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Hi, I'd like to request a banner for my newly found forum. I would like to have the background transparent. For reference, though, the background will be this color: Dimensions are 150x400. On the left hand side of the banner I would like a picture of the earth. I'd like the earth to have this "sketchy" sort of look: http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/Samp ... 0sword.gif Behind that I would like a sword, like the one above, still with the same sketchy look. I'd like the pointed end facing right please. You can choose if you want the sword going through the earth or simply behind it, you choose what you think best fits the picture. I'm sorry that I could not find any renders of these pictures(that sword is a sample from another site- can't use it). As for color, you can decide what colors should be added if any to the earth and sword. On the right side of the banner I would like the words "Runeworld" in any color, choosing from one of these seven fonts: http://www.dafont.com/wc-wunderbach-mix-bta.font http://www.dafont.com/birth-of-a-hero.font http://www.dafont.com/stoned-wash-6.font http://www.dafont.com/acidic.font http://www.dafont.com/hvd-comic-serif.font http://www.dafont.com/chiquifont.font http://www.dafont.com/porkys.font Font can be any color you choose. Thank you! :mrgreen:

Could you explain what a render is to me? :P I'm not exactly sure what it means. Once I know I might be ordering from you, I already have an idea for a banner. :)

When someone quits runescape they are usually back in a matter of weeks. Runescape is something that people love and have some many great memories of. Something like that is extremely hard to permenantly give up. You make convince yourself that closing this shop will be best, but I can promise you, if you truly love this shop, you will regret it later. By closing you will not only hurt yourself but many other fans of your artwork.

You mean a price check guide? There's going to be big competetion if so with zybez, almost everyone goes there for accurate, updated prices.

Considering how powerful the special for enchanted ruby bolts can be, and how high hp jad is, could it be used as an effective weapon? -Thanks, mario

It's a small bug which allows animals from the other fairy ring areas to come back to zanaris.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it costs jagex actual money to increase bankspace. I heard it somewhere and it became stuck in my mind. I'm just learning about java but I have learned that certain data types hold a certain amount of memory; and perhaps to increase this memory jagex literally has to buy it. It would make sense too. If there were no memory restrictions jagex would give every member 1000 spaces each by now, but alas, we are stuck with somewhere around 400 I believe.

The chat declining was inevitable from the beginning. The storm of immature runescape players flooded the chat and now a fraction of the orginal amount of people at the channel remain. Moderators aren't a problem, we have plenty of them and usually an average of 2-3 on at a time. It's the relentless spamming from people who have created multiple accounts, get on them one by one, spam until they get banned, and do it an hour later. I much enjoyed the first 4 days of tip.it chat. I wish it would go back to that. Solutions? Let the host chooose how long someone is to be banned by adding a another button on the "chat setup." The options would include 1 hour, 2 hours, 5 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, and a week. This would at least decrease the amount of spamming, but not totally eliminate it.

All the clan moderators are currently working in a private subforum to improve the clan community at tip.it and are doing an excellent job. Clan moderators are also chosen for a reason- they must have good clan experience. Just because someone doesn't have a big or booming clan doesn't mean they have no knowledge of the clan community. Bufoman will truly be missed as he was a helping hand at CTET before Sheynara even arrived, and he's been with us all the way until his retirement. He's attended events with his clan and lost, but that never let him down. He kept on trying, and correct me if I'm wrong, won a couple of events, a surprising turnout for a small clan. I still believe he is running this clan. :-k

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Ok, I know the first part was a tortoise, but what is the second part. I can only assume it is the low level terrorbirds, but I want to be certain. Please confirm this.

The way I see it there are three main reasons, and I'm surprised bloods have not gone further down because of these: Bugs, barrows, and bots.

Updated, thanks for the information guys!

I would appreciate it if you had a definate amount, I don't think the tip.it staff will accept "around" an amount. Thank you for the information though.

I assume you mean they only drop one at a time?

