dargonhuman

I'm not usually too picky about body type (though my preference is the 160-240 lb. range with largish breasts). What I don't like are poor personality traits, such as when women either think they're better than everyone else, worse than everyone else or simply women are better than men in all ways. Don't get me wrong, a confident woman is very attractive, and gender equality is awesome, but when women take it too far and start to think they have no faults and are better than everyone else (or worse, blame everyone around them for their faults), I start to get irritated. This is especially true when women think men are nothing but burly, drooling sex fiends with all the emotionalism of a rock. On the opposite end of the spectrum, women who have no confidence and are always down on themselves no matter how much you try to bolster them up. It's exhausting to have to do that all the time. Another thing I really can't stand in women is fickleness and/or hypocrisy. One of my peeves with my gf right now is she gets mad at me when I don't share certain things with her, but when I do share them, she gets mad at me because she doesn't like what I had to say and says I'm "mean" for having an opinion. For example, she's a recovering kleptomaniac and she occasionally slips up and puts things in her purse, which disappoints and upsets me, but when I share that with her in as gentle and loving way as I can, she flips out, yells at me for being "mean" because she "can't control it" and I have no right to complain about her problems since I'm not perfect myself. So, now when it happens, I don't say anything and she gets mad that I'm keeping things from her and she can't trust me if I don't talk to her about what's bothering me. As for the hypocrisy, she gets absolutely red-faced furious when people interrupt her, but she consistently interrupts everyone else, which can be infuriating when in a fight, or more importantly, trying to stop one. There's nothing more frustrating than trying to explain myself and defuse a misunderstanding when I can't even finish a sentence, yet when I try to continue what I was saying to her, she gets mad that I keep interrupting her when she started by interrupting me. So yea, hypocrisy and fickleness = bad for me. Sorry for the personal venting (I love her very much and things are fine when we're not fighting; these issues usually only come up when we argue), but it was relevant to illustrate what I meant and why.

:-| You either don't know what efficient means, or don't have any understanding of opportunity cost whatsoever (and, by the sound of your post, you definitely don't want to learn anything, so I won't bother explaining it unless you ask). Needless to say, asking for help from knowledgeable players isn't going to help you at all, because you're convinced that your way of doing things is correct when in fact your method is inferior for reasons you can't be bothered to understand. That doesn't make the advice given to you bad, it makes you closed minded. No, I'm pointing out that there are other definitions of efficient that go beyond someone's spreadsheet. For me, saving money in exchange of a lower xp/hr is more efficient than using all that food. My definition of efficient may not match yours, but that doesn't make it less viable. I'm not closed-minded because I have tried the max xp/hr method, found it to be too expensive AND just as long as the "slower" method due to the extra bank trips and decided that it wasn't the most efficient method for me. That doesn't make it wrong in general, just not right for me. If it works for you, then great. My way works for me, and whle it may not match your definition of efficient, it doesn't make it inefficient. It's just a different kind of efficiency.

I always distrust alleged RSOF links that don't include a quickfind code so I can look up the thread myself.

The only thing I'm willing to pay for in RS is my membership; anything else I'll just invest the time to get in-game. I mean, it's not THAT hard, it just takes some patience and dedication, which seem to be lacking in all areas of life - both virtual and real - these days.

