Eddo89

Well, there are a lot of reasons to NOT like a skill. But there are problems when you voice your dislike purely out of ignorance.

Several sets, I tend to sell it off since I don't really die too often. When we have clan wars, I'm always the last ones standing.... Besides, I can make most of the rune items anyway, stocked plenty with mature dwarven stout.

It is good to do everything yourself at the start but you must and should dish out responsibility eventually and have 2 or even 3 leaders. Don't top heavy yourself, you want more members than leaders by quite a big number. Maybe I have inherited leadership so I feel differently, but never feel it is just your clan, it is everybody's in the clan as well. So make them a part of it and don't think that you are above them or anything. You are above them purely because of the work you done and to keep order within the clan, but don't give an aura that you are "wise" unless your clan mates thinks that way and respect you in that way. Run a clan with this idea in mind: Clans are expendable to the clan member, but the clan member is not expendable to the clan. Unless you are a huge clan of course.

Smithing is everywhere. I use it in the Blast Furnace, so yeah. The smithing effect is allowing you to make the item in half the time. In the grand scheme of things, it will save you little time but it is reassuring that you are smithing fast as possible.

Actually, I think you guys missed a major reason for the negative result. If I say the word "summoning", you immediately think of cool power beasts of some sort, even before it was introduced to RS. It is something cool to most people, regardless of whether or not it could work in RS. But if I say "farming", what do you think of. Days and days in vegetable fields (a plate of it is bad enough for some people), long hours in the cold far away from cities and into the country back. Maybe a lot of cows and dirt and hardwork. There is a very negative perception of the name, this attitude is taken into the game. Of course it does not help by the fact that most of the early rewards is meaningless, unattractive and downright slow in Xp. A lot of people still dislike farming, because it is called farming. There are many different reasons for the hate at the start -Negative image of the word -Lack of early rewards -Misconception of the nature of the skill

The answer you aren't looking for actually. If you are DROPPING the fish then fly fishing is the way to go. Yes, it gives less XP but the rate of catch is extremely high compared to harpooning.

Could be just the way my head works (I'm an avid sudoku player, weird I know), but it was like totally obvious to me. I think one of the rules are that "ALL lines that is left behind MUST be part of a triangle". Otherwise it will be quite easy to make 4 triangles as you can just make 4 incomplete ones. It wasn't explicitly said by the game. So you have different combinations, but if you have lines that isn't forming a triangle, it is wrong. If you are having difficulties seeing the triangles, take a screenshot, go to paint and draw+follow one of the lines and make a triangle. Then use a different colour for the next one.

That attitude towards swearing is just really immature. You know what's immature? Judging how other people operate by using your own set of standards as a basis for comparison. Maybe swearing doesn't offend us. This social norm you're attempting to impose about using certain words, or doing certain things, is totally ridiculous. Granted, in public you do need to act in a way that is socially acceptable. Notice, however, that I said it was encouraged in our private chat room. To assume that your standards should apply there is both arrogant and just a little ignorant. In short, no, I'm not kidding. You mention social norm. Is the reason of encouragement to swear stemming from being rebellious against socio norm? A lot of people don't really care about the socio norms, hence they don't care about the swearing but few actually goes against it totally. But I do have a comment on this and I would criticize the encouragement as a bit irresponsible as opposed to immature, unless you are very certain of the make up of your community. Not whether or not they are offended but how it might influence them and how to act in public. For many younger people, public, private, online is just the same or very similar thing. For me, I don't swear a lot, but when I do, it actually means something. Probably very different to other people, where some use it as often as we use "lol" online.

Just run away? The way he is doing things, isn't that much different than ranging across a review with only one agility crossing. There are plenty of places like that in RS. If you are sick of the ditch, fight somewhere else? -in other news. I hate the tele-tubbies.

RSOF, funny. I have a good time in game feedback telling people why "auto alch all in one second" is not a very good update. Or why a "personal sawmill that makes planks for free" is extremely unlikely to be considered. But, you can't get at people for being annoyed by your vigilante as technically that you are their equal. If you really need to "self-mod", do so in a parent like manner. (not by smacking :shame: ) Just so it seems like a friendly advice rather than try to look as though you have authority over them. Or better yet, ignore them. You can't catch every crime, let alone crimes in a forum.

75k per day is the max. Is actually 10% they withdraw each day.

I remember that they said it a while ago as well. For what reasons why you doubt it? For advertising is like the biggest thing in the economy. Do not underestimate the power of advertising. You go to your average sports team or magazine. You pay for the ticket, you pay for the magazine, but you aren't really making their revenues. Is the adverts that sponsors a team or have full page ads thats making the money. How much of the revenue percent varies depending on the size and stuff. Like for Jagex, they rely next to none for members since there are sizable membership uptake. A local newspaper can survive and pay for like 30 jobs full time just on the basis it delivers a newspaper every week with adverts to like 2000 people, and lets not forget the cost of actually making it. Saying Jagex can pay F2P by just adverts is more than reasonable, they USED TO DO IT BEFORE THERE WAS MEMBERS. If they wanted to grow the game, they need more funds. So they charge for it.

