Sorator

8/10 Pretty nice sig, but could be better.

Banned for drinking coffee, a potentially life-threatening caffinated drink! :P

The respect I get varies from person to person. Some people insist that Jagex is going crazy to make a lvl 53 mod (my combat was 53 when I started modding). Others insist that they look up to me in hopes that they too can become a mod, either because I've proven that level doesn't matter, or because "if a lvl 53 can be a mod, I can too". Some people hate mods in general, and others absolutly adore them. (I actually dislike the second more than the first; the first will just leave while the second will follow you around....) So it depends on who you ask. :) I intend on eventually getting my defense and attack high enough to use dragon items, and I suppose I'll get some strength levels along the way, but I think range and mage will always be my best combat skills (as will prayer).

As some of you know, I happen to be a member of the proud rank of the player moderators of Runescape. I've decided to make this to show everyone else the various things in the life of a mod. We have the normal life of a player, combined with lots of hassles, benifits, and other things that come from our silver crown. I decided to make this here instead of somewhere else because I think more people will notioce it here. I'll be posting as often as I can with the things I've been doing in Runescape that day. First, I'll give a little more info about myself so you know some of where I'm coming from. I've been a moderator for 4-5 months, and enjoyed most of the time I've spent on RS since then. I've been playing for around 2 and a half years, but I have a lowly combat level of 55 (as of this post). This causes many complcations in my RS life, which I'll describe later. One of my best friends on RS is named Makilio, but I happen to call him Crono from where we met on our original forums (HoA Dev forums, click my signiture and click 'Developer Forums' near the top of the page; I'm Will the Spellcaster and Makilio is Crono). He's around combat lvl 83, I believe, and we play most of the popular minigames together. I mainly do quests instead of training, and I do a lot of minigames when the time strikes me (such as today). I train occasionally when there's a specific quest I'm just dying to do, or when I get boerd of the minigames and quests. Now, as to this blog on these forums. I'll post what I did each day on here, and also edit it into this first post. I'll take some screenshots, but to keep this page from loading very slow when my blog gets older, I'll just use thumbnails for this page. You can click them to open a new window with it fullsized, or if you want to see it without a new window, you can find my most recent post. Comment if you like, but please, try not to harrass me. Questions tend to be fine, but if they're long or in-depth questions, a PM on the forums is highly preferred. Recent important news: The C Wars unofficial party went quite well, we had a lot of fun. I'm going to be out of town for a week starting the 27th and lasting for about a week for summer camp. July 7th Today, I played minigames. All day. Just minigames. And I spent almost all the day on Runescape, which I don't do that often (I play a number of other online and PC games during most days). As usual, minigames involve interaction with other players, so I was asked tons of questions. The usual suprise at me being a level 54 mod occured, followed by complaints that they want to be a mod, and the inevitable question of how to become a mod. As usual, I pointed them to the Knowledge Base on the RS homepage, then continued on my way. It's rather annoying when you're trying to kill the person who just stole your flag, only to be halted by a person who wants to know something you've already told them around 50 times. Though it is interesting when a person on the other team refuses to harm you because you're a mod. After playing a few hours worth of CastleWars with my good friend Makilio, we moved on to world 78 to play some Pest Control. This was rather interesting. Makilio was always going for the portals with his trusty d2h and dd+, while I was left behind to guard the south gate from those annoying Defilers and Torchers. I happened to have spent more than 80k on runes in preperation for the Pest Control-ing, so I was working as a full-time mage. It seemed that my combat level was a bit of a problem here, though. Every time we won, I hadn't done enough damage to get anything. Every time I managed to deal 50 damage before the portals were destroyed, it was only because