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The picture was probably taken by a Jmod who didn't bother turning it off :P

They're just trying to improve the game. The auction house thingy makes life a bit easier.

There's a bunch in the Varrock sewers. Why the hurry?

And as long as Runescape's a fun and (mentally) relaxing activity to you, it's all good. However, if you find yourself staying up late because you just HAVE TO get a certain level, it might be time to take a step back. Most people play Runescape, or other games, as an escape from reality, and to prevent them from going insane. So what if there's no RS. They'll find another escape :

A fair bit of WoW, the occasional oldy on my SNES (like the Mario World games, Donkey Kong Country, etc) and every so often I pick up a game for the Wii. With me being a big fan of Metroid Prime, I'm currently working on beating the third part of the series. It's quite good. On the PC, I hardly play anything but WoW and 'Scape. Last singleplayer game I've actually completed would be Serious Sam 2, which is like two years old by now?

Just to chip in, I think that there's FAR more masks and santas around compared to phats. Y'know, when phats were being dropped, most people were like "ooh that nice", and heck, some even cared more for the secondary gifts in the crackers. I'm guessing only few stockpiled them, and even less people imagined how much they'd be worth after a few years. Possibly some people with experience from previous mmo's did a bit of stockpiling, even such a thing even exists in other games. As far as I know, there's no such thing in WoW, for example. However, once the masks and santas came along, phats had already risen in price considerably, and Runescape's playerbase was quite a bit larger as well. So more people specifically collected masks and santas for the sole purpose of makings moneyz, and I doubt that even ye party hat dupe of old had much of an impact at this. Still, guestimating numbers is a bit tough. All I know is that I at least contribute with a single semi-active hat \

Problem is that, for the somewhat more complicated updates (ie, updates other than "Added a new fun quest with rewards that don't have a big effect" or "fixed such and such bug"), you'll have many many players each with their own opinion. Some will like it, some won't, and they'll always find something to whine and nag about. Frankly, Scape's in the boat as any MMO seems to be. It's no different for World of Warcraft, for example. People whine about the most trivial things. For example, in some patch, Orc shoulder-armor size was decreased (which was unintended). Countless forum posts on the subject. The next patch, the problem was rectified. And lo: "Ffs Blizz orc shoulder r 2 big!!!". Right : Still, gaining some insight into the decisions the folks at Jagex make would be a nice plus, as well as pretty educational for aspiring game designers, possibly.

Thank you for your contribution :)

Well, actually proving it would be tough, but with a huuuuge sample size for both regular and ring-of-wealth powered drops, one would be able to make a statement on whether it works or not with a high propability of said statement being true. Then again, getting a huuuuuge sample size would be an awful lot of work :P

My Fire Cape. I think it's pwetty : But I'm not exactly reckless with it, if I'm going some place dangerous, in the bank it goes. Doing that two hour cave marathon once was bad enough :P

Might as well just wish for a truckload of bones, would save you the hassle of having to buy 'm all :P As for me, not sure. Fact is that I love maging / ranging at CWars, etc, but supplies of arrows and runes sadly deplete very fast when doing so. So, nearly limitless ammo would be nice :

1 - Ask them to try and settle their differences like grown-ups, or at least take their swearing to a private convo. Also, if any of them's spewing racist remarks, mute. 2. Ignore the hell out of him. 3. Mute O:)

Don't worry about it too much, it's been confirmed that some of the changes were in fact bugs, with the main bug being Death Blast not draining life at all. Surely, the Tentacles actually using their Mindflay once more is intended. With the Tentacles just hanging around doing nothing, Shartuul seriously was too easy (and a bit boring). But having a bunch of Tentacles hammering you without being able to heal up efficiently's a real pain. But I doubt that they'll issue a hotfix simply for this one event, so I guess we'll have to wait a bit.

If anyone happens to read this and feels like "zomg I need teh antivirus liek now" I'd recommend you check out AVG Antivirus (google it, I'm lazy). It's a decent anti-virus program, and doesn't cost a thing. From the description, you have to actually open a file to get infected, so it shouldn't be particulary hard to avoid it or anything.

Could somebody post a picture of the rightclick menu of a "grimy herb"? :) (Edit: nvm, Taito edited it in)

I honestly don't remember at all. I reckon it's either the coin at the bottom of me pile of gold, or something silly like a hammer or a tinderbox, or possibly a basic rune.

Likewise :)

I suppose that's true. Regardless, Lightning, I'm sorry to see you go but I wish you the best of luck :)

Just the 4 combat skills, ranged and firemaking for me. At least, I don't think there's anything I can't do with respect to those skills :

I'd have to agree with this. But, if you'd try and slap a name out of me anyway, I'd stick with Omega Pure :)

Just think of it as a try-out thingy for the moment. I'm sure there'll be some word from the folks higher-up on this sometime soon :) Edit: darn that guy above me :

Might be a bit crowded though, since it's capped at 100 players per channel :P

Apart from maybe the very early beginnings, the community's always been as "bad" as it is now. It just wasn't quite as large back in the days. Heh, we even had a list of people over 100 combat back then on these forums. (or rather, Scapeboard, but that's the same as far as I'm concerned)

Horses

When you come back to the game after a 6 month break and go "Wtf? Rune 2-handers are only 50k now?" :P And maybe having posted on the first official forums counts too? (For the record, initially, the game had some small cozy forum place, which then got closed, to be replaced by the current official forums years later)