Doomster

For a mage, there's always mage (g) robes - that expensive enough for ya?

A consolidation / roundup piece, but that's about it. In a presentation, common advice is "tell them what you're going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what youv'e told them". This was "tell them what you've told them, then tell them what you're going to tell them". PS. I looked back on a saved copy of "Biased Banning raises Brows", and maybe it did dig rather too negatively in some respects but a lot of the points raised are as true now as they were then, with Jagex applying their rules with little consistency and excessive faith in automated procedures, giving little credence to any mitigation or counter-arguments. While Jagex are enviable java programmers, how many programmers do you know that are good "people persons"?

A body for the zombie head... build your own pet zombie to follow you around? I think I like the idea of a bat-wing cape - would also work well in F2P, as the standard cape has low stats anyway, so switching that for a 0-stat would not hurt much. Members would probably not want to forgo better cape bonuses if combat was likely. Lets look at the history, of the nontradables: 2003 Easter - Bunny ears ... decorative wearable 2003 Halloween - Scythe ... weapon 2004 Xmas - Yo-yo ... toy 2005 Easter - Rubber chicken ... weapon? / toy 2005 Halloween - Zombie head ... toy 2005 Xmas - Hat/Scarf sets ... decorative wearable + Marionette ... toy 2006 Easter - Ring ... toy / stealth 2006 (Stronghold launch) - Boots ... armour / decorative + Skull sceptre ... weapon / teleport 2006 Halloween - ? No particular pattern emerges, though if you discount the stronghold, I'd say we're due for a weapon. Broadly, I'm counting it as a weapon if it can be wielded and struck with (even if ineffective), wearable if it can be equipped, but armour only if it has stats, and a toy if some action can be performed with it.

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp A little way down the page here (JRE) - or the full JDK if trying the server VM switch trick.

The link in RAHK's post above is for house services (request / offer), just take enough raw materials: Soft clay (non-stacking) and tele runes (stacking) to make a set of tablets, though you would normally use them as a 1-space escape item instead of carrying a set of 3 runes.

I'm fortunate to know the min prices: Steel: 12 Mithril: 32 Addy: 80 I bought at lot of steel at 12-18 for training - swinging by the stare with a bit of cash when passing, and only buying cheap, lucky the merchant bots weren't around.

Failed cursing: Casting curse in full metal armour (any will do), preferably with stronghold boots and dragonhide vambraces. Uses: 1 body, 2 water, 3 earth (use a staff for one element, but you may hit more) = 29 xp per throw, hit or miss. Body runes are cheap, or good runecrafting XP from level 20. The drawback, is that these are shot one by one from the spell menu. Also, as with alchs, superheats etc. you don't gain hitpoints. The lazy way to train magic is to strike the air, water, earth or fire wizards with their own element (which doesn't hurt them). Autocasts, but with less xp per shot than curses, also they DO still retaliate, so good magic defence and some food is needed to sustain training.

J2SE 5.0 is up to update 8 now Grabbing my info file: -Dsun.java2d.d3d=true (flag to enable D3D rendering in JDK6.0 early access - may be present in other versions) -Dsun.java2d.opengl=True (flag to enable openGL pipeline, all versions - severe colour errors result on my ATI graphics) NB. uppercase T on True reports if the pipeline is enabled, lowercase t is silent. Proves that it does SOMETHING to runescape -Dsun.java2d.ddscale=true (flag to enable directdraw hardware scaling - all versions unless OGL pipeline selected) -Dsun.java2d.d3d=true -Dsun.java2d.ddscale=true -Dsun.java2d.translaccel=true (This is the line I used to have in my java control panel, under Java applet runtime settings) -Dsun.java2d.d3d=true -Dsun.java2d.ddscale=true -Dsun.java2d.translaccel=true -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC (This has advanced tweaks for dual core / hyperthreading CPU - uncertain if the area they apply to is actually used in RS) There is another "forcing tweak" that can be applied , installing the JDK to provide the SERVER runtime, then tweaking a file to switch the runtime from client to server. The server runtime has a slower startup, but has more aggressive JIT compiler settings, so more of the code is run in compiled, rather than interpreted mode. http://www.kano.net/javabench/#servervm - the file tweak needed for server mode How much of this makes any difference, is unknown.

Mature has a higher bonus (don't know the figures for this, but swarven stouts are +1 normal, +2 mature, so it could well be a further +1 for any mature), so you may be better off using it yourself (especially to cook something you couldn't normally make, such as another stat-raising drink) - mature is rarer than normal, as it usually makes normal. So a straight swap would be a good deal for the one receiving the mature stuff.

