Platinum_Myr

I got 30k, and was surprised.. I have been playing since classic, and probably 9/10s of my xp come from recently, but over a much shorter play time :)

I didn't have a lot of problems, but I got a lost of my experience dungeoneering by doing mediums with friends, and by learning over time when I saw good players do things certain ways. I still make mistakes and all that, but a lot of players I've seen are just unwilling to change their methods. I would like to see some sort of clan that was aimed at helping others learn the skills, and teach the best methods for being efficient. Rushing != getting impatient when someone is a little slow to the gd or is making runes or something. Rushing does mean that you listen to the keyer and you have cosmics+laws and you know how to attack things properly, and all...

But I don't value skills or hold things dear... The game is a way to provide me with fun times, there's no underlying value or achievement besides that, and bots can't really remove the fun I have in the game since the content is still there for me to enjoy. And no, my values as a player don't affect the game at all, that's the point. I can't prevent people from botting in any way, only Jagex can do that. That's the point you keep evading, and no amount of deflection and blaming other can change that. Many of us feel that the botters make the content less enjoyable. Some people play for ranks, and would rather not see people who didn't legitimately play. Many people play for the minigame content, and therefor do not like it when the minigames are overrun with non-real people. Many people play for the game for the community and a chance to talk to other peoples, and are annoyed because the characters they meet are not real players. None of this may apply to you, however, that doesn't mean it doesn't apply to other players. Personally, I don't mind people who bot stupid content (*cough* livid farm *cough*) because it was designed to be high reward - low enjoyability. But I don't like the spambots or when training areas become overcrowded with (non)players who make things like frost dragons unusable due to having more cannons than dragons. I would prefer that all botting be stopped, but I understand that it is not really feasible. The issue is that I could write a bot which literally runs the original client, and simply controls the OS's mouse and keyboard. The only way to detect it would be player behavior.

Trust is earned through good action. If Jagex is able to be honest and actually do what they say... I didn't need them to ban bots in order to trust them. But they promised with over-flowery words so now I can't trust them to actually do it.

Well, why would they put it in the main article if it wasn't. Can someone confirm we can finally skill at the citadel? Because that means clans can skill together now <3 Why is the best update hidden in the minor updates section? We can finally skill and bank at citadel like we should've been able to ages ago.

I wish they would :( This would be most awesome, as I use the direct client, no browser at all. :( Or at least someone develop a desktop app which has the information :D

That could just be considered a friend gifting you gps in rsc, and you gifting them gps in rs2.. :D Though of course that's a trade and trade for outside of game benefit is RWT. But this isn't "real" world trading, it's still runescape trading :D

Is this a joke? No is it so weird to pay for the time actually spent playing? Many amusement parks/swimpools use this: you check in when you start and check out when you leave, paying only for the minutes inside. That is to counter overcrowding. If anything, Jagex wants more and more people online at any given time, since it means more potential customers. Very few will start playing RS with buying membership. If you make people pay by the hour or minute, they will get the feeling of having to accomplish something all the time, ultimately stressing out little kids and people will stop playing. Computer games are meant to be played for relaxation. Also, hackers would just leave accounts logged in to troll people and that would cause extra confusion and trouble on Jagex' behalf, most likely they would have to refund a buttload of money. The combination of stress from checking whether I payed too much, or didn't get the maximum per hour (like what happens during a BXPW, where you are stressed over not getting the max experience for your highest multiplier) and the possibility that hackers could leave you logged in and over-charge you makes this kind of feature dead before it gets off the ground.

Not the only one. We still exist :) I can't watch movies much while playing because I either stop moving in game, or I stop paying attention to the movie..

Yeah. Most of the times i've heard of hackers, they've dropped everything (though never the extreme potions etc). Hackers like to cause pain. I'd bet some of them have written scripts which a) hack acouunts b) login and steal tradable items c) ditch all the untradable stuff That's what I would do if I were cruel and sadistic.

Yeah, I hate that alters don't work on Bonus Weekend. At least make the alter go over bxp bonus, so that if you want, you can still train prayer... I'd rather they just give out the bonus, since they give it to every other skill. (Even summoning gets a !0% bonus... why can't prayer-alters get a 10% bonus also?)

It might be karamja lv4 gloves? Karamja gloves 4 when worn 25% chance of receiving double tickets in the Brimhaven Agility Arena Double damage against wild dogs in Brimhaven Dungeon Access to a Brimhaven Dungeon shortcut to the red dragons I imagine that's the shortcut to red dragons maybe?

So if I log out of a dungeon, and log back in later I can still finish even if the rest of the party has moved on? Or would i have to solo it? I thought if you got kicked in the middle of a dungeon and no one was left logged in the dungeon was canceled?

How do you do a pre-cleared dungeon? does start of BXPW not kick anyone off?

Since they're tradable I don't see why not? Also, I like your new sig :)

Sexual predators don't care about the sex specifically, but the control and the abuse of the other person. Castration wouldn't prevent it. The behavior pattern is the issue, not the physical method that it is carried out.

Interesting, so specifically genie lamp sized boost? and do we have pics etc explaining this? I'm just curious as I had been saving up for it, and wonder if I should spend my points now, instead.

No one can get the Jack of all Trades Aura, so calling it a genie lamp XP boost, when we don't know how much XP it will give is misleading. It could give significantly more xp than a genie lamp, making this comparison invalid. While it is unlikely that the aura will outshine Stealing Creation, please don't use misleading or incomplete information to craft an argument.