It doesn't matter what you're talking about or how sweetly you try to word things, as soon as the word "stupid" enters an argument, it's no longer a civil or respectful discussion. Words like "stupid", "moronic", "imbecile", etc. shouldn't have any place in a mature discussion and only serve to incite the other side into anger. Also, when you openly insult what someone does, whether it's their job, their shopping habits or the way they play games, they are going to take it personally, whether or not you meant it that way. You may not consider a person's actions to be representative of that person, but a lot of people use their actions to define themselves to others, and at the same time, they see how others act as definitive of the other person's identity. I highlighted the part that's relevant to why people don't like the efficiency crowd; it's little asides like the one bolded that makes average players hate efficiency proponents. There are tons of posts here from a lot of different members that include such asinine comments and snide remarks. I can almost see the efficiency proponents looking down their noses at everyone else, sniffing snidely at us and asking, "Why can't you just be more like us, you know, smart and efficient?" I'm not saying that is what happens, but that's how it feels to those of us who have received such treatment. Just like what I said earlier in this post, you can't use inflammatory language like that and expect people to not react to it. That's why most people get the impression - false or not - that the efficiency camp is a bunch of snobbish, elitist buffoons that can't see past their collections of numbers and realize there's more than one way to train effectively. For some people, "efficient" is more than just number crunching to get the best bottom line dividend. For example, people keep telling me that the best way to train Slayer is to get tasks from the highest level Slayer Master in order to get the fastest xp rate. I disagree because I can't justify spending that much money on food and gear just to train a skill I despise simply to do a quest or two. I'd rather go for the easier tasks that I don't have to invest any money or food into, even if it takes a little longer. Sure, I could go to Vannaka or Sumona, fight some dragons or killerwatts, spend a couple thousand gp on food (not to mention wasting time going back and forth from a bank to the nearest training spot), or I could skip all that, do a few more tasks of goblins and banshees and keep my cash to buy supplies for skills I actually enjoy, such as smithing or crafting. Personally, I find that to be far more efficient than simply getting the highest xp/hr.

Oh, that interface. Yea, that one is clunky and pretty terrible, I'll admit. They should really just move those options to the follower interface (the newer one that's set up like a summon interface) as three new buttons and do away with the rest of it. They should keep the "Interact" menu option, but clicking it should just direct you to the follower interface instead of the chat window options. Yea, my bad, when you first mentioned "cat interface", the first thing that popped into my head was the little display to the right of the chat window that has the growth/hunger rate, Call Follower button, etc. It never even crossed my mind that you meant the "Interact with" menu option to stroke, chase or shoo. Then again, little near-broken content like that is endemic to RS, which is why there are so many threads and posts advocating that Jagex temporarily put a hold on new content development in favor of cleaning up the older content and - maybe - bringing it up to date with the most recent content.

I don't have time to read through this entire thread, but the one thing that really stands out for me regarding this particular policy and why it can never be changed is the massive potential for abuse. Players A and B are best friends in real life but want to get ahead fairly quickly in rs. Player A has a couple high-value items in his bank, say some party hats, a santa and a halloween mask. He and Player B hatch a plan to duplicate those items legally by having Player B "hack" Player A's account (in reality, Player A gave his account info to Player B). Player B has a dummy account to transfer the rares to, then Player A waits a reasonable amount of time, say a few days, then submits a report to Jagex that his account was hacked and he lost his rares in an attempt to get extra rares to sell. Now, with Jagex's current policy, the dummy account gets banned, Player A loses his rares as he rightfully should, and all is well in RS. On the other hand, if the two players were crafty enough to make the "hack" look real, and JAgex were to return Player A's lost items, then there would be nothing stopping Player B from selling the "stolen" items on the GE and transferring the gold to his main through "legit" junk trades in the days Player A waited to make his report. Now, all Player B has to do is give Player A the gold from his main and Player A can buy back his "stolen" rares. Slam, bam, thank you mods, Player A has double the amount of rares in his bank with little actual effort. Having a blanket policy that no one gets stolen items back, no exceptions, is the best and really only way to completely prevent that kind of abuse of policy from happening. And no, I didn't really give that scenario much thought, I just kind of made it up as I wrote it. If I can pull that off the top of my head, imagine what a couple people could come up with if they had days or weeks to work out a real plan.

Because most single player games don't offer the nearly-unlimited and varied gameplay options that RS does. Only a handful of games even come close, and I can't afford to buy them, and most of them wouldn't run as good on my pc as rs does. So, wide variety of gameplay + affordable price + runs well on my computer = why I play and shun the "MMO" aspect. If a game were to come out that was strictly single player, offered the same amount and variety of open-ended content - with updates - and was just as affordable, hells yea I'd go play that instead. That game, however, doesn't exist yet, so I have to "waste a multiplayer space". Which is a bogus sentiment to begin with, as I pay my monthly fee which gives me just as much right as you or anyone to play any which way I choose to play, whether you approve or not.

