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wow... i think the fact that so many people referred to maarten as a coward and selfish for commiting suicide shows just how many immature people tipiters there are. i think this thread really distinguished the mature players from the young ones. i dont mean immature in a demeaning way, but its clear that some people havent been pass certain experiences in life, and looking back your response will be different because youve been through the situation maarten was 14 years old. at that age very "little" things to us would be big deal to him. as you grow older you get a better perspective of the size of situations. you can deal with a wider range of issues. 14 year olds go through a lot, from finding their own identity to dealing with peers, parents, academics and biological changes. its a very delicate time. you cant expect a 14 year old to be a hero, of course hes going to be scared and overwhelmed by issues he faces day by day. thats why humans live with their parent until they are 18, when they have enough life experience to deal with more major life issues i admit, around that time in my life i contemplated suicide at times. and i was an A student and admired in my neighboorhood. its just that without wisdom that comes with age, you think things are totally hopeless and overwhelming. one of the only things that kept me from commiting suicide was my religious fear of going to hell. believe it or not. lots of "normal" people who have a "good life" go through the same thing of cousre, if maarten had stuck it out and realised that at some point life would get better, he would be looking back at his suicide note and laughing. but only in hindsight could he see that. its a pity that his parents or adults in his life couldnt get to him. he relied on the friendship of his peers, and they knew no better, being his age. i hope this will be a message to young people. yes times in life are depressing and seems beyond hope. but its only because you are young and havent been through the situation. stick it out and youll realise that you always get through and overcome. there is no such thing as an impossible problem. a solution always exists

this is jagex not only biting the hand that feeds them, as i pointed out in my thread about advertising but its also a slap in the face of fansites. now they are giving themselves more justification to ban people for mentioning tipit or google. for all the years that fansites have been doing jagex's work of being the first source of customer support. any walkthrough or question about runescape, the fansites were the first place to go. now jagex is trying to take that away. and just so they can justify more unfair bans. sickening if you ask me

i think bottom line, ecto is the best option. true you lose 1 spot for an extra ess per trip, but you are more likely to save your glories and pouches. it would be a LOT more time wasted to die and buy another glory or hunt for more pouches. if you die and lose your pouches, you lose all the time you saved in trips taking 1 more ess. its not worth it

i suck at making money. too many unfinished projects. lots of things i could sell. i end up with a bank full of junk and no money

could you copy the description you made in the official forums on here/ i hate reading the official forums, and in 2 minutes your suggestion will be bumped to page 3 by a bunch of noob threads

You reported someone for saying HYT? Or someone reported you for that? :s To the topic creator though, I don't get your comparison. From what I can tell, your argument is that since hundreds of sites from google like tip it advertise for runescape, runescape shouldn't ban users for saying it. The flaw in that argument is that if someone is searching for runescape, they already know the game exists. Miniclip is an exception - that site isn't made for runescape, and it solely advertises it basically. But it's not like someone will go to tip it and hear about runescape from it. Unless I misunderstood your point, it doesn't seem to hold any ground to me. Jagex doesn't gain members from sites like tip it existing. It's the other way around. Runescape advertises for fansites. of course, if someone advertises ANY site in runescape chat, the people recieving the ad already knows that runescape exists. obviously thats not my point a lot of people, i'd say the majority of new users in the last 2 years or so, first heard about the game through online forums. they may not have been specifically looking for runescape, but perhaps for online multiplayer games. i first heard about runescape on another game forum for a mobile phone rpg called shade. in fact, about 50 players from shade joined runscape because they heard about it on that board. even boards like tip.it and runehq etc, there are actually lots of times when people actually find those sites first, then find out about runescape from checking out the forums about it. or perhaps they heard the name runescape, and checked out one of the support sites for more info before signing up on runescape itself. theres no denying, the support sites opften do a much better job of selling the game than runescape.com itself as for tip.it, google, runehq, etc, when these sites are mentioned in game, its nearly always to point the listener to a source of helpful advice or info about the game itself. without this info being on tipit and other sites, the game would be very frustrating for the average player. telling somebody to go check out the tipit planner, or sell their items obn the forums, or look up the quest help, etc actually helps the game rather than hurt it now jagex will ban users because they help other players get info that would make the game better, and make the players happier. thats the double standard