no one was going for the portals. We would then lose because of it. I managed to get around 15 points out of around 50 games (yes, I'm serious; no exxageration here). Not to mention having to take the time to explain the finer points of various things to the people that were continually asking me about them. On such occasions, I would have dealt around 2 damage by the time the first 2 portals were destroyed. I played that for a while, then gave up and logged off for a time. When I got back on, I went to the Ectofunctus via my trusty Ectophial and gained a prayer level. This put me at lvl 42 prayer (one level away from protect from melee!!!) and raised my combat level to 55, a suprising effect. I then went back to Castle Wars for a time, and won some tickets. After getting boerd from all the attention the lower levels were giving me, I walked off and trained in the Combat Training Area for a while. I gained a range level there, puttine me at lvl 56 range, but my combat was sadly not effected. I'll be there for a time, trying to raise my prayer level to 43 by burying big bones, and using the last of my PC-bought runes and found arrows to gain a few range and mage levels. Once I'm through there, I might try my hand at Death of the Dorgashaun, since someone was kind enough to give me a Dorgashaun crossbow already. I have all the levels, and it doesn't seem too incredibly hard, so I think I'll try it. In any case, I'll figure something out to do tomorrow, and tell you all about it that night. Till then, this is your local p-mod. -Sorator. July 8th Well, I had this day's entry all typed up and ready to go, but I had to run off and forgot to saveit somewhere. So, I'll have to try and type it all again. :) Today I trained in the Combat Training Camp. For the first 6 hours of the day. It was a dull task, but it had to be done. I gained a few levels. :) I gained 2 range levels, putting me at 57 range. That put me up to combat of 56. Then, after discovering via the Prayer Calculator that it would take more than 100 big bones to get to prayer level 43, I grabbed a load of bones and teleported to the Ectofunctus. After using up all the bones, I gained a level in prayer. So, next time you see me playing Castle Wars, be warned! :P My next major goal will be to get a silver and blue CW helm, body, and legs to put into my house. I have around 55 tickets atm, so there's a lot of work to be done. :) I also plan on doing Death to the Dorgashaun sometime in the next few weeks. While I was training, I met a few other people. If any of you happen to see this, hi! Thanks for letting me steal your bones. :wink: If you were one of the noobs I had to run off, though, then don't bother speaking up here. I ran into some noobs that were spamming quite a lot, which was rather annoying. I also met another mod who was training range in the Camp. At one point we were the only two there, and at another point, there was a normal player there who was a tad intimidated by two mods i nthe same place. Not that she needed to be. There was one person who logged on, said some stuff I couldn't understand, and logged back off again before I could ask for a translation (anyone here speak 1337?). That was rather odd. I also managed to get around 5 random events today. I played pinball with some ogres and the MOM, got turned into a frog when I refused to kiss a princess (boy, was she ugly!), aoided the sandwich Lady's loaf of bread and got a free slice of pie, and had a few other things happen. While I was training, I also managed to collect around 1000 bronze arrows (I only came with about 30 of them) and a ton of seeds, mostly herb and berry seeds. Those will be pretty nice for some farm experiance and some cash once I sell the herbs I can't use. Anyways, that was my slightly uneventful day. Till tomorrow, this is your forum p-mod. -Sorator July 9th I played C Wars all day today, just about. Got a lot of tickets. I eventualy gathered a few people (Makilio included) as a hunter team (a group of people that run together and gang up on individual enemies. Great way to take over an enemy supply room or the tunnels if you have enough people) and took over some of the tunnels and the Zammy supply room. It was rather cool. Here's one of the pics I got: I'm the Sara archer in the middle of the screen, just killed the level 59. The other archer (towards the top of the screen) is one of my friends that was ganging with me. One of my other friends (who I was PM'ing at the time) had just died, and a third friend had just gotten the flag. It's very fun to go around as part of a group like this in C Wars. You