This entire thread reminds me of that scene from Red vs Blue: Tex: [The bomb] has a timer. Simmons: A count down timer? Tex: No, a count UP timer. It goes from 1 to EXPLODE! But seriously, I count up and down interchangeably all the time for lots of things. Sometimes I'll even use both methods for the same task (not at the same time, though... that'd just be confusing!) Such as, if I'm waiting for an important package, I may say "I have two days to go!" or "It's already been three days since it shipped!" just as an example. And yea, +1 to what everyone else said; the first time you failed was legit as you didn't understand the new order of things. The second time was your fault for not realizing the new order sooner. The thread is your stupidity and illogic at it's finest for continuing to refuse to accept the new order. You're like someone who was stuck in a cryogenics chamber who has been thawed three decades later and insists that things are done the way they were 30 years ago. There comes a time when you just have to face facts that things aren't the same and either YOU adapt or you die. It's such simple logic even a child would get it.

Taken out of context, that entire sentence is very wrong and very, very funny. Hell, even in context there's something wrong and funny about it... But to make this constructive, I just pet my kitten everytime I feed it, and I feed it between 40 and 50% hunger. Takes a lot of the guess work out of when to pet it.

I bet he's upset that it doesn't have an auto-feed option or something like that. Because, until Jagex automates everything and turns the game into BotScape, some people will always want things easier than they are.

Now that's some winning logic right there! I like the way you think, sir. ... Or, ma'am. It's so hard to tell on the Internet...

Hah, I was just thinking, "Hm, I wonder what it's REALLY gonna look like when they're done modeling it" while I was reading this thread. And yea, not a fan of the trim either, but I can learn to live with it. It's not like I'm gonna be wearing it much anyway...

I got the invite, I don't fall into any special category, and I promptly deleted it since I'm going to be working all weekend (and wouldn't participate even if I wasn't). I wonder how many people who got the invite are active community members or, like me, are antisocial hermits. I'm guessing I got an invite because my account show little or no activity in any of the minigames being featured in the weekend festivities. I'm willing to bet that the "exciting" reward items are neither as rewarding or exciting as they want us to believe, too...

It's always nice when someone else's contradictory reply makes my argument for me. I don't want to provide Google with "anonymous data usage reports" so I can get "targeted adverts". I don't want freaking adverts at all! Why do you think I have four separate adblockers installed on my browser? Why do you think I signed all my phones up with the Do Not Call registry? That's also one of the main reasons I prefer to watch TV shows online instead of on TV; too many damned commercials. Besides that, though, I don't want Google gathering "anonymous data" from me that most likely isn't that anonymous. You all laugh at my paranoia, but when some hacker with a bee up his butt gets into the database with all your information and destroys your life, I'll be laughing my paranoid butt off because that same hacker only got minimal information from me. And now you're going to say that I'm being "sensationalist" or "blowing things out of proportion" or whatever, but the incidences of ID theft are rising almost exponentially worldwide and are becoming one of the top reported crimes in most civilized countries. Why? Because too many people aren't paranoid enough about the security of their personal information and it's getting stolen by crafty, greedy hackers. I'd rather be paranoid and safe than have my ID stolen because some web entity failed to keep my information secure.

Then PM the OP if you're "just curious", or at least remove the snarky-sounding first line. And, what does it really matter what the OP died to? How does that piece of trivia at all contribute to any sort of discussion? It could have been a hobgoblin, a jungle spider or Nex herself and it wouldn't change the fact that dying to a lagout instead of a legitimate reason is just plain annoying. This rant isn't about dying to monsters, it's about Jagex's crappy bandwidth allocation creating artificial difficulties that we have no control over in the form of lag waves. And yes, I have noticed that the lag has been getting worse. I thought it was my computer at first, but after giving it a solid tuneup (disk cleanup/defrag, drivers updates, shutting down unnecessary background programs, etc.), I'm still getting excessive lag.

