highlanders

Why would you want something as lamentable as a champion scroll? And that's not a rhetorical question. Srsly, why? Just sit down and ask yourself why you want something like that to begin with, and why you're so desperate to have it ohn-my-gee-NOW-PL0X. Champs scrolls don't change jack cabbage in your life. If they were as common as ham robes, would you still want them? Heck no. It's like for girls. If you want a girl to like you, then you have to be difficult to get. If you're always so damn desperate for her to talk to you, so easy to get, then you're just like ham robes. And as we all know, no one wants ham robes. Not for more than 5 minutes anyway. People want rare stuff, difficult stuff to get. Girl: Omg did you see that tough guy, he's so cool when he acts like he doesn't care! MUST GET! I tell you, you have a crush on champion scrolls. Snap out of it valentine boy.

Srsly? If I had the damn patience, I would definitively grab my pickaxe and go mine lots and lots of granite, then buy myself a nice partyhat for 1M. But I have no patience, whatsoever, for Runescape anymore. Tutti la pazienza e stato utilizzata! It's a shame I guess, 3 years ago I would have killed for an opportunity like this. Nice mining level plus a 1M partyhat, what more to ask? Oh well.

What are you narbheads talking about?! Obviously, Jagex constantly adds behind our backs to the supply of partyhat and other discontinued items. They want to screw with our minds, we're more mentally vulnerable that way! Hence, with our mental faculties diminished, we keep paying them! DUH!

Like others here, I really wouldn't go past 70-80 on that one. Piety is a very good prayer - BUT not useful in most situations. I got myself 70 because I had plenty of money to do so, but I didn't find myself using it very often. It's clearly more of a boss hunting prayer, and since I don't boss hunt, not all that great. You have to look at what your needs are. Most normal players just want protect from melee. In your situation: considering your finances, and your low level, I really wouldn't put any money into prayer yet. Prayer is a bit of a luxury, start by buying yourself the basics like armor, weapons, pickaxe, axes, teleport runes(and the magic levels required for them), etc. Use that money for more important things. When you start feeling the need for having certain prayers (most notably item protect, protect from ranged/mage/melee, piety) then that's when you start putting money into it.

Runescape has definitively no benefits whatsoever. It's always so pathetic when people make these threads entitled "What did you learn thanks to RS?" then you have dozens of people posting trying to fool themselves into thinking RS has actually been a positive influence of some sort on their life. I can't relate to people who are addicted to RS though. For me, RS was my fun after a long day of crap, to balance it out. As I get older, I gain the power to make my days fun, so RS loses its purpose. People who have decent or fun lives, and would still want to play given the option, I have no idea why they'd do that. Well, that would be plain old irresponsability. The last enemy standing is free time. Too much free time = brain must find something to do = RS. Eventually, you find much more fun things to replace it with, but you have to make the effort to look for these things. You can't know you love piano if you don't try piano.

