[Tip.It 2010 Clan Awards Results]

Cool, thanks.

[The Gladiatorz vs 2Mighty4U]

Well done fellow Gladz, and good fight 2M4U. I wish I could've been there.

[Jagex, what are you doing with pking?]

The whole nature of their update was to cut down on traders getting their goods off in the Wilderness.

 

 

 

A loophole was that one could trade their goods on a less-crowded server.

 

 

 

The less servers there are, the tighter the loophole gets, which makes it very difficult to exploit the theoretical loophole that existed.

So legitimate players have to suffer? If this keeps up, the one on one Bounty Hunter won't have any PKers to be enjoyed by...

 

You'd think you would've learned this by now.

[Missing Persons List]

I'm not looking for any person in particular, but this is my attempt to maybe get in touch with lost friends.

 

 

 

I have been playing runescape since August 2001 one, orignally on Gamefreak164 (this is the character that most people would remember me by). During my years on Runescape Classic I spent time as leader of Death Corps alongside Death Chick, and also spent time in Gladiatorz and The Blacknights. Later on, when Runescape 2 was realeased, I decided I would like to re-live my noob days, as well as all the quest, in 3d. So I made a new character named Zach6688, which is the my main character. If anyone remembers I always like to talk to old friends! Give me a pm on runescape on Zach6688 or reply on here.

 

Drop by Gladz boards.

 

 

 

http://www.thegladiatorz.com

[New races?]

This is on the "don't suggest this"-list on RuneScape official forums for a reason.

[Are you addicted to runescape?]

Let's rephrase this dream concept again. What i mean to say is this:

However' date=' If people are having dreams of runescape on a quite regular basis this does show that their mind does very little more then think about, read, process, etc etc runescape every day.[/quote'] Happy??? :wink:

 

Ideed. You did say "a dream" though. :P

[Are you addicted to runescape?]

 

 

 

To have a dream about a fictional game that you play on the computer is a big thing. LIke your mind makes it come to life and something actualy happeans. Obvisouly you've been playing to much rs if your mind has a dream about it.

 

Ignorant. If I go by your definition and say a dream being something "your mind makes come to life", then I'll say it's an image the brain automatically creates from random thoughts occurring while you sleep as the brain processes them. That doesn't mean you'd have to be addicted to something to dream about it. If I played RuneScape that day, or even once in three weeks, my brain is perfectly capable to dream about it without me being addicted.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, I hardly log on anymore, so I'm not addicted (and probably never were).

[Untrimmed Slayer Cape - Images are fake, Lock please!]

It USED to be Walk - Trade - Follow as displayed, then a while ago Jagex changed it for some unknown reason. I'm pretty sure it was before 3rd Age armour and Skill Capes were released though.

["Runescape : an education that kids don't need?"]

First of all, endless amount of games far worse than RuneScape is advertised despite being unsuitable for children and just as easily accessible and appealing as RuneScape.

 

 

 

Note the Bold I added in Jagex terms&conditions : This implies, if not out-and-out declares to the world that the parent can create an avatar for the under-13 child, and as long as the parent sits at the side of, and guides the child through its online session, the under-13 child can use the site. If this is not actively encouraging children to play, I don't know what is

 

What's so bad about RuneScape if the parent always sits at the child's side and actively monitors him/her? When the adult doesn't have time anymore, any adult should be able to block sites like RuneScape well enough to outwit their 5-6 year old if they really wanted to.

["Runescape : an education that kids don't need?"]

5. They market the game directly to kids, in schools. Parents cannot be there to watch what happens in school all day.

 

[citation needed]

 

Please, please, for the love of all that is sane in this world, go read pages ONE and TWO of this thread.

 

I did before I posted my first post. I wanted more information about the book in question before I saw it as 'definite proof', which Qeltar provided after I posted. I still want to know if the age recommendation was set by Jagex themselves or by Scholastic Educational Material. (Yes, this matters. )

 

 

 

Also, children under 13 are allowed to play if they play with a parent, and since Jagex consider their game to be "educational" they might very well be advertising this without hypocrisy... technically at least.

 

 

 

 

Review by: Jaret B.

 

New York, Grade 4

 

 

 

The book is interesting because it tells you about you starting the game and beating the game and about how to do the last quest.

 

 

 

I like the book because it tells you where you might need to go for quests and to get your stats up in the game and it tells you where you can go to train and to pickpocket people like men and women and guards and other people and where to buy items like arrows and armor and all that other stuff.

 

 

For all you know he could be both reading the book and playing with his parents though.

 

 

 

I think the point I'm trying to make is if Jagex actually is promoting their game to children and still claim a "only 13+"-policy, then you are completely correct in everything.

 

Proven, time and again on this thread alone. PLEASE, go read it.

 

I read it already! Stop telling me to please go read things!

 

 

 

I understand your points and to a certain degree I agree with you. Jagex should provide better tools for parents to monitor, but not hurt their business plan by making the game less accessible. And I certainly don't believe that they're purposely speculating in having children play a game that's not suitable for them.

