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"A lot of time" is extremely relative. It may take "a lot of time" for YOU to max out, but for someone who has made it a goal and who knows what he/she is doing, it could take as a little as a year and a half. A good portion of that time would be spent Runecrafting and Slaying.

 

 

 

Yes, and? It still dosent stop the fact that if someone gets multiple 99's in less than a year, plays to much. Sure im not saying they are a nerd, they could be awesum in all ways, but they still play to much, so they still fit into the average runescape players perception of "nerd"

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There's a difference between being a "nerd" and playing RS for however long it takes to get a maxed account (or on the way to getting a maxed account).

 

 

 

I personally don't see how it's healthy (or a good idea in general) to be playing Runescape for 40+ hours/week, but that doesn't automatically make you a nerd.

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"A lot of time" is extremely relative. It may take "a lot of time" for YOU to max out, but for someone who has made it a goal and who knows what he/she is doing, it could take as a little as a year and a half. A good portion of that time would be spent Runecrafting and Slaying.

 

 

 

Yes, and? It still dosent stop the fact that if someone gets multiple 99's in less than a year, plays to much. Sure im not saying they are a nerd, they could be awesum in all ways, but they still play to much, so they still fit into the average runescape players perception of "nerd"

 

 

 

Perhaps you yourself would need to play "too much" to max total level, but other players are efficient and know what they are doing. You assume that every player is like you and wastes time sitting in banks doing nothing.

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High ranking players may or may not be nerds for all you know. You can't be sure unless you stay in his house or attach a video recorder to him. And they might just have played for a very long period of time (8 years or whatever) but do not play much everyday. You need time, sure, but 2 years of effective and dedicated playing can be more effective than 4 years of messing around without a clear goal or concentration or persistence.

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"A lot of time" is extremely relative. It may take "a lot of time" for YOU to max out, but for someone who has made it a goal and who knows what he/she is doing, it could take as a little as a year and a half. A good portion of that time would be spent Runecrafting and Slaying.

 

 

 

Yes, and? It still dosent stop the fact that if someone gets multiple 99's in less than a year, plays to much. Sure im not saying they are a nerd, they could be awesum in all ways, but they still play to much, so they still fit into the average runescape players perception of "nerd"

 

 

 

Perhaps you yourself would need to play "too much" to max total level, but other players are efficient and know what they are doing. You assume that every player is like you and wastes time sitting in banks doing nothing.

 

 

 

Theres only so much "efficiency" can get you, you need alot of time as well. No, I'm not saying they are nerdy, i wouldn't be afraid to admit they are better than me on numerous fields outside runescape, but I'm saying they probably play to much, which is what people associate with being nerdy in runescape.

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this is such a stupid double standard that the idiocy sometimes surprises me.

 

 

 

people who live in their parents' basements include gamers but also doctors, lawyers, professional sports players, etc.

 

 

 

the whole 'nerd' stereotype was fabricated by a bunch of mindless buffoons with the attention span of a rock, anyway

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In which they are breaking the rules, im talking about a legitimate rs player.

 

 

 

In which yes, they would play to much.

 

 

 

these two sentences make no grammatical sense. you also misspelled several words in your previous words, among them the word 'awesome.' are you still in grade school? (LOL THIS IS IRONIC BC I JUST NOTICED YOUR SIG SAYS 'I SUPPORT GOOD GRAMMAR')

 

 

 

first of all, have you ever tried to get a 99 skill? to me, you seem like an easily distracted child; you own two characters, neither of which have a stat over 72. (creating second characters are blatant symptoms of a disease i invented just two seconds ago: icannotmakeagoodcharactersoi'lljustmakeseveralofthemitis)

 

 

 

second, getting several 99s within a year is actually quiet easy. in fact, i will make this calculation quite simple, for all the truly imbecilic individuals out there who fail to see how easy it is to get a 99 stat now. since it really hasn't occurred to anyone to do this yet. that said...

