dwarfie76

University bah! Whippersnappers these days... when I was your age I had to get up before I went to bed and walk twelve miles through the snow and searing heat - uphill both ways - to get to university, only they didn't have universities back then, just a box. A cardboard box!!! Anyway, I had an onion tied to my belt, as was the fashion at the time... :)

As you said yourself... just because an update is released approximately weekly doesn't mean that each update only takes one week to complete. Further to that... Just because an update doesn't appear to contain a lot of functionality - or was 'weak' in your estimation - doesn't mean it wasn't difficult and time-consuming to accomplish, or that other concerns may have taken time away from that project for a while.

And you're a software developer are you? You know how much work is involved in designing, scoping, developing, testing and releasing major functionality changes to software used by hundreds of thousands of people do you? And before you ask... yes I am and yes I do. And, from what I've seen, Jagex work very hard indeed to bring out the updates they do. So either quit whining, or grab a textbook and learn how to do it better.

I must have missed where Jagex specifies that on the runescape website. Or are you just spouting your own bigoted opinions?

Training up woodcutting and fletching at the Rimmington willows.

They are most certainly hosted externally from the runescape site. Generally when you agree to host advertisements you only agree to display the ads, not pay for the hosting of them as well. Contrary to popular belief, runescape is not only for people in the 8 to 13 age bracket. There are people of all ages playing, hence it is appropriate for advertisements to be targeted to all demographics. Me too, long live adblock.

Heh... I spent about half an hour doing this to one person who insisted they were "his" rocks.

Nope... If you sell something to a general store then it becomes fair game for anyone else to buy. You can't expect the general store to function as your own personal mini-bank. I agree with the other poster, don't go around asking other people what their levels are - use the hiscores table. More often than not, the person doing the asking doesn't give a rat's what the other person's level is and is just looking for an excuse to brag about their own. I make it a point to respond with an absurdly low number.

For the same reasons you do... because games are fun. Aw diddums... life is unfair, get used to it. And no, we can't just get on and play whenever we like. We have jobs to go to, families to feed, houses to maintain, kids to run around after and bills to be paid. After all that, I might be able to squeeze in an hour or two of gaming before bed. Unlike kids who can get on here whenever they want for however long they want ;)

I'm another oldie... thirty next month. Been playing computer games for longer than a lot of runescapers have been alive - over two decades since I got my first C64 - with external tape drive (sweeeet).

I often look for a moderate to crowded world to mine gems. Everyone else is always worldhopping the deserted ones.

Id go sell the boxes of christmas crackers I just bought.... or maybe crack them open and remove the partyhats inside.

Not neccessarily. Busier had faster respawn times... but more people competing for the same resource. For things with naturally low resource times then less populated would be better (iron)... but for stuff that takes a while, finding somewhere private on a very busy world would be useful.