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So long as any player can be visibly lifted above other players in terms of trustworthiness there will be problems. To take a more recent example: the player Luke (used to be Uncut Angel) was a RS veteran. He was a PMod and was regarded by most who knew him as basically the perfect example of what a PMod should be. He was also, however, a staker, and well known in the staking community for being an honourable, trustworthy player. Unfortunately he was ddos'd in a 5B stake. Obviously that would have been quite upsetting, and you can sympathize with what he did next. Which was to use his status as a PMod to get people to trust trade him their stake before the stake occurred, supposedly in case he was ddos'd again. If he won, he'd keep the stake, if the opponent won, he'd give them the amount he staked afterwards. For several staking sessions he actually did give players the money when he lost. However after a run of bad luck, he started scamming people. He was eventually investigated, found to be guilty and banned, however the damage had been done and the people he scammed did not get their items back, which were valued in the billions. This was someone who'd been a pmod for most of the 10+ years they'd been playing for, who had a maxed account and was a front page slayer in RSC. It goes to show that no matter how trustworthy and honest any PMod appears to be, some of them will use their status for their own advantage. Whilst most Pmods are honest or limit their corruption to the occasional sold mute, when they really go off the rails they have a devastating negative impact on the community which far outweighs the benefits they provide. The role simply should not exist anymore. I would have no problem with current PMods getting to keep their crowns as a reward for the work they've done for the community, but they should have no additional access over what other players have.

Recent Game Updates I guess.

Running to split worlds DWF @ warbands is fun.

I wish they'd just decide whether they're going to nerf it or not. And if not, make a post somewhere saying "OK guys we decided not to nerf it". Would be nice to just know.

Jake will get it eventually, there's no question there, even if he is focussing on 07. Only him and Drumgun (out of the the contenders) have shown they can play consistent long days for 360+/365 days of the year. He also has most/all of the gp needed for the new buyable already depending on the gp/xp. Drumgun's low farming isn't a problem now because of warbands and slayer averages 110-120k/hr now, possibly more in the future if the ranged slayer dg is decent. If Drumgun has the mask of the abyss he could just use the daily abby demon challenge for about 80k slay a day at 250-300k slay/hr. Basically ranks 2 through 6 are all relatively close, although only 2-4 are still playing enough to be in the running really. I don't think Dragonseance can really catch up with Drumgun/Jake now, although he'll still probably be one of the first few. Although if Suomi decides he wants to keep rank 1 he will certainly be the first to 5.2B xp, if other players can catch up before the 2nd new skill there could be a competition for 5.4B though.

Yes let's remove all discussion about a skill, future training methods for said skill, a top player's view on the skill and whether or not training the skill through MTX is valid and return to the usual insipid posts this thread has degraded into. Great idea.

That's just a sample I could be bothered to pic. He's made a few dozen posts in that thread like this (the post was several times longer than what I can fit in one pic without splicing them together) discussing and implementing changes on basically anything.

HLF General is nothing serious, and is probably what you've seen. HLF Feedback is where all the actually good and useful discussion is.

Numerous changes have actually been brought into the game on this thread and Chris L explains the reasoning behind stuff every week or two. I mean, I have very negative opinions of Jagex as a whole, but credit where credit's due. Here's some of the stuff that he changed after listening to player feedback. So there's at least one half decent JMod :P

Just remove them. I've experienced first hand the extent of the corruption that existed. For example David, unless the number of pmods has dramatically risen, there is at least a 1 in 4 chance that a member of my old gambling clan paid you for mutes at some point.

It's not just a divide between F2P and P2P anymore. People who can afford/care enough about modern RS to RWT get twice as many updates as I do. But yes, on reflection, the lies in that post by MMG were indicative of what Jagex under him would turn into.

Warbands is for mining/smith/herb/cons/farm, not all skills.

It is probably in the region of 20-30%. Taking that into account, the concurrent player count seems very low. Rather sad.

Next episode is called the Rains of Castarmere and is written by George. RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP

As Jagex have shown time and time again, they have no concept of balance at all. Things get left for months/years in a ridiculously OP state and then nerfed into oblivion. Warbands will be the same. Even if the xp/hr @ 99 was reduced to around 300k, they would still be worth doing for skills like mining/smithing and possibly others, depending on your income/hr. But no, our only choice is the current 900k-1.2M/hr ish rate, or the post nerf rate - which going by prior form, will give an entire experience point per warband. As for people saying that those complaining are 'whining' well maybe they are. But aside from glitches, this is the single most lucrative increase in a skill's xp/hr ever. Mining went up by around 1100%. People [bleep]ed about effigies and they were less than 100% faster than the next best training method for RC. So we're literally an entire order of magnitude up in terms of how OP this is. Someone should point out that warbands are faster xp/hr than buying spins. Should get them nerfed ASAP.