It's not a problem of lack of knowledge. Everyone logs in knowing it's just a game. It starts with a month, a year, and before you realize what's going on you're married with Runescape and you have 3 skillcapes. It seems so innocent. "Ah, I'm a teenager, I have plenty of time, it's just a pastime." But the pastime grows into a habit that becomes so integrated into your life you don't even notice it eating away your time, and that's whats dangerous about it. At some point you have to take the real life decision to stop. And you can't just stop completely right now, and forever. You have to replace Runescape with other activities. Otherwise, at night you will end up at your house, with nothing to do and you'll just log in and start again. Just like someone who decides to stop eating junk food when that is all they eat. They stop, then for the few first days, they struggle. They're hungry, but they don't know what to eat, so they just start junk food again. You stop junk food, but you have to start eating something else - something better, in order to replace it. That's basically what you have to do to get rid of Runescape. I think also the other main issue is that people feel there is nothing else they could possibly do better with their time. They go to school, they come back, they have no other project. They don't know what they want to do. If I look back to my own childhood, I was so in over my head with the ton of work we were given at my private school, the thought of doing anything curricular that had to do with "learning" was completely out of the question. I was busting my [wagon] trying to get into advanced maths, and getting atleast 80% into all my grades. The teachers had us stressed out about grades telling us that we needed this or that to get into X, Y or Z learning program after highschool, and that if we didn't know what to do yet it was best to keep all options open. And of course, because it was a private school, we had to work twice as hard but for supposedly better "rewards" after highschool. Apparently, just the name of our school was enough to give employers shivers down their spines. Everyday I arrived 3 hours before school started just to be able to catch up with my work, on lunch after eating I went to the library trying to get ahead on my homework. School ended ridiculously late: 5:30 PM. Then back at home it would take me 2 hours to make my math homework and finish up the team projects teachers gave us constantly. After that? Forget it, I still had things to do but I went on Runescape and would play my heart away. Social life? Forget it, who has time for that? The school was filled with BS snobs anyway, unable to do anything else but to criticize all day long, no one you'd ever want to have in your life. A few years later now, want to know the truth? It's complete BS. All of the crap we studied was useless. None of it was worth the effort. The real problem was the homework, very time-consuming, and in the end entirely useless. The worse thing is that there was no getting around it. You could get kicked out of the school for not making them, even if you had perfect grades. Remove the homework: add a useful learning curricular activity: 100 times better. People always claim how great school is: the truth is it's a huge waste of time and you should do the minimum and don't waste time making the homework unless you know you need it. Don't bother going to good highschools, because no one cares about highschool. My highschool name didn't give my employers nor my universities shivers down their spines at all. Good universities and the require scores in university is all that matters. It's weird and all, but I blame private school for making my teenage social life miserable, I blame them for making me do homework that was completely useless, I blame them for being lying pieces of trash about their school being so great (they just want parents money), I blame them for making my life such a pile of crap only RS was the fun part in it, I blame them for having condescendant pieces of trash as teachers. Don't get me wrong, unless you live in an european country that happens to have a good education system, public schools suck. But atleast you don't work hard in public schools, getting 80% is dead easy compared to private (spent 1 year in public school, btw). You have time for lots of other things. In the year I spent in public, instead of finishing school at 5:30PM, I think it ended at 3:10 PM. Just imagine the amount of stuff you can get done in the ~7 hours you have before you drop dead on your matress and fall asleep. And almost no homework whatsoever to eat upon that free time. Remove Runescape, and add an after school activity you enjoy and is actually useful: uber win. The kind of teaching quality you get in highschool: private or not, is awful. Everything goes slowly because teachers are given too much time, and there are soo many dimly lit students in classes that slow everything down. Everyone knows only psycho masochistic teachers choose to teach at high schools -.- Everything gets easier once you get to university, though it's STILL filled with a bunch of idiotic kids, you study what you want. But the REAL fun is when you study in a 18+ class outside of major institutions, with actual adults, and actual non-psycho, non-omg-im-a-university-teacher-power-trip, normal non sociopath, non obnoxious, non YOUNG, and non psycho teachers. That of course, is uber win. Now highlander, what does all that crap rambling mean? Nothing, I just had fun getting that off my chest. BUT know one thing: once you get past highschool (which is full of crap, evil teachers, and pathetic morons, which in itself is enough to make your life so crappy that it can transform ANYONE into a mmorpg-addict) things become better. Why? Because you get to do stuff and go places where morons can't get in. Under 18? Get out of my bar. Under 18? Get out of my class. Too stupid to enter into political sciences? The truck driver class is over there. Now that is of course uber win, the time when you get to laugh into all the moron's faces and get to block out from your life all roaming human sources and forms of stupidity and patheticalness.

[hide=] this proves it. most tip.it ers are stupid.. [/hide] Not at all, he understood what this is all about, except he had trouble explaining it. So here we have a shield that on average 70 attacks out of 100, will reduce the damage received by 25%. It will take the "edge" off of an attack. Most "grinding" monsters people fight have max hits of ~15. Which means, at best, it will be 25% off of 15. It is welcome, but really nothing mindblowing. At worse, it will be 25% off of 0 or a very low number. Don't buy the shield and expect much against normal monsters. The real use is clearly PVP and boss monsters only. The thing is, the shield isn't even good at that either. The new monster is best killed with zamorakian spears. GWD is best done with godswords to rip through the bosses defences. Pvp is again largely won with godswords. The shield is very good, but the best thing you wear with it is a whip. What you can see here is a real paradox. The shield is good for pvp and boss hunting. Whips are used for grinding against normal monsters. Whips are not made for boss monsters, they aren't made for pvp. The shield and the whip disagree, the shield would rather watch WWE and the whip would rather just watch Dr house. So you have haft of the TV showing Dr house, and the other haft is showing RAW. It seems like shawn michaels is talking to cameron and you can't really figure out much of what going on. Conclusion: The shield is good, but has no suitable pvp/boss hunting 1 handed weapon to go with it. It's a damn lemon. For now, it's completely useless. "OMG LOOK AT ME I HAVE A DIVINE SHIELD! HERE I COME BOSS MONSTERS! Oh wait... snap, I have no weapon to go with it. *sob*" Well you can still use knives with it though :D

