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Well, that's less happy news. Don't have enough to balance the trade, unfortunately. I guess I'll just sit on it for the time being and keep an ear to the ground for good deals.

Well, that's all very happy news. Upgrading the purple is probably my best bet investment-wise, no doubt, although I have my reservations because I like the color. (Silly, I know.) Say I wanted to parlay my disk into an Elysian spirit shield plus whatever else I could get for it, is that feasible? I'm not sure how I'd accomplish it, what with these trade limits they have now. Regardless, thanks for the assistance.

Alright, so I've got a purple party hat and a disk of returning from Back In The Day, and I want to turn the disk into cash. (The party hat I'm keeping; I think it looks fabulous on me.) All this talk of junk trading and street prices and such means very little to me, as I haven't played more than a few days intermittently in the last couple of years. How do I go about selling it? Am I ripping myself off if I just stick it on the GE? Will anyone actually buy it on the GE?

That's not a good analogy, because getting your wallet stolen isn't a voluntary action on your part. Nobody can force you to buy a Tyras helm. A better analogy would be if some sleazy dude in an alley offered to sell you a fake Rolex for $300, which I don't really have a problem with. Honestly, if you're dumb enough to fork over money for an item without having any idea what it is or what it does, you don't deserve to have that money.

Because the game isn't built to support unneccessary stuff like this. We know from info dumps people have made that each item is a separate entry in some sort of database- there's not just one Guthan's Spear, for example, there's an entry for a Guthan's Spear, a Guthan's Spear 100, Guthan's Spear 75, Guthan's Spear 50, Guthan's Spear 25, and a broken one. And so forth for the rest of Guthan's set, and so forth for the rest of every other barrows set. Now extrapolate that to every other item in the game, and think about what you'd need to do to implement something like this. You would need to have an item entry for every possible combination of every potion and every single dose level that you could come up with, and you don't have to be a mathematical genius to realize that this is a ludicrously huge number, well past the billions. Not to mention that this is entirely unneeded. Potions work fine as it is. What are you going to do with a potion that's half super strength and half prayer? It's not going to convey any great advantage, other than maybe saving one inventory space, and you'd need twice as many doses to get the same effect anyway. You have absolutely no idea of what you're talking about. You don't even have the vaguest concept. Quests are probably the single easiest thing to implement- all the code for NPC interaction is already written. Plunk down some new NPCs that tell the player to go here and fetch item X, and you've got yourself a quest. Maybe add some new land- the system for which is already implemented- or new items- the system for which is also already implemented. Implementing something like this, on the other hand, would be a logistical nightmare and would almost certainly require scrapping and rewriting probably half the code base- not to mention not being useful.

Don't buy the hype; knights are better.

Well, do you want the fast way or the cheap way? The fast ways are easy: buy steel, buy irits, and buy ess and have people run whatever you can craft for you. I believe there's a world out there where people run airs 24/7 and world 66 is always great EXP if you can craft laws, since there's always a throng there. That gets expensive, though, since they expect you to give them 27 laws and 27 noted ess. Don't know how the air runners work. The cheap ways aren't so easy. You'll have to mine your own ores and coal if you don't want to spend a lot of money, no way around that. And it's generally a sunken investment; smithing hasn't been a good moneymaker in years. For herblore you can farm or kill chaos druids: you may even be able to turn a profit if you buy a dozen or so ranarr seeds and turn them into prayer pots. (Easy snape grass collecting on Waterbirth Island. Lute to Relekka, grab a full inventory, glory to a bank, then lute back.) Runecrafting... well, if you don't want to use runners, your next best option is the abyss. Make sure you have a full complement of whatever pouches you can use.

Some of the better ways are: [*:3mhtcq7p]High alching piles of something semi-valuable, such as yew or magic longbows. [*:3mhtcq7p]Crumble Undead-ing zombies under the mage guild. Bring a slayer staff for auto-casting! [*:3mhtcq7p]If you have a stack of laws you can burn through, grab an air staff and cast Camelot Teleport a bunch of times. [*:3mhtcq7p]If you have a surfeit of cosmics, the Enchanters' Wonderland or whatever it's called at the mage training place north of the duel arena is good exp. [*:3mhtcq7p]I've heard good things about casting the curse spells on enemies repeatedly while in full rune (so your spells splash and you can keep doing it on the same one) For higher levels you can probably work the same stunt with soul runes and a Mud Staff.

