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If you range your blues at the Ogre enclave (or whatever it's called, where the Ogre Shamans are) you can range them, have just enough time to pick up your arrows and the next will respawn. Great safe spots and usually not crowded. If you have access to range pots, bring some, otherwise blues can be slow going at first. A range pot will give you 10 range levels (takes mine from 62 to 72) and makes a huge difference in how efficient I can range them. Best of luck. I'm working on the same goal as you 60 to 70 range. I do get slowed down quite a bit because I bank all the dragon bones (to ecto) and hides (for crafting), but it's a fast dueling ring to the cw bank and walk back.

I've had decent luck going to a free world to the Hill Giant area mentioned above, killing Hill Giants and trading their bones for limps. Between those dropped on the ground and players trading them because they can't use them, you can get a full inventory pretty quick. sometimes in just a few minutes if it's busy.

There are 3 moss giants on Crandor island (up the rope from the Dragon Slayer quest area) and there are usually not many people, if any, there. If you switch worlds a couple times, you'll find you have them to yourself. It's both f2p and p2p. If you are a member and have done the proper quests (Ghosts ahoy and something else... can't remember) then you should ecto any big bones you get. When you ecto them you get 4 times the prayer xp. This also works great for baby dragon bones, and normal dragon bones! Best of luck!

You can also make runecrafting tiaras. Get yourself a bunch of tiaras (make from silver) and pick up all the talismans you can find. Most people leave them on the ground, especially in the Hill Giant area of the Edgeville Dungeon. It's a nice way to augment your runecrafting traiing because the XP is a lot higher, and breaks up the monotony of runecrafting. Hope this helps a bit.

I did this quest in the low 70s and it wasn't too bad. The best advice I can give is bring a few energy pots, since running it key to beating the boss. Keep run on and you'll get to hit a lot faster after he teleports and maybe get two hits in instead of one. You want to hit as hard as you can when you get the chance, so use a hard hitting weapon. I used a dragon long and activated the special before running over to hit. You'll also notice that he teleports to the same 4 locations, so when he turns to ghost form, take note of the direction he's going in and run to the spot where you know he will appear. Don't worry about the flying tools... just stay away from the animated crane and the mining cart. They hit HARD and the carts will plow you over for multiple hits before you can run out of the way. Don't panic. bring lots of food, and the energy potions are key to keeping your run up. Give it a shot, and I'm sure you'll be ok. I'm not sure if items like holy symbols weaken him since he's a vampire. Maybe someone else can chime in on that one.

Herbs are a little different from other plants in that you don't have to water them, and you can't pay any farmers to watch them for you, nor can you "protect" them using flowers. Unless you want to stand there the whole time, or constantly check on them, use super compost, as was suggested. You make super compost the same way you make regular compost, only instead of putting weeds into the compost bin, you need to put in better stuff like 15 bananas, watermelons pineapples, etc. Also, the farming xp you get from making and using super compost is double that of regular compost. Best of luck growing your herbs!

Excellent post Hugh. You've hit the nail on the head. People seem to feel they are entitled to so much in life. Usually those people are kids, and mostly because of the way they are brought up. The message out there these days is you should have whatever you want, without working for it, and if someone has something you want, you should go take it from them. This mindset does nothing to prepare people for real life, and is not a good thing. As for Jagex, I've only been a member for a short time, but even in my free days I've submitted bugs and gotten real people responding to me. As a member I've gotten real-person feedback many times. Customer service is a terrible job. You are the target for the caller's frustrations. Why would Jagex purposefully do the things that so many ranting posters claim? I read them and thing along the lines of the Jerry Springer show... you watch it and sincerely hope that they are not serious in their thoughts or actions. Why would a company ban customers (and lose the money) just to spite people? That makes no business sense. I've seen it first hand with younger family members who play. They were complaining to me about getting "hacked" and "scammed" and how the game isn't fair, but when the truth came out, they told someone their password, of tried to download a macro, or tried scamming someone themselves. I tend to believe that Jagex will do their best to respond to intelligently written questions and concerns. If the messages and/or calls they get are anything like some of the rant posts on tip.it, then how can one expect them to treat them seriously?