can do any number of things. We just wandered around, mostly in the tunnels, and helped where we were needed. If someone ran by with our flag, we'd kill him. If one of our teammates ran by with their flag, we'd kill the people following him. Otherwise, we ruled the tunnels and sometimes their supply rooms. It's quite fun. :) Here's some more pics from playing C Wars: These were both from the same round. As you can see in the second one, we were doing quite well. And I managed to hold our own flag for a bit. It was very fun, controlling the tunnels. If any of you want to come hunting with me, I'm almost always playing in worl 103 with at least one of my friends. What team we're on varies from day to day, but you can add me and ask (tell me first on here, my pvt's on friends only). We try to stay on one team after the first few rounds, but which one we choose depends on how the first games went. Usually Makilio and Dwarf Fight3 are with me, but not always. There's a few other people that often come, but I can't remember their names. If you want to join us, just say so and add me (as said above) and I can tell you what you need to bring. Anyways, that's about all I did today. Until tommorow then. -Sorator July 10th Well, today didn't hold much excitement for me, and I was planning on taking a few pics, but didn't manage to find anthing worthy of a picture. I'd have gotten a pic of my range leveling up to 58, but it went by too quick. So you'll have to settle for a skill and combat picture. Anyways, I managed to snag a red d-hide body for 20k. I'm sure it's worth more, but hey, she offered. (Neither of us knew the price, we both asked our friends; her's came up with 25k and she offered it for 20k. Mine didn't know, so I took the deal.) Only problem is, it takes 60 range to wear it. So, I'm out killing ogres all day to get it there. This will take a while, I'm sure. I'm also grabbing big bones as I go along, so I may gain a prayer level (according to tip.it planner I need to ecto them all to get 44 prayer, which I don't plan on doing, but I'll get around halfway there without it). I played a few games of Castle Wars and finally remembered to post a few suggestions in the CW post here. Go take a look for some newer tips and tactics to own all your enemies. And most of them don't even take a high combat level, so everyone can manage to get in some kills. :P Today, since I don't have much material (training is always rather dull), I'll reflect on some things that always occur during a usual game of CW. For one thing, whenever I'm with a group of friends and we're out hunting, all the enemies head for me. Always. It can't be because of my level, because I've tried going with a bunch of level 12s and my lvl 83 and 84 friends and I still got hit. It can't be because I'm a mod, because they attack me before I can say anything. So it seems that they just have an... instinct of some sort that makes them want to kil me. Occasionally someone will refuse to attack me because I'm a mod, and people always apoligize for killing me. You're not really supposed to stand around and say "Oh, oops, sorry, didn't know you were a mod," right after you kill me. Or "Sorry, but I had to kill you anyways." I don't especially want your condolances after you just seriously injured me. Now, I don't mind if you don't attack me, because that's a nice benifit that helps me stay alive. But it's a rather odd thing to do when I'm sitting there killing you with my arrows. And the respect you give me is nice, but you never said anything about not running away from me. I do like the occasional challenge after all. Shooting sitting ducks is fun, but it's excitement fades after a while. One thing that people always hate me for is my tendancy to lurk around the tunnels and collapse the on unsuspecting enemies. I'm not bad at it when I'm paying attention (I've dealt multiple 90's that way before) but my mind wanders after a few minutes of a standoff between myself and someone across the falling rock zone. Then they dash across as I try to get my timing right. I miss and they slaughter me. But thaty's what my friends are for; they avenge my death with their dd+'s and dragon longswords. Then we sweep across the tunnels, killing as we go, and provide safe passage for our flags. Once I had to collapse the tunnel on a level 110 and my lvl 84 friend to keep the lvl 110 from slaughtering the person who just ran by with the enemy flag. It worked wuite well, and the rest of them had to wait for someone to clear the tunnel before they could come through. And I didn't make clearing the tunnel easy