dwarfie76

Full bronze with bronze scimmy. I love walking around having everyone yell at me for being poor / being a bronze noob. I can't believe how much other people care about what I'm doing in the game.

Absolutely not. The only way for them to hack your account without your involvement (unwitting or otherwise) would be to systematically type in every possible combination of characters until they stumbled on your password - a "brute force" attack. They could write some sort of script to do the typing for them, but - being a java applet rather than a standard win32 control - that would be difficult to execute accurately. Outside of that, you would need to get yourself keylogged or otherwise manipulated into giving up your pass.

Well this is certainly original... haven't seen anyone making threads about this before... nosiree... I think you may well be the only person in the world to be concerned about this.

Are completely useless... for the following reasons: An IP address is not a valid means of identifying a person. While your point about banning a family if one person there is caught autoing is reasonable. It's not quite that simple. When you sign up for an ISP, it is highly unlikely that the ISP will assign you one IP address for the duration of your time with them. On most broadband connections you need to pay extra to have a static IP address. Usually the ISP will simply allocate you one of a pool of IP addresses for the duration of each connection. Power-cycling your router will usually acquire a new IP address. For dialup accounts it's even less likely. Again a floating pool of IP addresses is usually used and distributed among those currently dialled into a server meaning that every time you connect to the ISP, chances are that you are using a different IP address. Also, changing ISPs is no longer a difficult or inconvenient task. Usually it's a simple matter of signing up for a new service and the new ISP will handle the disconnection and reconnection of your service for you. Many people constantly churn through ISPs becuase - since the market is pretty much at saturation - most of them have much the same pricing including discounts for new signups. People will sign up for one ISP to get the 6 months half price offer, then cancel and go with another ISP to get their 6 month half price offer. Each time you change ISPs you not only get a new IP, but it comes from a completely different address block. So If person X was caught autoing and Jagex bans his IP address... and that person happens to use the same ISP as you - next time you reset your router, you may well find that it's you who is IP banned and not the autoer.

Not quite sparky, being able to screw some pre-fab parts together does not equal "building your own computer". Basically you did exactly what anyone buying the robes is doing... you did something else to gain money, used that money to buy a case, motherboard, hard-disk, monitor, gfx card etc and put it together to make a set. Just like someone mining coal in runescape to go buy the hat, robe, top etc and get the set of infinity robes. I believe the expression these days to be "pwned" :)

The fellow you talk to during the Ghosts Ahoy quest has an Oriental look and speaks of far-off lands... could be a good Marco Polo type quest in that idea.

That's right, I have nothing better to do than post in threads I haven't read. Uncanny really how I managed to be on topic without reading it. The book doesn't say that at all. You're construing something that isn't there. I'm not sure what school of logic you adhere to to get "should be untradeable" out of "By earning points for performing the tasks in the four areas, the mage proves their adeptness at the different skill groups and hence can claim items to display their skill." but I think if anyone needs to read, it might be you.

So "it doesn't seem fair" is what you'd call a valid argument then? I get more logical and rational arguments from my three-year-old. Did it not once occur to you that the people who save up the money to buy something have actually earned it? Just because they click on this pixel rather than that pixel doesn't mean they haven't put the same sort of effort into the game. Let me ask you, did you build your computer, or just pay money for it? Why should you be allowed to just go out and buy a computer instead of having to build one?

Why? No-one has yet posted one single reason as to why they want these items untradeable other than their own irrational fear of someone else getting something that they might want.

Whine whine whine whine. Make this untradeable so other people can't get it. Seriously... why worry about how other people play their game? Play the game the way you want, whether someone else buys the clothes or earns them makes absolutely no difference to you.

Feature bloat rather than scope creep when the dev team puts lots of new bells and whistles into an otherwise straightforward project. I'm always guilty of that myself... Boss: Why have you spent three weeks on that? Me: Because it's cool.

Ja, why don't I ever get ads with girl's "body parts" on them?

Yep, I'd say he pretty much has to chin up, change his password and get on with things. Worrying about it won't bring it back. Just one of life's little lessons that we all learn at some point or another.

No, he may well be 50% (or even 100%) right on what is causing the delay. But underestimating development time is not scope creep - even though the two things have the same effect - delaying the project. It's like if you asked a builder to build you a house. 3 bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, dining room, laundry and bathroom. Now if the builder told you it would take four weeks, but he failed to consider the time it would take him to lay the foundations in the rocky ground and get building approval - and it ends up taking eight weeks, then that's simply his underestimation. If you keep going back to him and saying "Put a games room in here", "Make them 9 foot ceilings instead of 8 foot", "Build a verandah around the whole house" and it ends up taking eight weeks, then that's "scope creep"... the 'scope' of the project keeps 'creeping' outwards.

Off Topic: If you're going to complain about other people's misuse of terms then you really shouldn't go ahead and do it yourself. Scope creep refers to stakeholders/clients putting more and more requests for functionality into a project, thereby creating a bigger project than was originally intended, creating a budget/time blowout - rather than the developers underestimating the effort involved. One of my pet peeves too :)

They do, however, provide the ability for players to write their own macros ingame.

All browsers are potentially open to exploits. IE and Firefox have the largest user bases - so anyone looking to exploit code vulnerabilities will naturally go for those browsers. That means that there are more exploits directed at those two browsers, but doesn't imply any level of immunity in others.

Maybe put together a list of those who are turning up to get some idea of numbers? For the record, I'm in: Combat: 75, Mage: 49, RSN: dwarfie76 I'll try and craft up some extra fires and minds to bring along - and I have a few spare costume items as well if people need anything.

I believe in WoW, unlike runescape, you have to choose a subset of professions to take up - So you can do say cooking and fishing, or mining and smithing, but not cooking, fishing, mining and smithing.

No. The idea has been around since the paper and pencil days of D&D.

Yes... the three holidays that are celebrated - Easter, Halloween and Christmas - may well have religious connotations for some people, but they also exist, quite seperately, as social and cultural holidays outside of any religious framework. As such, the manner in which Jagex implements them in game - devoid of religious interpretation - is a commonsense and inoffensive way in which to spread a little holiday cheer without worrying about offending anybody's religious sensibilities. To incorporate religious festivals into the runescape world would be opening up a minefield of guesswork and assumption that would only lead to complaints and criticism. No-one can complain about festive imps - people could very well complain if it seemed as though Jagex were mocking their religious traditions.

OK... I presume that Wednesday 3pm EST is US EST? That puts it at 7am Thursday for me (Melbourne Daylight Savings Time) I'm in for a battle before work :twisted:

I was thinking 'password'... but that would be too obvious wouldn't it? :)

Create furniture and houses I presume. Teak and mahogany logs are in need of a decent use. Although furniture in a world where you can't sit or lie down makes very little sense.

Correct. Your character is not you. Privacy protection laws extend only to the individual, not to fictional characters created by that individual.