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  1. Remorse
    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])
  2. Remorse
    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?
  3. Remorse

    #8 : Challenge 1.

    By Remorse,

    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 ;).
  4. Remorse

    #7 : I did it again.

    By Remorse,

    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.
  5. Remorse
    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)


  6. Remorse
    Follow a RS veteran, a general gamer, creative person and video editor on his way to *finally* max out, together with his interesting view on the pixel, and real world.


    QOTD : "Art like morality consists drawing the line somewhere"


    SOTD : Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette - Hello (Dada Life Remix)





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    And here we go again.. How have you guys been? Well I've been excellent, despite being so awfully busy. For like 3-4 months now I'm getting taught to drive by my dad. In the start I was afraid of driving, but now it's going better. I don't know why, it's extremely silly but cars scare me somehow. Since I'm now getting good at driving I feel more confident, and I feel more controlled over the car. I think that the first moment I'll hit anything that I quit with driving, as it would scare me a lot. And, let's see, Tuesday i'll get my grades we'll see how it turns along and in two weeks I'll be heading to Italy for nine days. So you'll have to miss this blogs for a while (if it interests you, at all), but I'll return with some nice pictures and a story hopefully.
     
    I think you already noticed that I like Assassins Creed, so visiting Italy will be pretty cool to see all those buildings for real. I'm also really looking forward to the release of Assassins Creed Brotherhood. I'll spend a separate entry for that some later date, but I'm pretty sure it will keep me from playing RuneScape for a few weeks (I'll still do my farmings runs). I'm finally getting the hang of my runs but I'm having some trouble with how to deal with the 'rewards'. I already decided that I'll FM the logs I receive from my kingdom daily. In long terms that will get me 99 firemaking without having to deal with wrist problems (no joking intended, FM really kills your wrist if you'd do it 2 weeks straight) and without being incredible bored. I realized I'm more busy with 'side skills' apart from my main goal mining. Kind of funny, but that's good I think as I have a nice change in what I'm doing. The real problem are my herbs I receive from both my kingdom & farming. I clean them anyhow but I'm wondering what I should do them. I could either sell them to regain money, since money will be absolutely necessary to max out. That will be another problem I'll be facing in the future. When I've done all the regular skills and the buyables are left, how do I keep receiving money? I was thinking to go solo Arma or something, but we'll see.
     
    I could use save the herbs to do herblore with, but the problem I'm facing then, is that I'll slowly lose money in cash. That doesn't really sound like a problem, but it will be when I want to switch to another skill when I'm done with mining and it might be a problem if Jagex releases a new quest with requirements I don't meet. Secondly, I'm quite sure that you'll be making potions which will be quite ineffectively for either A. cash or B. experience, so you're always making these niche potions just because it are herbs from you, which you saved up while skilling. So my conclusion is that it's not worth it to keep your herbs for yourself, but I'm better off selling them and using that cash on a later day to train herblore on the most efficient way.
     
    Currently I'm also facing another problem. Well, not really a problem, but it is reducing my efficiency. As you know from my last entry, the original plan was to superheat the gold ores I mine at the LRC. Now I figured that I'm 50% of the time I'm occupied with doing something at the same time. Now this stops me from paying full attention which is required to superheat. In all those cases I switch over to coal. Coal is way better to spend AFK instead of gold ores in my opinion because you A. mine them slower B. they are better profit and C. they are lower experience. Now you might be surprised that I consider lower experience being a positive point, but that's because I want to superheat as much ores as possible while training mining. As said in the previous entry, the rewards from superheating are tremendous and because of coal and my AFK work, I'm always missing those rewards. Well I'm still training my main goal with coal, but it's negative because I'm lengthening my work on getting 99 magic & smith. So I realized that thinking about how you plan and do certain things is always way more effective as actually making the plan reality.
     
    Further nothing really exciting has happened. Haven't been video editing for a while now, but that will surely increase in the future with school projects. Haven't been touching my PS3 at all anymore, and I guess that will stay that way until the release of AC:B. The only things which fill my days now are A. RS & B. Real Life (school, friends, driving, ..). That's a pretty boring life for now, and I hope I'll find some excitement when I'm visiting Italy.
     