for them. I killed a few more people that way too..... Anyways, this is your tired, typing player moderatror. See you tomorrow. (or today...) -Sorator July 11th While I was training range at the Combat Camp, I met a few people that hadn't seen a lvl 57 mod before. Here's one of them, if you're interested: (the thumbnail isn't working for some reason, but you can still click it for the fullsize photo) I managed to gain one range level, but didn't quite capture the announcement that filled the chat box. I'll try to get it when I get level 60. I managed to do quite well at Castle Wars. I killed many people with my tunneling tricks. Here's two of my earlier shots, later it got to hectic to take screenshots of any of the multiple hits I made. :) As you can probably see, I spent most of today playing castle wars and training range. I managed to get my range up to level 59, tomorrow I'll work on getting it to 60 so I can wear my new red d hide body. (By the way, I'm interested in buying red d hide vambraces and legs, if anyone has them to sell for a price that isn't too bad.) I then ran to Castle Wars andplayed for a while (but only managed to win once). I had lots of fun with my tunneling tricks (PM me if you want some info, or come with me to watch), and bought a lot of runes once I ran out of arrows. I'm a bit to tired from some RL events to type much more, so goodnight. -Sorator July 12th Well, something amazing has happened (for me, at least). I was training range (again) at the combat camp, and while burying some bones I got a zombie random event. I manuvered around so that the zombie was on one side of the fence and I waqs on the other, and shot it to death. Then, to my amazement, it dropped a half of the crystal key! Loop half, as it turned out. Just wondering, but how much is this thing worth? I got a picture of it in my inventory, here it is: Now, this is my first drop worth anything more than 20k (I know it's worth more than that, but exactly how much, I don't know. Again, can someone tell me market price for this?), so it's a bit of a milestone for me. :) I'm hoping I'll be able to sell it for a huge amount. Another question for you: Where's thechest that the whole key unlocks, and what is in it? I think I remember something about an uncut dragonstone, but I'd like to know for sure. My friend insisted that it was worthless and gave me the other half, so now I have the whole key. Should I sell it or find and unlock the chest? And where is the chest, anyways? Here's both pieces of the key: Another things that happened today was my gaining of range level 60. I have a new red d-hide body, but still have only blue legs and vambraces. If anyone's interested in selling these to me for a fair price, PM me on these forums. Here's a picture of what I look like now: Tomorrow, I'll be playing C Wars all day in celebration on world 103, probably starting at around 11:00am central time (noon eastern time), probably on Saradomin to start. Come join me if you want to. :) Here's what you should bring if you're coming with me: Weapon(s), armour, and ammo/runes of choice (should be able to shoot/cast 150+ times, preferably 250+) Your best pickaxe (preferably rune) Potions if desired 16-20 free inventory spaces Once the game starts: Rangers and mages: Grab 4 cades, 8 explosive pots, a tinderbox, and the rest as bandages. Warriors: 2 cades, 2 explode pots, rest as bandages. Once you're full, meet in the south tunnel of our team (usually Saradomin). We'll go through the tunnels and into the enemy supply room, then help as needed. I'll try to say someof this again in the waiting room, but looking this over would be nice. When we are fighting multiple enemies: Kill everyone under the level of 40 as quick as you can, then gang up on the higher level people. If you can use protection prayers, then do so. There's no point in having prayer levels if you don't use them when it matters. In general, try to use your common sense. If you die: Restock on all your stuff and try to return to our last location. Try to have added at least 2 of the other people going with us so you can contact them in case we've moved. If anyone sees the enemy flag, or our flagbearer in trouble, tell one of the others so we can come to help them out. In general, just have fun! I know this may sound like a lot of rules, but I'm just trying to do as well as possible. You don't rewally have to follow these, they're really just suggestions to help us do better. The most important thing is having fun, so keep that in mind. Well, this is your newly leveled p-mod. Until tomorrow's festivities, -Sorator

