highlanders

Absolutely everything you said is subjective. To compare an orange to an apple accurately you must determine specific grading criterias, anything else is nonsense. And there were already countless threads about this exact same subject, that you would have found if you had researched. This thread is a waste of time.

Because some people like carving a character into something special. It takes a good dose of perfectionism. Imagine a character with 1 attack, 1 strength, 99 defence, 99 magic, 99 HP and 99 ranged. Or 99 magic, 10 Hp. Or 99 strength, 1 defence, 1 attack, etc. Or untrimmed 99 slayer like slayerbelle. Maybe it isn't the most efficient, but those characters are flawless, it's like a roaming piece of art. A level 3 skiller, while a level 3 has typically bad stats, you'll look them up and they have several 99s, they're the exact opposite of what they're supposed to be, it's poetic, it's special, that's why people do it. But the achievement is only special if the pure/skiller is complete or on the good path to completion. There's nothing interesting about haftbaked pures dropped haftway through the process.

They have the rsof to take care of now, I doubt it. They most likely have one person skimming the forums and reporting back the big lines to Jagex, but they are not reading in detail.

I'm fine with anything as long it's not another 3rd age/full dragon helm, eg very rare items that cannot be realistically obtained and have little practical value.

To spend it and have fun, foolproof :P

Might not make any sense for you, but this is my view about some things in tif. Almost everything on tif solicits logic only. There are several discussions, but the pattern is the same for each. Someone brings something up, people post their opinions, most opinions are ignored, some opinions are flammed, and the thread ends in a more or less civilized battle of wits. You basically can't say anything at all and not get flammed, unless you adopt the safest opinion, or have the solidest of argumentation which should scare casual flammers away. People who don't post in absolute logic, usually people who come and go, basically get demolished, and I doubt they feel like coming back to tif after that. It's not necessarily bad, some casual posters really have idiotic opinions about things. What's annoying is the lack of topics that solicit something else than logic. There are some topics that ask you how to feel about things, especially in questionnaires, but it's quite boring as no one even ever cares, reads or quotes what you say. What kind of interactions members of this community have? You could basically spend years reading a regular poster posts and still not understand a single thing about them because all tif solicits is logic. Logic is useful, we all have it to a some degree, but logic is not who you are. Logic is not something a healthy community can grow onto. Debates are good, to an extent, but if all there is is debates, then this is just a war zone, and regular posters are people who enjoy to fight. Could you imagine getting 1000+ posts without being part of any debate? If you don't have your sword ready to defend yourself when you click that post button, get ready to be sliced up. You can ignore snide comments, but what kind of ridiculous situation is it that you are forced to ignore people who quote you because these people are offensive? And because you know you'll get suck into another flame war if you reply? Looking around on internet, each forum has their own characteristics. Some are shockingly friendly that you wonder what the catch is. Some are logical like tif's but I personally never saw another forum in which every single thing you say will be nitpicked and criticized if you are not careful with your wording. Some forums are very creepy, filled with questionable individuals. There are some for all tastes. If you sit down and think about tif, what could you say about its community? I've been here a while, and I can't think of anything in particular. People come and go, maybe apart from off-topic. It's all very impersonal. Just like Runescape. People say all the time how tif is filled with intelligent people. How great a community we have. Is that true? Could you say you know people here apart from that x time where you both flammed at eachother? As a whole? Apart from the TET making efforts to knit the community, there's nothing there. Tif is mirroring RS itself, which has increasingly become just like this. Impersonal, logical, work, anyway I'm just rambling now. The whole point was to make people think about this. People have noticed in the past how unfriendly tif had become, I wanted to add some more explaining to that. Could you imagine a tif in which people make jokes, have fun, and actually do something else than just debate? And here it comes...

Basically, for a high-level player capable of making high amounts of money per hour, collecting certain bulk items by himself/herself is not efficient. For instance, you're maybe going to save an amount of ks per hour from getting by yourself, but you get no exp, and you could make more money than you save during that hour.