a proper clan system please!! for the life of me i cant understand why runescape is so backward with this

hp is my highest stat at 73, and totally by accident. you dont really train hp... after that my highest is mining. i'm rather proud of my 72 mining and 70 smithing, bringing up some of my other stats to 70 before i move on

i made my first 200k (full rune money) killing cows and selling them in al kharid for 100 gp each. i couldnt believe people would pay so much for something so valueless

rather than asking jagex to make another update to reset the cabbage respawn rate (and rate of all vegetable respawns, for which they probably have their reasons), here are some alternative solutions 1. spread the ooc to more worlds. like world 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63 1nd 70, for instance. more worlds means more draynor farm patches, more participation, more kah bah gees! 2. schedule the picking times. if cabbage pickers clashing and overlapping each other is a problem, work out a shift system so pickers know what time they are needed at the fields. every cabbage counts, and making your cabbage picking time more effcient means more kah bah gees! 3. explore other cabbage getting methods. there are other, perhaps less convenient, locations to get cabbages. ooc'ers could acumulate cabbages while killing al kharid warriors (not to be confused with terrorists), or while collecting monk robes and having their holy symbols enchanted. all those unpicked cabbage fields being picked to thier full potential means more kah bah gees!! 4. branch out into new collecting ventures. have you considered the order of buckets, order of ashes, order of kebabs or order of flyers? why limit yourself to cabbages, when there are so many other equally useless things in the game to collect? broaden your horizons. cabbages is just the tip of the iceberg if you think about it basically, dont let jagex's continuous changing of in-game variables prevent you from still having fun all the same. there are ways to get around the corrupt and oppressive system if you are resourceful enough. fight the power!! buh keh teese!!!

youre supposed to signal when you change lanes, but how many people get tickets for not doing it? if you switch lanes without signalling and a cop is in the area and saw you do it, very likely they will give you a ticket for it. of course, there's no "report abuse" button that non-cop motorists can press to report illegal lane changing, but if there was, im pretty sure a lot of people would have gotten tickets that way for all the things that jagex bans people for, it seems like they cant be everywhere and monitor whats going on all the time, just like cops cant be everywhere. i suppose as long as you make sure you dont get caught, if you can get away with switching your lanes and not signalling, why not?

Yes it is. And how much do steel plates alch for? 5 steel bars= 3k at 600gp each. 1 nature rune=350gp. Total cost: 3,350gp. I assume the steel platebody high alches higher than this number? Or, do you mean I smelt the bars myself? 10 coal ores=1900gp. 5 iron ores=500gp. 1 nature rune=350gp. Total cost: 2,750gp. I assume the steel platebody high alches higher? than this number? I'm not really looking for mining my own ores, but buying them. I want to raise only Smithing. at this cost you lose money. steel plates hi alch for 1200 the best way i've found for gaining smithing experience for free or at a profit is trading bars for ores. when i was in f2p i made 2k steel bars, and traded them to smithers/sellers/c-ball makers for 2 coal + 1 iron + 50gp per bar. with the same batch, and no new ores added, i did this trade 4 times. that was 400k and lots of smith exp, but it takes about 1hour 45 mins to make 1k steel at al kharid furnace, so factor that into your calculations. its quite slow, but its pure experience, and probably as good as youre going to get on f2p the nice thing is, theres no limit to the amount of times you can "recycle" these ores. you can even use the cash profit to buy more ores and make the next trade bigger each time. when youve had enough trading back and forth, youll still have all the bars you made and can hammer them out, and alch the plate at that time. by then you would have already covered your losses and made back your investment happy smithing!