    Almost forgot, but I'm considering to join a clan again. I've been a clan leader myself for around 2 years, but I've made the promise to never lead again since I believe you never really receive rewards or cognition for the time and effort you spend on the clan. Believe me, it's one of the most underestimated/underrated pixel jobs. People don't see the work behind the scenes ;). Now, my closest friend has been accepted into Uprising, which seems to be a fairly remarkable warring clan. He has been talking into me to join that clan but I'm not sure if I'm ready for hardcore warring again. It requires a huge amount of time invested in events, actual wars, trainings, ... and I'm not speaking of the financial aspect again. If I would join I'd be forced to purchase war gear, and I'd be probably constantly asked to get better gear until I got that best gear, which does includes the expensive spirit shields. This is all money I could put into skills, into my goal of maxing out. And that's what makes me so unsure about doing this. Don't get me wrong as it's a fairly cool clan with no mandatory events and where fun is the most important thing in the first place. But on the other side they take the warring aspect quite serious, which I completely understand as I've been leader of a warring clan for a while myself. It's all about honor and respect, but also about fun. After the war, chilling with your clanmates together with those hilarious conversations in ventrillo is epic fun. But it really slows me tremendously down from accomplishing my goal. Now I agree that I *should* choose for the fun, and join that clan, but at the moment some feeling is stopping me and I'm not sure if it will go away anytime soon. I think I'm not ready for it yet, I'm not ready to invest much cash and time into warring or a clan and general and for now I just want to concentrate on my goal.
     
    There is a clan which grabs my interest too, and that's supreme skillers. They look like an amazing and well-run clan and I might join them, eventually. I'm currently missing the requirements so at the moment I'm pretty much stuck with what I want to do next. And I guess that the future will tell. So, for the moment I'll probably remain clanless, mine more coal while being annoyed that I should be superheating gold, and drown in my school work while finishing a farm run once in a while. Have a nice day folks.
     
    (-cough- I'm sorry if you've found some nasty spelling or grammar mistakes. English isn't my native language. You're always free to PM/comment me about anything if you want to support me, ask me questions, debate with me, ... the sky is the limit! Feel free to subscribe if you like this blog.)
  7. Remorse
    Follow a RS veteran on his way to *finally* max out, together with his interesting view on both gaming and real life.


    QOTD : "Live you dreams"


    SOTD : Celldweller - Switchback





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    Weekend. Finally. I believe that weekends were made so people could take it easier for two days. Well, for me that's not the case. Weekends are the moments that I'm usually extremely busy. Luckily I'm Monday free (yea, to study..), but I'm sure I can put a bit more hours in RuneScape as regular Mondays, which is a good thing, I suppose. So what has happened the last two days? French on school is being a horrific pain. Well, I hate the language itself (sorry if you speak French ;)), but the teacher is even worse. Screams the whole lesson, laughs with his students, ... Now, this is already bad of course, but something worse happened. Thursday I was sick, if you remember from last blog. Seems that that Thursday, a test was assigned for Friday. Of course, I didn't know and I didn't study so when the teacher started giving the tests to everybody, I friendly said I was sick and didn't know. He responded with "too bad" and I still had to make the test. Now, I feel that I have been treated very unfair and probably going to complain to the heads of school when I receive the grades of the test. I'm someone who is usually very calm and friendly, but when people start to treat me like that, I get very annoyed. Ah well.. story to be continued. My Friday was pretty much normal and boring (Ooh! Almost forgot, I accomplished 99 cook, my 10th skillcape! Getting closer to maxing..). And the rest of my weekend will be also, erm, pretty normal.
     
    But what about RuneScape? Well, first of all I started with planning daily runs. 99 farming is something you really need to plan ahead, and I thought that, since I'm maxing now, farming is something I should get rid of as soon as possible. I always really disliked farming for some reason, probably because I've never really trained it effectively. This is the first time in my whole RS career that I'm doing farming daily in this so-called run. My run doesn't only include farming, but also the important D&D's to make sure that I get what I want. Example, kingdom. I've decided that I'm not going to spend heaps of cash to farming and keep it relative cheap with all the low-lvl seeds. Kingdom will be my main source for high-level trees to keep everything cheap. Since I started maxing I came to the conclusion that I've learned two important things : A. Farming is actually fun, if you know how to train it efficiently, and B. long-term thinking is absolutely necessary.
     
