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You forgot to mention arguably the most important part of getting a 99... doing your homework. 8-) By that, I mean pre-goal preparations. Decide upon your goal. Ask yourself why you're doing it. A gut feeling that says "I really want this 99" is enough. If you don't have an answer, find some other skill to train. Once you make your goal, then you can decide how to reach it. What's the most efficient way to train? How much does it cost, and how much attention does it require? Is it boring? Spend time deciding what method(s) to use. Are there any useful quests to help your goal? If it's a combat goal, Lost City is a requirement for some dragon weapons. If your goal is 99 slayer, do Smoking Kills (or whatever the slayer expansion quest was). If you're thinking of 99 firemaking, think about getting 46 summoning for the pyrelord pouch. I apply a "work smarter, not harder" kind of approach. I try to find ways to multitask while training. For example I train magic by earth-striking the earth wizard south of Fally. It's slow and expensive exp, but you can effectively train almost afk. My preferred mining exp is from pure ess (slow exp, decent money, much less clicking). \ This guide is about how to push yourself harder to achieve your goals. But remember, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." The guide is detailed in telling me to push harder, but doesn't tell me how to push more efficiently. This guide is still missing quite a bit of info, but I don't feel comfortable giving it a bad rating. Especially when the author has made an honest effort to make the guide clear, simple, and informative. I've been playing RS for 5 years (I have the Christmas yo-yo of whatever year it was) and my stats don't really show it. No 99's yet for me, and I've burned out on one attempt. So take my advice at face value.

Mine pure ess. It's pretty easy, not click-intensive at all, and doesn't take much skill. My figures here are estimates, and may be way off. With a rune pick, small pouch, med pouch, and large pouch, I can get 1.2k ess an hour, if I focus. With your mith pick (costs less than 5k) and no pouches, I'm gonna guess that you'll have 800 ess an hour. That's an easy 120k+ gp an hour, along with 4k mining xp an hour.

I have the personal belief that, aside from unprovoked murder, there is no universal right or wrong. Planned marriages aren't necessarily a bad thing. The past is not necessarily a bad thing. Kids being married off to adults are not necessarily a bad thing. As long as the girl's parents manage to find a kind, loving husband who'll do his duties, it'll all turn out well. Remember that the article is about an extreme example. You could make that statement about any culture. Any different culture could make that statement about your culture. Here's a hypothetical statement: "Just because your culture believes it's wrong to kill homosexuals doesn't make it right." That last statement isn't my personal opinion, I was just playing Devil's Advocate. Back on topic: The only fault I see in this case is with the husband, since I believe he shouldn't have sex with an underaged wife, shouldn't rape her, shouldn't beat her too much. The only thing "wrong" with the culture is a lack of accountability on the husband's part, and a lack of female rights in general.

Out of curiosity, does the obby necklace bonus stack with void melee bonus? I was thinking that this sort of setup would work well in FoG, where the hunter's defence doesn't really matter. Plus, I'm kinda too lazy to do monkey madness. Also, how reliable is the accuracy? I want to be reasonably confident that my next attack won't be a "0". Assume that I want to go PvP. How fast is the obby sword and the obby mace? Just compare it to the whip or the dragon dagger.

Just a little tip for traveling to the wyverns: Set your house to Rimmy and teleport there. Or glory tele to al-kharid (bank there) go to Shantay, get yourself jailed :lol: and sent to max security Port Sarim prison. Then lockpick your way out of your cage 8-) Dunno if the second option's worth it... but it's a nice change of scenery.

I just want to add: consider Ava's accumulator (animal magnetism quest required). Free steel arrows ftw (though they do come really slowly)

I'd score the guide the other way round. The fact that you could sell your cats for 100 deaths is almost common knowledge. The only uniqueness I see is selling the deaths for tokkul to buy a fury (and even that isn't as good as selling deaths for GP). As for intelligence... if you think carefully about this idea, you'd wonder why no one else does it. The guide points out an obvious truth (although it's a truth I just realized) Practicality... this guide is a "no-brainer" way to get slow money with minimal effort. Sorta like wearing Ava's Accumulator to get free steel arrows with almost no effort. Practicality is a yes/no sort of thing, and I say :thumbup: Why not take your kitten with you? Unless you have a familiar out, the kitten could follow you and be a *cough*distraction*cough* mobile moneymaking device. To the OP: Great guide. The title is a tad misleading. You'll need a LOT of patience. After I read this guide, I was thinking "How come almost no one is doing this?"