 

 

 

att, def, str are all stats that easily land you a minimum 50k xp/hr (i dont know the actual data, but i trained at 30k to all 99s over 5 years ago) i will assume all levels beforehand negligible (levels spent training to use weapons -- to account for this simply add how long you would think it takes to train to 70 attack and use a whip)

 

99 = 13m xp

 

att, def, str = 260 hours each for 99, 780 hours for all 3, and if you do this you get 99 hitpoints also.

 

remember, this is at MINIMUM 50kxp/hr, and actual data may even be half of this or even a third (i've heard stories of 150k+ xp/hr) but for accuracy sake we'll assume 780 hours is enough for this

 

one year has 8760 hours

 

if you sleep 8 hours a day (more than any student should be getting) you are left with 5840 hours of free time.

 

260/5840 = 0.0445 = 4.45% of free time

 

780/5840 = 13.35%

 

that means to max melee, you need to dedicate 13.35% of your free time to runescape, assuming SLOW leveling. now we assumed that any normal person sleeps for 8 hours a day) -- this leaves you 16 hours a day of free time. 4.45% of this is approximately 45 minutes, 13.35% of this is approximately 2 hours.

 

 

 

if you subtract 2 hours from your day (to get 99 melees in a year) you are left with 14 hours of free time!! (if you go to school/work, you still have MORE than enough free time to socialize/do what you want) if you subtract 45 minutes from each day... well. you dont really need to. take faster [cabbage]s and more efficient showers

 

 

 

other factors to account for:

 

teens spent 7.25 hrs/month watching porn (to normalize this for people who spend more time in front of a computer, i will increase this to 8 hours)

 

 

 

@50k xp an hour, time spent watching porn is equivalent to 4.8m xp irs. this is what? around level 90?

 

 

 

conclusion (sleeping 8 hours a day)

 

2 hours a day for a year to max melee @ 50k/hr

 

45 minutes a day for a year to get 99 att, def, or str @ 50k/hr

 

stop watching porn and you get +4.8m xp (if you care to)

 

 

 

we can now vary this data as we wish. easy 99s will be much quicker. harder will be much slower. i can tell you what i know: slayer is the hardest in terms of xp/hr (with cannon) so i've encountered.. even at 98, its still 20k/hr average. that means to get 99 slayer in a year, it'd take 650 hours, 1.78 hrs a day. 99 slayer will get you probably close to 99s combat as well. easy?

 

 

 

in other words, i'm extremely bored

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these two sentences make no grammatical sense. you also misspelled several words in your previous words, among them the word 'awesome.' are you still in grade school? (LOL THIS IS IRONIC BC I JUST NOTICED YOUR SIG SAYS 'I SUPPORT GOOD GRAMMAR')

 

 

 

At least use capitalization if you're going to make fun of someone's grammar. Also, "BC" is not a word.

 

 

 

first of all, have you ever tried to get a 99 skill? to me, you seem like an easily distracted child; you own two characters, neither of which have a stat over 72. (creating second characters are blatant symptoms of a disease i invented just two seconds ago: icannotmakeagoodcharactersoi'lljustmakeseveralofthemitis)

 

 

 

You don't need a 99 to know it takes a while. I have six 99's. Six of the quickest 99's to get and yet it still took me a lot of time.

 

 

 

we can now vary this data as we wish. easy 99s will be much quicker. harder will be much slower. i can tell you what i know: slayer is the hardest in terms of xp/hr (with cannon) so i've encountered.. even at 98, its still 20k/hr average. that means to get 99 slayer in a year, it'd take 650 hours, 1.78 hrs a day. 99 slayer will get you probably close to 99s combat as well. easy?

 

 

 

I can't believe you're saying 650 hours isn't a long time to be doing one thing on a game. :? That's half of a school year man!

 

 

 

All that is being said here is that it takes a long time to max out. Whether it's good or bad is all subjective and everyone has their opinions, but I don't recall anyone even saying it's a bad thing anyways. That's just the reason the nerdy RS stereotype exists.

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In which they are breaking the rules, im talking about a legitimate rs player.

 

 

 

In which yes, they would play to much.