Yea. And any woman who goes outside in a short skirt deserves to be raped. EVERYBODY, ITS THAT TIME AGAIN: BLAME... THE.... VICTIM! Ok first question: If someone mugs jeff, who's fault is it? A: Its his own fault for not being strong enough to beat up the mugger Correct! One point to you. Jeff should think about security and safety before going outside, no its not his fault. But maybe he should get a gun license to defend him self incase of a mugger. (bad example, virus software is much easier and cheaper then a gun license, there is just no way to explain it.) Like it says, any up-to-date virus protection would catch the virus, however, most people consider virus protection as a complete waste, Its their fault for not keeping their security a top priority when browsing the web, especially when you are downloading stuff. Hi. I'm Jane. I'm 42, and I suck at using computers. I just got a message from a friend on FaceBook directing me to a video on Youtube... What do you think is going to happen? [/hide] Nothing, because Jane has no Runescape account :twss: I know a bunch of middle-aged people who play RS or the like. Someone that sucks at using computers that much wouldn't get past level 3, yet alone play a MMORPG to begin with. Jane has no Runescape account, 'nuff said.

What I'd find most fun is the old wilderness layout, no revenants, but made into a safe minigame. You can run around and have all sorts of wars, a big free for all, and if you die, you lose nothing. That would be fun :XD:

Either Jagex is slow at updating their list, or Kong is going to get sued :twss:

[hide=] Yea. And any woman who goes outside in a short skirt deserves to be raped. EVERYBODY, ITS THAT TIME AGAIN: BLAME... THE.... VICTIM! Ok first question: If someone mugs jeff, who's fault is it? A: Its his own fault for not being strong enough to beat up the mugger Correct! One point to you. Jeff should think about security and safety before going outside, no its not his fault. But maybe he should get a gun license to defend him self incase of a mugger. (bad example, virus software is much easier and cheaper then a gun license, there is just no way to explain it.) Like it says, any up-to-date virus protection would catch the virus, however, most people consider virus protection as a complete waste, Its their fault for not keeping their security a top priority when browsing the web, especially when you are downloading stuff. Hi. I'm Jane. I'm 42, and I suck at using computers. I just got a message from a friend on FaceBook directing me to a video on Youtube... What do you think is going to happen? [/hide] Nothing, because Jane has no Runescape account :twss:

[hide=] Lol, sorry but no. There are some teenagers that are mature, but most of them are not. It only takes 5 seconds in a high school to realize that fact. The only reason someone would disagree is if themselves are under 18, then they have no way to even comprehend how age and experience can change a person. I remember my high school years, and how ridiculously stupid most of the kids were. I don't miss hearing about penises every 10 seconds in a conversation, thank you. So let me get this straight your idea of Utopian rs worlds with no vulgarity is to remove the current mechanism to stop lewd remarks. The truth is their are plenty of people over the age of 18 who are foul mouthed. So just because some teenagers are foul doesn't negate my point whatsoever. Adults are more mature than kids, it's scientifical fact. Kids have not yet reached their full intellectual, emotional, social and physical growth, by definition they are immature. Furthermore, they are much less experienced than adults. You still think kids are more mature than adults? Perfect, stay on the kiddy servers with the other children. As for adults, many would gladly leave behind the hordes of obnoxious kids behind for a more mature and older community. Well you continue to ignore everything I have said. What I am saying is that making an adult world with a extremely small censor is worse then what you have now on a maturity level. I didn't say that children were more mature, I'm saying that the immature people over 18 will simply use that server making It a lower level of cleanness then what you have now. Your position is a complete contradiction. We want maturity so please give us the ability to be immature #-o If you really want to be the champion of maturity and pleasant conversation all you should want is a super censor that makes asterisks of anything that could be in any taken as objectionable [/hide] You talk as if the censor is the only thing that factors in the enjoyment of a community. Just being around other adults, instead of kids, is an improvement of epic proportions. And as I said, a slimmer version of the current filtrer is just fine, it would block the obvious offensive words, while deblocking all the ridiculous things Jagex currently blocks. Some mmorpgs, without even age restrictions don't have filtrers at all. Is it chaos or anarchy? No, because no one makes a big deal out of it, and you can still report offenders. Out of all the gaming companies, it's only Jagex that's making a big deal out of the "offensive language", and putting these ridiculous filtrers. Why? Because Jagex themselves said they will target more and more kids in the future, they want to make the game kid friendly. And since they're doing that, it's only fair for adults to have a few adult servers, it's not asking for much here.