I came, I saw, I left with it still set on subsilver :)

Next time, be more careful in choosing your porn sites :shame:

Call that a laser? http://electricstuff.co.uk/biglaserfun.html - now THIS is a LASER! Does the guy there do anything that isn't dangererous, Marx generator, Tesla coils, the destruco-tron.

There is ONE browser to take to a site that you don't trust... http://offbyone.com/offbyone/ob1_overview.htm No script, no applets, no flash. There are places this browser will not work (playing runescape through it would be a no-no), but it is probably the most invulnerable browser. Of course, Opera and Firefox tend to be safer than Internet exploder and considerably more functional than OB1.

Had to kill more than two, but my measly level 34 could do them without banking (carrying feathers, rod, throwaway axe and tinderbox) - only went to bank when I lost a line of space to pickups. With those stats, 3 or 4 per run should be possible.

The key is not "calculating everything at logon", but the use of a random number seed that is initialized using a parameter which remains the same. Normally, since the random number function of most computers generates a chaotic sequence (but nevertheless, a SEQUENCE which would be repeatable), a programmer would initialize it from a value which is unpredictable at the time of measurement, such as time, cpu tick count, number of bytes passed through a certain function. PS. One of the crackpot super file compression methods often proposed, is that with enough calculation, any file could be created using an appropriate "random" function and seed.

J2SE 6.0 will be upon us by the end of this year, possibly making better use of graphics acceleration. Will that be the catalysts for a further push to do more than you ever thought JAVA could do, or maybe even time for them to think about RS3, if the shift would pose too many compatibility problems - though RS2 definitely DOES run on JAVA 6.0 beta 1 and beta 2.

Does java even USE any graphics acceleration? Actually, the beta version (J2SE 6.0) has both Direct3D and OpenGL pipelines, but makes little use of them by default.

He rode his luck, and his luck ran out - in that sense he did "have it coming", though I guess everyone thought it was going to be from a crocodile that was just a bit quicker than he was. As that topic moved to on the radio this morning... you have it on film, what do you do with it? Show it up to the point, fade to black, roll credits, donations to charities preserving wildlife can be made on.....

Bah! easy! I had 40 ranged (mostly for green dragonhide), 40 attack (rune scimmy), 34 str, iron + dragonhide + power. Took down 1-2 Ankou on a load of Trout/salmon, or typically 2 level 49 catas. For the Ankous, crumbling once fully safe works well, but a pure would probably need a bodyguard to survive until it gets easy.

At some forums, non-replyable news posts have a "discuss here" link and a thread started in the the appropriate area... would that work well here ?

Using the last charge will also destroy it. How you treat your sceptre may also change, if you collect one or more extra full piece sets - the level 1 & 2 pieces are a walk in the park. The level 4 piece is good crumble training, if you can survive until the safespot is reliable. The level 3 piece is HELL, the cata's are about the stingiest droppers and seem to have no great vulnerabilities (some say stab is best, or range as it's unaffected by their weakens. So just what IS the sceptre anyway? 1. A cool item to display, but a noob magnet. 2. A source of 5 teleports (2-click access from inventory menu). 3. It says something about you... 3a. Displaying a rare says you are rich (or were before you bought it!) 3b. Displaying an untradable holiday item says you have been playing for at least that long. 3c. Displaying full random is another long term player thing. 3d. Displaying the sceptre - you beat (and REALLY beat) the stronghold - boots are nothing. It is NOT a practical weapon, particularly as the teleport is not available while wielded. It is no better than a basic staff, with the further disadvantage that it doesn't have any autocast capability.

Problem with level 1 wildy, is a lot of opportunists (I've been one) - impure mage takes a firebolt shot at guy in full sara, sara guy retreats and ranger friend targets the mage, mage retreats. By the same token, inattention is as dangerous in level 1 as in level 50.

I wonder if Jagex have a problem with glidepads? With a glidepad, you can easily position the pointer, then just work the button without a finger on the pad. You can also combine a mouse and a pad, either one will click, and either one will drive the pointer when moved.

Maybe "background and atmosphere" isn't as difficult as we thought. Actually, since an update or two ago, you can hear other players chicken-whacking, and I think when a random teleports someone. Might be a degree of anti-macro in it, as if you can hear sounds other than your own, it screws up a potential incident detection method for macros. Now if they REALLY wanted to impress us - synthesized speech!

In the Rpoints forum (bargains and offers etc.) posting in the offers section gives a choice of posting an offer (with some formfilling options for who / what / when etc.), or a normal post. Maybe something like that could be used, and perhaps an option to sort / identify "stores only", rather than one-offs