 

 

 

these two sentences make no grammatical sense. you also misspelled several words in your previous words, among them the word 'awesome.' are you still in grade school? (LOL THIS IS IRONIC BC I JUST NOTICED YOUR SIG SAYS 'I SUPPORT GOOD GRAMMAR')

 

 

 

first of all, have you ever tried to get a 99 skill? to me, you seem like an easily distracted child; you own two characters, neither of which have a stat over 72. (creating second characters are blatant symptoms of a disease i invented just two seconds ago: icannotmakeagoodcharactersoi'lljustmakeseveralofthemitis)

 

 

 

second, getting several 99s within a year is actually quiet easy. in fact, i will make this calculation quite simple, for all the truly imbecilic individuals out there who fail to see how easy it is to get a 99 stat now. since it really hasn't occurred to anyone to do this yet. that said...

 

 

 

att, def, str are all stats that easily land you a minimum 50k xp/hr (i dont know the actual data, but i trained at 30k to all 99s over 5 years ago) i will assume all levels beforehand negligible (levels spent training to use weapons -- to account for this simply add how long you would think it takes to train to 70 attack and use a whip)

 

99 = 13m xp

 

att, def, str = 260 hours each for 99, 780 hours for all 3, and if you do this you get 99 hitpoints also.

 

remember, this is at MINIMUM 50kxp/hr, and actual data may even be half of this or even a third (i've heard stories of 150k+ xp/hr) but for accuracy sake we'll assume 780 hours is enough for this

 

one year has 8760 hours

 

if you sleep 8 hours a day (more than any student should be getting) you are left with 5840 hours of free time.

 

260/5840 = 0.0445 = 4.45% of free time

 

780/5840 = 13.35%

 

that means to max melee, you need to dedicate 13.35% of your free time to runescape, assuming SLOW leveling. now we assumed that any normal person sleeps for 8 hours a day) -- this leaves you 16 hours a day of free time. 4.45% of this is approximately 45 minutes, 13.35% of this is approximately 2 hours.

 

 

 

if you subtract 2 hours from your day (to get 99 melees in a year) you are left with 14 hours of free time!! (if you go to school/work, you still have MORE than enough free time to socialize/do what you want) if you subtract 45 minutes from each day... well. you dont really need to. take faster [cabbage] and more efficient showers

 

 

 

other factors to account for:

 

teens spent 7.25 hrs/month watching porn (to normalize this for people who spend more time in front of a computer, i will increase this to 8 hours)

 

 

 

@50k xp an hour, time spent watching porn is equivalent to 4.8m xp irs. this is what? around level 90?

 

 

 

conclusion (sleeping 8 hours a day)

 

2 hours a day for a year to max melee @ 50k/hr

 

45 minutes a day for a year to get 99 att, def, or str @ 50k/hr

 

stop watching porn and you get +4.8m xp (if you care to)

 

 

 

we can now vary this data as we wish. easy 99s will be much quicker. harder will be much slower. i can tell you what i know: slayer is the hardest in terms of xp/hr (with cannon) so i've encountered.. even at 98, its still 20k/hr average. that means to get 99 slayer in a year, it'd take 650 hours, 1.78 hrs a day. 99 slayer will get you probably close to 99s combat as well. easy?

 

 

 

in other words, i'm extremely bored

 

 

 

Distracted child? I'm dont hate people people with 99's but i hate it when people say im jealous or that it proves they are superior. Seriously, i study, get good grades and ect. This is called a game. I'm not going to "work" when i play a game. Call me a loser that doesn't like working. Personally, i find it boring clicking on monsters for... "only 650 hours". Wow, that's nothing indeed. 2 hours a day, which is quite a lot actually excluding weekends will "only" take one year. Oh yeah extremely easy. I can't believe you are trying to make some kind of mathematical formula relating to your spare time to try and prove your not nerdy. And do you think anyone here wants to click on a bone for 1.756236 hours a day every day for a year? I dont find that very easy at all. Its only worse when i realise im not learning anything from it. And also, in your "scientific formula to prove you aren't nerdy" why the heck are you sepeating your "spare time" (which according to you is everything except for sleeping) into playing runescape and watching porn? You sure live a great life. What about school? Friends? Movies? Sports? Other games? Eating? Reading? Homework?