I hated dg until I hit 120. Now I actually go and do some floors for enjoyment every now and again. I think it felt like a chore just because it was a requirement. Once the requirement was done I could enjoy the skill. You could check out "Max club" fc if you need people to dg with. They aren't exactly DGS level meta gamers, but they're generally competent enough to get floors done in reasonable times.

Since there is no way this is better xp than trees, can you get a reasonable amount of profit from any of them?

Power Supply is a bit low if you ever want to SLI (or whatever the AMD equivalent is) another graphics card, but it's easily replaced if you ever do want to do that so doesn't really matter. Nice machine :P

It's only been mentioned three times in two pages, so it's pretty clear to see why you'd have missed it. :-| I know. Which is why he should have been fined for the theft of her commodities in addition to that. I didn't 'miss' anything, you just misinterpreted what I said. I know he didn't actually receive any penalty for the theft of her RS stuff. I am saying that the sum total of his fine should have at least matched the value of what he stole. I disagree with the court not fining the guy for the theft of virtual goods as I view them in exactly the same way as physical commodities, as my previous post explains. Which is why a £100 fine seems low to me. By this logic, should the 'commodities' we earn in-game not be subject to taxation, since they allegedly have a real value and therefore qualify as a source of income? Or... we could just accept that all in-game items remain owned by Jagex and avoid a lot of complications. Baring in mind that RS gold only has a value when you sell it, which involves breaching the terms and conditions of playing the game. RS Gold has a real cash value whether you are interested in selling it or not. For the sake of argument let's say the price of eoc gold is £0.15/M. If you have 500M then it is worth approximately £75 whether you intend to sell it or not. If I have no intentions of selling my Sony stocks or my gold bullion (I wish I actually owned these things), those things still have a value. Virtual currency is no different. You don't pay tax on commodities you own, you only pay tax on your income from those commodities. If I had a pile of gold bars sitting in my room, I wouldn't pay tax on them as I derive no income from them. Same with a pile of RSGP. It is only when you sell those items - real or virtual - that you obtain a taxable income from them, although that does not stop those items from having a value. Whilst I don't dispute that all in game items are owned by Jagex, Jagex has shown a remarkably small interest in preventing the sale of those items. Less than 100 people have been banned for RWT in the past 12 months; and at a conservative estimate, of the order of tens of thousands of unique accounts have bought or sold virtual items for real currency in the last year using the most popular black market site alone. More likely that number is far higher. Until Jagex show more interest in taking action against people selling items they own, the fact that they own them is effectively irrelevant in the same way that a law enforced in fewer than 1% of cases would be irrelevant.

It's only been mentioned three times in two pages, so it's pretty clear to see why you'd have missed it. :-| I know. Which is why he should have been fined for the theft of her commodities in addition to that. I didn't 'miss' anything, you just misinterpreted what I said. I know he didn't actually receive any penalty for the theft of her RS stuff. I am saying that the sum total of his fine should have at least matched the value of what he stole. I disagree with the court not fining the guy for the theft of virtual goods as I view them in exactly the same way as physical commodities, as my previous post explains. Which is why a £100 fine seems low to me.

The problem is when people are so drunk they can't remember whether or not they consented, and in the morning they don't think they would have done. The issue isn't that your judgement is clouded whilst drunk - when you got drunk you accepted that you weren't going to be thinking straight. The only issue is whether or not both parties consented. Think of this situation: a particularly malicious girl gets drunk and sleeps with a guy she wants revenge on (for whatever reason). The next day she claims that she didn't consent to it. Social bias in these situations leads to most people immediately believing the guy actually raped her. There's obviously evidence that the two of them had sex, but it's just the guy's word against the girl's when it comes to whether it was consensual or not. Does anyone more knowledgeable than me know what would happen legally in a situation like this? Even if the guy is found to be innocent, many people will still believe he raped her as that's just the way our society works. Turning the situation on it's head, what if the guy actually raped her, and claimed it was consensual 'rough' sex. If it was just the guy's word against the girl's, how would a court decide?

I mostly type to a reasonable standard of grammar and punctuation, although I have np with people using abbreviations. Forums lend themselves to that kind of thing though, if it's some form of instant chat like in game/irc then I don't really bother with correct punctuation etc.

Virtual currency has well established exchange rates for real currency which vary over time, just like any commodity. I don't know why people are so surprised when stuff like this does happen. A £100 fine does seem a bit low though, considering she'd been playing for 6 years I'd imagine the items he took were worth more than that.

I recommend daggs or wfs over the abyss.

People used to go for 200M skills because they were difficult to obtain and represented great achievements. Now skills like mining are so easy with warbands and pressing one button to drop an entire inventory, it's more like is there any reason not to go for it. Even if you've only got half an hour a day to play RS, you can get 200M mining and dungeoneering quite easily.