attempt to eat you alive. Overall it's not a fun environment for someone like me, but you might like it more.

EDIT: I saw this on reddit too, OP :o! 6 out of 17 were listed as current employees at the time of review, and many of those reviews echo what we see in the former employee entries in the space of a year. I agree with you and Xen that the problems by some of the more dramatic reviewers are a bit overblown, but there still seems to be a trend here (see below response.) There were a handful of those that mostly said the same thing as the more harsh critiques, but far more composed and professional...Unfortunately it ends up boiling down to the same key components: Communication problems within the staff archaic organizational methods concerns with business direction and expansion concerns with upper management (though more specialized roles tend to have a more positive outlook on this than the customer support roles) --- Overall I don't know how I feel about this site getting publicized like this. I don't think the things listed in these reviews are any huge revelation, but they do paint a very depressing picture. We can all get together and rabble-rouse with the best of the RSOF dregs at our worst days here on our little isolated fansite communities. It becomes more about of blowing off steam and then getting back to the daily routine than truly giving good feedback. I think deep down, we know this, and in part dismiss the doom-and-gloom naysaying. But after we saw the extremely high turnover this past year, the nearly defiant "Come get me" responses from some of the Jmods concerning the direction the company has taken, and our own nasty little tin-hat conspiracies and...well, it almost becomes too easy an answer to grasp and cling to as we brutishly slap at our chests and bellow "We told you so!" as loud as anyone could hear. I'm torn between wanting to believe this as the proof so long searched for, and wanting to dismiss it out of hand as a bunch of disgruntled ex-employee venting. And what I struggle with, is I can rationally make a case for either. (Or at least, they seem rational to me.) Overall...meh. Even dismissing it, knowing it would get such a large, negative impact on the community is depressing in its own right. Blaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

They work just fine for me. If you're still having problems with them though you might want to post on this thread.

Did anyone else notice the old portal sounds in the old tower? You heard them in the office opposite of the Red's tower, by some book shelves in the study, etc. I wonder if that was just an oversight.

After all these years, I know the way RS pronounces "thingummywut"

But if they're repeatedly opening new FC's and having them closed so fast that they're resorting to hosting without an FC, killing their rep, and making no progress in their "crusade"? That's not "winning" in my book.

I found the current tutorial more "adventurous" than going on some weird, divorced island that just had "tutors" who barely taught you the mechanics of the game. It was lengthy, but no moreso than other tutorials you'd find today. One of runescape's biggest strong points has always been its story-telling and lore, and the tutorial plays to these strengths by throwing you straight into it with some awesome graphics and audio work to boot. They seem to be aware of the fact that quests got a bit dummed down, yet they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. The blunt fact of it all is that people are lazy and they want things right there for them. Mass appeal is the most profitable. But how can they compensate that fact? Making the stories you're playing more engaging or thrilling. Carneilian Rising or Stolen Hearts were good examples of that. Unfortunately there's still a backlog of over 100 quests that need rebalancing to bring the mass appeal in line with down-right good storytelling. There's so much work they need to do, yet so much they need to keep pushing forward on, that now they're stuck. Unless they spend a sizable and expensive amount of time to go back and fix the foundations of their game -- the locations, the storytelling, the balance of the quest, the utility of the areas -- they'll continually be left in the dust by their competitors. Immersion is everything, and having areas still the same as the early years of RS2 are deadly to it.

It is a waste of their time; they just haven't realized it yet. By hosting without an FC and allowing this large amount of scamming to occur, they're killing their reputation faster than this stunt has. If they destroy it completely, they'll be SoL and just end up going to pay a rank deposit at another popular FC anyway which is pretty much what most of them are trying to avoid. I doubt this is an annoyance to Jagex. Given how fast the locks are starting to happen, they've likely started to automate the process. Unless you're suggesting they want to annoy machines? The crusade is pathetic and ineffective, hurts their reputations, and wastes everyone's time while allowing innocent users to get scammed heavily in the confusion. Yes, it's so funny -- or it would be if it was working. The only thing I found mildly amusing was the name change thing and let's be honest, jmods are not dumb enough to let that happen again.