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these two sentences make no grammatical sense. you also misspelled several words in your previous words, among them the word 'awesome.' are you still in grade school? (LOL THIS IS IRONIC BC I JUST NOTICED YOUR SIG SAYS 'I SUPPORT GOOD GRAMMAR')

 

 

 

At least use capitalization if you're going to make fun of someone's grammar. Also, "BC" is not a word.

 

 

 

first of all, have you ever tried to get a 99 skill? to me, you seem like an easily distracted child; you own two characters, neither of which have a stat over 72. (creating second characters are blatant symptoms of a disease i invented just two seconds ago: icannotmakeagoodcharactersoi'lljustmakeseveralofthemitis)

 

 

 

You don't need a 99 to know it takes a while. I have six 99's. Six of the quickest 99's to get and yet it still took me a lot of time.

 

 

 

we can now vary this data as we wish. easy 99s will be much quicker. harder will be much slower. i can tell you what i know: slayer is the hardest in terms of xp/hr (with cannon) so i've encountered.. even at 98, its still 20k/hr average. that means to get 99 slayer in a year, it'd take 650 hours, 1.78 hrs a day. 99 slayer will get you probably close to 99s combat as well. easy?

 

 

 

I can't believe you're saying 650 hours isn't a long time to be doing one thing on a game. :? That's half of a school year man!

 

 

 

All that is being said here is that it takes a long time to max out. Whether it's good or bad is all subjective and everyone has their opinions, but I don't recall anyone even saying it's a bad thing anyways. That's just the reason the nerdy RS stereotype exists.

 

 

 

no, but his post made no sense. unless you're just as confused as he is about the rules of english grammar, please do not press this further. i do not capitalize my sentences because i am an articulate individual and know how to express my ideas in a clear, concise manner

 

 

 

most people do not have the dedication for 99s -- not time. would you agree that if you spent every minute of your life wasting time instead on runescape, you would eventually get all 99s? i'm sure most people would. the fact of the matter is that if you're playing a game like runescape i'm led to believe you don't have the self-discipline to actually cherish and/or use every minute of your life in a productive manner. now of course this is a little too idealistic for the people here, so let me explain what i'm saying in a language most people on these forums will understand:

 

 

 

i will maintain any individual has 16 hours of free time a day sleeping 8 hours. if you attend school or work, we'll assume you lose half of that. 8 hours a day is plenty. i was able to attend an ivy league institution, attend an elite medical school, and at the same time play runescape and work a day job. anyone who has been through the process or is currently considering a career in medicine knows that it is the single most time consuming career path there is, yet i speak from experience that its more than manageable, and that i'm no smarter than anyone here.

 

 

 

while i'm certainly not drawing a correlation between real life success and runescape stats, i argue that discipline is something that most runescape players lack. rather than accepting this, most people would rather just call the higher level people 'nerds.' if you've ever been to high school/college, the kids who get good grades are 'nerds' too. we attribute it to them studying too much, when in reality they're just much more efficient at studying than we are.

 

 

 

in ending my argument, i will make a claim that i am not wrong, and while 'nerdiness' may be subjective (which is [developmentally delayed]ed), the minimum time for a 99 stat does not change from person to person, and i'm willing to bet my character that if people would spend less time loafing around and actually do something productive for a change, whether it be in runescape or in real life, that they would get a lot more accomplished, have a lot less to complain about, and certainly have no reason to call people better than them 'nerds'

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In which they are breaking the rules, im talking about a legitimate rs player.

 

 

 

In which yes, they would play to much.

 

 

 

these two sentences make no grammatical sense. you also misspelled several words in your previous words, among them the word 'awesome.' are you still in grade school? (LOL THIS IS IRONIC BC I JUST NOTICED YOUR SIG SAYS 'I SUPPORT GOOD GRAMMAR')

 

 

 

first of all, have you ever tried to get a 99 skill? to me, you seem like an easily distracted child; you own two characters, neither of which have a stat over 72. (creating second characters are blatant symptoms of a disease i invented just two seconds ago: icannotmakeagoodcharactersoi'lljustmakeseveralofthemitis)

 

 

 

second, getting several 99s within a year is actually quiet easy. in fact, i will make this calculation quite simple, for all the truly imbecilic individuals out there who fail to see how easy it is to get a 99 stat now. since it really hasn't occurred to anyone to do this yet. that said...