As was said in another "Oh noes, I deid at Wildy Agl cuorse!" thread (I'm paraphrasing of course): The rules of the Wild don't change because you want to skill there, simply because there ARE no rules. Everyone above combat lvl 3 is fair game, especially in the deep Wild. Yea, it was kinda cruel for Jagex to put such a high-exp course there, but as the 62nd Rule of Acquisition states: "The riskier the road, the greater the profit", or in this case, the riskier the course, the greater the exp lol! Also, the 10th rule kind of applies, "Greed is eternal." In other words, you don't have to have much for someone to be greedy enough to want to take it from you. If nothing else, they just wasted your time and got a little bit of a thrill out of it by feeding their inferiority complex(es in the case of groups of pker lowlifes).

With the abundance of tough, high-leveled boss monsters (and high-leveled regular monsters), and the reintroduction of "ye olde wilde" that comment is nothing but n00bish trolling. There are far worse things to fight and die to from lag than weak-caboosed Elvarg. It doesn't even have to be an "epic" battle; a poorly timed lagout could cost you your life against mere red spiders if you weren't planning to fight them.

This is like loading a gun yourself, cocking the hammer, then shooting yourself in the head because you were looking down the barrel when you pulled the trigger. Just. Plain. Dumb. Hard as it is to believe, the OP is even DUMBER by telling everyone about it. Dude, seriously? I wonder if it really happened or if you're just making it up for some weird reason. Hell, if I'd done something that inconceivably stupid, I wouldn't tell anyone about it, not my friends, not my gf, not my diary, not even my dog would hear of that uber-epic fail. I most certainly would not go to these forums and tell a bunch of people I've never met in person about it. I think the real fail here isn't he knowingly and willingly fell for such an obvious scam, but that he openly and willingly admitted it to a bunch of essential strangers on the internet!

Now for something a little less controversial: Here I thought the Trolls from "King of the Dwarves" were just decked out in rocky armor, but it turns out they've been turned into mutant Gorons (or rocky cyborgs...) with natural or built-in armor. So, it's an improvement over what they used to look like, but not quite the direction I would have gone. Then again, it's not my game, so I'll just have to accept it, like those gods-awfully fugly cannons...

My own little world...

And if you don't have a hotmail account, they make you give them your mobile number to verify by text. Thankfully, I found an old prepaid TracFone that still had some minutes and an active account that I used. I wasn't about to give them my real phone number - I get enough unsolicited calls and texts on that (despite signing up with the Do Not Call list) to tempt fate that it might be sold/stoled and I get even more. I also created a junk throwaway hotmail account to link, for the same reason I don't want to link my main email with anything related to Google.

I'm making a balanced, DIY pure. I'm training all - or nearly all - of my skills about evenly so that I can access as much content (skills, training areas, perks, etc.) as I can in order to keep training as effectively as possible, and when that gets boring, I can do something fun because I can afford to not grind for a while and have access to a wider variety of fun, interesting things to do.

I agree the new cannon is terrible; makes me think a little too much of WoW-style graphics. For the record, I think the cartoony WoW graphics are just an eyesore and a blemish on the face of serious MMOs.

I can't help but laugh at the hypocrisy of these "debates". The majority of players that I've seen in RS are so obsessed with being efficient and maximizing their xp/hr or gp/hr or something/hr that they forget to have fun, then when something comes along that actually BOOSTS xp/hr and is fun, everybody cries like children that "it's too easy" or "it cheapens the skill". You're just jealous and butt-hurt that the update wasn't released when you needed it to be and are now scrambling to find any excuse to tear it down. Grow up people! Think outside the box for a moment; if an update makes a certain resource rise in price (in this case, ores), cash in on it! Grab your tools and start gathering that resource to sell to the feebs who are buying it at the artificially inflated price! Then when the price stabilizes, you have a fat stack of cash that took less effort to get because of the update. Sounds pretty damn "rewarding" to me.