[hide=] Lol, sorry but no. There are some teenagers that are mature, but most of them are not. It only takes 5 seconds in a high school to realize that fact. The only reason someone would disagree is if themselves are under 18, then they have no way to even comprehend how age and experience can change a person. I remember my high school years, and how ridiculously stupid most of the kids were. I don't miss hearing about penises every 10 seconds in a conversation, thank you. So let me get this straight your idea of Utopian rs worlds with no vulgarity is to remove the current mechanism to stop lewd remarks. The truth is their are plenty of people over the age of 18 who are foul mouthed. So just because some teenagers are foul doesn't negate my point whatsoever. [/hide] Adults are more mature than kids, it's scientifical fact. Kids have not yet reached their full intellectual, emotional, social and physical growth, by definition they are immature. Furthermore, they are much less experienced than adults. You still think kids are more mature than adults? Perfect, stay on the kiddy servers with the other children. As for adults, many would gladly leave behind the hordes of obnoxious kids behind for a more mature and older community.

*watches people get caught* I feel like capturing red chins now.

By the looks of it, you'd be thrown out as well :lol:

Lol, sorry but no. There are some teenagers that are mature, but most of them are not. It only takes 5 seconds in a high school to realize that fact. The only reason someone would disagree is if themselves are under 18, then they have no way to even comprehend how age and experience can change a person. I remember my high school years, and how ridiculously stupid most of the kids were. I don't miss hearing about penises every 10 seconds in a conversation, thank you.

It's annoying how people KEEP posting "OMGZ THE KIDS WILL ABLE TO LIE ABUT THEIR AGE AND SAY THEIR 18!!!!!!" I ALREADY explained in the thread how to stop kids from entering. READ people. And the benefit is that you get rid of all the idiotic little kids, and end up with a mature community. And NO, people won't start swearing like no tomorrow. If you've noticed, it's the preteens and teenagers who thinks it's "cool" to swear. AND you don't have to take down the filter, simply slim it down. And tadaa, you've got a decent community, which takes care of the #1 problem with RS. And yeah, I used caps because EVERYONE in this thread except ONE person, has been posting the same nonsense over and over. READ people.

Greatest: Got a partyhat (lost it though) Latest: 99 cook and 99 fletch during the same week

If money is not a problem, magic. Ancients and lunar have all sorts of great and expensive spells. If money is a problem, then melee.

The runescape wiki website says: So I guess we have our answer.

There's a limit to how much RS can grow. After Rs2 was released, and for a few years into it, the RS population [bleep]ed incredibly. Then reached it's highest potential about 2 years ago. Then it started slowly going down. The RWT updates killed any momentum RS could have had. In the future, expect numbers to be stable, or go slightly down.

The comments section is hilarious. "if u play it u will be gay" "LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.... failllllll" "WHY??????????NOW KONGREGATE IS CORRUPTED!!!!!NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" *gasp*

You have no points, Omali, I already explained you why. And I already told you that arrogant attitude of yours doesn't impress me, so keep that for the narbs. You should know, all the people I predicted would either leave or be banned, have done so. You have everything for that to happen, and you prove that over and over again, take my words lightly or not, you'll see. People on tif are sick of people like you, do us a favour and click the loggout button and don't come back.

[hide=] Like I said, don't bother addressing any point I make, just keep it coming with the childish personal attacks. Keep it up and when you grow up you'll be a politician! [/hide] My name is highlanders not SirHemen. :roll: Addressing points you make? You make no points, you pathetic hypocrite. Ha ha ha he mixed up head with [wagon]! Isnt it hilarious??!! and "Lolz I like flamming SirHemen threads and ideas, cuz I can't create any idea of my own, l0lz". Dont forget to write down what I said, its going to save you thousands in therapy. :lol:

Large scale RWT has stopped, along with botters, which is all that matters. Small scale RWT stills exists, but it's too small to be problematic.