This guide isn't detailed. Heck, it's not meant to be detailed. This is the best and most comprehensive general skill-training guide (because I haven't seen any other ones). There are a few improvements that would be really nice though: 1. State how much exp/hour and GP/hour (positive or negative) each method gets you. 2. Add alternative methods. I sure as hell don't have the cash to get to 99 smithing with gold, nor do I have the patience to do it all with cannonballs. Smelting bars and making platemail are also good alternatives. 3. If possible, put links to other guides. Your guide isn't detailed. Link to guides that offer the missing detail. (don't add any more detail than you have to) 4. Cut as many unnecessary words/sentences as possible. As an example: [hide=] With a bit of editing, I could shorten it to: Go to the Ardougne Hunting shop. Buy at least three Bird Traps. Start off catching Crimson Swifts in the Jungle Area. Use the gnome glider to get to Feldip Hills. If you can't, use fairy ring code CKS or just walk south of Yanille until you reach the birds. Once you reach Crimson Swifts lay out your bird trap and wait until you catch them. Keep catching swifts until level 9 hunter.[/hide] This guide has a lot of room for improvement, but the structure is dead on. Keep up the good work. This definitely has the potential to be AoW quality.

I was born in 1991. Just 2 shows that haven't been mentioned that I think are important: All That (before it turned into the dark, absurdist, joke-is-that-there's-no-joke crap that it is now) Kenan and Kel Who loves orange soda? Kel loves orange soda. Is it true? mmHmm I do, I do, I do, ooh! *proceeds to drink orange soda* Iirc, FOX News didn't exist back then. Doesn't that little tidbit speak volumes? And I still remember when Britney Spears the song Lucky. I still think it's one of the best songs I've ever heard. Speaking of music, there were the backstreet boys, west life, the spice girls, and ABBA. Not that I really paid attention, back then I liked listening to the Beatles.

You only get hp exp when you do damage. So, yeah, no hp experience at the fally mages. But ease of training more than makes up for that. Just put on your green dhide and staff and hope no randoms come :

Just alch where there is inherent idleness. Look at your routine and look for moments of idleness (though you probably know this by now). I choose to alch while hunting. Well, I'm a lv 31 hunter, so the tropical wagtails come slowly. And it's more about the hunting rather than the alching. You could easily train mage exp in pest control with a fire staff, guarding the knight. If there's no pests around, start alching.

I hate games where the autosave comes at a really bad time. The crummy thing about the autosave is that it's supposed to help you. But if an autosave comes at a bad time, it overrides your last autosave (different for some games) I remember this in MoH:AA. I'm in the D-day mission. I play it for about 15 minutes. I get a string of bad luck and end up with 9HP, and I'm gonna have to run across open ground under enemy machine gun fire. BAM! Autosave. I run across open ground, but die 1/4 of the way there. Restart from autosave point. Die. Restart. Die. With a bit of good luck I did manage to get through the fire - on the 6th try. I compare that with games like Star Trek Elite Force 2, where the autosave always features a nearby healthpack and extra ammo. I also hate griefers. They just screw up your team for the heck of it. Like flashbanging your own team in CS and the round's start. Or giving away your position by firing their gun.

I've seen black or white shadows flit at the edge of my vision, but that's about it. And there's this one time when I saw a pale, almost translucent white ring hovering above my bed at night. Scared the hell out of me for 5 minutes before I realized it was my fluorescent light that I'd just switched off. Apparently the light was still cooling down, and giving off a faint glow. As someone who tries to be utilitarian, I don't like to ponder about ghosts. I find it easier to think of them as aliens from another dimension, coming to Earth as tourists. And these aliens might try to scare us just for kicks.

I don't know any ways to transfer money quickly, aside from bh (and that's not safe) The party room has a 50k/10 minutes limit. Add that to a direct trade limit of 3k/15 min (depending on your quest points) You could also try abusing the request assistance feature, to give your friend exp instead. For example, you request his assistance to train a skill that loses money. It doesn't work if your friend's skills are all lower than yours. I'm not sure if it works with the summoning skill, as that would be open to a LOT of abuse. The only way I know to "safely" give your friend money would be to log on to his account and make money on it. Of course, there's the trust issue, and I don't know if your friend is willing to give you his password. Junk-trading is buying a lot of overpriced items from your friend, or selling him a bunch of underpriced ones. I'd look into one-dose potions or barbarian mixes, since those are potentially useful items with possibly bogus prices.

