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Thats all I did lol

I was hearing a fair bit of chatter about lag alll over not just on 44. Seems to be alot more lag issues since RS3 came out.....

Drumgun slowly making it a 1 horse race at the top..... Over a mil gap now

Recently was in Chicago.....Drank way to much and agreed to play in a friendly game of soccer.....Was on the field for 1 minute tackled a poor girl, red carded, too drunk to get up and thus was rolled off the field.....

Runescape won't ever really be a word-of-mouth game again, not at this stage of its development. Those of us who are here are here because we are creatures of habbit and we were sucked in while we young. In my life, I have been part of many word-of-mouth incidents. But I doubt I will ever be part of that again. How could I be? I am a Maxed player. If any friend of mine joined, it wouldn't be at least several years of dedicated effort on their part before they catched up to me. I can't just do noob stuff with them, that's boring, and you can only do that a few times before it becomes a burden. I could start a new account (as many players do), but that's completely unappealing to me. So what am I supposed to say to them? If you really grind it for several years, then we can do some cool stuff together? Furthermore, in this market it just can't appeal to newer players. This particular MMORPG model is too outdated. It's grinding all the way through, and it's like work. Even the distractions and the minigames which are supposed to be fun are like work, sometimes even more like work than the skills which they are allegedly supposed to distract us from. You just can't advertise it like other games or it has been advertised in the past. How can they? "Come grind with us for years for no apparent purpose! It will be so much fun. You see these monsters, or these balls, well if you click at them for 300 hours, you can be 99, and then do nothing!" That's just not exciting and it can't be covered up. All the other games on consoles, and even fun diversionary games on tablets would give it a tough challenge. Runescape has no instant gratification, and increasingly no delayed gratification either. It's not like a console game where even if you have never played it, you can go to a friend's house with a few other buddies, and they can teach you the mechanics and it's immediately fun, and within an hour or so, you are decent at it. And eventually you get quite good at it, it's instant fun even for newbies, and it's something you can all do. If it's such great fun you might even buy your own. How can do you that with Runescape? One of you plays on the computer woodcutting, while 5 others watch you disinterestedly? In fact, that would be boorish and rude to do: playing a game like Runescape while your friends watch (unless they were immediately interested in it). Because you probably only have 1-2 computers. So what are they supposed to do? Watch you grind for an hour? Even if you try to incite them with some of the few fun things left to do (boss hunting), well that would be dishonest, as it's not something they can do that night or instantly, they'd have to train for a few years before they had the levels and the gear to do it. The only target is if they get lots of young players or new players. Runescape, in 2007, had 1M members and 9M free players. Even if you assume that the overwhelming majority of people on f2p were bots, that still leaves a few million real f2p players. What that meant was Jagex could always cycle them to grow p2p or maintain rates, by simply encouraging someone to subscribe, even for a month. But we can't even return to a big influx of new players, because Runescape will never compete in the markets as successfully as it had ever had, because there are plenty of games that are actually games: they offer relaxing instant gratification. Runecape can't do that for new players in the same way. It's just a huge game that it would like an insurmountable challenge to new players. I had the good fortune to join this game when it was small, and I grew with the game back in the days before the experience or achievement cape craze, when people really did just play it for fun, so it was not too large or unwieldy for me then. This sums up my thoughts on the game these days.

Id be very surprised if he went straight to 200mil with no break for anything else.... I only just getting to 2 mil and need a break! lol

At least into 2003 there was not weekly updates that I can remember. I think they need to slow down as well though..... Instead of pumping out new content work on what is already in the game....rework skills.....change mini games etc.

Nope I did!

How is it a surprise? When there was alot more members (bots included) it made sense to have more staff..... Population lowered, less subsciptions so lay offs are bound to happen. Though the article says no redundancies have happened as of yet....so that is to imply its just temporary lay offs... Its cheaper to lay say 20 people off and leave a room or 2 empty of people so minimal eletrical use etc

Like the idea of super september :). Though with a month of bonus exp...why not just do a bxp weekend? Just a thought

Hero?

Just over 111 play days then at that estimate......

Its a teapot made of chocolate....aka a really stupid idea...... He is saying someone (whoever he was refering too) would defend its use etc. Quite funny when you get it right away lol

Looks like September will be fun. And alot of exp to boot

Anything is possible....Lets think back in history....Lover Romeo getting 200mil agil and mining...pre any sort of usefull fast training of either.... Larryr with 150 od mil RC when it was just alters and runners (I think?). If people want to do it....it will happen. In reality this 200mil will prob be one of the "easiest" You stand in a pre determined spot and jagex throws the resources at you...... Pretty straight forward just a question of time

That makes 2 now!

I'm thinking she doesn't have that much money... Still a fun thought, however. ;) ~D. V. "Yeah, that's too pricey..." Devnull Well I pay about 15€ a month for about 1GB I-net, 75 phone minutes (I'm near deaf so I dont use it much) and unlimited text messages. Pretty cheap may I say =3 Wow that's about a quarter of what I pay for 100MB Internet, 100 phone minutes and unlimited text messages O_o. Guess it's true when they say Canada is one of the most expensive countries in the world for that. Canada is a total rip off for cell phones. We get gouged so hard its disgusting!

I didnt hate it at first I was a bit annoyed. But I like you am somewhat enjoying it. Can relax, browse forums, watch a movie chat in FC gain some ok exp. The added bonus of the hunter exp is great as well :)

I agree that at the moment it seems pretty useless. But I think once its counterpart of a skill is released it wont seem so bad....Though the exp gains will still be slow lol

Never even heard of that until now!

With so much game change in the last year and it been an even longer time since I properly trained agility I am just wonder if you can all instill a bit of knowledge my way for training agility. I am currently lvl 80......Fire away

Div wont be so bad once you catch up to the masses :) Congrats on lvls!

May I suggest a cell phone with unlimited data for all general use? Internet for RS only lol

O wow....so yup way behind the times lol