    After cooking I had to set myself a new goal. And I found the perfect one. Now I'm going to get 99 mining @ LRC while superheating. This is probably the best choice I could make. I get an incredible good xp-output at a relative low cost. Take a look at my skills. Magic, smithing & mining aren't that high so I'm training 3 skills at the speed of one. I do bank my gold bars and I make profit from my farming runs I do in main while. Conclusion : For around (I'm guessing now) 10M I'll gain around (another guess) 15-20M xp. Another positive point is the two options I have. Whenever I'm capable to pay full attention I just superheat gold ores, but when I'm busy with something else, like writing this blog or working for school, I simply can move to the slower coal. Coal mines MUCH slower as gold actually, so it's perfect to AFK with, plus, it makes me quite nice money that I can use again to repay my nature runes. If you haven't come to the conclusion that this is extremely beneficial, smack your head against the table and read again ;). Of course, there's also a negative side : It's a quite slow skill. I'm guessing this will take me around 2 months (at least), to finish this goal. But, I end up with another skillcape (one of my favorites! Mining is the one, next to Hunter which I already have, I wanted since skillcapes were released), and a nice boost to both my magic & smithing, which will make it easier to finish those.
     
    There is another reason why I'm feeling pressure to max out. The release of Stellar Dawn in the near future. Despite all the counter-arguments, I'm still having the feeling that it will only end up working negatively for RuneScape. Crash of the economy? Loss of players? No updates anymoyre? I don't know what we should expect in the future. I have this double feeling. In the first place I want to stick to RuneScape 'till the day it dies. It's the game I first started playing, and I still love it. Secondly, joining a new game which WILL be big (no doubt, It's Jagex) from the start, thus, having the chance to become one of the veterans/elite players sounds very promising doesn't it? So it feels all very strange. I think that, if I would be maxed, it would be far easier to let RS go. Let's admit it, the reason we keep returning to RS is because we've spent so much time to it that we wan't to lose the 'rewards' we've gotten so far. At least, that's the feeling I have, and it's that what makes it so extremely difficult to quit and what keeps this game addictive. Yea, I'm pretty much addicted to RS. Not in the way that, I MUST play to be happy or replace RL assignments for RS. No, not at all, but rather the fact that I can't start something else and leave RS behind, for good. I believe that maxing out makes it much easier for me to say, I've done everything what you can do, and I'm able to quit now. Of course I won't be fully done when I'm maxed out, but it's a huge step forward for me. Don't get me wrong, I'm still having loads of fun, I'm just addicted to my achievements. RuneScape will be a game which will stay alive for years and years. I wonder how long it will be updated too.
     
    So.. I've decided for myself that I'll stick to RS until I'm completely done with it, and I've done really everything what I want to do, and afterwards move to something new. The first idea which jumps in my mind for now, is of course, Stellar Dawn. But yea, the last 2 paragraphs were just me thinking aloud. Don't take it too serious. I still wonder what the future brings, and well, we will only know when the time is there.
     
    Already excuses in advance for mistakes (grammar, ...) and thank you for taking your time to read. Have a nice day.
     
    (Please comment to give your opinion on what has been written in the blog, or to support me on my road to maxing out! You are always free to PM me or talk to me in my CC either way :))
  8. Remorse
    Follow a RS veteran on his road to finally max out, welcome to my blog!


    QOTD : "Well, everyone has to play the game and, well, many lose, but some win"


    SOTD : Celldweller - The Best It's Gonna Get





    Hey everyone, today was a pretty much all-around day for me, I guess. Got sick, but now feeling better. Tomorrow final day of the week, and probably it will be a pain (school has his downsides, after all), but I guess I'm pretty much up for it. Real life hasn't been special so.. better keep that part short.





    Since yesterday, most of my friends are taking me a tad more serious about the maxing out goal. Probably has to do with 1. this blog, and 2. my thread on the RSOF 48-49-287-61787302, feel free to say hi!) but still some of them believe that I don't got it to accomplish this goal. I guess this is the point where you need to think about what will keep you going through all those levels. Find the motivation to continue to play and find motivation to grind over and over again. Well, I found my motivation, I think. I want to be able to put that post on the high level forum : I finally did it. I want to prove to myself I'm able to concentrate on a goal and achieve it, how hard it is, how much I would hate it. But of course, I won't forget the aspect of that this should be a fun experience, but I'm sure there will be periods between it that I wonder why I originally started this goal. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why I started this blog. To look back, to see how much progress I've made, to see the support I'm getting. Yes, everyone can max out. They just need to have A. motivation B. a damn good reason and C. be a little bit insane. But I believe that if you're able to concentrate so much on a game, that will have it's benefits also in real life. If you can set yourself the goal, I want to get a better life as that guy over there, and I will accomplish that, you're set for a beautiful life. Or not?





