Artie_900

They aren't aesthetically breathtaking, no. Rather, I like to think that the "coolness" comes from the fact that you're wearing around more gold than 90% of the player base will ever have on your head. Now that's cool. Agreed completely. It used to be perfectly equitable; you could wait until a drop, snatch up all you can and sit on it until you're worth ludicrous amounts of money, and this opportunity was available to all players! Now Jagex has abolished tradeable drops out of some sort of misguided sense of fairness. If I was a new player I'd be a lot more angry at Jagex for discontinuing drops and denying that opportunity to me that the people who already have rares.

I might be completely misremembering this, but I vaguely recall a few people mentioning a special version of the diamond that they took all but 3 or 4 copies of out of the game. Someone who knows what I'm talking about should feel free to correct me.

I don't know what moon language you wrote that in, but it sure doesn't resemble the English that I know. The only fragment of coherency that I could extricate from that mess was "bill of rights", so I'll just forestall whatever argument you attempted to make by saying that the Bill of Rights has nothing to do with Runescape whatsoever for the following twofold reasons: [*:1ts6jznm]The bill of rights only affects the American government [*:1ts6jznm]Jagex is an UK-based company, not the American government Real religion doesn't have any place in Runescape, and Jagex would be perfectly within their rights to shut you up if they cared to.

Making your own stuff, you'll only lose nothing if your time is worth nothing.

Interesting fact: Before the dupe, blue party hats were the cheapest and pink party hats were the most expensive! Now, it's the other way around!

No it doesn't. It doesn't do anything. You can't even do this, because Runescape doesn't edit your registry at all. Someone just made this whole thing up.

Hot dog, a chance to use this chart I made! I had the same idea and tried it out after I wasted my time getting the full Rogue suit, so I tried four small trials of 100 picks each on paladins. My results aren't nearly as pronounced as yours, but that may be because I only tried it with lightweight gear (i.e. gloves/weapon/boots) , the rogues' armor and absolutely nothing, instead of really heavy gear like you did. It probably also matters that your thieving is much higher than mine (I think mine was 82 when I did this) or this could be some new thing Jagex implemented recently, since I made that chart months ago. The main reason I did it was to see if the full suit of rogues' gear helped any, which it obviously didn't. I never really paid that much attention to the difference between naked and wearing armor, since I only got a difference of a few percentage points.

Uh... game-wise, what else is there?

I like how you just decided out of the blue that these items are supposed to be a "symbol of your dedication" or some such nonsense. They're not, they're supposed to be actually useful. This is why they are not like the Castle Wars armor at all- if you want to compare them to anything, compare them to Barrows gear.

I used to wear rings of life- then I had one trigger on me when Dharok took me down to 7 hits. I could easily have eaten enough to keep me safe in the interval between then and the next hit, but instead I had to bother traveling back to the barrows. They break. So I guess you should keep space free if you don't want to worry about paying the repair cost, but you don't have to worry about missing an item entirely.

Way to go quoting a page full of text to add four words, champ! Stellar post! Well, you can't really prove either case either way. I wear my ring of wealth because there's really nothing better to fill the slot with at the moment, unless I felt like shelling out for one of those new stat rings. I don't take a book because it would fill up an inventory slot, and the book seems a lot more iffy than the ring. I have done well over 200 barrow runs and I have never noticed any correlation between the time you spend in the tunnels and the amount of runes you get. I don't think this is true at all. Besides, you're going to have a much better chance of getting gear if you do 25 runs an hour instead of waiting around for nothing and ending up doing 10. Anything that can't fit in your inventory goes on the floor. You won't miss anything if you don't have five slots open. It may or may not; but nobody melees the brothers (except for Ahrim in some cases) so it's not going to be useful in any case.

The only ones I can possibly see your point for is the ones who got them from the drop or duping- in which case I reply well, sure it ain't fair, but life in general ain't fair. There's nothing that can be done about it now. Besides, most of the party hats are well out of the hands of the people who got them from drops by now. The guy above me is the exception, not the rule. As for merchanters, I like how you just lump them right in with the dupers. You seem to have this impression that all you have to do to be a sucecssful merchanter is have a crapload of money for your initial investment, and then all of a sudden you'll make gold hand over fist by doing absolutely no work! Needless to say, that's not true- have you ever actually tried merchanting? That's just how herblore works. It's a buyable skill, just like prayer or smithing. Merchanters don't have much of an advantage when it comes to say, combat training or slayer. Also, nice job separating those mean ol' merchants from "normal, working people". Because merchanting isn't work, am I right? Moron.

Are you just pulling numbers out of your rear end here? Way, way more than 200 people have more than 100 million gold. If you count all of my items, I have more than 100 million gold. This isn't true because there is a limitless amount of money entering the game. Every day fletchers introduce massive amounts of gold into the game, which the largely ineffective money sinks like the barrows repair costs can't begin to make up for. Think about how you see one or two people high alching at nearly any given bank at any time of day- heck, five or six at seers. They're all alching yew longs or mage longs. Think about all that new money coming into the game. That is the point, champ. You don't have to like it; the marvelous thing about rares is that if you don't like them, you are entirely free not to buy, sell or trade them! Haha, keep dreaming. It's not a problem. Repeat after me: It's not a problem. Listen to me very closely: If you don't like party hats- if you have some irrational grudge against them like so, so many poor people seem to- you might want to pay close attention here, because I guess this is hard to understand since nobody seems to figure it out on their own- You don't have to buy a party hat if you don't want to. Isn't that just spiffy? See, it's cool because if you don't like party hats, you don't have to have anything to do with them! You can go your entire Runescape career without buying or selling a single rare! It's like buying things is entirely voluntary! ...why? You were never told that if you reach 99 in any given skill, you'll be able to make fame and wealth beyond your wildest dreams. You just seem to have assumed you should be able to. (In fact, the majority of skills are downright useless for making money. I couldn't help but notice your sig says you're working to get level 99 smithing, and I couldn't help but appreciate the inherent irony here. Smithing, skill-wise, is like a giant hole. A hole that you throw gold into, and never see it come out of again. What I am saying here is that it is absolutely god-awful for making money.)

