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You know, I'm surprised at the lack of imagination and thinking outside the box that General discussion seems to have nowdays. To put it in a more simple way, imagine if all fansites suddenly disappear, and no way for any fan-sites to be made after. If this had happened in, for example 06, would many of the higher levels of today still be here?

Am I the only one finding it ironic that an anonymous group is trying to fight for somebody who likes to leak things? I wonder if they would stand so firm if he decided to reveal their information instead? Again though, anonymous throw a hissy fit it seems, not thinking of the consequences of their actions. The media's hate for Assange is almost matched by the public hate for anonymous. Together, we can all hate them.

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Don't you mean doing something in a way that you like? If I read your statement correctly, you totally contradicted yourself. There is a difference between censoring the internet (what N korea (does it even have internet) and China do) and policing it's citizens and how they use the internet. You are the user of the internet, you are performing and illegal activity. The internet is your tool, but you are the one committing a crime. Sorry, but Any pirate who tries to take a moral high ground is just lying to themselves and the rest of us. You do it because it's the easy way. Do not try and justify it. I do it, but I can accept it for what it is.

It doesn't matter if it hasn't happened. We can use intelligence to infer what may have happened if something else didn't. It takes a little more than five seconds to think of causes and effects and how changing one cause may effect another thing, but it is an important thing to do.

I'm not noticing any difference at all.

I'm tempted to buy one of those T shirts now just to show people that your clothes really don't make as big of an impression on people as you may think.

This skill would still work wonders.

I disagree (to an extent) Runescape originally had the popularity to create fan-sites, but in a hypothetical world in which they hadn't been made, would Runescape have achieved the longevity which it has?

Now on the surface, the question in the title may seem simple to answer right? Fan-sites don't directly add any content to the game, they don't effect the core of the game in any way, yet, I believe that without them, a majority of us would not be playing the game right now, and the game may not even have existed this long. Firstly, lets look at what fan-sites add to the game, specifically, a person's enjoyment of it. Forums for runescape have created a sense of community, a place for people to share goals/achievements and to discuss anything relating to the game. Without forums, would you have as much drive to attain the goals that you do? Would you be as excited about playing a new quest without the community to drive you to complete it quick before others? Would the clan world that we have even exist? Without somewhere to advertise a clan, somewhere to show victories and discuss strategies, would any of the clans around now be there and the communities which have arisen around them? I have played many other MMO's during the last 7 years, but none have had such a solid infrastructure of trusted fan-sites and large communities around them. Now, we have the ability to access to RSOF, but in almost all the above areas, they are lacking badly. However, is this then, a good thing? If the RSOF for example used the same software as Tip.it, and had all the things tip.it had, would the atmosphere and community still work? I think it wouldn't. Due to it's size, a good tight nit community cannot work on the RSOF even if it was a good forum. Because RS has a variety of different fan sites, you are able to go to a community in which you fit and that you like, one that is small enough to be recognisable, yet large enough to be active. And if we were all using the RSOF, we would all be stuck with the millions who spam and rant on a regular basis, drowning out even the slimmest chances of a good atmosphere. So in a way, Jagex's failure to create a good forum has saved their game (in my opinion) due to making fan-sites necessary. In turn, these fan-sites have all creates mini-communities around them, which also wouldn't have existed. Are sites such as tip.it as vital as my mind thinks to the success of Runescape? Should Jagex give more recognition to Fan-sites due to this? How many of you would still have any interest in the game and it's community without Fan-sites?

Yes they do.

You can turn that off.

I'd love some more varied traps and puzzles in caves and dungeons. Fighting is fun, but after fighting for so long it gets tedious. Some good horse combat would be nice too. I don't think there is much to change in the core of the game though. Most changes I think will be aesthetically, such as voice acting, graphics, cave models and textures and the like. The core mechanics of Oblivion were incredibly solid.

To be honest, It won't bother me much. It's one of those changes which is a little nicety, but not overly important to me. Although, is that roommate feature new?

Is it even possible to have balance in a game with the combat mechanics that Rs has? With the massive diversity in gear, prayers, potions, spells, weapons etc, there will always be one strategy which will beat another strategy.

I don't think you should worry. You can always take the usual precautions, such as having a strong password, recovery q's set and having a bank pin with all your valuable items banked before logging off.

I didn't know there was an American version.

Aren't you still losing money though?

Makes you wonder if any of us will still be playing by the time any of our temples are built.

Buying my mum a day at a spa with her friend. Not too sure what to get my older brother or dad yet. Knowing my dad it will probably be aftershave as he's so hard to shop for. For my brother, I might buy him something for his new house or a 360 game, not sure. There are only a few things I want over the holidays, but most I will probably buy for myself and won't get from others. Fable 3 and F1 2010 for the 360, A few new clothes, jeans, t shirts, trainers etc and a new bag for uni. Oh and some earplugs. On the topic of giving money: The thing is, if you give money, once you get to an age where you roughly spend the same on others as they spend on you, you may as well not give them anything if you just give money as you will be giving the same amount. It happened to me and a friend who gave each other £10 for each others birthdays, we ended up giving the same note back each time.

Maybe it won't fight anything other than cyclopes so you need to attain the mask to trick it into fighting? Mask could be attained by getting x tokens in each game.

Pretty much sums it up.

Perfect. Thanks a lot for doing it.

Somehow I'm on the gratitude pantheon with 1 point, yet none of my ideas have been accepted in the ideabox.

Last 3 duels have all been with top 10 ranked players <_<