Wow... that's insane. Wish I'd known of that before I did 92 firemaking for adze... is this xp taking into account barbarian assault? Because that would be awesome if it wasn't :)

Incorrect. Copyright is the right of an author to protect his or her expression of an idea, writing, (literature, poetry, news, whatever), music, images, photographs. It doesn't protect the idea, for example you can't copyright a game, because the game itself isn't an expression it is an idea. You can copyright any images involved and you can generally copyright/trademark any names used as well. The actual in-game text can be copyrighted, any images. Also, any character names or item names. However there is also what is known as "fair use" doctrine, which limits what the copyright holder can actually stop. I believe that walkthrough/guides would be considered fair use, as the only things that we are using is some screenshots of the game. It may even be that the screenshot is not considered copyrighted material of jagex since they didn't create the screenshot, someone's computer generated the necessary image using software supplied by jagex. It's hard to tell, but they don't really have any legal grounds to stop fansites. Also, the legal grounds is useless on the internet, because we can basically out-copy them and re-broadcast the guides. Effectively Jagex could end up with the Streisand Effect

Agreed :) I would like to see more variety. Even if the chaos tunnels simply looked a bit more different for each type in the rooms? I do like the chaos tunnels because it adds multicombat for a lot of monsters that didn't have it. And I like kuradels' for being task only so that it is generally more accessible. It's also a lot easier to get to so I don't mind that part :D But they look really bland. I hope that if we have new slayer dungeons, they are more intriguing generally (by graphicals and the actual environment maybe interacting with you)

I was always under the impression that pyrelord was slower due to having to click farther? Or is it just slower for noobs, but faster for people with godlike mousing skills? :) (Or helpful things to enable moving the mouse very rapidly but with good precision as well?)

This was perfect :) Didn't die at all, though I never had the darkness attack. Very simple boss, but with some nice mechanics. I liked that you didn't have to worry so much about normal damage, so you weren't spamming food constantly like I was during nomad.

Serena_Myr, it is as equally possible to achieve these super-strong passwords such as what I've noted through a method of making things that sound like words from their visual aspect, but without being words and/or based upon words. In turn, it throws even what Randall Munroe tries to make a point of to the wind, invalidating the argument set forth in his comic by showing ease-of-use to strange, short, made-up wording. However, it still leaves the mind easily able to remember because it will "roll off the tongue", as the old adage goes, causing the person to remember their password by the image drawn in their own mind. ;) For proof to the pudding, you end up with the following math... Even with a small, case-insensitive, 12-character password using only numbers/letters... 12 [characters] ^ 36 [possibilities/character] = 7.0880187498509184538134430700957^10*38 [combinations] 7.0880187498509184538134430700957^10*38 [combinations] / 1000 [guesses/sec.] / 31536000 [sec./year] = 2.2475960013479573991037046772247*10^28 [years] = 22,475,960,013,479,573,991,037,046,772.247 [years] ...which (in my personal opinion) is far longer than the universe (let alone RuneScape) is likely to remain around. In turn, it makes itself a very easy alternative to turn to over choosing even a set of ~4 dictionary words. Heck, it would even make a good thing for geekoverlord (our opening poster, who asked about how others would react to the plight of being hacked) to construct a password according to this very school of thought which I've just shown the math for, in order to prevent ever being hacked again by even mere chance. That is, providing they never end up with getting their PC hacked from a mis-step on the web. :ugeek: ~D. V. "Crunching the numbers /w calculator, while listening to 'ParagonX9 - Chaoz Japan'..." Devnull True. Granted, that's relying on a 1000 guess/sec which I think is fairly low.. However, keep in mind that most people don't actually create truly random passwords. That's what XKCD is pointing out. People make passwords based on words, with a general pattern. Dictionary attacks don't only use dictionary words. If you can figure out the 4-5 methods that people use you can build a fairly comprehensive dictionary attack that works. Recall your Discrete Math for a moment, and remember that a longer password is generally adding more entropy than increasing the number of possible characters. there are 52 letters + 10 numbers = 62 characters minus special symbols. In the equation, n^x, increasing n has a smaller effect than increasing x unless you increase n dramatically. The strength of the password is based on the entropy of the information, so if the hacker can figure out that certain sets of letters and numbers aren't "valid" passwords then you lower the entropy of the password. Your password type is extremely secure compared to the runescape entering system and would require social engineering or breakthroughs in decryption technology. But I know several people who pick passwords that are incredibly easy to guess. And they would be fair more happy to select a 5-6 word password which is much more difficult to guess. (Suppose there are 50,000 words in the english language, and a person can effectively pick them at random, you have 50,000^5) which is very large. And this supposes the attacker knows that the password is composed of english words. A dictionary attack becomes very difficult, because they have to know the set of words you chose from, and potentially how many words you selected. Otherwise you get 50,000^5 + 50,000^4 + 50,000^3 and so on. It becomes incredibly difficult to dictionary attack as they are forming a crossproduct on the dictionary. I'm more likely to remember 5 words than I am to remember 12 random numbers and letters.

I'd say PC gaming is just a different segment of the console market. The games are very similar, and the only reason we treat them as different is due to the TV and the general standard positioning of the gamer vs the screen/display. Consoles are far field view, while computer games are generally up close.