The head of games content at Jagex is now describing RS is a "Junior" MMORPG, how is being concerned about that overreacting? That guarantees a lot of bad stuff for mature players, and not only optional settings. Jagex used to take a "laissez-faire"(let go) stance on everything in the game. Now they're touching to everything to make it idiot-proof. It would not matter if nothing else was affected but now we know they're going to carve RS with young children in mind. Saying you don't care and that the "interesting" things will still be there is the equivalent of saying that you don't care that you're in kindergarten as long as you've got a blackboard to write math equations on, but never mind that everyone around you has just recently stopped wetting their pants. Might as well play a grindy single player game if community is nothing to you. Unless something is made to separate the children community, and the mature one, things will simply get worse from here on. I can tell you've forgotten or have never known what a friendly and mature community is, and what big a difference it makes.

It's official now, I suppose. It's a shame things have come to this. Mature members of the community will get more and more strangled by the wave of youngsters. We're already treated like idiots with the filter, the overly strict rules, and the updates to make things "safer". A way around this would be to make "adult" servers (16+), with reduced filtering, and a solid way to block youngsters out, where hopefully a mature community may thrive. If Jagex fails to create something like that, might as well switch games.

I was thinking of trying black salamander w/ harralander tar(...) using magic. Meaning you get ok efficiency for cheap price, but that'll only work on a monster weak to magic, has drops to pay the tar, and doesn't hit awfully high(because of ahrims..). Anyway, ideas?

Actually, BTTB is right, here you're whining about how horrible reading the rants forum is, like you're being forced to read it against your will. :lol: Yay..?

It can be quite cheap if you cook low-level fish.

I'm curious about the firemaking, but that's about it.

LOL, ddpnature o___O That has the be the weirdest

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As it is now, all skillcapes give the same bonuses. I was thinking it would interesting if each skillcape gave a small additional bonus in its specific skill. For instance: an invisble fishing bonus for the fishing skillcape, a small slash bonus for the attack cape, slightly faster smithing for the smithing skillcape, a bit of extra hp for the hp skillcape, and so on.

I've only gotten one in like 6 yrs of playing. In my dream, some guy died and dropped like 5 partyhats. There were other people around, clicking like crazy to grab one, and I was worried I wouldn't get one, but I managed to get a yellow one. Then I walked a bit farther, and saw a red partyhat on the ground, and grabbed it. I was pretty happy, but then [still in the dream..] they disappeared because they were "fake" party hats. Then the dream ended with me running away from some evil pkers in the wild. :lol:

Tip.it is not kissing [wagon] because they want to, rather because they know Jagex could attempt legal pursuits against them, and being the number 1 fansite makes them an easy target. As for Jagex, they added the rule in an attempt to cover up their pathetic customer support.

The problem is that everyone here has too much time on their hands, and there isn't really any interesting topics, so people bash each other over pointless things in fault of not having any else to do.

What do you mean? Click properties on the desktop and just choose whichever resolution will make you see low detail well, it's 800 x 600 for a 17 inch monitor, makes you see low detail *zoomed* in and you see everything quite well.

Just play in low detail then? Low detail + 800 x 600 resolution (or whichever depending on your monitor size) will fit your whole monitor, and you should see everything well, no?

I'm not looking to max out.

Very true. Then get a rather difficult skill cape, and all the haters will be silenced. Anyway, I don't see why people have problems with getting "noob" banned. Why would anyone want to keep that word around? If another insult pops up to replace it, perfect, atleast it will make for some variety.

what are monsters give good exp (not using slayer, but could be a slayer monster), I'm going to use melee.

Umm... it depends. Generally, for monsters ranged is used because it's cheap. For PvP, ancients is pretty good in group. Ranged with dragon arrows is good too, so on 1 vs 1 it depends what kinds of opponent.