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think hard about why Jagex would do deliberate lag. If there isn't something to gain its probably not deliberate. If Jagex was selling priority login benefits and everyone but those accounts would lag to hell, yes, yes it is deliberate. If Jagex is not gaining from it, no, no its not deliberate.

2 party system doesn't allow that. Gary Johnson is probably the best choice. But a 2 party system makes it impossible for people to even hear his name, let alone get used to his policies. I agree there are flaws in the Electoral College system. One thing I have never been able to wrap my head around is why there isn't a "third party" in US politics for those who are disenfranchised from both main parties. Third parties seldom ever achieve any substantial power, but their existence puts pressure on the other two to adapt their policies. Additionally, I think it has made US politics very polarised, and in recent years, I think that's made the elections almost hateful, especially in 2008, which I don't think is particularly beneficial for anyone. When Bristol Palin became pregnant, it might have been a contradiction of her own personal beliefs and the beliefs of her mother, but did it really matter in terms of what McCain or Obama would have done in office? It still got played out in the media. The solution is simple on how to get people to vote their conscious instead of "who has the best shot at winning". Split the electorates per state by percentage instead of winner take all. Same with senate elections. So maybe 60% of the population supports Gary Johnson over Obama/Romneys policies. 30% know they like him (because of the difficulty of getting air time) 10% may vote for him over anyone else even if he is going to lose 4% actually end up voting.

You cant derive an "ought" from an "is" therefor your opinion is invalid if your mad about him quitting because of donations.

I agree. I also feel you have a vested interest in saying that ;)

2 party system doesn't allow that. Gary Johnson is probably the best choice. But a 2 party system makes it impossible for people to even hear his name, let alone get used to his policies.

^ goodluck kevin

Did you miss what he said. Its obvious hes making a statement against Jagex. Imagine how pissed he would be if he got 5bil xp and Jagex did a front page update/celebration when Suomi hates what the company is doing. That and not being able to handle the spotlight is why he quit

#neither2012 Im not sure what makes people prefer one or the other, probably some of the campaign promises they make but in practice they will do the same exact thing once in office. No one can tell me that Obama 08-12 was significantly different then if it was Bush 08-12. Bear in mind I include socialized healthcare in that, because the republicans used to support nationalized healthcare in the 90's and democrats were the ones opposed to it.

Because he no longer likes runescape because he fears Jagex is going/(already has) destroyed the game he loved. Thats why I compared it to waking up from the matrix, why would you continue where you were within it. The rude/loving fans were just one aspect but the change of the game is the real cause

if ever with MMO's there is always the risk of instantaneous collapse. Not that I expect everyone to quit within 3 years but there is risks in the queue right now. Changing the combat system is one of the most risky things an MMO can do as is changing the business focus (subscription to microtransaction or the other way around).

what if you were running that marathon in the matrix and you were given the red pill. Would you continue?

An emotional investment. People donate for selfish reasons. Selfish reason is they want to be part of the first player journey to 5bil xp. Journey fails, therefore personal investment fails. OR I donate irl gps to a charity because I want african kids to have schools, because I want to feel like I've helped african children out. Charity doesn't build school, I don't get to feel good about myself. You didnt specify any sort of payback guarantee. Now run along now. If you paid for a charity to support african kids and they spend 80% of the money on non donation related stuff (which they legally can) you wont get any sort of refund

no cashback guarantee. Sorry not a winner

Haha how cute I assume you botted before. Im willing to say 70% of runescape is an active botter as in someone botting a skill or goldfarming. Im willing to say that 90% of runescape has botted on the account they are on. This comes back to poor game design. Now if CoD had an achievement for getting 1 million kills, you might get some people who would no longer look at matches as a few minutes of fun but as kills per hour. With that you will likely get kill farming, paying chinese players to up your kill count, or people making automated macros for it. Why fps games dont devolve into that is because achievements are around killing lots of people without dying and feats of that nature. In runescape people cheat because unlike CoD the standard gameplay lacks any sorts of emergence. In a pvp environment theres a million variables out there and your fights are going to be different everytime. However when training slayer you are fighting the same boring monsters over and over again. Cutting the same tree to the end of time. etc. Now you dont HAVE to grind if you dont want to right? well people do want those nice stats and access to any new quests that come out so its not really fair to say that you have to train your agility to 80 for the new quest even though its 30+ hours of boring work. From someone who has a job, I would rather work for an hour then train agility for an hour. So back to my original stance that I dont blame people bot botting skills. Its poor game design. Blizzard's WoW used to be grindy as hell, even is now however Battlegrounds (pvp) gives the same xp rate roughly as questing. Theres enough quests to justify not doing straight grinding (in vanilla you had to grind at some points on local mobs). Theres instance dungeons that give around the same xp rate as questing. See whats going on here? - Grinding (most boring) - Quests (can be grindy but are a bit more diverse) - Instances (grindy but reliant on the 5 man group. If your a tank or healer you have a better experience then a dps) - Pvp (highly unique gameplay, the enemy team can be terrible or your team can. If you have a few good friends you can own a battleground and ensure your dominence) In runescape, agility skill - Grind - rare quest reward (no you cant do regicide over and over again to train via quests if you loath agility courses) - rare occasional xp (fishing has a low agility xp rate but fishing has all the problems of agility) Runescape combat: - Grind - Grind on random mobs (synonymous with WoW questing without the unique quests like bombing quests or storyline ones) - Pvp (poor to non existance xp) - Pvm (poor to non existant xp, very grindy just with a chance at dying)

You did great I hope you own real life as hard as you did runescape

that was why N0valyfe quit

Cool i guess. Now if a blind player maxed...

Haha how cute

wonder how ReallifeMMO is treating him

I have no problem with people who bot firemaking, agility, and any other slow/boring/repetitive or non afkable skills.

I liked the part where star wars galaxies died a horrible death while runescape is still going strong

You missed the surge in seriousness by about a few years. Skill capes were the beginning of it, but also later with the GE. Players started to realize efficiency and grew toward that attitude.

longer then some runescape players have been alive

bad to worse