2.7% Crit chance you mean, right? I thought the critical hit bonus was only 1.2 to what you were going to hit. I would think there's a difference between those two things.

Why wouldn't they just let someone else host the FC instead of another one of Fishy's alts? It just seems like they're doing this intentionally to try to "beat the system" but it's just a waste of everyone's time.

So report them and they'll get removed instead of complaining and doing nothing about it :P

Are you sure it hasn't just moved to the bottom of the screen? IIRC the nav bar we're accustomed to seeing on the left hand side of the screen will now appear at the bottom if your window width is below a certain amount.

Nice blog, good luck! How do you think the impending construction rework will affect your goals

I'll be the bad guy here. Sorry but you know this isn't a real RS guide. Not only do these things not really exist in RS but your guide has no practical purpose for in-game play and as a result violates guidelines for the General Guides section. Just a general note: if you're going to encourage joke things like this, do it in Blogscape please. :)

The difference between the RWT'ers thread and this one is that those who are discussed in the RWT thread have already had visible action taken against them by Jagex. It's preposterous to claim that we're defending rule-breakers -- we're simply trying to avoid a negative he-said-she-said discussion of accusations because it could happen to anyone on these forums. Your post is a special case in that the vid was specifically demonstrating someone abusing the bug, but it still falls under those guidelines. If you have any other questions you're welcome to PM me but beyond that, this branch of discussion does not belong on this topic :P In the meantime I will talk to the moderation staff about the special case your thread presents and get back to you on that. But user feedback is more powerful than anything, and if you feel very strongly about this I highly recommend you make a thread in our Forum Updates and Suggestions board in the meantime!

Hid some posts from public view. Naming names is not permitted on these boards, guys. Just discuss the glitch (without detailing how to perform it), maybe talk about other glitches you've encountered, and share your knowledge to help your community. There's no need to start mud-slinging in all this. Thanks guys.

Moo.

Shouldn't his robes be classed as hybrid, since he was a melee mage hybrid? Genuine question, not intending to contradict.

LP values were changed as well, so add that to your template too. Also where the npc was located would probably help too.

Missing the point implies you made one, yes? The point of all your posts thus-far has been easily solved issues regarding the EoC. The only valid concern I heard you make were about the GoP robes. F2P bank space is an absolute luxury and I can understand why you would be upset -- the problem is you have flipped back on your stance twice now in order to dodge/ignore any criticism of your argument levied at you. Make a suggestion that GoP robes get rebalanced and wait like everyone else, but don't use it as your excuse to cry wolf and then bawl your eyes out when you get a spanking.

People telling you that you are over-reacting about a stupid, absolutely horrible shield by any standards does not mean they're brainwashed. If buying fire runes for casting spells has "utterly destroyed you" then you obviously weren't all that far from quitting anyway. You have zero need for the anti-dragon shield in the eoc as a f2per and it's easy as all hell to safespot things even in f2p. My personal advice to you would be to learn how to safespot, learn how to use stun/binds, and recycle the time spent in writing condescending sign offs into learning how to play the game better than your average fresh-off-the-tutorial newbie. The help and advice board is filled to the brim with people who will give you the advice and resources to do so.

Think before you start throwing around words like "delusional." They generate resources but they do not directly create gold. They exchange their resources for gold on the grand exchange and sell the gold they get as a result. Jagex selling gold would be directly creating gold, which is why Or Trade me was talking about screwing up the economy...I don't know what the hell you're on about. As a side note: Jagex selling gold is not a deterrent if the black market can successfully thrive and people can take part without a significant fear of losing their account -- this is what we have today. Did you forget that they're still working on Botwatch? That's exactly what they're trying to do. They just have not been successful thusfar.