 

 

 

att, def, str are all stats that easily land you a minimum 50k xp/hr (i dont know the actual data, but i trained at 30k to all 99s over 5 years ago) i will assume all levels beforehand negligible (levels spent training to use weapons -- to account for this simply add how long you would think it takes to train to 70 attack and use a whip)

 

99 = 13m xp

 

att, def, str = 260 hours each for 99, 780 hours for all 3, and if you do this you get 99 hitpoints also.

 

remember, this is at MINIMUM 50kxp/hr, and actual data may even be half of this or even a third (i've heard stories of 150k+ xp/hr) but for accuracy sake we'll assume 780 hours is enough for this

 

one year has 8760 hours

 

if you sleep 8 hours a day (more than any student should be getting) you are left with 5840 hours of free time.

 

260/5840 = 0.0445 = 4.45% of free time

 

780/5840 = 13.35%

 

that means to max melee, you need to dedicate 13.35% of your free time to runescape, assuming SLOW leveling. now we assumed that any normal person sleeps for 8 hours a day) -- this leaves you 16 hours a day of free time. 4.45% of this is approximately 45 minutes, 13.35% of this is approximately 2 hours.

 

 

 

if you subtract 2 hours from your day (to get 99 melees in a year) you are left with 14 hours of free time!! (if you go to school/work, you still have MORE than enough free time to socialize/do what you want) if you subtract 45 minutes from each day... well. you dont really need to. take faster [cabbage] and more efficient showers

 

 

 

other factors to account for:

 

teens spent 7.25 hrs/month watching porn (to normalize this for people who spend more time in front of a computer, i will increase this to 8 hours)

 

 

 

@50k xp an hour, time spent watching porn is equivalent to 4.8m xp irs. this is what? around level 90?

 

 

 

conclusion (sleeping 8 hours a day)

 

2 hours a day for a year to max melee @ 50k/hr

 

45 minutes a day for a year to get 99 att, def, or str @ 50k/hr

 

stop watching porn and you get +4.8m xp (if you care to)

 

 

 

we can now vary this data as we wish. easy 99s will be much quicker. harder will be much slower. i can tell you what i know: slayer is the hardest in terms of xp/hr (with cannon) so i've encountered.. even at 98, its still 20k/hr average. that means to get 99 slayer in a year, it'd take 650 hours, 1.78 hrs a day. 99 slayer will get you probably close to 99s combat as well. easy?

 

 

 

in other words, i'm extremely bored

 

 

 

Distracted child? I'm dont hate people people with 99's but i hate it when people say im jealous or that it proves they are superior. Seriously, i study, get good grades and ect. This is called a game. I'm not going to "work" when i play a game. Call me a loser that doesn't like working. Personally, i find it boring clicking on monsters for... "only 650 hours". Wow, that's nothing indeed. 2 hours a day, which is quite a lot actually excluding weekends will "only" take one year. Oh yeah extremely easy. I can't believe you are trying to make some kind of mathematical formula relating to your spare time to try and prove your not nerdy. And do you think anyone here wants to click on a bone for 1.756236 hours a day every day for a year? I dont find that very easy at all. Its only worse when i realise im not learning anything from it. And also, in your "scientific formula to prove you aren't nerdy" why the heck are you sepeating your "spare time" (which according to you is everything except for sleeping) into playing runescape and watching porn? You sure live a great life. What about school? Friends? Movies? Sports? Other games? Eating? Reading? Homework?

 

 

 

 

 

i did not separate spare time into runescape and watching porn. in fact, i stated myself that runescape and watching porn would only take x hours a day. if you would perhaps take the time to actually read my posts, you'd make one yourself that actually sounds intelligent for a change. and to further assume from your idiocy that i don't live a great life, maybe you should know a little more about me before you make judgment calls. i'd answer your questions with a yes and more, but i have nothing to really prove to you.