I've read a lot of posts talking about autoers, but experienced it firsthand for the first time this morning. I was in world 86 in the Varrock East back. I watched in facination as a whole line of default characters formed a steady line from the bank to the ess teleport location and back. It was non-stop. I can only estimate that there were 10-15 of them. All the same, all low level (3-5) and all with doofy names. I tried reporting as many as I could for macroing, but I started getting "don't abuse the reporting system" messages. Perhaps the best way to handle this would be to get a couple JAGEX mods to just stand outside the banks in free worlds at a couple peak times and give them the ability to ban these autoers on the spot. Or, as was suggested, add muggers and the like around those places. It will make life harder on true low level characters, but at least they can run. Another possibility is to close the doors to the bank and have people enter there pin to open the doors. I'm sure some could code around that, but it would deter most. Or require a bank pin, and have to enter a random pattern each time you access the bank (like some online stores have to foil bots).

Don't ban it... it really helps identify who's truly a noob. By definition, those who call someone that name ARE one themselves. When I walk into a room and someone says "noob" for some reason, I'll usually dash around a bit saying "where?" then stop right in from of them, say "Ah, there!" and use the laugh emote. They usually shut up after that. Most of the time I'll just ignore. Depends on the mood.

You officially stop being a noob when you stop calling other players noobs.

Went to two drop parties... got a bronze wood cutting axe and an uncut saphire at one, and a steel battleaxe and 1 coal ore at the second. Don't everyone envy me at once... :D

Hmm, I'd check out the wild to see what it all looked like, then send an email to this forum opening it up to everyone. All the people who are nice, are annoying, high and low level, compete for kills/ores with, chat with, ignore, etc are all what makes RS an interesting and fascinating game to play. Having no one around would be fun for maybe, 30 minutes. Not to mention the Shield of Arrav quest would be pretty tricky... :D

Definitely Crandor right now. The moss giants have ok drops, and I can last a couple days on a load of lobsters, unless I get adventerous (for me) and kill some lessers. Either way, when I run out of food I just go through the secret door into the Karamja volcano and back up to fish/cook more lobsters. I'll tele back to Varrock when I'm full of drops.

I tend to get everytihng for myself... "live off the land" as they say. As I was training higher level monsters, I had to buy a couple lobsters here and there and it annoyed me, so I just worked on fishing until I was able to fish them for myself, and raised cooking at the same time for the same reason. Since I get my own materials for myself, and tend only to get when I need at the time (not to sell) I don't have much money in the bank. So, buying materials or bones, etc isn't really an option. The only exception to this is armour and weapons. Being f2p, I didn't think it was practical to get my smithing and mining up to get rune ore.

Thanks everyone. I got a lot of good feedback here. I'm not giving him rune armour for a replacement. I've mentioned to him a number of times that things his frields were doing on RS were wrong, but it wasn't sinking in. I think he gets that now (he's my nephew BTW, not my brother :) ) Given his (and his friends) age, I know they are going to do doofy things. Now, if he stole something other then pixels, we'd have a different story, but I think this one is going to go in the "Lessons Learned" pile. I'll point him to tip.it one more time and leave it at that. Thanks again for all the input.

Well thought out answer. Thank you for your input. I know that's the right thing to do. I hope he does learn his lesson. I've warned him in the past, but it doesn't seem to be working. Maybe this will do it.

My nephew recently got ripped off by a real life friend of his. He's 9, and must have thought he could trust his friend with his password. I've tried to tell him about tip.it and to read up on all the things that are illegal, like account sharing, etc, but he's 9, and doesn't listen. Anyway, so he logs in one day and finds his rune armour gone. Oh, and suddenly his friend has rune armour. Easy realization that his friend (who is in his class at school) ripped him off. What's the best resolution? My initial reaction was anger that some doof ripped off my nephew and I wanted to tell him to ask for his armour back (while holding his head in the toilet) or have his older brother "convince" him to give it back. But, once the Italian influence passed, I wanted to honestly try and figure out how to help out. Anyone have any suggestions? I was thinking that maybe he could talk to him about it in-game, and if the kid (who also is 9 and should fall for it) admits taking it, he can file a report and the conversation will be transmitted to Jagex. It won't get his armour back, but should get the kid banned for stealing/scamming. It was also a good lesson for him to not share his password. I was wondering, has anyone been scammed by a real life friend? How did you handle it? Any input is appreciated.

