Ayisha

What skill were you doing? Mining pure essence What is your level in that skill? 94 How long before your 1st/2nd rock? 80 exp to first rock, a further 1600 exp to second (broken by 5 teleports and a strange sapling/ evil tree and cutting the reward) How much xp (or other rewards) did you receive for creating a statue? 8748 (Edit, sorry, I'll try to learn to crop in paint :S)

OK, I'm stupid! I have just got 2 rocks that look identical from chopping ivy.... how do I join them together and get them on this plinth? [Edit: Nvm.... just use one of the rocks on the plinth....]

Sorry, but this made me lol irl! Poor Jagex! They can't do anything without all of us screaming "new skill"..... Back OT, this probably does point to an integration of new friends management servers... But I can't wait to learn all the other things we'll be chatting about :)

That just happens when you press "tab" when nobody has sent you a message while you have been online. Sorry to burst your bubble :P ty ty :) The suggestion of offline messaging is always met with the monumental task of delivering such a system (which I appreciate) so I figured it was more likely something I did. Just serendipitous timing. lol :)

I certainly think it will involve an update to friends/ cc lists and management as, has been pointed out previously, Jagex said they were working on it. Further to that, I had a curious message in my chat window yesterday: "You do not have any messages to which you need to reply." Could we be getting a form of offline messaging?! Please forgive my speculation if you know what I did to get that message and tell me so I can reproduce it. :)

And this is where my interest lies... Does Jagex want to focus on players with fast "gaming" reflexes or do they support dedication? Does anyone remember the Nintendo "Game and Watch" series of hand-held consoles released in the early 80's? My parents wouldn't buy me one any more than they would buy me a full Nintendo console! lol My pre-teen gaming experience was limited to "you can have just-one-go in the lunch hour because you don't have a console to trade...." My teenage years saw me play the highly-challenging game of Termite on a Microbee Series3? During my university years I discovered puzzle-solving PC games such as 7th Guest and Myst. Never, during those years, did I develop the "gaming" skills that video games provide and thus, as an adult find myself totally unable to acquire: 1) A quest cape. I just can't do Summer's End. 2) A fire cape. If I can't do Summer's End, what hope do I have in the Fight Cave?! lol 3) Karamja gloves(3). If I can't do the Caves, how on earth can I win a pvp pit?! I am resigned to the idea that the game of Runescape, with its high end content isn't quite the click-and-it-happens experience that I thought I signed up for as a noob.... I can and still will (with far too much dedication! lol) achieve much in the game, but there will always be some things that are out of my reach as I am not the wholistic player that Jagex is rewarding with the highest content. What I do wonder though, is what demographic are Jagex pitching their future content to? The point-and-click, non-video-gaming type such as myself? Or players who are as adept on their modern video consoles as they are in a mmorpg? Do I still have something to look forward to with the gaming experience I signed up for? Or must I experience frustration and not-enjoyment as I learn to play in a new style?

ok pls lock. Sorry, I thought the idea was to search for when the idea of "bank interest" had been discussed before and not post a new one.

I have bumped a topic that pre-dates my involvement in the game by 2 years.... a topic that would have pre-dated the removal of the wildy and the introduction on the g.e. I was not interested in the examine texts of posters on walls of banks... which, in idle moments I have read and laughed at...... My concern relates to the current inflation in game..... the current rants about merch clans..... and Jagex' current commitment to do something about it. Would a nominal (very nominal, as we experience in real life) interest rate, linked to the g.e. index curb some of the rampant inflation that has occurred over the last 6 months or so? Pawclaw, I work for every gp in my account, usually in the most skill-intensive/gp--stripping way possible. lol I then go on to level in the gp-stripping skills.... I do appreciate that drops enter and something must take that out. Edit: And JoeDaStud, I have bumped the topic because I think a nominal interest rate may be a current fix, and I searched for a topic that might have been discussed before. Please, forget the posters in banks.... I am concerned about the current inflation and how that could be addressed in a way that benefits astute investors and skillers alike.]

bump! Would a mod please somehow make this tie in with the current rants about merching clans? What I want to say is that I really don't understand how everything seems to have shot up *since* the start of the Northern Hemisphere school year.... In the last Q&A Jagex acknowlege that inflation is out of control. From my perspective, (and I am a self-reliant noob), I want double the cost of "that better item" in my bank gp before I buy it...... But inflation has ripped far beyond that point for the last several months! Was there an event in game that triggered a global price rise? Is it merch clans (the price of chaos tallies I just deal with.... :S) Would a very nominal interest rate against the gp a player is saving in their bank account curb some of the greed displayed by the junior members of merch clans? [The edit!:: [i have felt severely impacted by inflation for several months. My "base rate" is the cost of nature runes as I high alch much of what I make. I saw the cost of nature runes rising in parallel with items like whips, steel platebodies, saradomin swords, dragon chainbodies, random items picked from the scroll bar at the top of the community/ge screen. As an adult who is impacted by federal reserve interest rates and inflation figures every day, I have been more and more convinced that a careful "Reserve Bank" decision by Jagex could do much to stabilise the economy, while still allowing astute investors to speculate.]

