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Maybe, I'm not challenging jagex' choices. However what I am challenging is the publicity, and the naming & shaming of this. With these matter some discretion should be taken into account.

IT wasn't a real question by me, just requiring clarification though the quotes seem in contradiction: "The Dragonkin are known to have created all dragons", "Other than this, there is little evidence linking the Dragonkin to Elder dragons." Or aren't the current non metal dragons descendants of the elder dragons? But if that is a prison for the dragonkin: would it be possible the dragonkin actually escaped, and fled to the glienor plane? Well but that wouldn't make sense: I believe the dragonkin only started to create dragons after they started to fear death. - So after robert the strong killed some? - And hence after they came to our plane. What kind of being would need a prison at another plane? and from what time is that prison, who used it to enprison dragonkin? JAS?

I'm in agreeance to be honest. I don't think it's fair to tarnish someone after many years of conviction so publically. Something I definitely take a stance against. Unless he's proven to be a risk right now, which I doubt, I don't think it was fair nor appropriate. It's no worse than a tabloid paper such as the Sun digging up old dirt to tarnish someone. Given the nature of his crime, I think you have to expect at any time for the rest of your life that it might come out again. I mean, I've managed to go 26 years without storing or tranfering pornographic images of teenagers. And you know, it hasn't been that difficult. My belief is simple. If you engage in child pornography or pedophilia in any way, [bleep] you! I'd like to make you wear a large P on your chest for the rest of your life ala the Scarlet Letter. Or better yet, hanging by your neck at the end of a rope. Self-inflicted of course. I don't believe in lynch mobs. :shame: Yeah, just like some people had to war a star with them, you know that 6 point 1. Or how people burned slaves for centuries? I've also managed 23 years without stealing or resulting to violence. Not difficult at all.... Really are any of you adults? You show a total lack of respect for the law & goverment here. From these type of crimes the goverment only releases when the chance on repetition is similar to somebody not comitted this crime in the first place. Saying he is still a danger shows you distrust your goverment: that's quite something.

Read the thread, or at least the conclusions, before you comment. You might as well not bother, otherwise. @OP: you didn't mention what appears to be a Dragonkin statue in Daemonheim-is it significant? The castle seems to have been destroyed in much the same way as Kethsi-looks like it was done from the air, IE by dragons, but a statue of a dragonkin complicates things. ... I suggest you read the thread than, cause I participated in the past many times already. But since no one can be expected to read every single post of the thread I'll ask again: Weren't the dragonkin some kind of "immortal dragon" which created metal dragons to guard as a copy of themself? What would that mean for the new plane being destroyed by dragons?

Those things take RESOURCES out of the game, not money.. Only degrading takes money out of the game. If GP comes less fast in the game (or goes out fast enough) resource price would grow. If GP comes faster in the game (compared to other things) prices will drop.

It depends on where you stand when banking I believe, I've also been randomed while banking at deamonheim..

Metal dragons were created by the dragonkin weren't they? Weren't dragonkin in some way descendants of a certain dragon who evolved?

...Fifteen years ago. This is one of the problems with society. People are always trying to hold others' mistakes above their heads, no matter how long ago those mistakes occurred. At some point in time, an individual should be allowed to live and operate without whatever they did in the past constantly throwing the proverbial dark cloud over their head. Yes, but in this case we, along with Jagex, know the details. He's not some victim of changing laws. He did some stuff that was clearly very, very immoral. And I'm fine with this coming back to bite him the ass. I don't mesh with pedophiles. Keep in mind, he isn't just a sex offender, he clearly engaged in acts of storing and transfering child pornography. I'm not saying we should chase pedophiles with pitchforks and torches... ... I'm typing it. On another note, I'm gonna leave this thread. I have trouble staying calm talking about pedophiles and I don't need a suspension. Better leave for good then. I have trouble keeping calm around people who try to get justice in their own hands and don't respect law. If you truly believe those things deserve lifelong punishment: stick to your opinion and let goverment change those laws. But don't uphold your own opinion against somebody. I am of opinion that muslims are lazy and only come to drain our taxes. But that doesn't mean I keep this against somebody when he comes to me for a job.

Hence why criminal records are never public: instead only companies (only if the police deemed it necessary for the job) may get it, or other instantions. Asking questions to friends/family is in some cases actually a crime too: and especially for media not allowed.