    To achieve the goal of maxing out, you also need to think carefully how you will plan it. Yea, you can just go randomly, HEY, let's now train that skill! And afterwards continue to the next one, but I'm sure you'll miss a lot of the efficiency. Example, first throw all your money on prayer, and afterwards work months to get equipment for 99 slayer, while you could do it the other way around : First make money through slayer with good equipment, instead of purchasing 20k of dbones and afterwards gain that pray level you want. You need to think, plan ahead. How can I save both time and money doing x or y? Pretty soon I'll also be planning daily farm runs, something I never have done before, check what D&D's are worth doing every day/week and what 99 I should get when. I've made up my mind about dungeoneering already : It will be the last skill I'll max out. Yea, I won't do 99-120 separately, I'll do it all in one go. I love dungeoneering, it reminds me of raiding in other MMO's, and of those little RPG board games. Hey, on the way I perhaps find supporters who become friends who even will dungeoneer with me! Since that's pretty much the point of dungeoneering, for you and your friends to do something, to work together.





    In my previous entrance I talked shortly about balance. Now how can you retain balance between A. maxing out, and spending much time in game and B. have a good social life? Well, it's simple. Know your limits, and dare to say NO. Not no against invites for a party, singstar evening (those are for the win!), ... but no against the game. Every day it takes longer for you to accomplish the max total, the better the satisfaction you will have when you finally have that 2496 in your skill screen. Since it isn't only the goal what matters, no. It's the road to the goal what matters. Oh boy, it's to late to turn back now, isn't it? There's still a part of me which says no to the goal of maxing out. And I understand that part, it's scared you'll make sacrifices (read : friends, "time IRL", ...) but I'm sure I won't make those. You see, I think I know my limits, and that's incredible important if you go for this goal.





    Currently I'm cooking, tomorrow or Saturday I'll have 99. I cooked around a little bit more as a week, and I'm surprised how fast it went compared to fishing, which took me over a month. I'm already starting to think what I should do next. Suggestions? Currently I think I'll head for mine or FM, or something like that. And I think I'm going to get a notebook to start and plan things out. Not only RS related, but also RL. Which still has priority. Funniest is, I started this goal while I'm more busy as ever, and yet I've added more things to my list like this blog. I'm going to play drama, I got my endwork, I got a project or two, I do video editing, etc. The list never ends. But that has also a good point, I'm never bored, and switching between RL and RS will be good. (That sounds somehow, very wrong)





    Motivation is still rising, let's do this.


    DI





    (Like my blog? Feel free to comment, give suggestions, speak to me in game, ... all motivation is welcome, and probably needed, to achieve this!)


  9. Remorse
    "Why on earth would you attempt to max out? The game is about having fun, remember. With friends, to do what you like!"




    Recently I've decided I want to max out. I didn't have that good response on it. Some people support, others laugh and don't take you serious, and other's complain or ask questions. Why? That's probably the main question. Why do you take this game at once way more serious? Well, to be honest, I finally want to have the true feeling of accomplishment in this game. RuneScape, it's the game I've been playing now for 6 years and still I don't have the feeling I actually accomplished I want to achieve. I want more, I want to become better. I want to prove, that it is possible. Not just for my friends, but mainly for myself.




    That legendary 2496 will be my total level some day. I have multiple reasons why I want to achieve this, which you'll probably find out during these blogs. It's not all just about the game.


    Feel free to follow me, to add me, to talk to me, etc.


    I'm building up motivation now. Something I'll need along the way.




    Maybe, maxing out and blogging this will teach myself more about me, as a person. And maybe, I will discover things on the way which will benefit me.


    I think, blogging my experiences will be fun. And I'm interested in what you guys think.




    And never forget the truth, those pixel numbers can feel damn good ;).




    Perhaps this is also the moment to introduce myself slightly better.


    I'm a 17 year old male from Belgium. I study human sciences and I love music (all kinds, favorite : Rise Against & Linkin Park), video editing and gaming. I'd love to do something artistic as job. I'm more a writer as a drawer (something you'll probably discover also during these blogs) and I'm the serious kind of guy. My favorite TV serie is House MD (Hugh Laurie!) and if you want to know more about me, ask away.




    I'm not sure if Tip.it is interested in a blog following the 'adventures' of someone maxing out. But thought I'd give it a shot, and in the first place, I'm doing this for myself.


    Have a nice day,




    DI








  10. Remorse
    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..
  11. Remorse

    #9 : 2010 ~ 2011

    By Remorse,

    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 ^_^!
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