Remorse

Either way, have you any inkling of who the line-up of prospective buyers might be? Off-hand? No. I'm not close enough to the ground to know, for sure, who would be looking to this kind of purchase. There's a fair number of game manufacturers -- not to mention media empires -- who are all chomping at the bit to own a "highly successful" MMORPG. That said, I've been lobbing this theory out there since Jagex rigged set up the vote to return the Wildy and Free Trade into the game. All these little nudges and winks speak to me of an impending sale -- or at least a desire to sell -- of the Runescape franchise. :unsure: That is amazingly possible, and makes more sense the more I read it. That will be interesting. Extremely interesting, in fact.

I think it's time I'm giving up. Completely.

That's really beautiful indeed.

Can be locked! ^_^

Became time they supported clans (officially, in game). It has only been 10 years.

Personal long-awaited update. Finally :).

The second article made me so sad. It's like doomsday approaching soon.

Some beautiful memories. Thanks for sharing.

As an old veteran myself, I LOVED watching this. Thank you for sharing some memories.

Winning comment here.

Pretty cool stuff there.

With the upcoming GWD update I'm trying to make as much money as possible through barrows, abby demons, regular skilling, ... . I'm quite busy IRL so usually I end up fishing sharks. Ugh, it's horrible to see that you are hardly advancing in the game even though you're quite an amount of hours online. RuneScape is one of these games you actually *need* money (in game, in this case), to get the most fun out of it. Since, let us admit, we do enjoy hitting high, having expensive gear, ... I want to start warring soon, and that gear is also pretty expensive. I need to train herblore. I want to finish pray (95). Shortly - I could use a few mill- err.. billions. Thing is, by the time you have collected money for something, something else is released, or you find something new which requires money. I'm not a pro DG'er so I don't have access to Frost Dragons for the best money-make method in game at this point. I'm a person who plays more as moderate and it makes me think how the average player copes with it. Are they happy with their 'average' gear? I really need to find a way to get money and to train agility which doesn't involve farming, 'cause I hate it xD. But yea, those who want to be rich have to suffer I guess? Mm..

Indeed, Jagex can do far better. :(

Hey there. Before I'll go over to the quest review, first some information on how my maxing is going. It's going horrible, in fact. Because of my RL is at this point extremely busy, all I'm doing on RS is AFK skilling (fish/woodcutting), which I already have 99. So, at this point there's absolutely no progress in agility. At this point I'm 85. I'm hoping my situation is changing soon because I'm really liking agility at this point. Currently : 85 Now.. the quest. In all honesty, I found it disappointing. Especially knowing that it's their 10th anniversary. It was short, it wasn't -special-, not an extremely interesting fight (read : not even used food or prayer at all...). I expected more from Jagex, especially considering the amazing quest writers they have working in their company. Quests have become way to easy IMO, compared to the old ones. I was finished in a little bit more as an hour without guides. One positive point, I do enjoyed the story (even though I've completely forgotten the whole Dwarven quest series, they should remind you what has happened so far at the start of the quest). The cut-scenes were amazing, and the different steps you had to do in the quest were alright. I do enjoyed the fact that the whole quest happens in Kelgradim, so not much travelling around really. Score = 6/10 I know you can do better, Jagex. Much better. BUT, rewards are finally getting better doing quests, a nice change. Your opinions?

Hmm, you're right. 10k's will add up eventually :). And I really hate farming. I can't get myself to do it for some reason :/.

