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Problem is, I don't have a guilded altar :P I guess I'll just wait till I can be online a bit more frequently and ask someone if i can borrow theirs. Cheers.

With the introduction of a "Grind x" feature, how much slower is Ectofungus than a guilded altar now? I've got 1,500 d bones to get through :(

You can't create a black market that effects the prices on the G.E, so no offense to Milton Friedman and Winston Churchill, but they'd be utter noobs at Runescape economics Churchill was a noob when it came to rl economics too. As Chancellor of the Exchequer he was responsible for a return to the gold standard which proved disasterous for the British economy in the 1920s.

The items you mention are all of a certain type: more are coming into the game (through monster drops etc) and very few are going out of the game (such as the occasional unlucky guy who gets killed while skulled). These items will always drop in price in the long term, that's a basic fact of supply/demand, and merchanters do not affect this. The only exception is where Jagex update a piece of equipment. This is clear even in the examples you give - barrows armour, for instance, is significantly cheaper than it was when it came out, despite it being frequently merchanted.

If people have learnt anything from the current real world financial crisis it's that what economies certainly do need it tight regulation. I can't really see why people are complaining about this change - unlike some of the other initiatives such as teh GE and the limit on free stuff you can give out, this update doesn't affect normal players at all. The only peple to lose out here are the merchants, and they have too much money anyway ;)

Nowhere did I say that I disagree with you ;) I think that the update made firemaking slightly better but agree that the skill could be improved. Personally I'd be tempted to significantly reduce the number of easily accessible ranges in the game and return FM back to its basic necessity.

Would you have included the "...insults don't help" bit, because you failed miserably when you declared Jagex "stupid" and "truely...ignorant" for daring to disagree with you and another post on this thread "10/10 in rubbishness". You're entitled to your own opinion, but it might help you to remember that other posters are entitled to their own.

Ah, slight mistake in my original post - I meant quickest, not necessarily easiest :) I guess cave slimes are the way forward?

What's the easiest quickest way to collect it?

Ah, that's a good guess! I didn't actually know that bloods were craftable now :oops: It's fairly amusing being a noob all over again :P Cheers you two.

Ahha, took me two readings to notice your actual answer there :P What's the Barbarian outpost glitch? I assumed that less demand was pushing the price down but why don't people like bloods any more? :/ Why would anyone use deaths over bloods when they're almost the same price?

Hi guys I've been away for a while, could someone please explain to me why bloods have plummeted in price to be worth only slightly more than death runes? :o I remember them being 600 ea!

The Grand Exchange was brand new just before I left. Went to check it out and apparently I have 75k from selling something I can't remember :P Good idea about showing my stats, here they are: Edit: If it's not clear, the first number is my level and the second my xp, couldn't be bothered to edit the latter out. Attack 71 827,582 Defence 80 2,040,711 Strength 70 758,047 Hitpoints 79 1,909,997 Ranged 73 1,052,705 Prayer 62 360,540 Magic 85 3,424,352 Cooking 66 510,681 Woodcutting 78 1,693,622 Fletching 86 3,639,052 Fishing 62 345,332 Firemaking 55 171,020 Crafting 55 167,799 Smithing 55 179,911 Mining 56 196,618 Herblore 66 545,793 Agility 57 205,710 Thieving 58 237,529 Slayer 65 452,439 Farming 60 291,107 Runecraft 47 78,651 Hunter 43 53,556 Construction 48 88,423 What monsters are people training on these days?

Hi guys I stopped playing RS about... well, quite a while ago now. Had the urge to unearth my old account today and see what's changed. I'm loving the new resolution and better graphics :D I was just wondering if anyone could suggest a couple of the coolest new updates I should try checking out. I know that I could read the news thread on the official forum but that's a looooot of info and I'm just interested in a few highlights for now to wean me back in. Sadly I'm not exactly sure how long I've been gone. My last login date was some 250 days ago, but I think that was just a quick login to see if my account was still there, I've been out for longer than that. I'm have a feeling I left just before the God swords came out. As far as my account is concerned I'm level 93 with 85 mage, I've got a few million gp but I'd rather not spend much until i find my feet again, and I'm not too bothered about teamwork games like CW or whatever the newfangled versions :P Cheers!

Edit: My mistake, thanks to the two guys below. What a pity :(

I find it strange that people manage to read the same article I did, and yet see things that clearly aren't there. You won't be able to change the size of your character. They're doing a graphical update on the npc children around Runescape. gda_scooby makes some interesting points about the death of the unid. I used to love mass buying unids; the profit made it worthwhile and the randomness fun. I guess it will be good to stop noobs getting scammed, but i'm sorry to see it go. Better ID all my unids quick to get that ID exp! My guess re: the new altar is that you'll be able to craft, say, runes 10 levels higher than you should be able to, but there's a % fail rate. Or -possibly- that you can craft any runes, but the further away from your natural level you go the more likely you are to fail.