This is a great topic. Glad I started reading it. I'm one of the "older" players. I'm 34. I play because I've always liked games set in D&D (Dungeons and Dragons for you younger folks) type environments. With the stresses of work and raising a family, getting to play a game where I get to meet people from around the world for an hour or so is pretty interesting, and helps wind me down before bed. My nephew introduced me to the game and found it facinating. I tend to get my hour of playtime in mostly when everyone is asleep and I'm restless. Once in a while my daughters will want me to log in and help me play (pointing out monsters and asking why I keep getting that "0" when I'm fighting... :D ) I'll talk to anyone who can hold an intelligent conversation, and thusfar that list ranges from people age 11 to the mid 20s. I can't say I've met anyone my age or older, but I think because we mostly tend to be quiet unless spoken to. In my own opinion, I think the older players tend to be a little more free with their help in-game. I was training at the moss giants on Crandor island this morning and was chatting with some nice person who needed food. They seemed amazed that I would give them my inventory of lobsters. I told them it was no big deal, I'll just go to Karamja and fish for more. It might be an age-perspective thing... they are, after all, just pixels and earning them is most of the fun of the game. I can't count the number of times that I saw people about to die and no one would give food or help without being paid. Something that is always in the back of my mind, being a parent, is being very careful when chatting and making friends with younger players. Younger people might think it's fun to talk funny to adults (someone I just met fishing calls me "pops" and thinks I'm cool because it doesn't bother me), but the opposite holds true for adults when speaking to younger kids. I know I'd be concerned if I learned my daughters were chatting online with an adult in an online game. It's a symptom of the times we live in. Any of your older players feel the same? Anyway, thanks for this great topic. Feel free to add me in game or PM me here. Someone suggested starting a clan for the older players. This sounds like a great idea. It can be the Old Fart Clan or some such thing. I'd like to apply for membership!

I was thinking... the reason Jagex is making holiday drops untradable is because they don't want to ruin the economy the way things like party hats and the like did. Perhaps the possible solution is to put price caps on items? This would also prevent price scamming/gouging. Perhaps make the upper limit double the high alch limit or something. Just a thought.

Hi Jon, I can predict the responses you're going to get "You turned away from the screen, you deserved it", etc etc. It does stink what happened. I've noticed a lot of random events while waiting for drop parties and in mass selling situations. I wonder what random you got to be killed so quickly? How long was this MSN conversation? Just curious. The only really dangerous randoms I know of are shades, river trolls and the like. None of which happen when you're just sitting there. We've all had momentary distractions that take our attention away from the screen for a short time. I try to log out when that happens, but I have dozed while doing something boring (mining ess does it for me) but the sound of combat will usually bring my attention back. It can happen to any of us, but it does happen. I'm guessing you're not going to have much luck with Jagex either. Hope you stick with the game.

When you're gem hunting in the Varrok General store and someone sells 3 uncut diamonds, and you nab all of them! Triple woot.

Perhaps the protection prayers (melee, magic) shound be made 100% effective in the wild, but only if you don't fight back. If you're intent on PK-ing, then things should be business as usual... only 50% effective. But if you're venturing out to mine or on a quest and aren't looking to pk anyone, then the protection prayers should be 100% effective so long as you don't fight back. If you fight back, then the prayer turns off for the duration of the fight. Just a thought for the peaceful folk that venture off into the willd with no intentions of hurting anyone. Plus it would be great to see the comments from some annoying pk-er who tries to kill someone who wasn't bothering them in the first place.

The first thing I did was meander around Lumbridge for maybe 10 minutes, fought a couple goblins, and then ran into a guy who out of nowhere gave me a black square shield (but I couldn't use it yet) a helmet, some food and bronze armor (which I could use). It set the tone of the game for me. I've run into my share of people with attitude problems who seem to only know how to type "noob" but thankfully I ran into the nice person first. As soon as I have extra stuff, from training smithing, etc, I go to Lumbridge Castle for a little while handing out stuff to polite new players (ones that don't ask for anything) just to give back the same way someone gave to me. That's a big part of the fun of the game for me. I'm not a high level, but I'll give what I can to people just starting to give them a head start. Of course, you still run into a true goofball. A few days ago I handed over an iron square sheild I put aside from some training smithing to a level 3. After I gave it to him, he laughed at me and said now he's going to drop trade it to his level 35. I asked him what a level 35 would want with an iron square shield, so he stood there for a second, then ran away. *L*

Since the updates I've actually been running faster then normal. I run on high detail and have, in comparison, a piece of junk PC (1.2MHz PIII with 256 MB RAM). The thing that kills performance the most are the ads (for me at least). From the Lag sticky in this forum, there was a great tip on shrinking your IE window to you can't see the side and bottom ads. It does help. If I'm getting a lot of lag, I'll usualyl log out and back in, which causes the ad banner on top of the page to change. I'm learning which ads are always a problem and log out as soon as I see them before it costs me in a fight.