Usually when a new monster comes out the staff posts a topic asking tip.iters for their help with the drops to include in the bestiary. I have used the search option and scanned the first page for any sign of a staff topic about the new monsters, so I think it's safe to assume there isn't one currently. In the meantime I thought I'd start up this topic to begin gathering up the drops from the new monsters. To my knowledge, there are two new monsters who roam the new slayer cave; the warped tortoises and the warped terrorbirds. In addition there are two types of terrorbirds, the low level ones and the "boss" high level ones which you meet at the end of the dungeon. Please include any items they drop as well as the amount of that item. Please don't just say "they drop bloods." An example is posted below. Terrorbird(low level) Gold: 28-106 100%: Bones Weapon: Rune warhamer Armour: Runes/Arrows: Earth runes(16-25), Law runes(2-3), Air runes(40-45), Death runes(4-5), Diamond bolt heads(21) Misc: Raw shark(2 noted), Swamp tar(11-29), Uncut gems, Shield left half(dragon), Adamantite ore(1) Terrorbird(high level) Gold: 28 100%: Bones Weapon: Armour: Mithril Platebody, Rune kitesheild Runes/Arrows: Diamond bolt heads(22-23), Death runes(8), Air runes(30-41), Soul runes(1) Misc: Chocolate bomb(2-3), Raw shark(1-4 noted), Adamantite ore(1) Tortoise Gold: 39-179 100%: Big bones Weapon: Mithril warhammer, Adamantite axe, Rune pickaxe, Rune warhammer Armour: Runes/Arrows: Law rune(3-5) Misc: Sulphur, Mithril ore(4-5 noted), Adamantite ore(1), Coal ore(8), Tortoise shell(1-3), Swamp tar(20-30), Half keys, Weapon poison, Tangled toad legs(3), Cabbage(25-47 noted) Any information would be greatly appreciated. I will edit this post every once and a while with new drops when posted. Staff note: I understand if this topic should be locked. I would, though, appreciate it if you used the drop information being gathered here before you start making an official monster drop topic.

I'll be looking foward to this "unknown altar" update especially. This should silence the "runecrafting get no updates!" rants. I'm looking foward to the requirement to access the altar; whether that be a quest, a minigame, ect. I'm hoping this will be harder than Mornings end part II, that was a pretty hard quest and will be tough to beat.

Are you saying you sold some bronze items to your general store that you made? On topic: Begging in Al Kharid bank. I bragged to my friends afterwards. :)

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Finally, item gathering skills will actually start making good money, exactly what they were meant for before the autoers came.

i dont understand how this makes rc so much harder for abyss, i've never bothered with the skele's and people just leave me alone or i get away, dieing while rc'ing just means your an idot You may not realise it, but you probably use the skeletons the majority of your rcing trips. This strategy sometimes goes unnoticed, and I bet it's saved your life a few times(I can almost garantee a teleblocker has tried to attack you once or more).

Believe me that I wasn't trying to be harsh in this. If I was, I apologize. Trust me when I say that we do not permit any of our staff members that disrespect other users. If you see it happen, you can't just complain about it and not inform us. We have a lot to do as it is and will obviously not catch every comment made by every staff member. If you see something that stands out to you in a negative fashion, let an administrator know. That way we can actually handle it. If you refuse to inform us, then you really have no reason whatsoever to complain because by refusing to act, you are also letting them get away with it. I have informed a staff member of such a behavior. I do not remember the staff member's name nor the moderator who felt himself "superior" to a user in one such post; but I do remember reporting them. What I am trying to achieve with my idea is to stop bad moderator behavior before it happens. I am aware that I can report the behavior to a staff member, but wouldn't it be great if we could actually prevent this? That's what my idea is about. I believe starting now staff members need to get more personal so things like this don't happen. Moderator is supposed to be an important job right? So make the recruitment important! That's certainly not true. We will not pick our candidates based 100% on the application. There's much more to it than that, and I'm not sure why you thought that is all we would do. We make an effort to study users' behavior, we don't just rely on how well they answer a series of questions. There are just a few specific answers we need to help guide us in our decision making. Are you refering to the Trainee program? Please explain how this works so I can have a better understanding of it. I apologize for assuming that. I think that is a very, very extreme comparison. If someone wears a certain pair of clothes into a restaurant, they will not affect anybody whatsoever. Some people may not like their outfit, but whatever. They're not hurting anybody by wearing it. Denying someone access to a restaurant because of it is a matter of picking and choosing favourites. It's not like we're saying, "You're not using my favourite virus scanner, so we cannot allow you to join the team." If someone joins the moderator team who does not have a secure PC, they put the entire forum and community at risk. You would be surprised at how many people have keyloggers and don't even know it. What happens if we allow someone to join the staff who has a keylogger? Someone gains access to their account, and now they have the power to erase important stickies, guides or blogs that took hours to create. Or they can delete days/weeks/months/years of work off of the Tip.it Website. Ok, I can agree we need security around here at tip.it. I am still bothered, though, by the fact that the eligible amount of people for moderator has dramatically decreased. The limiting really needs to stop here, there are some good possible moderators out there that now won't be able to join. A cheap little virus scan won't cut it, honestly. It's the firewalls you actually pay for monthly that are detirmined to keep the keyloggers off your computer. Mc afee and norton are some awesome firewalls that are automatically updated weekly and run automatic virus scans. If you really want tip.it to be secure you would make sure people have a good, not decent or cheap, firewall. I'm not surprised actually how many people have a keylogger. There are so many people out there who simply don't have a firewall because they think they are "in-hackable" because they have never been hacked before. Sadly, not that many people strive to make their PC secure. Also, could you please reply to my interview idea? I want some feedback on that, and I'm not giving it up. Also- there is a tool that allows you to view every user's posts he ever made. This could be a handy tool in deciding whether or not someone is fit for a moderator position.