Happy new year. Best wishes for you and your family. Hope that this will be an amazing year for you. Hopefully also for me, since 2010 was -beep- for me. Worst year in my life so far -sighs-. Anyhow. Jagex has disappointed and surprised me multiple times during 2010. And I'm really curious what 2011 will give. As much as you probably. The BTS from January is looking promising so far. But what about the consequences after the 14th? What is 2011 all about for me? Pre-summer : 99 agility, thieving & range (maybe firemaking) Summer : 99 runecrafting End of the year : Start slayer And of course, keep my clan up and running, and alive! :) Well, that's my year in theory. Probably will be very different once we're one year later. But that's why I got this blog, I think. To see progress :). At this point 83 agility. Haven't really got more to say, as there hasn't happened much. About the BTS of this month, the new GWD boss is very exciting, but I wonder what the effects will be on the economy & our current equipment. Damn, I might become awfully poor again. Secondly, it's an update which is very late. I expected a new GWD boss a lot earlier. And funny how it's Zaros related, as everyone was saying on the forums that it was impossible that it should be Zaros related. Maybe this is also a good moment to point out what I want to do with this blog. - I want to try and blog daily (I think that's a good start, lol) - Show my progress of my account in maxing - Give comments on (future) updates - Review updates - Discuss hyped things - Talk about other Jagex games, or games in general - Talk about life - Be random Yup. I think being random is the best thing. I hope you guys will find this interesting to read, and that I'll get some feedback from while to while :). Ciao tomorrow ^_^!

One of my motivations for maxing out is the fact that you're able to read and post on the maxed forums (RSOF). For some reason, it's a very good reward for your effort and it's in the same way a motivation. I'm really looking forward to that. So, recently I started agility. For me, it's my first real challenge on the road to 99. You can't AFK, it's constantly the same thing and you're easily distracted. For some reason I've been really enjoying this skill, and I hope it will stay this way until I'm 99. When I started the goal to max out, I thought about what my real challenges are. And I came to the following list : 1.) Agility : First 'real' test. Am I able to concentrate so long on one slow skill? 2.) RuneCrafting : Pretty self-explanatory, it's the difficulty of agility x10 3.) Farming : I hate this skill so much. Maybe I start to like it as agility (read : hope), makes some nice money too. Unless you want to take it the fast way, it costs you loads. Apart from that, a few semi-challenges : 1.) Money : To fund all skills 2.) Dungeoneering : Very fun skill, but 120 is long. Very long. And recently, I have to add this : 1.) Running a clan : Involves a lot of time/effort. I think it's good to know where your weaknesses are and how you should deal with them. Basically, this is something you can use everywhere. Also IRL. Agility is my first real challenge, and despite that I'm liking the skill. Problem : I'm very rarely training it. I'm fishing sharks or killing abby demons, for fun (or cash), and I'm liking that. And that is what the game is about isn't it? To have fun. But yea, in some way I still hate the fact I'm not progressing in maxing and that this way it will take 10 years. So I make those promises "final bunyip" "100 more sharks" and return to agility to gain 10K xp. Guess where i'm next? Again at something which doesn't involve agility. Maybe it's me running away. Ah well, I'll get there somehow. Just keep getting those 10k's xp from while to while ;).

awesome :)

Oh. People convinced me to start a clan again. Remorse will be open to the public on the 1st Jan. For some reason people consider me to be a good clan leader. I don't know why. But yesterday, a friend of my-coleader entered the CC to check things out. He's in another clan and just stopped to say hey and wish us luck. We had a great chat, and we had a lovely conversation through PM afterwards while he was prepping for a war. It should have been something like this : (Me) : "Thanks for stopping by, a friend of Andy is a friend of mine." (He) : "Don't worry. It was a pleasure to meet you. I wish you good luck with your clan." "Thanks. You think we have a good chance?" "Actually, in the half-hour I've been in the clanchat I really liked the clan and you." "?" "The way you talk. You can be both funny and serious at the same time. Something I like." "Oh thanks." "And another thing, the way you speak about respect and honour. If I wasn't in a clan now I would join yours straight away. I dislike leaving a clan too. But if it dies.." "That's good to hear, I guess :)." I was pretty much amazed by this conversation. And to understand that, you'd need to know my whole clan past. To keep it short. I started a clan and was leader. I left after 3 months because my RL was -beeped- up. I overreacted. End of the story. End of the clan. For some reason, people kept me asking afterwards if I would consider to start something new. They say that the time in EoD was the best clan they had been in. Even after all these months now while being in other clans! Was the reasons he pointed out in this conversation the real reason which makes me a good leader? Because I'm a very serious person you can have fun with? Is it the fact I find honour and fair-play among clans important? But what does that say over the current clan community then? So. I've done it again. A leader. Once again. I've removed the flaws in the system of my old clan. The cc was opened for a day and my coleader and best friend already PM'd a list of a couple of names who confirmed that they would like to join. Isn't that interesting somehow? I don't know what my clan, (or me as a person, but I guess that's being a bit to egoistic) attracts others. I'm curious how this will turn out. As in the first place, people convinced me to do this. We'll see. We will see.

