dwarfie76

Being a highschool chemistry teacher would be good fun. My mother teaches chemistry, maths and biology, my brother is a history, geography/social studies teacher and my best mate is an english and politics teacher. I did some work as a university tutor to earn a bit of money as a latter year college student, which is vastly different because people are actually paying to be in your class and the age difference is only a couple of years (plus they're not 'kids' any more). To be a good teacher you have to be laid back and have a good sense of humour. It's always the strict, highly strung teachers that burn out.

Farting is one of the true joys in life. Whomever came up with the line "The best things in life are free" obviously did so after leaning to one side, slightly lifting one buttcheek and cutting loose with an almighty fart. I pride myself on my farting ability. Even my long-suffering wife has been known to burst out laughing from the other end of the house when I let rip. Even the word "fart" is inherently funny. You just cant help but love farting.

WHICH IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS SELLING AN ITEM TO A STORE AND BUYING IT BACK!!!

I understand perfectly... I simply don't see the point WHEN YOU CAN ALREADY DO THAT. Understand now that I put it in all caps for you?

Um... You already have the bank as a place to store items you're not currently using, and a range of stores - and spells - to convert items into cash. I see no benefit to this scenario.

Everyone receives 120xp? No. Everyone receives 4x the damage they inflict. So if you have someone hitting 12, another hitting 14 and a third hitting 4 they would receive 48, 56 and 16 points respectively. It does not average out to 30 each.

If that were true then everyone would receive 120 points. When you inflict damage on something you receive 4xdamage to your chosen combat skill and 1xdamage to HP.

Worst quest ever. Took me hours to get past the guards. Just wait until you kill enough rats and have to make your way back - but keep getting sent back inside the house when you're spotted.

I'd say that he was talking to someone who's name could be shortened to "bone". Telling them that he had to go because his father was bothering him to do something and that he would be back soon. At least I hope that's what he meant.

It's not there as a convenience to players. It's there to stop people leaving characters logged in and sucking up bandwidth while not actually playing the game. We all know how much fun it can be trying to get onto world 1 or 2 when we want to buy or sell something. Imagine how much more fun it would be if people could simply get on and never have to log off.

I'd keep my full rune and put the money back into some of my other skills.

Not getting arrested also has it's good points ;)

I make all my own clothes out of flour sacks.

Crocodile skin handbags... the perfect gift for the ranger in your life.

Well, those of us with an IQ over 25 can actually read a page of text in relatively short order. Good post. And while I don't agree that Jagex would ever seek to encourage autoers, there is definately an element of balance that they need to achieve. As you point out, Jagex's priority is their bottom line. The only moral responsiblity that any corporation has is to return the maximum profit to it's shareholders. If hunting down and banning every last macroer was going to cost more than the number of people leaving the game because of the autoers then they would be doing a disservice to their shareholders. And I mean really, who would actually consider leaving the game because of the autoers? Autoers only affect you if you view the point of the game as an exercise in raising pixel-cash. If you play the game just to cut yew logs and sell them then autoers ruin your fun by lowering the price. But, IMHO, playing the game just to increase your runescape bank balance doesn't strike me as a great deal of fun anyway. If, on the other hand, your aim in the game is to raise your skills, beat the quests etc then autoers are simply not something that will affect you. Turnips

Some prophet huh? Seriously, anyone could spew out a few hundred random predictions and have a couple come true. With a bit of thought put into it, someone halfway intelligent could get a better than 50% strike rate. Doesn't make them any more of a "prophet" than I am a ballerina.

Given that three quarters of the Runsecape population can't spell their own names, they probably don't stand much chance of being able to type "mithril pickaxe" into their bank window.

F2P already contains more than enough features to entice anyone truly interested in the game into paying for members. You have to realise that, ultimately, Jagex is a business - they need to pay their rent, bandwidth and power bills, their employees need to get paid so they can feed their families. To do this Jagex needs to generate income. The main way that they do this is by selling membership to a more expansive version of the game. The free version is there to attract people into the game and show them some of what the members version has to offer. F2P has to contain enough functionality to keep people interested, but leave enough out that they will be prepared to spend the $5.00 per month on the members version (Which given that you'd pay $2.50 for a coffee is not all that much). So introducing too much functionality into F2P would be counter productive. More people would be satisfied with staying in the free version, meaning fewer would switch over to the members version - Jagex would make less money.

No, because no-one ever gets themselves keylogged do they?

Most, if not all, religions started out as a codified set of laws and instructions. Ways in which people were to live. To enforce rules and laws you need a carrot or a stick, or both. So - being fairly primitive times where Gods were widely believed in - the easiest way to get someone to comply with your laws was to say "Do this and Yaweh will welcome you into his kingdom. Don't do it and you'll be cast into a fiery lake of torment." I'm not saying that the control was neccessarily bad - often the rules and laws were the same sort of thing that societies still have on the books today. A fair amount of them were really just to protect society from disease etc. A lot of the Old Testament still contains a fair amount of them - Shellfish are unclean, Cast lepers out of your village, The ten commandments. And it's not only ancient times in which this took place. You only have to look back at the Spanish Inquisition for a shining example of religion being used as a control mechanism - similarly the Salem witch-hunts. Right through to the present day where the Catholic church uses it's influence in Ireland to control government decisions on birth control and abortion. - And that only covers Christianity, we could go for hours on the subject of Islamic governments and Sharia law.

To control others.

Hi guys, is this the thread where we all line up to be keylogging targets?

Or perhaps that man made God rather than the other way around?

That's the point we were both trying to make. I don't believe we were "created". To say that we were "created" implies the existence of a "creator", which is something I have not yet been convinced of.

Now that's the sort of God I could actually believe exists :D