 

 

 

to everyone else who is about to respond to what i have said: if you really don't want to make a fool of yourself, really read what i've been saying and ask yourself if i'm wrong. if the answer is yes, go right ahead and speak whatever blasphemy you have to speak. more than likely though if you're honest with yourself, you'll realize that i've made a remarkable point that's just a little hard to accept.

 

 

 

but just for the record, as childish as this is, i've been around here far longer than most of you and witnessed much more of this game than many of you probably will. my character is good through long-term dedication, not through no-lifing and sacrificing a social life.

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no, but his post made no sense. unless you're just as confused as he is about the rules of english grammar, please do not press this further. i do not capitalize my sentences because i am an articulate individual and know how to express my ideas in a clear, concise manner

 

 

 

Maybe it's just your comprehension problems because I could understand his post quite fine. And whether you want to admit it or not, if you don't capitalize then you are infringing upon the rules of grammar.

 

 

 

most people do not have the dedication for 99s -- not time. would you agree that if you spent every minute of your life wasting time instead on runescape, you would eventually get all 99s? i'm sure most people would. the fact of the matter is that if you're playing a game like runescape i'm led to believe you don't have the self-discipline to actually cherish and/or use every minute of your life in a productive manner. now of course this is a little too idealistic for the people here, so let me explain what i'm saying in a language most people on these forums will understand:

 

 

 

That's a whole new can of worms. Of course we technically have the time - heck, I technically have the time to go build a monument out of toothpicks. It might take seven years but compared to all of my years of living, that's short, right? The point here is whether or not it's worth the amount of time being put into it. Do you honestly think 99 Slayer compensates for the 650 grueling hours of clicking over and over again?

 

 

 

while i'm certainly not drawing a correlation between real life success and runescape stats, i argue that discipline is something that most runescape players lack. rather than accepting this, most people would rather just call the higher level people 'nerds.' if you've ever been to high school/college, the kids who get good grades are 'nerds' too. we attribute it to them studying too much, when in reality they're just much more efficient at studying than we are.

 

 

 

Sounds like scapegoating to me. Of course there are unmotivated people in RS but that's not the issue here. Are you saying all players that are not maxed out just have lack of motivation and it has nothing to do with the time they are allotted? Even some people who are motivated don't have enough time for something like 99 Slayer.

 

 

 

in ending my argument, i will make a claim that i am not wrong, and while 'nerdiness' may be subjective (which is [developmentally delayed]), the minimum time for a 99 stat does not change from person to person, and i'm willing to bet my character that if people would spend less time loafing around and actually do something productive for a change, whether it be in runescape or in real life, that they would get a lot more accomplished, have a lot less to complain about, and certainly have no reason to call people better than them 'nerds'

 

 

 

You're comparing the 10 minutes someone spends posting on this thread with the 650 hours it takes to get 99 Slayer...

 

 

 

to everyone else who is about to respond to what i have said: if you really don't want to make a fool of yourself, really read what i've been saying and ask yourself if i'm wrong. if the answer is yes, go right ahead and speak whatever blasphemy you have to speak. more than likely though if you're honest with yourself, you'll realize that i've made a remarkable point that's just a little hard to accept.

 

 

 

Ouch, just killed your credibility right there. No one's gonna listen to the guy who screams, "I'm always right!"

 

 

 

but just for the record, as childish as this is, i've been around here far longer than most of you and witnessed much more of this game than many of you probably will. my character is good through long-term dedication, not through no-lifing and sacrificing a social life.

 

 

 

Yeh, we can tell from all that gloating in your sig. But anyways, I'm not calling you a nerd. Just that you spent a lot of time on RS, as did I.

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Zierro,

 

 

 

1) When did I ever explicitly state that I was not infringing upon the rules of grammar? I said I can make clear, concise posts. Since my laziness has seemingly taken such a toll on you, I will be more than happy to capitalize the words in this post. In turn, you should explain to me how to justify his usage of 'in which.'