Don't think i've ever had 0 cash since a week or so after i started, so the gp at the bottom of the pile :P

This is what i hope the egg colours are leading to :) I don't play much RS these days, but I keep in touch and i'm interested in old loose ends like the eggs which I used to wonder about.

Buying and selling things. Too many idiots, too many scammers. Buying/Selling at rubbish prices is fairly easy, but I tend to always end up waiting far too long when looking for average prices. I want to play on my own terms, not feel like i have to hang around waiting for buyers, bumping posts etc. I don't like the crowded merch worlds 1 and 2.

I bet people will moan about people moaning about it after the update too ^_^ I'm moaning about it and the update hasn't even come out yet ;)

I really dislike the RS music. When I'm doing some boring levelling i'll tend to watch TV to distract me, but when i'm just messing around i usually listen to my own music. The Libertines/Bloc Party/Arctic Monkeys/The Maccabees etc ftw

We can't know the stats, appearance, etc of the Godsword yet, but there's one thing you can guarantee - regardless of attributes, people will moan about it.

Its not a single person, there a group of people, a society class in Britain. They are usually very dirty, don't wash, carry knives,act very tough when in fact they arent, all round very unpleasant people. Society: Assigning prejudice based on the clothes you wear since 4000 BC

If you had 99 magic you'd make money with the cape emote? You could do that, or you could just... high alc? :P Anyway, i'm pretty bored so... Attack -> I guess high accuracy with melee weapons would be alright 5/10 Defence -> High defence just makes it less likely for people to hit you. With low hp, you're still stuffed if they get lucky. 2/10 Strength -> I guess you'd be an awesome boxer if you got the first shot in. Fairly useful just generally in life 6/10 HP -> There's very little in RS that does over 99 hp damage, so you'd be getting close to immortal. Pretty cool! 9/10 Ranged -> Like attack, this wouldn't be bad. You'd dominate a few sports. 6/10 Prayer -> Protect from melee makes you invulnerable to fists and knives. Protect from range makes you invulnerable to gunshots (cannons are range remember ;)). You can restore HP, make yourself stronger, and lots more. An awesome skill 10/10 Magic -> All depends on whether you need runes. If not you get lethal offensive capabilities, the ability to enchant jewellery, you can teleport, and turn items into 150% their worth in gold. Amazing. If you need runes, pretty worthless. 10/10 or 1/10 Cooking -> You'd be a brilliant chef, which i guess is ok if that's your thing. Good, but not great. 5/10 Woodcutting -> I can already cut down normal trees, and there aren't any magic trees around. Yawn. 0/10 Fletching -> You'd make decent money as a craftsman, but there's little practical application. 5/10 Fishing -> Again, you'd make decent money as a fisherman. And i guess it'd be nice if you ever get stranged near a river with no food :P 5/10 Firemaking -> Petrol is my 99 firemaking. 1/10 Crafting -> See fletching, although crafting has a bit more application aside from making you money. 6/10 Smithing -> See fletching. 5/10 Mining -> I'd hate to be a miner. 2/10 Herblore -> Assuming you could find the herbs, you could make some pretty cool potions. The guy who said he'd use 99 herblore to make crystal meth and ecstasy made me laugh more than anything else all night :D Can't decide if he was an idiot or a troll. 5/10 Agility -> Good for gymnastics, running marathons, and climbing trees 6/10 Thieving -> As someone pointed out, you only need 1 thieving to pickpocked a man, and you're not going to run into any higher level people. It would make you more likely to be successful i guess, but still the threat of failure would put me off 3/10 Slayer -> Until an Abby teleports into the real world, this is pretty useless 1/10 Farming -> Not my thing 3/10 Runecraft -> If you need runes for magic, this would be pretty sweet. If not, pretty useless 8/10 or 1/10 Hunter -> Another one that would be decent if you need some emergency survival, but outside of that pretty worthless unless you're poacher scum or something. 2/10 Construction -> see fletching, except that i really hate building sites and concrete :/ 3/10

I would love them to make the screen a bigger size. I'm running 1280 x 1024 on a 19" monitor - which i reckon is pretty standard set up these days - and the app looks ridiculously small. It can't be that hard to make everything a bit bigger and enlarge the screen can it? :/