Lol indeed stakes, was starting a farm round when I typed this :P. Anyways, I'm everything in the 90-95 range, and I'll be wielding barrow (melee) outfit.

Uhm no, that's really not the idea of punishment. If you wish I dig up some old quotes, but really during the 17th century people already believed we should stop punishing as a sense of "fullfillment" but instead try to change people. THAT is also the reason why you don't kill, or do other permanent things to people. People can change, and everyone deserves the right to change himself and let the past be the past.

Free press indeed: freedom of speech protects one against goverments.. However a press should never be free to post ANYTHING private of a person. And punishment is a private being. I never said anything about not believing punishment, I rather say the opposite: leave punishment to the goverment. Especially if the offender wishes to stay low profile let him stay low profile. We are no longer in the middle ages where you have to stand at the market square and let people throw tomatos at you. Keep punishment by the goverment, and if you disagree change the law - don't punish as civilian. Also let the past be the past.

Simply as topic: What can I best craft to use during temple trecking?

Wow, this sounds awfull what you do here: Take for example this true story which just happend: Some person was taken captive, for "pedophilia", he was let to the court, they sentenced him for some years + TBS. He owned a school for handicapped people which he "build" himself. Needless to say: within 2 months of him becoming a target (not even getting prosecuted) the school was run dry already. He had to abandon as the media made him look like a monster. He was active at some organizations - everywhere he was putted down, and thrown away. Now 2 months after prosecution it came out that it was all a big mistake: the police had just the wrong dosier at the wrong person (he should've went to the court for not paying a fine he gained for speeding). - And he only admitted because he was under pressure. Now he was fired from jail: but that was least of his worries. He had no life anymore, everywhere he went he was still known as that "suspect of pedophilia". His lifework was destroyed, he couldn't get a job anymore, his house was often vandalized... The media had destroyed his life What I wish to tell through this: media shouldn't involve itself with legal, personal, things. And especially never name or show an image of the person in question. Punishment -and other private things- should always be kept in private. Mistakes can (and will) happen, and destroying somebody for such a mistake is simply inhuman. Leave punishment to the goverment, not to public/companies.

However you are not the one judging in the case: rule enforcement and punishment are up to the countries goverment (and in effect the citizens as they support the goverment). Once somebody has filled his punishment it is time to look forward and don't keep old problems coming back, if you think a punishment isn't severe enough, set the punishment higher. But don't keep the old facts against people: people deserve chances. Furthermore: jagex is no official instantion which can determine whether somebody is guilty or not: there are people educated for this. People who are trained and won't change opinion by the media, who can objectivelly decide guilty or not. So I don't think this is a "correct" move. But in the end: who cares -.-

EVERYTHING made by a human is copyrighted, you little messages you text to your girlfriend, those ideas you work down on a small paper during train: everythign is automatically copyrighted towards you. It covers images, text and games equally. Saying "copyright can't touch anything other than images" shows that you make statements without knowing anything about the copyright laws (laws as there are multiple and depend on the nation, however as runescape is a brittish company you have to abide to the brittish copyright law - at least if your country signed a treaty with the UK, which most countries have except for china). Copyright however only prevents COPYING, not paraphrasing or other forms of using the data. I was talking SPECIFICALLY about Jagex/Runescape copyright in relation to fansites. Only the images can really be touched by Jagex's copyright in that case; because only the images are directly copied from runescape. Plus while you technically do have copyright on anything you produce unless it is officially registered it is limited and rarely holds up in court. Again, that depends on the country of origin: in my country (netherlands) not only is registration impossible: it also has no legal meaning if there was some "registration". - Instead copyright infringments are solved by having a "proof of date". (The one who can provide the oldest date is the owner). But really text, even if you don't "copy-paste" it is protected: you can't overtype phrases if they are a significant part of a story. Besides, there's no reason to go to "court" - most countries (whole EU for example) have standard procedures for copyright infringments. As for what websites do: well if you write down the story exactly (as opposed to retelling the tale in your own words) you DO violate the rights jagex has as holder. However would anyone cry for it? I doubt that. But who am I fooling here, trying to discuss these things on a forum where almost nobody has the correct education to provide advice in this... *sees agen's reply*...