 

Providing better tools for people to help their children would not in any way detract from their business. Indeed, I believe it would only help them, by the very least, showing they care enough. (whether they actually do or not is another matter :roll: )

 

I agree with that as I stated.

 

 

 

Edit: I mistook someone here for accurately citing the 13+ rule, which means some of my arguments were considerably weakened. Currently, it reads:

 

If you are under 13 years old, you must not create an account. We don't knowingly permit anyone under 13 to use this website. Nor do we knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from preteens. Internet safety experts have advised that preteens do not fully appreciate the risk of providing too much personal information online or communicating with strangers they encounter online. And the game difficulty level is for teenagers and older.

 

 

 

While we appreciate that many preteens would want to use our websites, we urge parents to instruct their children not to lie about their age so as to be able to use our websites before they are old enough. Instead, we recommend that parents set up an account and play together with their preteens who are otherwise too young to play the Game. Many parents have reported that playing the Game as a family is fun and rewarding. Then when your children are 13 they will be ready for their own account.

 

 

 

This is the new compliance with the American COPPA act, already covered, in detail on first two pages of this thread. PLEASE read it :wall: :ohnoes: :ohnoes:

 

Just elaborating on that (because of me wording it very poorly). I believed the rule went something like "Anyone under the age of 13 can still play with their parents approval" and made arguments out of that, then afterwards I read the information I quoted and it turned out the rule wasn't like that all.

[I'm starting to hate runescape]

The updates are ok, but I don't like where they focusing, that's all, that's why I'm hating this game, where they gonna do something actually for the game for good?

 

 

 

You know what I think? I think they keep doing minimal updates to keep the schedule of weekly updates. And that's why they can't focus for real because they have to greet the little new players for having stupid updates.

 

Despite your whiny way to express it, I somewhat agree with you. Jagex are making way too many (in my opinion) worthless updates just to get one done a week, instead of working on the interesting ones and those who actually improves gameplay. However, this is what the majority of the players wanted them to. :roll:

["Runescape : an education that kids don't need?"]

1. You mention parents "buying GTA for their kids and then complaining". Well here there is nothing to buy. This alone is a HUGE factor in kids playing the game. I consider that indisputable.

 

 

 

2. They have created a game that is ridiculously easy to access and play nearly anywhere, which is not the case with most other games. Even if I don't want my kid playing it at home, he can play it almost anywhere else.

 

Thousand of sites provide free games both easier to access than RuneScape and a lot more violent. Plus, this is one of the main reasons so many people above the age of 13 play RuneScape in the first place.

 

 

 

3. Jagex has done NOTHING to block access to the game or to educate librarians or others that the game should not be used by children. It is easy to get onto Runescape almost anywhere.

 

I fail to understand why Jagex should have to go out of their way to educate librarians about their game. Most companies with products for 13 year olds and older don't.

 

 

 

4. Jagex make the game LOOK child-friendly and appealing to kids.

 

More than other MMORPGs? Because it has bad graphics and is simple? I don't agree.

 

 

 

5. They market the game directly to kids, in schools. Parents cannot be there to watch what happens in school all day.

 

[citation needed]

 

 

 

6. They provide virtually NO tools for parents who want to monitor their kids' activity. I know, because I am one, and I have corresponded with other parents who want to keep track of how and when their kids play but cannot.

 

I agree with you.

 

 

 

 

 

I think the point I'm trying to make is if Jagex actually is promoting their game to children and still claim a "only 13+"-policy, then you are completely correct in everything. However, I've yet to see something else than just baseless assumptions.

 

 

 

I understand your points and to a certain degree I agree with you. Jagex should provide better tools for parents to monitor, but not hurt their business plan by making the game less accessible. And I certainly don't believe that they're purposely speculating in having children play a game that's not suitable for them.

 

 

 

Edit: I mistook someone here for accurately citing the 13+ rule, which means some of my arguments were considerably weakened. Currently, it reads:

 

If you are under 13 years old, you must not create an account. We don't knowingly permit anyone under 13 to use this website. Nor do we knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from preteens. Internet safety experts have advised that preteens do not fully appreciate the risk of providing too much personal information online or communicating with strangers they encounter online. And the game difficulty level is for teenagers and older.

 

 

 

While we appreciate that many preteens would want to use our websites, we urge parents to instruct their children not to lie about their age so as to be able to use our websites before they are old enough. Instead, we recommend that parents set up an account and play together with their preteens who are otherwise too young to play the Game. Many parents have reported that playing the Game as a family is fun and rewarding. Then when your children are 13 they will be ready for their own account.

["Runescape : an education that kids don't need?"]

Incredibly, people seem to entirely miss the point of the article. As the author of it already pointed a painful amount of times: Yes, there's a 13+ rule to create a new account, but:

 

 

 

1) It's (apparently) very recent, [For the record, do you know the date it was added?] which means children that was under 13 years of age at the time the rule was added (and still are) already have accounts.

 

2) People under 13 can still play, they just need the "approval" of a guardian.