well you cant say "yahoo" because its a censored word, like other cuss words. maybe somebody dropped the axe and logged out, then after a minute or so it would appear on the ground for anybody to pick up. i have no idea why anybody would drop their rune axe, but it seems like the only logical explanation. and the fact that everybody else saw the axe same time as you means it couldnt be you hacking. if you made an axe appear on the ground by hacking, only you would see it, just like it you dropped it. after a minute or so then everybody else would see it before it disappeared

i got a genie on saturday. they are still around. i havent heard of the freaky forester popping up in a long while

failed flame attempt. nobody said fansites get paid. try reading it seems as though jagex does NOT look at every case on an individual basis before they decide to ban someone. most of the blackmark penalties and even bannings seem to be completely automated, with automated responses. they hardly ever ask the person involved to offer an explanation. jagex might recieve an abuse complaint or report, investigate it from their point of view sometimes, and ban the account in question without allowing the person to defend themselvs if they were falsely acused. of course you can appeal, but thats after the fact that the judgement was already executed. sometimes the ban is unjust, and even after an appeal the ban isnt lifted in the case of people getting banned by jagex for referring others to tipit, runehq, sal's site, google, etc, it is a gross double standard by jagex. in the last few years the majority of their new subscriptions were because fansites and search sites exist. this is a community based game. even right here on this site, a lot of people admit they would have quit runescape of boredom and frustration if tipit board wasnt here. runescape depends on community-based boards and fansites as much as the fansites dpend on runescape. and the boards and fansites do it for free. jagex needs to lay off the anal retention and recognize where their bread is coming from

exactly what i'm thinking. it seems like they dont care as long as its a moderate amount, and you dont log on both accounts at the same time, and you do it where you cant get caught... at least thats what it looks like from what everybody has been saying. and its why the majority of drop traders are left alone, i guess

thats strange, in a system update EVERYTHING gets reset. you should have been put back in the barrows dungeon with your kc back to zero as if you didnt kill any brothers. the spiders or whatever was attacking you should have stopped immediately. if runescape logs you out for an update, but your character is still in combat, then there is something wrong with the system, because i dont think that should be possible

of course people who spam or advertise cheats and scam sites should be banned. but jagex has banned players for referring other players to tipit, runehq and google. im not talking about advertising for personal gain, like advertising your personal site or something, but how could jagex ban people for promoting these runescape fan sites, the very fan sites that promote runescape itself?

did you know that lots of people are doing exactly this and not getting banned? its happening all the time, everyday, by probably the majority of players with multiple accounts. and jagex are not banning them. any clues as to why? i think maybe there are 2 factors involved. 1 is the size of the transfer. loading up an account with lots of rares, millions of gp or large ammounts of valuable items might be a cause for jagex to enforce this rule. 2 is the location. if you are drop trading in a members world in a busy location, or in a way that somebody can catch you and report you, then that might cause jagex to take action. of course this is just my speculation the fact is, lots of people are still drop trading and not being banned. maybe its ok to drop trade within a certain moderate limit, and as long as it cant be seen by others. thats my guess, but i dont know

i suppose you didnt read a single post in this thread... we know LOTS of people drop trade all the time or at least once in a while. but we hardly hear about people getting banned for this. if you read what we said, its a stupid rule, and even more stupid in that its not even being enforced. my question is not whether more people should be banned for drop trading, but how come people arent being banned? next time, try reading