EVERYTHING made by a human is copyrighted, you little messages you text to your girlfriend, those ideas you work down on a small paper during train: everythign is automatically copyrighted towards you. It covers images, text and games equally. Saying "copyright can't touch anything other than images" shows that you make statements without knowing anything about the copyright laws (laws as there are multiple and depend on the nation, however as runescape is a brittish company you have to abide to the brittish copyright law - at least if your country signed a treaty with the UK, which most countries have except for china). Copyright however only prevents COPYING, not paraphrasing or other forms of using the data.

A walkthrough is supposed to do just that--walk you through it. Is it? I expect my teacher to "guide" me through the subjects I need to learn. However I don't expect them to hold my hand and tell me every little step I need to take. I don't understand why runescape would ever release such guides though: they more or less destroy a big part of quests, the finding of the items. (If they wished for items to be found without difficulty they couldve just made them pop up in your interface, or layered in bare sight).

The guide -in my opinion- was a bit too much holding hands: explaining where to find which cloth ok.. But then actually saying "put item X at this position, walk to here, take Y, put on X again, walk ...." is too much detail, I like to figure those out myself. Similar for the posters, in a guide I'd expect a picture of a poster, and maybe the total number of posters.. Not the exact locations, that makes the puzzle aspect of quests boring.

Uhm looking at the data: runescape NEVER sends the angle of your camara to the servers.. So the RS servers (which handle the damage dealing) can't know how your camara is aligned.. What I noticed however is that 1 time I was looking away I was still hit, but in that case I was looking away BEFORE he started his attack, it seems you have to first look towards and then away.

It's what almost every "efficient" person does: just getting effigies instead of doing a skill.

I'm never excited for XP rewards of quests: those are boring and never efficient compared to grinding. Much better are the less tanglible rewards: new areas, new moveing around options, new spells, new prayers etc etc.

Yes, grinding was something that was considered "awesome". However in the past grinding wasn't a real requirement before the rest, and grinding could be done in many different methods to the same result. Currently runescape has evolved into a game where you have to grind before you can do anything which is considered "money making" in a fun way. The focus is now on the rewards, not on the goal itself. The top rewards should give relativelly little direct benefit (they should give some benefit, however especially not being an all around best outfit like nexus armours are now - there should've been something between nexus and bandos first), but instead be more cosmetical. On top of this difference between how runescape was when I started and how runescape is now, I notice that runescape has become much more linear. To actually achieve all those top items, you have very little training choices (at least if you wish to do it decently efficient). Previously one had often very similar considerations to make, there were often 3-4 methods which were nearly equal in xp / hour. So people could train in a more varied manner. An example I personally saw was runecrafting: I could do natures through abbys, however then I'd had to flee or do something each hour vs a pker. - I could do cosmics which were slightly lower xp (about 10%).. Maybe I also coud do law running for very fast, or use the balloon. Or if I wish to gain amazing profits without risking I could do natures and sellling at tai bwo wannai. Currently simply the very best method is ZMI, it's all ZMI from lv 60ish to 99ish which is best, and other options are neglectable, both in xp as well as in money. These problems have made runescape less "fun" for the average player (the average player likes variety more than monotonous methods). However "easier" for bots. If this was handled and there were actually quite a bit of alternative similar in gain options to train each skill, there would be much less reason to bot: grinding itself would be more fun and no longer really considered "grinding". @resetting stats: I'm not sure how I feel about this. This would mainly hurt those people botting on their main, botfarms just sprout enough bots to evade this and wouldn't be affected too much. Yet I personally have not so much a problem with bots on their main (they can either play normally or bot, it still is only 1 account). But botfarms are the thing which I consider much more damaging to runescape as a game.

I've made the perfect sheet for calculations like these, it exactly calculates the things you get, with only the minor limitation that it expects you to up the rating at regular intervals. - using the same rounding as runescape has (tested). But back on topic: maples, coal were most profitable. Maybe herbs might be good too if you expect a sudden price boost at the bxpw.

I myself will do herblore (for 89) Followed by a skill which I simply can't play a lot otherwise: firemaking / hunter (I have to be carefull with these skills so I don't RSI problems) Remember that even if a skill is fast, you still safe "half" the time. So I would just recommend doing the skill you dislike most - yet wishes to level sometime.