 

3) Most importantly, Jagex continues to advertise this as a children's game with people under 13 as the target age.

 

 

 

Now, I haven't really seen Jagex advertising their game to small children specifically. (Maybe aside from that handbook, but then again I wouldn't know whether the age recommendation is set by the people working at that website or Jagex themselves.) Even so, articles like these are in my opinion stupidly over-protective. I agree with the hypocrisy pointed out, but when you claim gaming aspects like killing NPCs, thieving (lol) and merchanting for money is hurtful for children it's just ghost-seeing.

 

 

 

Yes, some parts of the community is indeed horrible now and should probably be addressed better, but Jagex does not sit still and do nothing (well...arguably). However, children today are more robust than you'd think (Funnily enough, Lord British talked about the ability of today's children like they were the reincarnation of Jesus himself, yet deems them incapable of handling a simple online-community without coming out wretched and ready for a mental institute), and for those who are not I really do believe it's mostly the parents responsibility. As I said, Jagex shields them somewhat. The rest is up to the parents to understand their own children's personal needs. (Lord British also comments that we're not living in a "black and white" ideal world. Well, then lets not teach children that we are.)

[if runescape 3 came out, would u still play rs2?]

im gonna tell you guys a story about way way back in runescape 2.

 

At first rune items were rarest items in game. My friend who loved mining and smithig knew this. He would sell rune 2h's for 1 mil ea! The economy changes very rapidly at the beggining. so i wouldnt buy a tyhing wen rs3 comes out.

 

Thanks for sharing, old schooler. I'm so glad we have people like you around here to tell us how it was those days.

[:: The Achievement Diary ::]

So not worth doing? :D

[Starting over, anyone ever think about it? UPDATE]

I would start over, with a better name and staking stats bWhahah Muahahaha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, no... Rs is boring, I don't play it anymore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would star over, with a new name, a better game, and some pvp stats BWAhahahah Muahahaha

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You find Runescape boring but you post on Runescape related forums mocking it? =;

 

I'm not mocking it, lol where did u see that mr smarty pants? Did u see me say "haha Rs sucks?", I said Rs is boring and I'm entitled to my opinion, rings a bell brainhead?

 

I'm not the only one posting here that does not play Rs. Its just a fun forum. Idk why ur looking to argue with me, but bring it on my friend, im in the mood. Why does some ppl always have to be serious? Heh. "OMGawd im mr serious and I cant take jokes, and i dont understand whats humor omg whats that?"

 

If that's how you "argue", I hope you'll never be in the mood again.

[If you could swap any 2 skill levels of your own?]

My 99 defence for my 74 pray.

[Why Green Fuels in the United States are a joke]

The beauty of free press.

[What would you want to be your last words/thoughts?]

F*** you.

[Mage Arena]

chances are, they arnt going to follow you into the arena, mainly because the whip doesnt have the abilty to cut through the webs and when your in the mage arena, you can cast your spells - anyone with rune on doesnt stand a chance against the god spells!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, normally, you have nothing to worry about inside the arena.

 

 

 

Don't listen to him, he has no idea what he's talking about. :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melee/range can't be used in arena, but mage can. Whip can cut the webs.

 

 

 

Just do it on an empty world though, it's not really a problem.

[Death Pile - what is your first instinct?]

I left click once, then right click and take random valuable items while at the same time registering what other stuff lies there.

[What happened to the hype of necromancy?]

necromancy... awesome

 

 

 

i think it should noly be possible outside of wildi (no ultimate necro-pkers)

 

 

 

and if u do it in a town all the guards attack ur summoned creature (natural human beheivior)

 

 

 

and for like each guard (or man in lumby) ur monster kills it gets xp

 

 

 

you can summon them to train on but u dont get much necro xp

 

 

 

there will be new runes... death and soul runez taken...

 

 

 

makey skeletal runes? yea skel runes that u can rc, theres also shop that sells them (they have a bone on them not a skull so no death-skel rune scams

 

 

 

and other runes 2

 

 

 

mabye not runes but summoning blocks or something... stackable like runes but not like... runes u know?

 

 

 

you need body part bricks to summon like

 

 

 

Lesser demon

 

 

 

3 skeleton blocks

 

 

 

2 arm blocks

 

 

 

6 claw blocks (really cheap ones)

 

 

 

2 feet blocks

 

 

 

(perhaps all blocks fit in pouch, u click on pouch to see how many u have)

 

 

 

2 unicorn horns (for horns) all require "secondary ingredient" like this

 

 

 

greater demon same, but no 2 unicorn horns, 2 red drag wings... see? its a good idea

 

 

 

the main idea shud be training not pking

 

 

 

peace out

 

 

 

Stop babbling.

[How much have you spent on the fight caves?]

I used like 1m max and got in on my first try.

[Immortality]

Imagine every time you love someone. Having to see them grow older and die while you constantly stay the same would be unbearable for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd rather live twenty years in happiness than mourn for eternity.

[Hey everyone!]

I don't remember you, but that's probably because I didn't pk back then at all. :P