I think quite a few people are lying in this post :-w I'm very, very rarely self sufficient. Its not worth it. When I raise a skill, I want to click as few times as possible. I dont want to spend 3 hours collecting items for no experience, when I could just buy the item and go straight to leveling up.

I churn alot of butter for Tuna potatoes :

this is badly worded

 

 

 

they are not OLD ways of getting something

 

 

 

they are SELF SUFFICIENT ways of getting something.

 

 

 

I and most of my friends are self sufficient where ever and when ever possible, unless we get bored of something (eg mining ess) and buy it in

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I get all my own Dragonhides and Dragon Bones, and everything I mine gets smithed, turned into Mithril plates and high alched... apart from that I can't really think of anything else I don't either sell or buy..

Normally I am self-sufficient. :anxious:

I do self-sufficiency either when I don't believe the time wasted to be considerable or if I can't be bothered to buy it myself.

 

 

 

Otherwise, self-sufficiency is horribly inefficient and if you do it just to prove a point you're just hurting yourself.

 

 

 

Hey... I think that was a little harsh! Go tell all the protesters that proving their point is just hurting themselves! Self-sufficency is good, but I agree, If i can buy an item from A shop, I almost always will. I do get my own hides, D bones, etc.

I do self-sufficiency either when I don't believe the time wasted to be considerable or if I can't be bothered to buy it myself.

 

 

 

Otherwise, self-sufficiency is horribly inefficient and if you do it just to prove a point you're just hurting yourself.

 

 

 

Hey... I think that was a little harsh! Go tell all the protesters that proving their point is just hurting themselves! Self-sufficency is good, but I agree, If i can buy an item from A shop, I almost always will. I do get my own hides, D bones, etc.

 

 

 

It is a bit harsh, however I believe this ridiculous idea of "stop being lazy, be self sufficient" has already gone way too far and just show that some people have, once again zero knowledge of economics (this time with the idea of comparative and absolute advantage).

I'm self-sufficient, but only in the skills that I can supply by training other skills effectively. For example, I only train cooking with fish I catch myself, since I can train fishing reasonably well while gathering supplies; however, I usually buy the supplies for skills like crafting and construction, since collecting their materials has a higher opportunity cost than the money spent. The only real exception to this is prayer, which I will not buy xp in for personal reasons.

I use the "old" method for getting almost everything i do except for ess, bowstring, and construction materials.

I just find it easier to buy into things, or sell them, because, Id loose more money just killing dragons for hides for crafting, and, to get anywhere in crafting, it would take THOUSANDS of dragons.

 

 

 

Most Ill do now is farm my own rannars.

I always find myself doing things the old-fashioned way. If I can do it myself, I'll do it myself. I mine all my own ores, catch all my own fish,

 

make my own arrows. I, personally, find the game more satisfying this way.

I killed 1k blue dragons this summer, guild altaring the bones and crafting/alching the hides. I enjoyed that. =)

I get my own food when I play

 

and I usually cut my own logs

If I need string, i sheer my sheep, if I need flax I pick it at Lletya and spin it in Lumbride, if cowhide, Lumbridge-Al Kharid.

 

 

 

Other then that I usually will purchase something needed, like I confess to buying en mass rune ess because I'm not going to mine for hours when I could just pay like 90gp ea and in the long shot make more money.

 

 

 

 

 

PS- I fish my own monks and cook em tho.

 

PPS- I don't buy herbs from people, they have to be self grown :P.

this is badly worded

 

 

 

they are not OLD ways of getting something

 

 

 

they are SELF SUFFICIENT ways of getting something.

 

 

 

I and most of my friends are self sufficient where ever and when ever possible, unless we get bored of something (eg mining ess) and buy it in

 

 

 

What about cooking? the old way was picking wheat, grinding it, getting eggs, getting milk, getting a cooked peice of meat, and making a pie. the new way is fishing then cooking.

 

there is a HUGE difference, and they are both 100% self sufficient

I'll say I'm 50/50. Because I'm a bit lazy I buy, because I'm not that rich I gather my own stuff. If I were a lot richer though, I'll buy most of my things. :mrgreen:

i do self sufficiency whenever possible. Except i buy feathers when fishing and I don't make my own armor. i'm past rune but not good enough at slayer, t-trails and barrows to get my gear (whip from slayer, third age from t trails as minigame armor, barrows for real armor).

I like being self sufficent so I don't have to deal with buying items from people in this game nowadays, they are fail.

Only for things I use to make profit. Then I waste said profit away on pking.

Rarely. Waste of time normally. For instance you put in hours and hours extra mining the rune ess for RCing. But you could of bought the ess and made more nats. Which in turn is alot more money. And if you argue 'You get mining exp too though.' Go mine somethign faster like Granite when exp is needed.

 

 

 

This also applies to many other skills.

Runescape is ruled by a simple suppreme law in skilling if that is what we are talking about here.

 

The fastest you skill the less you make profit.

 

It is ruling every skills except high hunting.

 

To the limit you cans also lose pixel money to be at fastest. Those are know as buyable skills.

 

 

 

Now new player have no other choice to learn... and then use the 'old' way to do. The more powerfull to player is, the faster he is.

 

Then he can choose to go for profit or for experience.

 

A good way to get satisfied is a nice balance of both.

 

Power training to get faster that levels that make you able to get profit fast then getting the fruit of your effort and sparing money for the next skill...

this is badly worded

 

 

 

they are not OLD ways of getting something

 

 

 

they are SELF SUFFICIENT ways of getting something.

 

 

 

I and most of my friends are self sufficient where ever and when ever possible, unless we get bored of something (eg mining ess) and buy it in

 

 

 

What about cooking? the old way was picking wheat, grinding it, getting eggs, getting milk, getting a cooked peice of meat, and making a pie. the new way is fishing then cooking.

 

there is a HUGE difference, and they are both 100% self sufficient

 

 

 

Thats not old

 

 

 

I've played rsc and rs 2 on and off ever since they came out and as long as I can remember people trained cooking with fish.

 

 

 

As for all these people saying self-sufficient hurts you. In real life economics YES it can. However in rs terms no it can't, well depending on what you want. If you value time and money within game self-sufficient damages you greatly in terms of time, but profits you greatly in terms of money, but still is not worth it. If you value any combination of fun, money and xp, but do not value time in the game self-sufficieny is a great boost to your game

I've been very poor for most of my "RS life", therefore I had to rely upon myself to get all the raw materials I needed for anything and everything.

 

This has helped me in getting my skills up, which would have otherwise gone untrained for a long period of time. Plus it has helped me learn to rely upon myself more irl. :)

I would have to say I am about 97% self sufficient ...I mine all my own ess to craft all my own runes, make vial for potions, catch and cook all my own fish, churned 247 buckets of milk into butter just yesterday, pick and spin my own flax ...you get the picture ....if I can do it myself I do, that is what gives me enjoyment and a sense of accomplishment in this game. The only things I purchase are armor, weapons and I run laws since I don't have the talisman to make them myself yet. Sure it takes alot of time, but then I don't have to worry how much every alch costs or how much it costs to kill a dragon ...it doesn't cost me a thing except time.

I mine my own mith and coal, superheat item it, smith it on the spot (high level wildy mine), high alch it, rince and repeat. It's slow and not rather slow money, but it does the trick pretty well :)