I enjoyed the first and the third article the most. They gave a refreshing view on this whole 'issue' (or however I should name it). I agree the most with the third article. I was actually quite shocked when I first noticed this whole.. petition and afterwards phase 2. Since, what should we expect now? Will they attempt to get as most of money out of RS as possible to afterwards shut it down? So that we would be offered the suggestion to move to SD? (Which probably will be released by then). (Completely crazy idea, I know, and probably won't happen) I think this has to do with the millions they lost on Mechscape, this could be their Saviour, to get some extra budget in the pocket. Now, to quote the first article : "I don’t plan on quitting, or pretending that this is the Runescape apocalypse, if the new Wildy and free trade does go through… but I’d like to know how deeply Jagex have disappointed this loyal believer in them. I thought that you knew better and no amount of ‘phases’ is going to change it." I couldn't agree more. My idea on this is exactly the same. Edit : Just an opinion, I know you probably disagree :P.

I think I'm going to write down my opinion. I'm pretty much indifferent about the current vote. As result of that, I also voted - I don't mind. The first few words which came into my mind when the petition arose was... once Jagex smells money... I think that's the clear purpose of this update, together with the money give-away. So Jagex attracts more members. Somehow.. it feels desperate. I don't know why, but it feels like they give up. It's really something I'm not used from Jagex in all those years. I'm really wondering what their reasoning is behind this. The whole discussion of wildy should be back etc. stopped ages ago. Saying "It's a Christmas present from Jagex" is something I won't believe. After all, it remains a company. They have their agenda. I don't care what will follow after this vote. In the current direction, it's pretty clear free trade & wildy will return. But in the end, it's Jagex who decides (but with 90% yes.. that's a huge pressure). The only thing which does matter for me is the following. That the decision which Jagex take, is a decision they are willing to fight for. With free trade returning, they should combat bots more (they say they can - But why am I so much doubting?), they should battle against the RWT and they should bear the consequences of their decision. I'm not interested in playing a game which consists more out of bots as out of players, and neither do I want to see the game die in the next few years because of the fines/the decrease of members/... We aren't able to predict the future because so much has changed. It's been 3 years. Content has changed, and I'm sure the botting software has also become better and more advanced. Did Jagex keep up? We can't tell. We don't have any visible proof and that worries me. Today, at this very point there are still places crowded with bots, and it's only rarely that we see results of their actions. We have no idea how big the RWT market will become in RS. We have no idea how many bots will enter the game, and we have no idea what the state of RS will be on this day in 1, 2 or even 3 years. And honestly, I'm somewhere afraid of what will happen. A tweak or copy is never as good as the original. Despite all the positive things which would happen with this update, let us not ignore the negative things. I really hope that we all can stay this positive. And I really hope that Jagex will in the first place, stay realistic and they'll admit if they do wrong things. And somehow, I really have my doubts why this all was nescessary... Just an opinion.