as far as i know, other than through miniclip, jagex has no real marketing program to promote runescape. i am sure that the majority of players in the last 2 years have heard about it through word of mouth, either directly from friends who play, or indirectly through online communities like this one, that talks about the game extensively and exclusively. do a search for runescape on google. you get over 2.8 million search results. jagex's homepage is the first result, and miniclip is 3rd. runescape.net (never heard of it, looks suspect) is 10th. for the next 200,000 pages that follow, EVERY other search result is either a fan site, blog or unofficial online community. jagex makes its money because players, fans and webmasters advertise the game for them FOR FREE! i havent asked the tip.it admin, nor salemoneus, nor the ranehq crew, or anybody else if jagex pays them for hosting a community in their name, or even gives them free membership, but im positive the answer is no. yet jagex gets the majority of its business, particularly for the last 2-3 years, because people hear about the game for the first time by people telling them about it now jagex has recently started banning people for "advertising" in the in game chat. if you say "google" ot "tipit" or "runehq" or refer to any other site than runescape, you risk being banned for advertising not only is this a classic example of biting the hand that feeds you, what makes the rule even more ridiculous and unjust is that its NOT advertising. if i tell someone check google for the solution to the ernest quest, im not advertising because im not profiting from that person clicking on google or the sites that come up in the results. promoting tipit or sal's site or runehq is actually promoting runescape, because thats the sole purpose of those sites ever since the mass ban of autoers, which most of the players applauded jagex for, there has been a rage of unjust bans, almost as if jagex is under new management and hired a drill seargent to run customer relations. now players are more paranoid than ever, and its difficult to play the game without worrying about getting banned for calling a beggar "noob" or something equally trivial this new "advertising" rule, rule 11, is totally uncalled for and needs to be removed, and any accounts banned for breaking this rule needs to be unbanned. and theres a way this can be done just imagine, all these runescape support and community sites, which are actually more useful that runescape's own forum, and which reach a far wider audience, decide they are no longer going to advertise and support runescape. many players depend on these sites to help them play the game better. without sites like these, LOTS of people would be stuck on quests and couldnt achieve their goals and quit the game. could you imagine what would happen if there was no external source for advice on how to play the game? new players would give up nearly immediately. many quests would be impossible to finish. how would you know you get 2 nats per ess at level 91 unless you found out from other players? i think we need to seriously approach jagex concerning this and get them to take that stupid rule away and stop banning the people that actually get them more players and more revenue

apparently the only people (well, person, aus_fighter) that got banned for drop trading are the ones actually caught in the act, and got directly reported, maybe by a mod. it is extremely easy to drop trade in locations where you wont be seen by other players, like in a remote building during off-peak hours in a quiet f2p world. in fact, its almost a given that jagex mods or player mods never monitor whats going on in f2p, and at the same time f2p is where 99% or new pures and pkers train how difficult is it for jagex to, say, monitor the weight carried on one of your chars has decreased by a certain amount, then a second character that is owned by the same person logs into the same world, stands on the same spot a minute after, and that character gains exactly the weight that the first character lost. of course if its notes then the weight doesnt change, but i'm surprised there arent more automatic bans for drop trading accounts. its not that i'd like to see jagex ban indiscriminately, its bad enough already as it is, and i dont care about the drop trading rule either. i think its stupid. but its still wierd to me that even tho jagex is banning people left right and center for other things that are not directly breaking the rules, its strange that you hardly hear about this rule being enforced that much, if ever...

its against one of the rules if you drop items, then log in with your other accounts to pick them up. and most likely its very easy for jagex to detect one character logging out and then another character logging in at the same location on the same world immediately after yet i never hear about people who got banned for drop trading for their other accounts. how often does this happen? is there anybody who had this happen to them or know of somebody that got banned for this?

for fish and meat, using the sulphur vents is NO DIFFERENT than using a range or wood fire. the cook/burn ratio depends on your cooking level, not on what kind of fire you use. sulfur vents are the same as regular fires. you cant cook bread, cake, pizzas, stews etc on them like on a range

what about gear? i mean its f2p, but i would imagine people would bring along blue mage outfits, magic ammies, anti dragon shields, boots, capes, gloves, maybe monks robes and holy symbols, all of which cost next to nothing (water staff and magic ammy only things worth picking up) are people allowed to use protection prayers? are their any rules?