 

 

 

2) I never said 99 slayer was an accomplishment. In fact, I think that time should be better used doing more productive things, as my entire post implies. From a completely objective standpoint though, anyone has the time to get any 99 stat in RS. Agreed? It certainly is not worth it from a realistic point of view, but if you're on Runescape instead of shooting up on heroine, I have nothing against it.

 

 

 

3) No, not all players that aren't maxed are unmotivated. These are probably the few who aren't calling the maxed players 'nerds' however. We also both confirmed that anyone has enough time for 99 slayer in the point I just addressed.

 

 

 

4) No I am not. The 10 minutes is trivial. My point is that if time were not wasted, people would get more things done, including maxing in Runescape if they wanted to.

 

 

 

5) That is not true. In fact, I gave an open invitation for a challenge.

 

 

 

6) Your last sentence neglects the rules of grammar. But anyways, I'm not calling you a hypocrite. Just that you should probably have picked up on that, as I did.

 

 

 

but i like you though, you've got spunk and wit i really havent seen much of on these forums

 

 

 

anyways, i need to sleep. good night

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1) When did I ever explicitly state that I was not infringing upon the rules of grammar? I said I can make clear, concise posts. Since my laziness has seemingly taken such a toll on you, I will be more than happy to capitalize the words in this post. In turn, you should explain to me how to justify his usage of 'in which.'

 

 

 

Well, you didn't but you brought up how you articulate your points - which isn't relevant to grammar. By the way, I was never justifying his grammar. It is incorrect, but it's also trivial and dumb to get upset over, especially when you are making the worst grammar mistake of them all. Like I said, I understood what his point was and it should be left at that. If you didn't understand then you wouldn't reply to the point he made.

 

 

 

2) I never said 99 slayer was an accomplishment. In fact, I think that time should be better used doing more productive things, as my entire post implies. From a completely objective standpoint though, anyone has the time to get any 99 stat in RS. Agreed? It certainly is not worth it from a realistic point of view, but if you're on Runescape instead of shooting up on Heroine, I have nothing against it.

 

 

 

Then what are we even fighting about? All I wanted to say was that maxing out does take a long time... and that your grammar attack was uncalled for.

 

 

 

3) No, not all players that aren't maxed are unmotivated. These are probably the few who aren't calling the maxed players 'nerds' however. We also both confirmed that anyone has enough time for 99 slayer in the point I just addressed.

 

 

 

Technically, yes. You seem to be forgetting about priorities though. Everyone has the time, but a lot of people don't want to give up their jobs, social lives, sleeping, etc. In this case, it doesn't have to do with motivation.

 

 

 

4) No I am not. The 10 minutes is trivial. My point is that if time were not wasted, people would get more things done, including maxing in Runescape if they wanted to.

 

 

 

Yes, but even playing 100% efficiently takes a long time.

 

 

 

5) That is not true. In fact, I gave an open invitation for a challenge.

 

 

 

Maxing out takes a lot of time.

 

 

 

6) Your last sentence neglects the rules of grammar. But anyways, I'm not calling you a hypocrite. Just that you should probably have picked up on that.

 

 

 

We haven't learned anything here, have we? Let it go, man! It's not a big deal.

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1) I would argue that the worst grammar mistake is far from capitalization. My personal policy is that a post should adhere to the rules of grammar to an extent where it can be read and understood the first time. If I ever fall short, you are more than welcome to stop me dead in my tracks.

 

 

 

2) I'm not sure. My entire argument is that we have the time to max out without sacrificing our lives and being called nerds for it.

 

 

 

3) Not sure I understand what point of mine you're addressing.

 

 

 

4) We have this time available to us.

 

 

 

5) You cannot repeat an argument twice in hopes that it comes off stronger the second time around, especially if I did not disagree with you in the first place.

 

 

 

6) I thought I was being witty and couldn't pass up that opportunity. No offense was intended.

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We're just gonna end up going in circles if we keep this up. Is it agreed that maxing out takes a long time, but that whether that is nerdy or not is up to the individual's opinion?

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In which they are breaking the rules, im talking about a legitimate rs player.

 

 

 

In which yes, they would play to much.