Hey everyone. Yes, yes, I admit, I've pretty much disappeared from tip.it, but... I returned! The non-pixel life had once again taken over and forced me to do horrible things, like exams, but also fun things, like traveling to Italy and dinners with family. They say it's the time of the year hehe :). I promise I'll try and do some more consistent blogging in the future - Mainly a blog every few days. Perhaps even attempt daily, if my life gets more exciting the following year. And oh! Before I forget, a merry (late) Christmas to all of you, and your family and that 2011 may be splendid for you. Health, love, and perhaps even money :). So, what was the original purpose of this blog? Correctly! Maxing out. What's in a name, they say. So.. what has happened? Corrrrectly, getting closer! Well, in my absence of tip.it I've gotten 99 mining in main while. I consider that as something awesome, since it has been one of my 'dreams' on RuneScape since I started playing. Next stop - 99 agility, currently 79. I'll keep you up to date. On real life, there's much to tell but I'll keep that for some later date, don't want to bore you already, since there's enough to talk about. In case you don't know what. Please, do a kind slap (on any suitable spot AKA your face) now. Wilderness. Free trade. Oh-my, the end! Drama! Apocalypse! Don't worry. I haven't voted yes. Neither have I voted no. I hardly care, I'm afraid. I do have an opinion on it, as pretty much everyone. Let's say I'm more for the no-vote.. but that's because I never really needed free trade, or never really PK'd, apart from that one whip back in '06. And I don't really like 12 same-clothed people around my yew tree. One thing I would enjoy on free trade is the return of player-owned companies. Such a nice little community back in the days. Still, I'd like to add a message in this blog. Like, if Jagex would read this. They'd be able to think.. that guy has a point! -Ahem- Before you guys get overexcited, here it is : Dear Jagex, whatever decision you're taking. Step forward, and fight for it, and deal with the consequences. Nobody is really up for all the drama, this update would(n't) cause. Either fight the bots (You say you are able to control it, why am I doubting so much?) or deal with the complaints because you wouldn't release free trade even with all the yes votes. At this point, I'm looking at the future with a tiny heart and a big mouth, as usual. For once, I'm seriously scared about the future existence of RS. Long-term! I momentarily considered to return to WoW. (Personal note : Yea, I'm that sad) This decision will have consequences unforeseeable. A copy is never as good as the original. And much has already happened on the road from '07 to now. With the return of free trade, I'm concerned about the fines. With a big 'no' to the update, I'm afraid of a horrible loss of members. I'm being pessimistic, I know. As many others are. I see pessimism and positivism. Where's the realism? For sakes, where is it? People are seeing either the positive or negative stuff. And, it's hard to take a realistic opinion on how the future will be. Can we tell it? I'm pretty sure we can't. We just gotta wait and see. Yea, this piece of text didn't make sense. I'm aware of that. Shortly said - I'm scared to lose this game in the next few years because of one simple decision which turned out wrongly. But what do you do to stop a company who smells money? -Sigh- It's hard to look at things with a decent state of (neutral) mind and figure out what the consequences will be. Jagex. Fight for your decision. (And don't let the game die, please). I just realized how mental this is from me. 2012 much? I think it's better to stop about this topic now. Before it's driving me (or you) insane. We'll only see the consequences on the moment we are there. So.. I guess I'll wait for that. Another small note - I'm working on a clan again. Pretty much behind the scenes. People keep asking me to start another one, as they say I'm a good leader. Without becoming to egoistical, I did do a good job, but I couldn't really deal with the pressure. I'm giving it a small chance for now. But perhaps I'll change my mind in the next hour. I'll see how it will evolve. But, I'll keep you guys up to date. Edit : As I guessed, I changed my mind. NVM the clan ideas for now. That's it, I guess. It's good to be back again. Funny to know that I'm not making sense, as usual. Have a great day and hope you had a good read :). (RSN : Slyfer / Feedback is welcome at : [email protected])

I'm going to be quite short about this - That Jagex knows what they're doing and that they take the consequences of their decision. And, on a side note, so much drama.

Oh sorry, I'll restart blogging soon! :D Thanks for the compliments :)