Four to six. It's usually six; it's only lower if I hit a bad run of 0s while flailing Ahrim or being a little slow turning on prayer lets the brothers hit me and necessitates burning a few sharks.

With those stats I would just reccomend not going; but if you feel you absolutely must then you pretty much are going to need to get 55 slayer for magic dart.

I kill all five brothers except for Ahrim with magic dart and prayer- Ahrim I melee with the flail and prayer. That's what necessitates the stat restore potion- after one or two fights with Ahrim he'll have ruined your melee stats and this inventory is usually good for four or five kill brothers/open chest runs. I also use the flail for killing a few crypt rats or bloodworms in the maze to get my kill count up to 10 or so. I used to use Torag's helm and legs and Ahrim's top and maged them with sharks and not prayer, but using that method I had to run back and forth to the Mort'ton general store to un-note sharks after every run. This way's a bit quicker.

Easily Yanille. The bank is mostly free of the usual assorted losers and noobs, and it has pretty much the only real use for high thieving- I can zip right in and out of the agility dungeon with the shortcut. Plus there's the magic guild, which is cool.

I would remove the endless, tedious, soul-crushing repetition. Of course, that would eliminate nearly all of the game and lord only knows what you could replace it with.

It's absolutely possible that p-hat prices will go down over the holidays, especially if other rares are going up to compensate. I won't go so far as to say it's likely, but it's definitely possible. The thing is, it's not going to be some massive multi-million price drop, and the prices will probably recover entirely inside of a month.

83 thieving here. Guards until 55, then knights. There's really no other way if you're looking for pure XP. (Bear in mind that's 48 hours of your life you ain't getting back, by the way. Thieving is an extraordinarily useless skill.)

No, no I don't. For one, if I wanted a mask I'd buy one. Secondly, if the holiday drops returned it would completely tank the rares market. You're misisng the entire point of rares, champ. There will never be any more of them, period. This is why they are rares. You can play the game without them. If you are really aching to get your hands on one, well, start working and saving up the gold.

A dilligent logger would still be able to find most peoples', since the majority of people probably don't do much typing other than in Runescape or the occasional IM message while playing. All you'd have to do, once you found the point in the log where they start playing RS, is sift through the log to find it and you'd be golden. It wouldn't be that hard because it would look pretty out of place among the chat messages. Anyway, it's a moot point because this is completely unnecessary and unless it was completely voluntary it would just be an annoyance to the players with brains. If you excercise even a modicum of computer caution you won't get a keylogger. Okay? End of story.

I heartily recommend a UPS, at least if you have cable as xyrec mentions. I live in the middle of nowhere and the power goes out here at least every other week, and my UPS always keeps me up and running.

I think some sort of restricted server is a fantastic idea, and I have when it's come up before, too. 95% of the people I wish would just fall off the face of the Earth I meet while playing are fairly low-leveled. Our theoretical restricted world wouldn't even have to have a very severe restriction- heck, 1000 skill total would be more than enough to satisfy me. I don't understand the opposition to it. Think about it- who would it hurt? Nobody! I doubt it would be that much of a problem for Jagex to allocate 1 or 2 servers for the high-level world when they get the next batch up. Lord knows they would probably be among the most used servers.

Way to go, champ. He's not complaining about the ads, he's complaining about Jagex's ridiculous design, and he has an excellent point. Using meta refresh when there are several other ways they could make the ads rotate is not a good solution in this situation for precisely the reason he gave; it can take away the focus from the game frame and cause typing mishaps. Jagex's design team, frankly, is horrible- they do all sort of pointless and/or annoying things like using Javascript to bounce people back to the front page if they try to open a new window at the main site. Luckily, there is a solution. The first one, and the one I reccomend is to use Firefox and get an ad-blocking plugin. Before anyone else cries "B-b-b-but the ads are the only thing keeping Runescape alive!" the bottom line is that this is his computer in question and he does not have to view the ads if he doesn't want to. Do you yell at people who get up to take a leak during TV commercials? But, if you're using Internet Explorer, you can disable meta-refresh outright, and here's how. This works in version 6 and later, I don't know if it works in 5 or not. Go to the Tools menu, then click on Internet Options. Click on the Security tab, then Internet, then the Custom Level button. About halfway down the page, under the Miscellaneous category, you will see an option entitled "Allow META REFRESH". You will want to change it to "Disable". Click OK. There you go. That will stop the ads from rotating. Note that it will not actually block the ads. Like I said, for that you'll want an ad-blocking plugin and/or Firefox. Firefox is of course a better choice overall, but I know how you kids like your IE.