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Thanks Dead_Dude :D

You and your silly bowsword :P But back on-topic let smithing lie where it is now. The new stuff we get to make comes from quests, I think that's fine enough as you don't need special weapons that have different attributes to it, that's what monster dropped items are for (Seecrul for example). I'd rather see an increase in interesting and magical weapons (i.e. a sword that will lower a rangers ranged level).

Very nicely found. With the loss of just one Essence it's not bad at all. Looks like I'll be needing to start getting emeralds soon. :D

Hey, he's not asking you for personal details, for your password and username or your recovery question answers so there's little to no harm in giving him ideas for a bit o' software. I'd have to agree with Dead_Dude on the fact that you don't need to know english to know that if you put "function" in front of another word and then a left brace ( { ) you've started something that can be called again and again. For my fellow Americans who remember the Smurfs if someone came up to you and said "Smurf" and you had never heard of them you'd say "What?" but if anyone saw the T.V. series you'd find that they knew what the Smurfs were. Hopefully that made sense, you can find meaning in an english word as well as a foreign word so long as you remember the meaning, you don't have to be able to use it in the grammatical syntax necessary of the langauge, you just need to be able to use it in that instance. Off-Topic: Dead_Dude, is Icelandic similar to Norwegian? Is it like Swedish where the words are so similar to Norsk that one man could be speaking Norwegian and the other speaking Swedish and both could understand the other? Sorry, I've got a hunger for knowledge of languages, I'm studying German (and according to the CIA Factbook, Iceland happens to have wide spread German spoken there) and I was told by studying German and English (Native language) that learning Norwegian would become easier. Anything like that with Icelandic? Sorry to go off-topic, but with the way this is going it'll be a spamfest in no time.

Well done! I love seeing all of the connections for the quests. Make sure you keep this updated with all of the quests though. Well done indeed!

I'm in the 30% that didn't know :( On-topic: Maybe you should have your friend dream about numbers and then get the winning lotto numbers. It's worth a try after all (When he does dream about numbers, PM them to me :anxious: )

A new convinient service that will allow many 7 year olds that snatch mom's phone to be into members? At a higher price? I think so. I agree 100%. I'll bet somewhere down the line one angry parent will presume he/she is so smart and post on the forum saying "Runescape turns you into a thief just like it did to my little boy!" Then everyone will refute the claim and the topic will be locked and everyone will go on with life.

Wow... why are you so defensive about this? I was trying to convey the fact that Jagex is putting a lot of effort into new skills and I'm not used to that, back in RSC we had the skills there and then that was it, no new skill. I was impressed by the fact that they update with more and more skills. Also these Top 8 have so much left to do, do you think they've got all the Chompy hats, full Gold Castle Wars armor, fought against the Dag kings? There's plenty to do with maxed out skills. Lastly, yes, you HAVE to work on every update BECAUSE it's the game, if you don't try it out then you're missing out on part of the game. Stop taking everything people say in this particular thread a slap in the face, let people complain if they really are complaining, you can't stop people who are across the country or even across an ocean from whining about what they want to whine about. In a few months everyone will be saying "Wow Hunting is a pretty good skill", lots of people said that Construction was stupid or bad but a few months later, just about everyone owns a house. Calm down, nothing bad is going to happen if people complain about the game.

:shock: Good call! That would make a lot of sense and somewhere in one of the Letters pages they said they were Faladorian Falcons (or something similar). I like that idea! Now I just need to get my hands on an egg :?

Did they add too much Wilderness or something? Very hard to tell.

When was construction released? Just a few months ago right? Why is it that Jagex is popping out a brand new skill every few months? Oh well, I guess it's another skill I'll have to train when I get my membership back :( I'm guessing we'll have to wait and see what Hunting is all about but I'll bet it'll involve being able to track monsters. Also we'll be seeing the release of a new fairy ring in the land right before the Fishing Colony. Lastly Auguste sounds awfully similar to Augustine, a.k.a. Saint Augustine. I'm betting we'll see some vague connection to the Catholic saint in the upcoming quest.