Basically, is 2 things: -items are not desirable -most items are obtainable by drop and alched The only way smithing is going to make money is by consumable, which recently has been hit by stupid buyable broad bolts and infinite shops that sells the consumable. Basically, only bolts and cannonballs have any market. The only way smithing is going to be revived is by what is stated before, making high quality armour makeable only by high level smiths. You should include extend Barrows time as well on the list. Smithing only ally is combat. Also, take away buyable arrows and knives (Leaving just bronze and iron), making us smithers the only reliable source for range projectiles, this itself would boost the desirability of the skill a lot. -- Another reason for smithing demise is the number of rune smithers and miners. I'm a rune smither, but I'm one of many. Back in the day, there were few smithers. There are fewer access to Runite ore, fewer items obtainable by drops, so they are rare. But in modern RS, everything levels fast (and we still have people complaining is too slow!) so high level items are not that rare. More worlds, more rocks, means more runite ore in market, destroying the rarity.

Dragon weapons? Nah. Next please. I much rather they make some weapons like spears and (higher level) crossbows to be available to F2P. Dragon weapons are still used in some shape or form in P2P, but not the P2P only rune weapons. And maybe have Rune Claws as the only special, that sort of thing. Dragon for me is the symbolic line between pay and not paying.

I calculated toadflax versus snapdragons a while back, so i didn't account for any falls to snappy in recent times. Basically, if you are going to just get 7 snapdragons, you get better profits for toadflax. But you basically need 5 to cut even, so Snapdragons are high-risk. I personally do toadflax since is easier for me to track my earnings, and I make one potion (another type) for every toadflax I farm.

Perhaps bring a familiar or two as well so you can carry more antifires. Bring a terrorbird full of it and an extra pouch in case you don't use it all and use it as a temporary storage for loot if you got too much. Personally I melee as is much quicker, but I did look at your level which will be a bit optimistic to melee successfully. Range pot is rightfully not taken. He is here for time, not speed. And that amount of ranging pot ain't going to last a long time regardless. But it WILL be very frustrating as you won't hit more, the average melee player there can kill 2 steel drags before one iron from you, keep that in mind. And the fact we wear the accumulator or ranging, any fashion sense should be thrown out of the window.....

Maging lessers surely is not going to cut even. I can't remember the worth of rune med and blood runes, just assuming is 12k and 300 respectively. Every rune med drop needs to come from 40 casts, and I doubt one can kill 4 lessers with that. And clues are not that reliable anyway. At least Barrows you have a reasonable chance of reasonable loot.

Faster kills, which means faster XP. With the best weapon you can use a defender, the whip, you are essentially added almost 20% in attack bonus, which is no small number considering the power. Extra strength always helps. There isn't really many instances I can think of that would make me want to use an Obby shield. If I can't survive with a defender for too long, then I prefer something like Dragon Square over it. Just go and use it, satisfaction guaranteed.

Anything works for Barrows...if is magic related. I read somewhere that it is better to just stick with Wave spells until level 80 magic, not sure I agree on the financial standpoint of that.But either way, you are going to get some bloods back when Barrowing, so is good. And you might get some handy booty as well.

Love the nostalgic feeling, but problems there is.... I can't get a kill for my life as either there is no one in good places to kill or they run like hell to the nearest safe zone since people barely ever venture out of the city....of course I didn't go to the most populated worlds. I would get lagged to death.

The way i see it, is like we got a few too many choices. Good and bad. I think people would still like safe arenas, but certainly less popular these days. People did got used to the notion that PvP won't make you lose items (or from anything in fact), so it may take a while to change back to the risky form. I must say, I was more than a little reluctant to wear just full rune in dangerous areas even if I can afford enough sets if I die every day for the rest of my RS days.

Man....how did we survive back in the old days when Alching was purely on items and not thousands and thousands of notes? They have moved high-alch 2mm off the optimal spot!! :wall:

Is not as though most people are going to need to buy multiple sets of armour in 4 hours. Smithers don't give a damn about weapons, only ranging items are actually profitable anyway. Perhaps is bad for merchants, but the nature of GE meant that most of the time, that 4 hours aren't going to see a drop/rise in price. You merely going to be buy low from the desperate, sell high to the needy. I'm not a merchant, I actually quite despise merchants whether or not they are doing things legitimately, so my opinion is that I don't care. But let me tell you something, you are not the only group to have money-making methods ruined by updates. Much as you hate to admit it, GE probably benefited (or least hindered) merchants more than all most group in money-making. So I have no sympathy if you are complaining because of that, but I don't mind if you argue the economics of the update. On a personal stand point....hopefully we get less crowds in GE. Is a lag fest trying to go in there and buy/sell something because ordinary players and merchants is standing around there all day. Drives me nuts :wall:

Extremely slow. It is ridiculously slow. I forgot how much time it took, but you can idle out twice in one load. The XP is poor. There are far better methods to gain Xp, but it is the most profitable form of smithing now that the Broad Bolts have essentially ruined the mithril market. Possibly bar making is still better, but the hassle of making them is not worth it.

No. But this doesn't mean Jagex is wrong to make a skill available to F2P. They are shooting themselves in the foot by doing that. If a skill is resource gathering, like woodcutting, mining and fishing, then I say a definite no. It is potentially beneficial for members to have F2P gather cheap resources for us, in skilling and economical terms. As for kids that can't pay, sorry, this is a sad excuse. We aren't talking about food, we see a homeless kid that is close to starving, then we do help them, or we aren't human. But we are talking about a non-essential game here.