Warning : Relative long entry :). Slightly person touches ahead :P. Okay! Hey everyone, felt to write a new entry, so here I am. It has been a few days since I posted a new entry, mainly because I've been pretty busy and RL was slightly.. a mess. So, what has happened so far? First of all, I've received my grades. Since our school system is most probably quite different, I'm not going that much in the details. Shortly said, my grades are all well. So no problems ahead, and I better keep it that way. We've had some major tests, of which I don't know the results yet, but I don't expect them to be *that* good, so.. I'm not really looking forward to the next weeks to see what things will come IRL. One big exception : Next Tuesday (Wednesday night) we fly to Italy, to do a complete travel through the country. We will stay for 9 days. I'm pretty excited for Italy. First reason is that I've studied Latin for 4 years. With all respect to the people who study Latin, or any other death languages, I simply didn't see the use of it, apart from studying TO study. But, during those 4 years, I've learned a lot about the culture of the Romans & Greeks. And I guess this is finally the moment I'll see things, for real. Secondly, Assassins Creed. Yea, you'll find me returning this subject for a lot of times. If you didn't know yet, I'm a huge fan of these games, and Assassins Creed II (and Brotherhood, releasing the 18th November) is taking place in Italy. I've seen some beautiful buildings in these games, and it will be awesome to see and visit them for real. It's a school trip, so we will be guided by teachers, but.., as it's our final year, and we will have a lot of freedom. I'm wondering in what state we will return. As we have much freedom, I'm sure we will end up... well, drunk. Secondly, we won't have much sleep. We leave in the middle of the night, and it will be 24H before we are back in a bed, to get out of it again 7H later. Some patience, and I'll be back with hopefully an excellent story. To be continued! (In main while, you'll have to miss this blog too ;)) Now I'm talking about a PS3 game, I believe this is the right moment to share my PS3 nick. If you want to add me, my nick is : DarkIslands (Like pretty much everywhere). I'm not that much on PS3, don't have a mic or something to talk and game with you, but you're always free to send me messages on there, or something. Ooh, I almost forgot that the birthday of my mum is this weekend. I'm horrible at remembering birthdays, and the only one I really know is my own. I think I'm going to an expensive restaurant or something together with her as my present. Kind of mother-son moment? Well, I think that, since I'm becoming 18, I'm reaching a moment in life where you should consider what is really important in your life and what isn't. The little game we are playing (RS), isn't. I'm rather a month F2P, don't go that much out, etc. to give my mum an excellent birthday. To show that she really is important for me, and has been so far, even though I haven't showed that during the age of 12-17. For her birthday, she's getting herself a puppy. So.. a second dog will be joining our home in around 6/7 weeks. Pictures will follow! But for now, let me introduce you to the current ruler of our home : Gibsy (it's a she, by the way) Today I had a test about the Belgian court system. It was a pain to study, and the test itself was very difficult. I'm not sure if I have passed but I'm kind of nervous about it. We have a really strict teacher for this subject, and he's someone who wouldn't like me to fail, as he says I'm a quite smart guy. I hate it when people have expectations of you, which you need to fulfill or they get annoyed. Also one of the reasons schools annoy me, you can't develop what you *want* to develop. As example, I'm a quite artistic guy, so I really would love to train my drawing, editing, writing skills etc. but I don't have the chance for that because we have subjects like maths, French, ..., which hardly interest me. Since I'm in the final grade I've pretty much gained all the fundamental knowledge and the things we study now really feel unnecessary. Apart from languages, what you really can use in your later life. BUT, they make one big mistake. They still continue raising your KNOWLEDGE, while we really should move over to SKILLS. I'm rather able to speak fluent English instead of knowing all the irregular verbs. Don't you agree? Maybe I should finally speak a bit about RuneScape. Since that's what this blog should be about, isn't it? :P So, recently I had one of these rages. That's a moment that I really need a break from the game, sell everything, and don't log in for days. I had it earlier this week, because I was kind of annoyed with my busy situation IRL. When I went online on RS, I really didn't want to do a farming run, and mine afterwards, etc. So I got even more annoyed and came to a point where I sold everything and just didn't log in for days. Don't worry, I have this err.. quite frequently. It more has to do with real life, as the actual game lol. BUT, I've returned, more on that below. Another problem I've spoken about and I still didn't solute completely is the economical aspect of maxing out. Some skills require huge amounts of cash to train somewhat effectively, so