I loved the Chaos Elementals new riddle and the Mysterious old mans answer. Hopefully we'll see a continuation of the WOM Mini-events.

Firemaking is definitely for skill totals. It's been in the game for AGES and they haven't decided to change it. I doubt that they'd change it in the near future. Making the skill some sort of entertainment skill would just be silly. Firemaking is used for cooking and lighting, that's it.

Coolest thing! However you came up with it, well done.

Now if we find that some pygmy society rode them then Jagex did some REAL research :lol: .

Thanks Cruiser, I think I'll get going to the Library sometime soon :D .

I think the only real original idea Jagex has come up with is Runite Armor. Everything else Jagex has ever come up with is based on something else. Fairy Rings, Runes, Mithril, Herblore, and yes even BARROWS are all based on something from European/Irish/Scandinavian folklore. What else are they going to draw on to create a fantasy based game. The Barrows a.k.a. "The Hills of Slane". Edit: Nice find on the Monkfish. I personally would never want to catch something like that!

Thanks, I was hoping people would like this game, seeing as it's a quick game. Hopefully others will view and comment :?

Hey everybody, I've got two questions. First one, what's the best way to work with transparencies in Internet Explorer (In an HTML file)? Using a transparent PNG in Firefox is just fine but for me it has a blue tinge when displayed on an IE browser. So what's the best way to do it? Secondly I've got a question regarding education. For the most part I've learned all of my Flash and HTML/CSS knowledge from tutorials and my own experimenting and putting two and two together. I'm wondering if it would be worth the price of paying for Summer classes at my local community college to get an "official" teaching about Flash, Web Design, PHP, and Database programming or should I just continue to work with what I know and continue to read through tutorials? I'm a bright guy and I'm sure I could learn through tutorials but it would take longer than just a single semester. Thanks for the help and advice.

It's just another map. If you could see a whole bunch of people using the areas inside Piscatoris before YOU'VE saved it it would ruin the quest. YOU are the one who is supposed to be the hero, YOU are the one who is supposed to be figuring out these puzzles. Once you do then you can complete the quest and you actually become the hero but by seeing others already in an area in which you alone know about or are there to save ruins the fact that you are the hero in this story. That's just my opinion though. Jagex isn't trying to stop people from helping others with quests, they're trying to keep the quests integrity intact.

You sir are very, very lucky. Either that or they were AFK training :D

To everyone saying that they'll reach a level 99 skill in one year keep in mind the ratios here. At level 74 you have just reached over 1 million experience points. Level 99 is reached at a little over 13 million experience. At level 92 you reach just half of what you need! You need to gain 6 times the experience that it took to get to level 74! Sure there's more possible experience but it will stake a long time and unless you focus solely on that particular skill it is a slim chance of reaching 99 in that skill in under a year.

Have all stats 60+. It'll take a while BUT I think I can do it in a year.

I agree with everything that Duke said up there. Thanks!

I disagree with the authors opinions in this article. Most entrepreneurs, if they decided they wanted to move away from their current project would undoubtedly still run it and use that income to work on a secondary project. In the business world it's neccessary to have multiple streams of income. Selling the "ideas and implementation behind RuneScape" would be pointless, it's just a process. Anyone with a degree in marketing could figure out WHY Runescape is popular: It's free, it's little load time, it's targeted to teens and young-adults, it's browser based, it's an MMORPG for those who cannot afford and MMORPG, it's not anime-styled graphics (which allows for a more serious instead of a cutesy gameplay). If Jagex was hurting for revenue then selling their game off would be last thing they would want to do (it's their trademark, it's all they do). I'm positive that they'd sell shares of stock before they sell their company. Going public does not have to change the direction of the game. When Google went public as the author notes, did it change its task? Did it strive to please the shareholders? No, by far no! Instead it used its new found funds to further its goals. That's what happens when a company with integrity goes public. I'm sure many others will agree with me on this one, let's keep the Tip.it Times related to in-game/about the game ideas. I'd rather hear about My Arm than what Jagexs future policies will be. Also mind giving us the date published or a link to their website when you start citing Newspapers or Magazine articles?