Why not just get people in game willing to do it for free (but as player mods) Everyone who plays the game does it for free. There's a bug report button in the customer service area of the homepage (I think), so anyone qwho plays the game and finds a bug is doing what you just said. Good article. I don't do any programming myself, but I happen to be highly involved in a few beta tests of some pretty large and complex games, and there's always tons of bugs.

In the knowladge base, jagex has a warning about drop parties like that. People bring items and drop them, then the owner expels them and gets all the stuff. This is pretty much the same thing, but smaller.

I am ashamed.... I'll be on the road to Chicago then, won't be able to do anything until Wedensday. *sniff* I've yet to be able to be in any event, hosted by Tip.It or anyone else..... I can't make the party tomorrow either....

If you want something like this to happen, then be sure to check out the "gigantic party" topic in this forum. There's a similar suprise that'll happen at the beginning of that....:D

"Mod inflation party"? Nice try, but nothing of the sort. As far as I know, no j-mods will be around. And only a few p-mods will attend.

Heh. If you say that about noobs, then you definatly haven't read the original topic about the party. And no, I won't explain that comment. :P

Is this what I think it is? Hmmm.... let me check the world number on the other party I'm attending... EDIT: Heh. Yup, that's what I thought it was. Yes, there's gonna be a fairly large suprise in the beginning. Oh, and bring some fally teleport runes if you want to keep up with us. :P

Hmmm.... If the firefest is going to be in varrock or falador, it'll interact with a certain other large event.... Ah, wait, that's on a different server (probably). I may or may not be able to come, depending on the times involved.

Oh, just a small warning.... I'm a player mod. Just so you aren't shocked when I speak in the game. :D

In 5 years? RS will be one of the top online games (as it is already). There will be either an RS3 or a veeeeeery large map. Autoers will be decreasing in number at a rapid rate (but not quite gone yet). More people than ever will be playing. There will be 150-200 servers. All I can think of at the moment.

Somewhere in this topic I remember a phone number that you can call to get your world pay numbers and info. Try to find that. Also, fill in everything else that you can. Try to remember if you set any recovery questions, and if you can't remember, then answer them as best as you can. Mention in the details area that you might not have set recovery questions. Also, try to put where you were when you last logged off, what you were wearing, when you last logged on/off, your bank PIN if you have one (note that the seperate space for a PIN is NOT your in-game bank PIN, it's for something else; put your bank PIN in the details part), and anything else you can think of about your account. Other things you could put would be when you started playing; when you became a member (if you ever did), if you became a member and then stopped paying and when that was; and things in your bank that you can remember. Try to remember old passwords as well (there's 3 blanks for those). There is a limeted space on the Details form, but that's ok. If you don't get automatically accepted, go ahead and send it to customer support. If they decline it (use the Tracker to find out what the status is), then try again while putting all the information you couldn't fit last time onto the details sheet. You should get your account back withen 5 tries (it took me 3). Hope it helps. :D By the way, keep a positive outlook if you can. I know how it feels to panic (remember, it too kme 3 tries and that took 30 minutes), and trust me, you don't want to do that. You'll get your account back, just keep trying. Hope leads the way. :)

Sadly, I haven't done a whole lot, so my record is 111k. :D

Have you read all and could answer any question given to you concerning the following above? Yes, I think. What is your real RuneScape username? Sorator Which job(if available) would you like? Bailer Will you bring all the nessesary supplies listed below for the job you choose? Yes. Will you have fun o.O? Of course. :D Will you promise to respect eachotherÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s jobs and stick to yours? Yup. Will you wait for others while they are buying and/or getting prepared for the first or second trip? Yup. This will be my first time actually doing this, but I've been on a ship before and I know how to do everything. I just have to use that knowladge. :D I've ridden on a boat by myself before for a free trip to Port Sarim, so I think I know where everything is. This should be fun, as long as I remember to come. If I'm not there and everyone else is, then go ahead without me. By the way, CST does mean Central Time Zone, right? Just making sure. :D

0 Mimes 0 Freaky Foresters 2 Frogs 1 Drill Demon Been playing for 2 years.

I have the same usename, but nowhere near the same password. I got locked, must have been the username.

I have the same username as well, but different password. I've given them a fair amount of the items in my bank, the place I think I was standing when I logged out, what I was wearing when I logged out, and everything else I could think of. Mine's still being processed, but I hope it comes through soon. I'm optimistic at the moment. :D EDIT: After about a 10-15 minute wait, they gave me the account back. Glad that's over with. :)

I'm hoping that'll work for me too.

My passwords don't match, but my username does. They locked mine, and seem to not want to give it back anytime soon..... grrr..........

True. :x TPUM has fletching level above 57

He asked for f2p advice; Pest Control is p2p (but it can give prayer xp, yes).