I really need to figure out pretty soon how I'm going to make money as I finish the cheap skills. Now, I could hope for an update which includes new moneymaking methods, but I'm not really hoping for that. Barrows is something which jumps through my mind now, as, when you do it effectively, you really can make a lots of cash out of it. Ah well, I still got some skills to go, so I'm gonna try and avoid the money problem until I really need the cash, and hopefully, I'll have found a suitable method by then. The Halloween event of RuneScape was kind of interesting (didn't got bored!). But, I wonder if we still will see another update this month. I can't remember anything from Behind the Scenes and we still have a week before the end of the month. No update week, or does Jagex wants to surprise us? The event itself was excellent, and I loved all the references in it. But, it was quite of 'weak' content. I was finished in about 10-20 minutes and could return to my regular play style. Now, I know that RS is a game which gets updated awfully a lot, so they can't create huge expansions to make you play for hours, but in all honesty, with each update I should be able to busy myself for at least an hour. I understand that they want to make the game more.. social, or fit the time of the year, but further I don't see really the use of releasing holiday events. Because it's fun, because it's tradition? Well, it's a fairly good tradition since RSC, but I got the feeling they are running out of ideas, and I'm wondering how the holiday events will evolve. Basically, I got always the feeling that I'm doing the same each year. It's always the same packet, just it's always slightly different. Mm, it's difficult to bring under words. I think they should either remove the holiday aspect all together, or do it better. Bring not just an event, bring community events, update whole parts of RuneScape to fit the time of the year. I think, they can do better if they put more effort in it. However, they did a good job, I just believe they can do better. Kudos Jagex. I got another negative point. The sound updates. Now, I know that whenever there is an update, people always hate and complain, but I think this time it's justified. I didn't have a problem with the HP updates, etc. but now I'm quite annoyed. The changes to woodcutting & mining are actually good, and this update really opens space for better sound effects and to have voiced encounters (GWD!) soon. But.. have you guys heard overloads, or combat yourself? If I didn't know someone was playing RS, I surely would say they were doing something QUITE different. I'm going to stop about it, but I've read some hilarious comments on the RSOF. To keep it short, I really like the fact they want to make the game more realistic, but less drama please, before my parents tell me to close my browsers screen and to behave. What am I up to on RS now? Well, I've quit with doing daily farm runs for a start. Sorry farmers, but it really isn't my type of thing. I'm someone who rather concentrates on one thing, and really goes for it. For now, farming will have to wait, but I will get back to it someday, and I'll concentrate on that skill, to get it 99. Probably will combine regular farming with vinesweeper to concentrate. Now I'm back to mining. Current progress is 88/99. So I still have to train a while, and I'm sure it will be a month or two (probably more, see below), but you can AFK it and I'm having fun. Rather take the slow & fun method instead of 'killing' the skill by overtraining it and never touch it again. RS isn't your job :) (except if you work at Jagex). By the way, I think I've purchased a dpickaxe on the right moment, if you check the graphs. Another positive point of AFK skills is that you can play little browser arcade games in mainwhile, which I'm doing on Kongregate now. A great site, excellent community, and excellent features. In my opinion, it's far better as Funorb, but Funorb still has a lot of room to expand. Before I forget (Slipknot, haha), it's almost weekend! So.. enjoy Friday and have a lot more fun this weekend. For me, that will be slightly difficult as I have an annoying test tomorrow, which I didn't study and probably won't anymore today. I'll learn it tomorrow throughout the day and everything will be alright *hopefully*. By typing this, it makes me realize again how lazy I am, lol. To end, I'm sharing the beautiful new Assassins Creed Brotherhood trailer. And as said before, I can't wait. I'm sure November & December will be months with a lot less RuneScape just because of this game. As it has multiplayer features, I'm considering to take a few months a break from RuneScape to restart my maxing goal with a fresh mind. Of course, we will see how it turns along. But don't worry, I keep blogging. I'm not going to speak that much of Assassins Creed Brotherhood (yet), as I noticed I've written fairly a lot already. So I'm going to end here, and I promise you you'll receive a full entry about AC:B some day later. (Review, etc.) Now, have a great Friday and enjoy that weekend what is coming your way. See ya next time! (As always, feel free to comment and give feedback, or even speak to me in game) Sven (Psst, if you enjoyed this one, the Burn My Shadows & E3 trailer are AWESOMENESS also)