Remorse

To keep it short. Kudos for the first article, I learned a thing or two, and it actually was very interesting. I'm looking forward (or not at all) to the future of the RS economy.

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) Progress 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.)

I second this. Edit : I'm pretty sure Jagex won't nerf this. It was made to make it easier for new players to train range & mage. They should have joined back in RSC. Gaming was a hell back then. Aah.. talking about RSC is like talking about right after WWII. Horrible, but sweet at the same time.

^_^ -Highfives-

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 Progress Picture 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 :))

Thanks both of you! :D

Personally, I disagree. Lvl 120 will make it a lot more difficult to 'beat' the game at a point (max total). Increasing the lvl's to 120 is a possibility when all skills are finally completely updated, with other words, when we have content in the high lvl 90's. Rocktails were a good start, but we still have spots open for higher lvl fish and food. But on a certain point we will run out of options when we have lvl 90-99 content, which requires that levels get increased indeed. I only support this if it happens gradually. Like, +1 level extra month/1 skill WITH content, since the exerience jumps will become huge. I believe everyone should have the time to catch up, more or less. This should only happen when Jagex truly runs out of options, and they can't do anything else. I stronly agree with rising defence, hitpoints & smithing to 120 too, straight away in fact. As these skills are completely outdated. 120 smithers should deserve to make high-end equipment like dragon themselves, this would also offer the possibility to give miners dragon ore. The higher our levels go, how more difficult the balancing in this game will become, something which is a problem already. I wonder how Jagex will take care of that. Interesting topic, by the way. Edit : Strength and attack are the last things which should be updated, really. And the people above here have made also some very strong points. Really, smithing dragon armor could be nice, but dragon armor is only level 60 armor. (i.e. 60 def for armor, 60 attack for most weapons.) If that was done, we'd just run into the same problem as higher and higher armor is released - we already have things like bandos and barrows. Frankly, for smithing to work, some part of the game need to be re-invented; perhaps more use with smithing with more degradeable armor, focus on bosses dropping armor pieces that need to be put together (like td's) or make high end armor come from smithing instead of bosses. I'd like to know what, exactly, your issue with defence is. HP (constitution technically but whatever...) I can get, considering how powerful our current weapons are. But what exactly would 120 def accomplish, besides just...more defence levels? Mm... you're correct. I didn't think about that. I still believe that smithers should be rewarded with the capability to smith dragon. Your ideas are excellent, smithing needs to be rebalanced and be brought back to live in the game, since I'm quite sure we all agree when we say that smithing is death outside dungeoneering. I think for Jagex that degradable armor is the easiest solution, but your other idea would solute the problem also. First of all is that defence needs to be more balanced to actually combat strength and attack. The higher defence, the better chance you have to block hits, since at my current feeling, it doesn't do that enough. Higher defence would be better to combat the increase of the high-hitting weapons with their special attacks. The xp you need to get for it will make up for the rewards you gain at that level. But as I said, we probably need to have a balance of the whole combat system first. It's all just ideas of mine, and ways how I see the game better. Chances are we just disagree :).

Aah! I never say no against a website update. Looking forward to it.

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!)

I agree with you! I'm going to try to find a good balance between everything, and accomplish my goals while having lots of fun. Thank you for your support, and glad you'll be checking my progress :).

Personally, I disagree. Lvl 120 will make it a lot more difficult to 'beat' the game at a point (max total). Increasing the lvl's to 120 is a possibility when all skills are finally completely updated, with other words, when we have content in the high lvl 90's. Rocktails were a good start, but we still have spots open for higher lvl fish and food. But on a certain point we will run out of options when we have lvl 90-99 content, which requires that levels get increased indeed. I only support this if it happens gradually. Like, +1 level extra month/1 skill WITH content, since the exerience jumps will become huge. I believe everyone should have the time to catch up, more or less. This should only happen when Jagex truly runs out of options, and they can't do anything else. I stronly agree with rising defence, hitpoints & smithing to 120 too, straight away in fact. As these skills are completely outdated. 120 smithers should deserve to make high-end equipment like dragon themselves, this would also offer the possibility to give miners dragon ore. The higher our levels go, how more difficult the balancing in this game will become, something which is a problem already. I wonder how Jagex will take care of that. Interesting topic, by the way. Edit : Strength and attack are the last things which should be updated, really. And the people above here have made also some very strong points.

Hey Low, thank you. I'll check you out from while to while also. I'm glad we have same interests! :D. And good idea. I plan to always start my blogs in the same fashion, my logo-kind-of-thing, a quote and I guess I add a tracker under it. So thanks for the suggestion, and I hoop I can amaze you with more of my work later!

"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

Good day, Guess this is were the madness begins.