I'm not joking in the least. I read another forum that does this- if you make a stupid post, a one-word reply, or one riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, you're banned and that's that. That forum is a delight to read. You know why? There aren't any junk posts. There need to be more moderators here, and they need to be swift and merciless about cutting out spam posts and the people who make them. You may make these brilliant posts out of nothing but a sense of pure altruism, but you attempted to make the point that "good members watch as their post count increases with every positive contribution to a forum, and become a record of poisitive achievement." Short-term memory, eh? It's not very selfless to make posts with the purpose of pumping up your post count, regardless of the quality of these posts. You say that the guy who posts that is not an egotist? :roll: Okay, maybe I did phrase the original statement poorly, so let me have another go at it: Compared to almost every other person here, what I write is pure gold. Unneeded frippery. Aside from the mods probably not wanting to twiddle with the karma level of every crackpot who replies to a Help and Advice post, the more stuff like this they add the dumber the forum gets, honestly. I can't remember the name of it offhand, but there's some forum out there- I use the term loosely- wherein you get points for posting, and these points can be used to purchase imaginary baubles from a "store" of sorts, which can be displayed next to your name or in your profile. It's a slippery slope, I tell you- is this the kind of nonsense you want coming here?

You don't need to verify that the person in question is a good and righteous individual by checking their postcount for every single reply you read. If you see a reply that consists, in full, of that god-awful smiley with the wagging finger, you're not going to hold judgement until you see whether the user has a post count of six or six thousand. You're going to immediately decide that they should be kicked in the teeth. Conversely, if someone posts a reasonable, well-thought out idea, you don't need to make sure that their post count is high enough before you accept it. Oh man, kitten has claws. You don't need to watch a number increase to record "poisitive" contribute to a forum, the contributions and discourse contained within should be your motivating factor. Even if you're making brilliant replies, if you're making brilliant replies to watch a number go up by one, you're not doing it for the right reason, and it's highly unlikely your replies are that brilliant in the first place. Thank you for taking the time to identify your sarcasm for me! However, sarcasm does not an argument make. You failed to identify why banning anyone who spams at all would be a bad idea, which I presume was the idea you were trying to express. I say it's a good idea because it would eliminate so much of the useless chaff you see in every thread. You say it's a bad idea because... ? (It is a mystery!) That doesn't mean it has to be tolerated. Who are you people that read a person's post then have to go look at their post count to decide if it's valid or not? I can honestly say I've never done that once. All you need to judge is the post. It's not hard to tell if it's a good post or not: common identifying marks of a good post are correct spelling and punctuation and well-thought out and efficiently expressed ideas. Big numbers, on the other hand, are not. Check the avatar, hombre. All the backup I need.

Voted to get rid of post counts. You don't need to look at a number to tell if someone's a moron or not, you can tell by the quality of their posts. There's plenty of idiots kicking around here with counts in the high thousands. What kind of person enjoys looking at their post count steadily increasing? That's like enjoying kissing your sister. If you want to watch numbers go up, get out a calculator. Only press the "reply" button if you have an actual thought to contribute. If you need a number to tell you that you're better than other posters, you aren't. (As pointed out by my avatar.) I'm going to spin a little metaphor for you here. Consider that while a pound of gold and a pound of pig feces are the same volume, one is worth significantly more than the other. But if you put an equal weight of both on a scale, it will read the same. I, of course, consider my posts to be pure gold, and there's some other posters here that aren't half bad. There are, however, plenty of posters with scarily high post counts whose posts are generally useless and bereft of punctuation. There's no sense in comparing the two. Well, there's an easier way to solve that problem: anyone who does this should be banned. Instantly and without regard to any other factors. Worthless people that make worthless posts like this are never going to contribute anything useful to the forums, so why bother keeping them around? It's not impossible that some crazy joker who's made a thousand posts could suddenly go rogue and post something malicious. Better solutions: [*:390usq4w]Wait two minutes for some hapless guinea pig to go running in and try it himself - OR - [*:390usq4w]Spend the time to actually secure your computer, so you can't catch a keylogger just by trying to play a movie. Honestly, it doesn't take that much effort and it's certainly worth it.

The people who are complaining about high skill requirements probably aren't the ones who hate easy quests. Every Runescape player doesn't share the same opinion.

FLASHBLOCK Flashblock (available at http://flashblock.mozdev.org/) is probably the single most useful extension I've ever found. It prevents embedded flash movies from loading automatically, instead replacing them with a little button you can click on to let them play. For instance, take that god-awful screaming smiley ad Tip.it runs: I don't see it any more, because it's flash and Flashblock takes care of it!

Okay, here's the first thing: I can almost guarantee you that you don't need a laptop, no matter what they tell you. Last year I don't think I had legitimate call to haul mine out in class once, and I'm majoring in software engineering. If you want to save some cash, you could get a much better desktop computer for much less money. That said, there's something to be said for being able to play RS while looking industrious in useless required liberal arts classes, so if you insist on getting a laptop, my reccomendation is Toshiba. Toshiba laptops are rocks, durability-wise. Dell, on the other hand, is absolute trash (they buy the cheapest parts they can and pass the savings on to you, as well as terrible computers) and Alienware is all well and good if you don't mind dropping ludicrous amounts of cash for a huge, fifteen-pound overheating brick of a computer (but it'll look awesome!) And I'm not even going to dignify the suggestion you get a Mac with a response. My reccomendation is still to get a real computer, though. You can upgrade those and they won't be essentially useless in 3-4 years.

It doesn't. The eggs you get from nests don't actually do anything, at least not yet. Perhaps after a future update.