Keep your eyes peeled near mines and banks for a circle of white dots..... it looks odd on your minimap. You can often gather your 200 stardust from the crashed star and reap some (to my eyes) nice rewards. :) Back on topic, I'm looking forward to this D&D. It sounds like it's nicely balanced to give a bit of a boost without devaluing too much the effort that so many high level summoners have already put in.

False. I haven't been watching them either. TPUM can ski

:P Here be one on-lunch-break high level f2p noob.... My mems has run out temporarily and my bank is stuffed so I only took stuff I have doubles of. In about 7 mins of attacking with a rune longsword (I'm a longsword girl) with power ammy, safety gloves, fancy boots and a wildy cloak I was down about 9 hp. I put on rune platebody, rune full and green d'hide chaps for another 7 or 8 mins and finished down 4 hp. I feel I could stay there until my patience ran out. My defence is much higher than most people my combat level though.

I'm a new runescaper and indeed, online gamer. I've only been playing MMOs for 2 years. However, I'm of an older generation in age than the majority of the players. I look at the way players around me interact (both on free and members), and compare those interactions to the real life interactions I see among the 16, 13 and 10 year olds in my household and their peers. These kids can be truly horrible to each other, not jut their siblings but within their groups of friends! Each of them is acquiring (to my eyes) an unhealthy disrespect of any form of authority or communal values. I have been told, to my face in real life, "I refuse to give someone respect just because they are an adult. Adults can't say they know what is good for me." They do not accept the idea of compromise for the common good in a personal or societal setting. Online, where the screen removes the immediacy of the communication and depersonalises it, the problems can only be magnified as was discussed in this week's tip.it Times. I have come to the conclusion that the younger players in game assume that because their avatar looks like that, that every other avatar represents a person just like themselves. As I receive the sort of disrespect you describe, I tell myself to put it into that context. On the subject of charity though, I too, like to pass on the kind of charity that I have received in game. Good friends have given me some gifts that seemed pricelessly out of my reach, complete strangers have given me a leg up with a gift of what they perceive to be junk which has put welcome gp in a junior's account. In each and every case, I have been genuinely grateful and I'm sure my benefactor felt good about themselves as a result. Is making another human being feel good such a difficult and unnatural thing to do? To receive thanks isn't the reason I give of my time, experience or junk-in-my-bank though; I want to pass on the help and community spirit that I have enjoyed so much and indirectly honour my benefactors and mentors.

RuneScape Name: Ayisha X P2P

You need the wishlist for Rag and Bone Man completed as there is one quest point associated with that You do not need to do the Fur and Seek wishlist as that one doesn't give a quest point. Good luck. I really enjoyed Rocking Out (thank you tip.it! :D ) and Within the Light. Hope you do to. And congrats on finishing WGS! :D

No no no! Not with ranarrs! Or snaps either when you get there. If you want to ignore your ranarr, I stronglly recommend doing the quest, I think it is My Arm's Big Adventure, that gives you access to the disease-free herb patch on top of the troll stronghold. Save the regular herb patches for things that are not as valuable because they can get disease and you will kick yourself. I strongly recommend remembering to wield your magic secateurs as you harvest your herbs. The extra yield will be apparent over time (and more yield is also more picking experience as well as more money/ things to make your potions with).

I too expect the smithing update to be parallel to the metals already in game. I think there was a comment in the Q&A about high level miners rioting if the requirements for rune were dropped to make way for new metals. I am sure level 99 smiths would form a similar lynch mob. There are precedents set by the new climbing ivy for wood cut and living rock caverns. I expect smithing to get a similar treatment. Hopefully I'll be in the final levels by then so am really looking forward to seeing what they come up with. However, back on topic, I don't think you can ever go wrong with gold and coal. However I would split my investment across both materials and rares.

This update didn't really hurt me, and I'm sorry, but I'm too newb to know a pre-ge or pre-wildy-pking runescape, but the update that upset me the most was the one that changed the current pvp systems implemented around July last year. I used to really enjoy the thrill of skilling with only 3 items protected as I stayed clear of the tag of pker with no skull over my head. I died lots doing it, losing the items I'd gathered. But somehow, dying to (my definition of a) pjer wasn't so bad.... It at least taught me not to fight back as my account just isn't built for it. Since the chage that puts a skull over my head just for logging into the world, where I will lose not only my power (i used to be f2p/ on f2p worlds with a friend) but something else I don't have bank-space for.... idk.... I don't want to be just-the-same-as the thrill-seekers who attack other players. Meh, no rant here... I don't like the changes, so I have not logged into a pvp world (except a pre-arranged bout or 2) since they were brought in. What I really don't like about them is they remove a de-crowding skill-training option for me.