The way I see it, there are three possible answers: One, once hit by the special, the stats drain slowly as an after effect. How long the stats drain could possibly be based on how powerful the special is, which would be random. This is just a guess though. Another possible answer could be the stats drain depending on your stat levels, like the opposite of a strength potion. The strength potion raises your strength level according to your base level with a formula of b*1.125, b = base level. So, a person with 10 strength would be raised 1 level, assuming jagex rounds down the final answer. A person, though, with 99 strength would recieve a decent 12 level boost. So, it could be that the bandos special works the opposite way. Maybe the formula is b*.85, b = base level. So when a person with 99 defense is attacked with the special, his defense would lower to 85. And, a person with 10 defense would have a 1 level decrease. This could also affect multiple combat stats, making it quite a useful special for those seemily invincible level 126's. Another answer could be that the special, still using the stat lowering theory above, would lower their stats in all one heap, no after effects or anything. There is a lunar spell, by the way, that gives all your special bar to another player. Imagine two of these suckers in a row, you could bring down a level 126 to a level 90!

Tip.it needs to stop focusing on their security of the site and start focusing on the behavior of their staff members. Staff members are supposed to be mature, understanding people; but I have seen some of them feel they are "superior" to users. I will not go into detail nor mention any names, but this is all true. Is this the kind of haughty behavior moderators should carry? Moderators are supposed to be respected people; people everyone can look up to. But with these arrogant remarks I don't think some of them deserve that definition anymore. An excellent quote. So, what the staff needs to focus on is personal interviews. A simple application with a few questions isn't enough to determine if you've got yourself a good moderator or not. Take jagex, for example. How do they pick their forum mods? They study their actions as a user and if they feel the user is fit for the job then they will ask the user if he wants to be uped to the mod status. Now I don't know about you, but that's a foolproof plan. I'm sure bobbington can tell you this is all true. With tip.it applications though, it's just a simple recruitment drive. You don't actually know anything about the user you are making the moderator, he/she just answers a few questions and in days is a moderator. Interviews will help eliminate this though. I'd seriously say shooting for a half hour or more interview where a respected member of the staff(perferably an admin) personally interviews users who wish to try out for a moderator position. Also, more questions. Ask them about their previous jobs as a high status member; anyone could lie or simply think they have but don't have the skills on the "Do you have the skills to work well on a team?" question. Instead of "Do you have time to commit to helping us make Tip.It the best RuneScape forum?," ask them about their time schedule, and be specific with days of weeks and everything. Make the conversation like you're actually talking to your friend, make it casual so the user feels comfortable answering questions honestly. Get personal with your users. This decision to make sure all moderators have a secure PC is comparable to denying someone entry to a restaurant because they wear a certain pair of clothes; it's borderline ridiculous, I really can't put it any nicer way. This decision greatly limited the amount of eligible moderators, possible "non-secure" moderators before that could have been better than the "secure" moderators. Believe it or not, not that many people have good firewalls that are constantly updated. How many times do you hear about someone being hacked with a firewall? Yes it pops up, but very rarely. Tip.it needs to stop limiting and focus more on the behavior of their moderators and future moderators. I must say though, the majority of the moderators out there have been doing an excellent job at keeping these boards clean and at the same time, doing it in a mature manner. Also, could you also explain a little bit more about what generally is in the moderator trainee program? It could be the actual mod training program should be more personal too.