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it's possible... but so unlikely that it's not even worth further discussion.

Where did that 10% came from? Summoning is more useful for skilling really at the moment and once they fix the combat part, this is gonna be very nice. At that point, you will be annoyed about not having a few levels head start... though you probably won't see this as you are not supposed to roam the rants forums.

Zamorakian spear cannot be wielded along with a shield. With 350-400 defence bonus, a lvl 3 would have around 1/1000 to inflict 1 damage at every hit... Things is though... eventually the lvl 3 would level up from hitting 1s on the ever healing lvl 138, so in theory, a lvl 3 cannot kill a 138 as he would probably not be a lvl 3 at the end of the fight!

Almost all tasks given by turael or his replacement used to be my worst task before smoking kills was released. Now, kalphites during peak hours because I have to steal someone's spot with my cannon.

some skilling prayers would be nice. For example, you get +2 woodcutting that stacks with potions and beaver while the prayer is activated. This I would dig.

But that makes me jealous because Slayer and Attack are my favorite skills I'm going to save my favorites for LAST so I'll actually enjoy getting them. Hehe I'm still slaying, currently approaching 15mil XP just because I love the skill too much to stop. I believe you should only do what you like in the game. I admit I love some skills more than others, but after a while with some skills I'm not having fun anymore, so I move to another and get back to it later (Construction, hunter; agility and RC especially).

Zezima did it in early july 2005 I think (one week before farming was released). So yeah about 5 months, thing is it's not a good comparison. This was 2005 without black mask/slayer helm and summoning. While RCing was released in 2004 without abyss/pouches, summoning to speed things up and the run recovery ability.

Sure, as long as you are having fun, who cares? I personnaly don't care about capes, mostly use mine when I don't want to risk my fire cape. They take up spqce bank for nothing in my opinion, one is enough and currently mine is the black and red one.

your bad luck is just a feeling. Unless you come up with drops log of decent sizes, there is not much discussion value in a feeling.

I see RS2 being replaced by a newer version of the game in the next 5-10 years, but I don't see the end of this game anytime soon. A very worst case scenario of a 30% loss in player base per year would result in still nearly 30 000 players at the same time playing this game 5 years from now. With minimal maintenance cost, the game would still probably be profitable. And that would be a worst case scenario in terms of popularity. The very worst case would be if Jagex made a huge investment and tried to compete direclty against Blizzard and failed. This could lead to a quick bankruptcy and they might have to sell their rights of RS. I don't expect anything like this to happen.

I could argue that the preacher was opening himself to criticism by voicing his opinion then.

Did you think RS was filled with intelligent people only? I guess now you know...

Yep very well put. No flaming needed. From my point of view, all religions are either big hoaxes, some stories that got "twisted" by time or entirely genuine. Since I'm an atheist, I'd mostly think they are the first and second option.

it's a nice 100% improvement. Keep it up, only 97 more levels.

What is the achievement if you train inefficiently? You find it unfair that there are people who don't want to train with second rate items? If you value achievement by the time spent, it's your choice. My view on the subject is : more time = you are not doing it the right (best) way. I don't believe you worded that very well. While I agree with what you said, I don't think that a certain training method shouldn't be trained just because it is not as efficient as a boring way of getting xp. But then again, that's probably getting more into the fun factor of playing a game. NJE03 was saying that he felt his achievements, through poor training methods, were put on the same level as those with the same XP that did it through efficient training and it bothered him/her. From my point of view, he/she was suggesting efficient training methods should be considered less of an achievement. The highscore shows how many experience points you have in a skill today. Whatever time it took you getting there or the methods used, the end result is the same. I never said there should only be a way to play the game.

what I don't understand is that as far as I can remember, we never had weekly updates. Sure there were news with players gallery and letters, but no new content weekly. Are you ranting about less updates or no weekly updates?

Yeah I was definitely going in another direction when we started arguying about the fun-profit debate when I realised we were not debating the same concept. Jagex definitely need to make both their games fun in order to generate profit. The way I see it: F2P needs to be fun enough to attract new players and P2P needs to be even more fun to lure F2Pers in getting memberships.

What is the achievement if you train inefficiently? You find it unfair that there are people who don't want to train with second rate items? If you value achievement by the time spent, it's your choice. My view on the subject is : more time = you are not doing it the right (best) way.

Indeed, for now though, credit cards are the easiest and fastest way to get members.

Yeah don't worry, I tried both ways to trian farming, I know what you mean. It's currently even more expensive than 15k payment (25 coconuts @ 1.1k each these days). I was just pointing out it was a buyable skill, but more in the range that construction can be bought (at a huge loss).

Thing is I like asking question a lot, I wouldn't mind getting flamed after asking for evidence like the OP did. It would just re-inforce my opinion on the matter. Religions are indeed touchy matters, seems you can't discuss them rationally.

Removing credit card payment would be a bad business decision. It seems that Jagew are continuously improving their bot detection system, but the botters always seem to find new ways. The goldfarmers issue would not have been solved though.

Well, it is better. I used to have the opposite feeling as you though. I always wanted to see what was on the other side of the door leading to taverly and thieving farmers was something I was eager to try. Let me tell you those were the first things I tried when I became members because I had been exposed to these teasers for so long (meh...4 months).

I agree with you All, except farming is a buyable. Sure you can view it like RC when you only do herbs run and mid lvls trees and fruit trees, but you can only get in the high gear when going for the high profile seeds.