Adam007

Thewerewolf, about what you mentioned other forums having an effect just like runescape. That part I disagree with. Things were fine with people used tip it and other fan sites because they were separated, and because of that, there wasn't one controlling price for everything. And the main thing that fan forums have over runescape's is that discussion is locked, and there isn't such manipulatoin here except for a few fake posts, but tip it or any other forums never really had a bad effect. They were very useful for buying/selling in mass, and contributed no problems at all to the game like the rs forum did.

"Let me simply, direct u to line 2: buying stuff off noobs who dont know any better, is a cheap way to make gp." I made it clear that I didn't actually stand behind that being a good thing to do. I was just saying for merchanters it wiped out an area of merchanting. "2nd if u put forward the time it is very easy to make money in rs and collecting herbs has never been easyer. " I was talking about buying herbs in mass. If you want to take that route, you have to outbid the richest players out there. "99% of what u have presented, could be simply taken care off if u did the training urself." You took my thread the wrong way. The main problem I was presenting was manipulation. To the side, I was mentioning how the richest runescape players have such a market control. "As for making gp simply do what i did look at where u can make gp in rs. There's the new barrow in rs take the next 2 weeks and collect and sell it." Who is that directed to? "kills me when people only, gripe truely is they have to work hard for something." This was in no way a gripe. It was saying problems (in some people's eyes) that the forum lead to, and a way to change the forum to get rid of the problems.

Google has amazing results! Or erm, my little brother has it! *runs away. (Really though, I don't have it. :P I just know everything about nintendo stuff)

For gamecube, Pokemon Colloseum.

For those who aren't up to date with the whole market of runescape, there is a problem right now. It isn't clear to everyone, but there is a definite problem, at least in my opinion and view on things. This has nothing to do with the forum itself. It's nicely set up and all - it just has quite a bit of bad side effects, which I'll get to now. #1: Market price controls. With the forum being introduced, slowly there became standards for all items. And from that, the highest bidder would get the item. And everyone in runescape would know what that highest bid was. It in turn made a lot of items go up in price, specifically herblaw materials. Remember when you could actually buy ranaars 3k each? With the runescape forums being introduced, everyone had to compete with everyone. #2: Merchant/Economic Impact. No longer could merchants make quick little deals off of people who didn't know the exact price of something. Everyone would just dart to the runescape forum, and sell in game close to the max it went for. Because of that, merchants didn't have a wide margin to resell the item at, forcing the price up even more. I'm not saying the margin is gone - it has just lessened and is more rare to find a margin. I'm also not saying people not knowing the price and getting 'ripped off' is a good thing to occur, just that it was a cause of a section of merchanting lost, and another price control. The economy almost in a way turned socialist instead of capitalist, with controlled prices for everything. Sure, jagex didn't set them, but the forum pretty much did. You had to compete with one source - the richest players, or be forced to buy in extremely minute amounts. Otherwise you just couldn't get items in any decent amount of mass. #3: Manipulation. Right here is the biggest problem caused, effecting and changing how the rares economy would be forever. By using the forum and taking advantage of how many people read it, some merchanters became extremely corrupt. They would form groups, and choose a particular party hat, and make fake posts all over the board pretending it to buy it higher than it was worth. That would make the hat go up a lot, and surprisingly was extremely successful for them. People were almost certain that it was just the party hat going up naturally for awhile. Anyways, after the hat ran its course and peaked, the group would then sell all of theirs to quench the demand, and then they would force the hat to fall once more, often rebuying it for millions less later in the day. The once stable (except for the dupe) party hats now were going in cycles of manipulation. There would be a targeted hat, it would rise, and it would fall. People caught on, but couldn't do anything. It became a domino effect. People would freak out, and inevitably the prices of the party hat would fall greatly, like a snowball rolling down a snowy hill, until it exploded and hit bare minimum. The problem isn't as big now as it used to be because people caught on to it and it isn't as exploitable anymore, but it is still done. Another big problem with the fake posts were the discussion posts. In a rares forum, there were tons of discussions about party hats(and other stuff), which directly influenced the hats prices in addition to the fake posts. People would spam both ways trying to convince buyers/sellers to do something, which shouldn't happen. There aren't enough forum moderators to watch over and lock those, which almost looks like Jagex doesn't even recognize the problem. The Solution Well, I just ranted on for a long time about just some of the problems caused by the forum. Again, I'm not saying that it's a bad thing itself. It helps people sell things, obviously, is great for checking prices, and has probably been extremely useful to everyone on this forum, which is why I'm expecting some disagreeing opinions from the people who actually took the time to read through all of this. But here is how things could be changed for the market part of the forums. Instead of allowing so discussion, there will be a simple system that could even be implemented into the game instead of the forums. You would just have a few drop down selection menus depending on which section you were selling/buying in. You would choose from the drop down the item you were selling, the price range, and how many of it you wanted to sell. From there, people could easily search and get great results. Possibly they could check their name there if interested in the deal, which could even send an alert to the person in game if develeped by jagex enough. Possibly there could be a few lines left for comments by the seller to further explain the deal, but there should be a limit only allowing a few words if even allowing anything. That would get rid of a large portion of manipulation and discussion which shouldn't be influencing the market. It wouldn't fix anywhere near all the problems I listed, but at least it would help the rares economy and scare away some of those people who only made money through manipulation. Anyways, that's about it. I'd love to hear comments or adjustments you think should be made about my ideas.

