Hey everyone, this is my first topic as a Tip.It forum member.

 

I was thinking about my phrase in my signature, "Laziness saves time" :D, when this topic popped into my head.

 

 

 

Everyone knows the phrase, "Time is money", right? This means that the more time you save, the more money you can make.

 

But is this the case in Runescape?

 

"Laziness saves time" means that by doing the fastest thing possible (being lazy) saves you time.

 

But laziness also costs more. So by saving time in Runescape, you actually spend more money, not save more money/make more money.

 

 

 

Take this example:

 

When going for the Fletching skillcape, the fastest way is to make longbows. If you buy all of your supplies, it saves time, but it costs more. Then theres the thing with which bow to make. At level 40, you can buy willow logs from the G.E., fletch them into Willow Long(u)s, and sell those to the general store, giving you no more or no less gp then when you started. But if, at level 70 decide to change to Yew Longs or at level 85 decide to change to Magic Longs, you save much more time. BUT, that would cost you a lot of money.

 

So compare the willow way at no gain/loss of money and a very long time period, to the yew/magic way at a large loss of money but a much shorter time period. Does "Time is money" apply here?

 

 

 

**NOTE: This is not a fletching skillcape guide, although this is a good way to get 99 ;)

Yes. It does. Something I've tried to hammer into the heads of hundreds of tip.iters, but almost no one thinks about it.

 

 

 

Oh, and welcome to tip.it :P

 

 

 

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You could be spending time not fletching to gain monster drops or make money some other way.

You could be spending time not fletching to gain monster drops or make money some other way.

 

not the point... its an example :D

Oh, and welcome to tip.it :P

 

 

 

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thanks

I'm on subsilver, and I can't read that at all.

 

 

 

Of course the idea still applies.

If you can make back the money in the time you save, then it is worth it. Btw, darts are faster than longbows.

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I've edited your original post with the default colour so now everyone should be able to read it without any problems.

Does "Time is money" apply here?

 

 

 

I can spend 5 hours picking flax, chopping wood, making bowstrings, fletching bows, mining pure essence, making nature runes, and then alching the finished product for a mage level.

 

 

 

Or...

 

 

 

I could use the money that took 5 hours to make in order to train magic in a faster, more costly way.

 

 

 

Everything is proportional. When you decide to level or train or what have you, the method you train will always be decided by these three factors:

 

 

 

• [*:1uw2bwnr]personal preference
   
  [*:1uw2bwnr]your current resources
   
  [*:1uw2bwnr]the time you have available to you

 

 

 

That's all there is to it, really. Time spent doing things the less costly way is directly proportional to time spent making money.

Opportunity cost, mate. The time you save could be spent making money which may result in more money saved overall, depending on how much money you make and how much time you save. But of course you'd have to make money using the time you save.

Kind of, i suppose it depends on how you think about it

the time is money thing does apply to runescape, but it always depends on how u interpret it. Being lazy to travel someplace to buy something and just get it off the GE is a counter example.

 

 

 

however, doing skills quickly and sufficiently will make u money rather then wasting time at banks and at the GE etc.

War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.

 

 

 

Err, besides that random tidbit. I would say in Runescape, it seems Exp is the thing that is revered instead of money. So, Money is expendable to get to more exp. Time is just the wall between Exp and the more money you throw at that wall, the faster it comes down.

It's all about efficiency. If the time saved is worth more than the money spent, being "lazy" is worth it.

They can easily be converted to another, so indeed I believe it does apply. However, it's a subjective argument at best. You have those that crave efficiency, and those that do things slowly but less consuming because they know they won't make up the money lost.

Of course it does, you're not balancing it with the amount of profit per hour you make with a money making activity.

Well;

 

You can PAY for convenience

 

OR

 

You can struggle with a less expensive alternative.

It has been in my experience that when someone says something in this game like "time is money" its inevitably some noob in shilo fishing or a noob at barbarian village chopping willows. Its funny because these lazy time is money people never take the time to do the math or look at the big picture.

 

 

 

There was a guy in the tipit cc one day back when i was a noob, he brought an interesting point up that changed the way i play. His thesis was "play smart not hard". Basicly what he meant was, do the math, think it through and look at the big picture. Basically what i took from this was.

 

 

 

1: Some skills in this game make money and some skills cost money.

 

2: If you are training a skill in this game that is already 99 you are wasting time.

 

3: You only have 13m exp in a skill before you are pretty much done with it.

 

4: You have to make money on the money making skills to pay for the money costing skills.

 

 

 

So basically if you try and save time by making cash to pay for the fast way to level skills you end up "using up" all of your money making skills and end up wasting time in the end.

 

 

 

I always say this to the noobs in shilo. "do you want a fishing cape or do you want a fishing cape and a good sword, or level 92 prayer".

It's all about efficiency. If the time saved is worth more than the money spent, being "lazy" is worth it.

 

 

 

Yep, that's all there is too it.

 

 

 

Say you need to spend 3 hours to do something. Or you could do it in 1 hour if you do it the fast and lazy way - but you need money. If you can make that money in less than 2 hours (3-1=2) then you are being efficient.

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I've edited your original post with the default colour so now everyone should be able to read it without any problems.

 

 

 

tyvm

I myself always assume that "time = money" while doing things in RS, and I don't see why some people don't get it.

I guess "Time is money" could be observed as, by saving time, you get more time to make money

Someone could get 99 smithing by mining every single ore that they would need. They would spend months, or even years, accomplishing this. Or they could buy the ore, get smithing in half the time, and then spend the extra months making even more money than they started out with.

 

 

 

Same goes for just about any skill. As Ks631Pistons said, the more time you save, the more time you have to make more money. In RuneScape, the fastest method to train a skill is usually the most expensive. But it is also usually the most efficient and reasonable way to train the skill.

I prefer to think of it as Money = Time.

 

The difference being making money involves me wasting time doing things I'm not particularly found of.

 

I don't like buying skills, but of course you can see from stats in my signature that I have done it.

It has been in my experience that when someone says something in this game like "time is money" its inevitably some noob in shilo fishing or a noob at barbarian village chopping willows. Its funny because these lazy time is money people never take the time to do the math or look at the big picture.

 

 

 

There was a guy in the tipit cc one day back when i was a noob, he brought an interesting point up that changed the way i play. His thesis was "play smart not hard". Basicly what he meant was, do the math, think it through and look at the big picture. Basically what i took from this was.

 

 

 

1: Some skills in this game make money and some skills cost money.

 

2: If you are training a skill in this game that is already 99 you are wasting time.

 

3: You only have 13m exp in a skill before you are pretty much done with it.

 

4: You have to make money on the money making skills to pay for the money costing skills.

 

 

 

So basically if you try and save time by making cash to pay for the fast way to level skills you end up "using up" all of your money making skills and end up wasting time in the end.

 

 

 

I always say this to the noobs in shilo. "do you want a fishing cape or do you want a fishing cape and a good sword, or level 92 prayer".

 

Your wrong. It's all about what requires the least amount of total time; that fishing cape might not include level 92 prayer, but the time saved can make up for it - shilo is an especially good example, as it is much more efficient then other methods of fishing, like sharks, that earn money.