Sinkhan

Well I'm sorry that I might have come off sounding generic, but going through some of the other threads, RSOF, and just asking people in-game, I'm still unsure if I have everything straight. Was it really just bots that messed up the whole game or am I missing something here.

As soon as I hit my first major RS goal of 99 farm, I took a little break back in March. Not really a full break as I still logged in to do some small activities like battlestave purchases, the occasional farm run, weekly XP activities I kinda enjoyed beyond the reward like pengs, and sometimes dungeoneering to hopefully at some point hit level 70 for an ASN. I didn't really pay attention to the markets, never visited the GE because I didn't have to, and kept on my merry way, oblivious to what was happening. Well today someone sent me a direct link to Jiblix's video and I watched and wondered. Well before the vote for free trade was finalized, I was one of those who felt that the negative effects of bots running rampant in the game would outweigh the benefits of having them around. In the end I abstained from the vote and just let things decide themselves. I guess back in March when I left, bots hadn't really ramped up to full production and the effects were less pronounced. I didn't notice that many more autotypers than usual at the GE and there really weren't that many more bots at the common spots. The market at the time started to head into a dip on big gear like whips, barrows, and the like, but I thought that might have just been those early month jitters that would come with free trade along with the fact that more and more people were starting to get their hands on top gear like chaotics that made stuff like whips obsolete. But now I log back on and bots seem quite a bit worse than before. Massive streams of people flow from one resource to another. I find myself needing to disable public chat more often when I enter high traffic areas. It's pretty depressing just how congested this game has become. One of the largest shocks I got was when I saw the actual current prices of the gear that I originally thought was only going into a shallow drop. Whips are 780k and falling. All of the barrows sets cost 2-4m less than they did back in March. Seeing some of the commodities like coal and fish, just about everything has dropped by almost 50% of what they were back when I took my break. On one side, it's convenient to have super cheap everything to skill and the prospect of having whips at an almost disposable price is kinda awesome too. Furthermore, high level herbs like snaps and torsts that I've been farming all this time seem to have been largely resilient to massive price fluctuations since, at least in my opinion, farming is a very difficult skill to heavily impact by bots due to its fundamental design (and that there aren't that many high level farmers :D) But on the other side, the whole game is rife with bots, making it a very...well...non-social place to be for the most part, amongst other factors. Has free trade really mucked up the game this much? Have the bots truly taken over making just about any form of conventional resource gathering impossible or not worth the time? TL;DR: FT and bots eff'd up the game in 6 months? PS Did bladewing get banned or something? I've been out of the loop.

Um...so what explains the fact that the RoW was affecting sigil drops on RoW rework day, leading to horrible exploitation? I'm fairly certain that the only bugged portion was the fact that it was stacking the affect with multiple clan mates, but the reality that the drops were affected at all lends credence to the notion that aside from the RDT, items on a case-by-case basis are affected by the RoW.

In the age of bots, this would not be difficult at all.

Your dchain/body and full helm if you had one are the only things that were valuable anyway. Assuming you didn't get skulled, you'd keep 3 items.

What? Void offers a range bonus? Void actually offers a comparable range bonus to even friggin GREEN dhide, let alone black? This is only true when you're ranging high defence monsters and perhaps need tankier gear. So for wyverns this would apply, but for a lot of other tasks, void is superior. Um, wait. When in the HELL would you want void on a slayer task? I feel like these people I've quoted have kinda forgotten you can't use FSH and void at the same time, and FSH offers as good/better boost then void on slayer tasks. 1. Void equipment itself gives a visible ranged boost of 0. 2. FSH offers a 15% ranged attack and ranged strength boost while on task. Void ranged offers, from what I this has been agreed on, a 10% "level boost" which equates to 10% accuracy and 10% ranged strength AND a 10% boost in damage, giving essentially 20% extra damage.

Well...no quicker way to get to Lunar Isle in this update <_< . Nice spells though.

This is only true when you're ranging high defence monsters and perhaps need tankier gear. So for wyverns this would apply, but for a lot of other tasks, void is superior.

I find it just a tad funny that so many people are taking the changes to death being super incredulously lenient, when one of my friends who's never played RS and is used to MMOs like Guild Wars and WoW thinks RS's item loss at all is complete madness.

Someone blessed his grave.

*hopes that livid farm means we'll have a super fast way to the island that's not teletabs :pray:*

Those figures are correct, ignoring boosts. Hunter pots make it technically possible at 71 hunter, as garden pies will allow you to plant ugunes at 67. Of course it's a lot easier to just get them to the actual levels. Construction level is not necessary, but saves you some cash.

It's a tossup whether you want the 7 stab or the 4 strength between the brackish/korasi, but I'd lean towards strength.

Nice quick post. Any idea of attack speed? Is there a spec?

Apple service dealers can be an occasional exception. My friend has a MBP with a warranty on it. The video card messed up and all he did was bring it in to them and explained the issue. Within 2 days, it was fixed, no questions asked. Furthermore, it's a lot more difficult to build a laptop from scratch and choose exactly what components you want in it. Back OT, given what you want to do, take this analogy: A Ferrari is a great, sexy, powerful car, but if all you're doing in driving in the city, then a Honda Civic should also suffice. Macs are great looking and can perform very well, but if you're on a budget and can make do with less then consider that as well.

I just had a glass of SunnyD. OT: I like cabbage. Only in soups though.

Farm farm farm. Do the quests that give you xp and just keep farming. It's probably one of the most consistent and rewarding sources of income, while also requiring the least the amount of effort, bar merchanting.

A combination of this guide and this set of spreadsheets. You have to get around the fact that seed start up costs are so high. Yes, it sucks when they die and up front costs seem extortionate when compared to other herbs, but in the end you profit the most.

I'd have to agree that my only gripe with the cape is if E3 is selected to the be the bottom trim. Something like E2 gives it a very nice and neat end. 10yr cape will hopefully be even better. About a year or two off for me, assuming they count F2P days.

I think the main point of the Master Dg cape was to make it extra special, since 120 is extra difficult to achieve.

Inb4 Jagex bases veteran capes off play time. That would certainly suck, of course I find it unlikely. Otherwise, this seems cool. It'll be probably a year or two after they release the 10 year cape that I'll be able to wear it. And oh how shiny it shall feel.

So I was right (WHAT A SURPRISE). I think I deserve an apology. Apparently you're also wrong about this. I love how your logic works - just because a square is a rectangle does not imply a rectangle is a square. Negative exponential means the two variables are inversely related but two variables being inversely related does not imply that two variables are related via negative exponential. Are we done here, or do you want to keep this up? I'd like to take the opportunity now to actually apply what I learned in my logic course: If p, then q. q Thus p. Affirming the consequent. Hooray for logical fallacies!

x^-2 does not model PB in any sensical way. Furthermore, a negative exponent does not make it "negatively exponential". Using Quyneax's formula, we get that nice inverse relation that squareroot originally brought up.

Oh, well yes too. My bad for the misinterpretation.

If he's on task, slayer helmet makes sense. Otherwise the rest of the gear is reasonable for the caves since prayers mitigate most of the damage and he just wants to maximize damage output.