Try those high calorie energy protein drinks. I drink boost in the morning. Gives energy for school usually, tons of nutrients, and has a nice amount of fat for gaining weight. Hasn't gained me any weight to be honest because I just don't put on pounds, but it does help with energy and it has tons of daily nutrietional % values if that matters to you.

I'm not too far from Cedar Point, which has some pretty awesome roller coasters. The Millenium Force is pretty cool, and the Top Thrill Dragster is amazingly fast at around 100+ mph. I still prefer Disney World's Space and Splash mountain roller coasters though. They're a lot more fun and entertaining in my opinion. I don't like getting too scared. :P

I honestly hated it. And that's saying a lot, considering 90% of movies I see I like. I could barely stay awake through the second half of the movie. It had nothing going for it. There were stupid jokes the whole rest of the audience was cracking up over. I read some reviews when I got home, and they pretty much said that you'd either love it or hate it, and if you haven't read the books you'll most likely both not like it or have any clue to what's going on. It also said the whole movie was also like an inside joke to readers of the book, and you'll feel really left out and clueless to why things are so funny to everyone if you haven't read it, which I did feel.

Gonna go with "Only in runescape is it a good idea to talk to a mysterious old man bearing gifts."

That's happening with me too. Forsaken Mage said it's being worked on.

Off the top of my head, the first idea would be for runescape to be time based. A central or self based time, where certain events and random weather or other things happen based on what time it is during the day, and if you're on certain times different things will happen, to add more variety. Maybe getting more tunas than lobsters fishing in the morning, and vice versa in the night for example. Also a sky, and weather based on that same thing. Maybe if it was raining water spells would do more damage, or if it was hot or in the desert fire spells would be more effective. At that note, maybe making certain npc's that are weak to certain elements. One more thing - range armor having a negative melee attack bonus.

Remember the oiled up guy in the end of the episode? He said something along the lines of "Don't let me get the best of you. I used to be a lawyer. See ya next week. Good to be back America!" He was in one of the older episodes where everyone had to catch him running around. Nobody did, and he ran off saying "See you next year!" Well now we do. Kind of like an ending inside joke for fans.

Eastern it's at 9 Pm.

They are taking a risk with American Dad, gotta give em credit for that. The majority of the other reality shows and stuff is garbage though. (btw Zelda, saw that movie in your sig. One of the worst I've seen in my life. That's saying a lot, considering I like 90% of movies I see).

Nah cjl, I'm still going to watch it on TV tonight. That's how good the episode was. (I knew I shouldn't have mentioned that part).

The new family guy season starts tonight on Fox! Try to remember to watch it everyone who can - we gotta support this season so Family Guy stays on the air this time around. I can tell you it's going to start off great. :) Anyway, just reminding you all to watch it tonight, and to later talk about tonight's episode. Go Family Guy! :P

I get in those sleep wars with my eyelids, where they magnetically try to slam shut, and it's such an effort to keep staying awake when you get to that point. I'll usually force myself awake, but sometimes it's just too hard, and I give in.

NAVAPSVC[Caution: ExecutableFile] is now at 300k (back up again) and the Page File usage is still climbing, now at 1.64 GB. I could really use some help, this computer is getting really slow. :? -(edit)- Ended NAVAPSVC[Caution: ExecutableFile]'s process, restarted norton, now it's back to 576k and the computer's going fine right now with PF usage of 638MB. Just hoping things stay ok for now, even though I have this virus.