You are right that iron for members because it's fast, or standing in the ge for hours superheating mith is a common method of smithing training because it is pretty much cash-neurtral. Last I read on a forum somewhere or heard though, is that addy is the fastest and most profitable at the moment. I don't watch the market so I don't know if that's still holding. If you have cash to burn, you can smith mith or addy plates and alch them. To train mining, smithing and mage together is also pretty common and that's what I do. (However, 99 mining will only see me at around 86 smithing so I foresee many hours in the ge in the distant future!) Sheeple Torachi.... There is a big culture in the game of people who think that because most players do it like that, that it must be the only way. Those players fail to consider that we each have our own reasons for playing the game and that there may be other personal motivations and goals for people other than prettiest costume, max hit, insert-level-here or bank balance.

The second point reminded me of being accused of alching the other day by a world-hopping underminer who helped themselves to the quiet, empty spot I was using. Most miners, particularly the world-hopping variety, wouldn't alch mith or addy. They are worth far more on the grand exchange (in the order of 10 times as much). The animation most often seen is the superheat spell which transforms the ore and the appropriate number of coal into a bar. The spell earns both the normal smithing experience for smelting and some magic experience as well as extending one's time between bank runs. If you ever see me alch an ore by mistake.... don't even *think* about trying to talk to me! lol However Torachi, you won't! ;) If you are in my mine as I log in, I'll be hopping along to the next world. Undermining and selfishness is my pet peeve of game too.

I too feel your pain even though I did it with a medalled-cat. (Think I had the medal by then....) Between my loathing of npc avoidance puzzles and catching rats! I was in such a foul temper over the mansion that I had to ask my questing buddy if I could do it alone. Hang in there, you will be the happiest person on runescape when you're through with it.

For slayer, there are usually a few alternative spots to train in (although as a mid level, I can't speak for dark beasts etc. nor crowding at bosses). The alternative spots may not be so convenient in terms of banking and will probably require a quest to get to, but they will be empty. I can think of several new spots added in the last year or so, and we have been promised more dungeons this year. I am content to have to make another trade-off decision as to whether I'll waste more time world-hopping and looking for something that isn't being cannoned or getting back to a bank. I wonder whether our slayer masters can sense the crowding at spots and assign tasks accordingly? Guess it would be too complicated given that some of us ignore/ put off tasks we don't like....

As you complete quests and slowly unlock the different methods mentioned in the above guide, you'll become familiar with them. Jewellery teleports such as the games necklace (sapphire) and ring of duelling (emerald) are very useful if you haven't done many quests. I rarely use my dragonstone jewellery teleports as I don't like having to recharge them (which needs Heros quest or a willing friend!). Btw, most of the Jagex staff would like to see mounts in the game, but the mechanics of putting them into the game, both in server terms and "accuracy" are extremely complicated. Think about it.... ;) Should you be able to ride your horse/ eagle etc etc into a building? or up stairs? And think of the crowding at hitching rails... This information comes from a Q&A mid-late last year.

I find slayer a lot of fun. I really enjoy the variety of having to find the monster for the first time, use special equipment and I enjoy finding out what the monster is good for in terms of drops. You'll be able to train your combat skills up at the same time. I have played a bit of Pest Control, and find it to be riotious insanity (in a good way! lol). I just play the novice lander on a pest control world as I think you need to be in well-organised group to win (and hence get the reward tokens efficiently) at the higher levels. I don't endorse it as a training method, but 100 tokens here and there has been fun and useful for my prayer level.

Obviously I am p2p. However, my first 99 will be mining done on free worlds under f2p conditions..... (personal goal). I have my favourite little mine near Varrock and then when I need to smith my bars, I tend to hop onto the f2p 1000+ world for my smithing and alching while still staying in Varrock. Why? Because it's empty, it doesn't lag the way the free high-pop worlds that I chose for fast-spawning rocks do, and few people say anything that takes away from the monotonous clicking of alching. And I feel totally at home as I am a nooby mem with no skill cape :( The fact I was 1000+ f2p before going p2p is little consolation. I would love to see the mems skill total worlds raised to an equivalent level, 1600+, as has been suggested before in the thread. If the mems worlds could be as quiet and non-laggy as the free world, it would be a boon! :) Please don't accuse me of elitism. I am the first to smith a steel axe for a "noob" begging for money. I have been known to drop what I'm doing and lead a new player to their desired destination. I always try to answer a question with accurate and helpful information. But just sometimes, for some activities, I want the peace and quiet of a world without distraction.