There really is a simple way to look at this. You can buy an obby shield. You can't buy the dragon shield. Get an obby shield. Don't worry about the dragon shield. Just have fun in runescape, and do what you feel like doing. Before you know it you'll have the req's for d square. I personally find that I always end up using either my zammy prayer book or my rune defender. Or an anti-dragon shield when I go green dragon hunting.

You're just taking "useless" carbon chains (waste) and turning them into more useful carbon chains, like oil. It's not that hard to believe science has progressed this far. I'm guessing it's in the prototype stage and not quite cheap enough for mass use. A :thumbup: for genetic engineering! The only dumb thing I see in the process is that most industrial fertilizers are made with crude oil. I can imagine all this waste product being turned into crude oil which is then used to make fertiliser... :wall:

FoG tokens are for p2p AND f2p. You should be able to use the tokens once you get members. You should be crushing everyone with your stats. FoG in f2p is gonna be way different from p2p - no poison, no freezing ancients, no insanely high hits. And no redemption. Since running is so important, metal armor is a no-no. Wear green dhide, magic robes, or a mix. Maybe wear mage robes while hunting, and green dhide while hunted. Have a rune scimmy or maple shortbow equipped, and use mage (even with those weapons equipped). The key is to have flexibility to use all three sides of combat triangle.

Are you f2p or p2p? What equipment and quests do you have? I'd suggest dlong and good-offense armor, then killing red spiders in sos. Flesh crawlers might be a bit better, but in my experience they're more crowded. Use the nearby fishing spot for trout and salmon. And always pot up.

I'd agree with zonorhc on this one. Finding the cure for HIV/AIDS would take tens of billions of dollars. Preventing it would cost much less. As heartless as this may sound, I believe quarantine is the best method to remove HIV/AIDS from the human population. Quarantine, as in abstinence, being faithful, or using condoms. If an HIV-infected person really wants a kid, get them to adopt one or use IV fertilization. If there aren't any more HIV-infected people around, then there's no AIDS epidemic. Simple, at least in theory. I know I'm oversimplifying this, but if HIV/AIDS is successfully quarantined, there's no need to find a cure.

Firemaking's relatively easy. Get that to 99 and spend the rest of the summer doing what you feel like doing.

Where is this "someone" from? Is the English you talk about unaccented? Because I've got a few Indian friends who sometimes speak too fast for me - in English. Then there are the Brits, the Aussies, stereotypical American rednecks, and gangsta Americans whose accents are, well, sometime unintelligible. Yeah, I'd imagine some of those accents could be made fun of. My friends and I like to make fun of the british and redneck american accents (imagine a redneck American saying "Noo-kyoo-leer way-pons of mays deestruction")

The void knight set effects are pretty strong. As a person with all the void armor pieces, I love the +10% range bonus of the void range armor. I also love the versatility of the armor. It's got slightly better defense stats than red dragonhide, which isn't impressive. But with a switch of the helm you could change which combat style you give bonuses to. And void knight gives no negative attack bonuses (no positive attack bonus as far as stats are concerned, but whatever). Meh, I just like to use void as general-purpose armor for good offense. I also like pest control because you don't have to worry about dying or prayer conservation. The exp rate isn't crazy, but it's still decent. And you can turn your brain off while playing pc and not worry about losing your stuff.

It's up to you to decide what's fun and what's not. But here is a list of multitask-friendly moneymaking activities: Manage thy kingdom cannonballs farming ranarrs mining pure ess fishing cutting yews standing around doing nothing while wearing ava's accumulator :lol:

Mith bolts aren't that good for money. Smelting mith bars is a moneymaker, but smithing them into bolts is a moneyloser. I'm not sure if smelting and smithing mith bolts gives a profit or not. I'm just gonna suggest you do the Dwarf Cannon quest. Then make cannon balls. Slow-ish exp and okay money, but not click-intensive at all. Also, get farming up so you could plant ranarrs (lv 33).

Can you please prove to me where you have the information that snaps are a better profit? Since you only have 60 farming i'm assuming that its hearsay You have every right to know where the information came from. My bad. I found this on Qeltar's Truthscape: EDIT: This quote statement is two months old. I still think it's true, though. http://www.truthscape.com/html/ts_DecidingWhattoGrowAMatterofPlayingStyle.htm