Here's my log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:36:15 PM, on 4/30/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\system32\services[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\KodakCCS[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\System32\ScsiAccess[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\Security Center\SymWSC[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\Explorer[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\System32\hkcmd[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_03\bin\jusched[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\hpztsb09[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\HP\hpcoretech\hpcmpmgr[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\System32\hphmon05[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Software Update\HPWuSchd2[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\MsnMsgr[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\System32\HPZipm12[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgmain[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgbhp[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\Kodak\KODAK Software Updater\7288971\Program\backWeb-7288971[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\WINDOWS\msagent\AgentSvr[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\SpybotSD[Caution: ExecutableFile] C:\DOCUME~1\LIEBER~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\Temporary Directory 2 for hijackthis.zip\HijackThis[Caution: ExecutableFile] R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://yahoo.com/ R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = localhost N3 - Netscape 7: user_pref("browser.search.defaultengine", "engine://C%3A%5CProgram%20Files%5CNetscape%5CNetscape%5Csearchplugins%5CSBWeb_01.src"); (C:\Documents and Settings\Lieberman\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\iihmt62h.slt\prefs.js) O2 - BHO: Yahoo! 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Service: Macromedia Licensing Service - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Macromedia Shared\Service\Macromedia Licensing[Caution: ExecutableFile] O23 - Service: Norton AntiVirus Auto Protect Service (navapsvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc[Caution: ExecutableFile] O23 - Service: Pml Driver HPZ12 - HP - C:\WINDOWS\System32\HPZipm12[Caution: ExecutableFile] O23 - Service: Remote Packet Capture Protocol v.0 (experimental) (rpcapd) - Unknown owner - %ProgramFiles%\WinPcap\rpcapd[Caution: ExecutableFile]" -d -f "%ProgramFiles%\WinPcap\rpcapd.ini (file missing) O23 - Service: ScriptBlocking Service (SBService) - Symantec Corporation - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\SYMANT~1\SCRIPT~1\SBServ[Caution: ExecutableFile] O23 - Service: ScsiAccess - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\System32\ScsiAccess[Caution: ExecutableFile] O23 - Service: Symantec Network Drivers Service (SNDSrvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc[Caution: ExecutableFile] O23 - Service: SymWMI Service (SymWSC) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\Security Center\SymWSC[Caution: ExecutableFile] O2 - BHO: MSEvents Object - {44240BB5-BD7D-4D49-A1AA-8AB0F3D3CB44} - C:\WINDOWS\Cursors\infodb.dll is the problem but it won't remove. O20 - Winlogon Notify: admp3 - C:\WINDOWS\ O20 - Winlogon Notify: faxacc - C:\WINDOWS\ O20 - Winlogon Notify: infodb - C:\WINDOWS\Cursors\infodb.dll O20 - Winlogon Notify: wavekb - C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\wavekb.dll (file missing) Those don't look good either. Wavekb.dll was once infected with the virus, but I was able to delete that one after renaming it to a .txt file, opening it, and erasing all the f483lksdf type text. Not sure if that did anything, but I was able to kind of delete it. And again, there's the infodb.dll which is the main problem right now. Those couldn't be removed/fixed either. And also Norton isn't at 200k memory usage anymore, and is now at around 4k with 5-10 cpu.

It didn't show up in the actual cursors file, but when I searched for the file name inside the cursor file it did. I tried deleting it in safe mode even, but the usual "this is used by another program, so you can't delete it" message came up. And Norton gives me an access denied message. My computer is running extremely slow, so I'd like to get this fixed soon. :?

I've tried a lot of ways to delete the file, it won't let me (access denied). I'll post a hijackthis log eventually if nobody else knows what I should do.

Recently I got the Trojan.Vundo.B virus which infected C:/Windows/cursors/infodb.dll. It spread to 5 other files, which Norton was able to quarantine. That one though, Norton can't delete or do anything with (access denied). I tried system restore, which didn't work. It had it's own process for a little bit which slowed the computer. I killed that, but now it's slow again, and Norton is taking like 10-20% of my cpu, and at a huge 220k memory usage. Even worse is that my PF Usage is at a whopping 1.30 GB. The CPU usage seems fine, but I had like really nothing running except firefox and the usual norton yesterday, and windows had to create more virtual memory for me. Seems what I have to do is get rid of the virus, but I have no clue how to, since I couldn't delete it in safe mode, and Norton isn't able to do anything. Help would be VERY MUCH appreciated. :) (Let me know if you need any other info, such as a hijackthis)

Exactly. Or pay-sakch. Just gotta make that ckh noise at the end. It's called Passover just as often in the US though, which is a lot easier to say.

I'm hungry too. So few choices in food right now in my house. :(

There are adjustments that would be made that I'm just assuming that you all assume. Sure, the melee bonuses would be adjusted somewhat. Stuff like that, and dragon drops and other things can just be inferred to be dealt with. It'd take forever for me to explain a solution to every single issue made by this, and how to fix it. With dragon drops, either they would stay really rare and be more of a status symbol (how they are now), or they would be adjusted and switched around to make up for one lack, and possibly given a bonus in a different area.