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Oh, 59%...that's why it looked so small *facepalm*.

You can turn the music off in the settings if it bothers you.

They would also probably "know" it was an account belonging to someone else since IP logs would show your friend using a completely different IP other times.

I have not observed such video ads in their natural habitat. I am playing on the official RuneScape client and have not modified anything. Disabling Flash would be an extremely bad idea because it is (quasi-)against the rules, specifically "Advert Blocking." And I won't object to video ads if free players are, to put it bluntly, treated like real people! When they were originally removed I was too new to be properly paying attention, but I don't think I would have wasted my time lobbying for that versus the other issues on the table.

On a random note, did you clear cookies?

Unless you have some tricks up your sleeve, whenever I tried playing through one of those free proxies, I was unable to load the game applet, let alone play. Perhaps my friend could go on another IP and attempt it, though.

Nice change :)

None of it changes anything for me, so it's probably not for me to say whether the apology was adequate/sincere...

I know what the P2P world is like and I wouldn't join it for the world.

Mod Mark did apologize for not implementing the fix earlier and mentioned he was waiting for an opportunity to compliment it with some positive XP bonuses like those introduced this week.

Congrats on 99 Strength :).

I didn't realize Water had gone/was going P2P. That's another one gone.

It sends a rather mixed message when they do so much to discourage F2P players, but then recognize them in a positive light by granting many high level pure F2Ps Player Moderator status. That's a sign of trust and respect.

I hope Jagex realizes the bot nuke was not a solution for all eternity and continues developing technology, etc. to fight the next wave(s) of bots as they claim.

That could be a problem because I have lots no confidence in Microsoft...I guess I'll just log in for now. Now it just found another one...

Oh, Symantec. Sorry, I thought I typed that in for some reason. Startup programs doesn't yield anything too revealing to me...just a list of pograms that all seem familiar.

I'm not really sure what we can do proactively, but "See something, say something" might be a good start.

The free trial did little to coax players into becoming P2P, especially because you had to pay for it and hope for a refund if you wanted your money back. This is a more genuine type of free trial. You also shouldn't forget the advertisement revenue, which exceeds $2 million a year. With the substantial amount I play, my share of that was (before the price update) roughly five months of membership per calendar year.

You can typically leech for free in F2P, but they tend to want 3-15 combat (because I guess prayer pures are in vogue). So basically you would've needed to leech dg first and train Defense later...:(.

I just woke up and my antivirus software had done its usual scan and found no less than six "Trojan.Maljava" on my computer (example file name: c:\Users\Toshiba\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\23\33141117-1a51c74b>>smbkhrnvpetuqumq/kvkbwmcrgqfgnrgsgpkwj.class) and deleted them. I haven't been on any shady websites so I don't think I got it from a website. Should I log in to RuneScape or do anything else first? (I was still left logged in here via cookies or whatever).

Turning shared XP off is standard practice (or you could accidentally receive Strength XP from a door, for example). You can't separate it into skills, but as far as I know there is nothing that gives Defense XP bar fighting anywway. Unfortunately most of the leechers are level 3; I'm not sure how they'll take a level 50. If you want I can add you, but I'm going to sleep now. Have fun!

Unfortunately I don't have much experience with P2P spots. The only ones which I could recommend would be F2P and, hence, probably not very useful. But hopefully more experienced P2P players can point you in the right direction. You might want to consider minigames such as Soul Wars or Pest Control (you receive points as rewards, which can be cashed for XP) but I'm not sure how much attention they require. Regarding Dungeoneering, it's going to be difficult if you attempt to train on your own, since you would be limiting yourself to low-hitting melee. Unless you can find a *very* good friend to train you on P2P, you're probably better off using external methods like XP lamps and keeping your combat level low until you reach around 55 Dungeoneering. Then you can go to world 61 (f2p) and leech, if your combat isn't too high.

The p2p tutorial is completely optional. Anyone with a trace of insight into the mind of a new player would realize that a tutorial involving fighting trolls and whatnot would not be passed up. And those players, even if they did not opt to go P2P, would think "5 Thieving? Doesn't matter" and continue playing.

I'm not so sure about that second-to-last claim, but I appreciate the sentiment-thank you! Edit: I didn't see the second half of your comment. While you're entitled to your own opinions, I would not have wanted an article of this nature to be featured for obvious content-related reasons.

Hello again :)...I will try and make an effort to follow this blog ;), although I'm not so good at committing to things.