dwarfie76
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is it really true that people can just "hack" your account out of the blue?
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.
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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.
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First off, IP bans.
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.
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lmao! funny you should use that example becuase, believe me or not, i actually DID build my computer! i bought all the alienware parts and put it together myself. which, in turn, would be like buying runes and training mage to get your own robes.....
pwned
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" :)
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The Kanta idea is stupid, unless JAGeX implements the Eastern Lands with Asianic cultures. Twin is a bit too much; make it just one.
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.
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omg u totally didnt read the post did u ?
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.
as u can read even the jagex made book says why it should be untradeable.
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.
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have you read all the posts? people have made very valiable points (which i agree with) as to why these items should be untradeable. People spend hours and hours training here to save up pazzaz points and get the robes. other people just spend there money and buy them. it just doesnt seem fair. jagex has it all backwards...the holiday items should have been tradeable (they are gone after a few days and then they work up value), the infinity robes should not be tradable (they are here to stay, all the value will do is decrease until everyone has them.) all you rich people need to stop buying your items and maybe acually work for them!
so i back making them untradeable totally
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?
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MAKE THESE ITEMS UNTRADEABLE!
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.
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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.
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Off topic:
Little more clarification: Is it considered 'scope creep' when the developers (or the project managers) themselves decide to add features to a project, rather than the client specifically asking for said project? Like, in your example, the builders decide to add 2 more bathrooms even though the client did not ask for them?
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.
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Ja, why don't I ever get ads with girl's "body parts" on them?
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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.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he at least 50% correct on what he said? They did under estimate the time in which it took to code something.
Maybe I'm just misreading, it is getting late... so maybe I'm not as focused as I usually am.
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.
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Jagex has always had a real bad problem with "scope creep" -- in other words, they found out projects required more time and effort than they planned for.
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 :)
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you cant use auto and bots in wow, its against their rules.
They use a program called 'The Warden' to detect bots and you are banned if u r caught using them
They do, however, provide the ability for players to write their own macros ingame.
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i think this is only for runescape questions, but all browsers are vunarable, i think interent explorer is the most
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.
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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.
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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.
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Did one copy the other!
No. The idea has been around since the paper and pencil days of D&D.
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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.
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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:
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I have it! Let's make a 15 character alphanumeric string that you must enter to play, to pass the gate. It's a word that allows you to pass - what should we call it?
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
I was thinking 'password'... but that would be too obvious wouldn't it? :)
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why does every1 want carpentry so bad
what would u even do with carpentry?
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.
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Although you are legally entitled to see information regarding you (expect for certain exemptions), your carachetr legally has no affiliation with you. You clicked to say that you understand that the character legally remains the property of Jagex, and as such it does not legally represent you in any way, except for the information you gave when creating the character. The only information they are legally obliged to divulge is that which you gave them when you filled out the form for the creation of the character, (and possibly the IP it was created on if they store that). Therefore no, as the character does not legally represent you, nor is it legally your property, you have no legal right to see the number of reports filed against you.
Sorry, but thats how it is :lol:
Correct. Your character is not you. Privacy protection laws extend only to the individual, not to fictional characters created by that individual.
wat is ur fav weapon/armour???
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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.