 

 

 

these two sentences make no grammatical sense. you also misspelled several words in your previous words, among them the word 'awesome.' are you still in grade school? (LOL THIS IS IRONIC BC I JUST NOTICED YOUR SIG SAYS 'I SUPPORT GOOD GRAMMAR')

 

 

 

first of all, have you ever tried to get a 99 skill? to me, you seem like an easily distracted child; you own two characters, neither of which have a stat over 72. (creating second characters are blatant symptoms of a disease i invented just two seconds ago: icannotmakeagoodcharactersoi'lljustmakeseveralofthemitis)

 

 

 

second, getting several 99s within a year is actually quiet easy. in fact, i will make this calculation quite simple, for all the truly imbecilic individuals out there who fail to see how easy it is to get a 99 stat now. since it really hasn't occurred to anyone to do this yet. that said...

 

 

 

att, def, str are all stats that easily land you a minimum 50k xp/hr (i dont know the actual data, but i trained at 30k to all 99s over 5 years ago) i will assume all levels beforehand negligible (levels spent training to use weapons -- to account for this simply add how long you would think it takes to train to 70 attack and use a whip)

 

99 = 13m xp

 

att, def, str = 260 hours each for 99, 780 hours for all 3, and if you do this you get 99 hitpoints also.

 

remember, this is at MINIMUM 50kxp/hr, and actual data may even be half of this or even a third (i've heard stories of 150k+ xp/hr) but for accuracy sake we'll assume 780 hours is enough for this

 

one year has 8760 hours

 

if you sleep 8 hours a day (more than any student should be getting) you are left with 5840 hours of free time.

 

260/5840 = 0.0445 = 4.45% of free time

 

780/5840 = 13.35%

 

that means to max melee, you need to dedicate 13.35% of your free time to runescape, assuming SLOW leveling. now we assumed that any normal person sleeps for 8 hours a day) -- this leaves you 16 hours a day of free time. 4.45% of this is approximately 45 minutes, 13.35% of this is approximately 2 hours.

 

 

 

if you subtract 2 hours from your day (to get 99 melees in a year) you are left with 14 hours of free time!! (if you go to school/work, you still have MORE than enough free time to socialize/do what you want) if you subtract 45 minutes from each day... well. you dont really need to. take faster [cabbage] and more efficient showers

 

 

 

other factors to account for:

 

teens spent 7.25 hrs/month watching porn (to normalize this for people who spend more time in front of a computer, i will increase this to 8 hours)

 

 

 

@50k xp an hour, time spent watching porn is equivalent to 4.8m xp irs. this is what? around level 90?

 

 

 

conclusion (sleeping 8 hours a day)

 

2 hours a day for a year to max melee @ 50k/hr

 

45 minutes a day for a year to get 99 att, def, or str @ 50k/hr

 

stop watching porn and you get +4.8m xp (if you care to)

 

 

 

we can now vary this data as we wish. easy 99s will be much quicker. harder will be much slower. i can tell you what i know: slayer is the hardest in terms of xp/hr (with cannon) so i've encountered.. even at 98, its still 20k/hr average. that means to get 99 slayer in a year, it'd take 650 hours, 1.78 hrs a day. 99 slayer will get you probably close to 99s combat as well. easy?

 

 

 

in other words, i'm extremely bored

 

 

 

Distracted child? I'm dont hate people people with 99's but i hate it when people say im jealous or that it proves they are superior. Seriously, i study, get good grades and ect. This is called a game. I'm not going to "work" when i play a game. Call me a loser that doesn't like working. Personally, i find it boring clicking on monsters for... "only 650 hours". Wow, that's nothing indeed. 2 hours a day, which is quite a lot actually excluding weekends will "only" take one year. Oh yeah extremely easy. I can't believe you are trying to make some kind of mathematical formula relating to your spare time to try and prove your not nerdy. And do you think anyone here wants to click on a bone for 1.756236 hours a day every day for a year? I dont find that very easy at all. Its only worse when i realise im not learning anything from it. And also, in your "scientific formula to prove you aren't nerdy" why the heck are you sepeating your "spare time" (which according to you is everything except for sleeping) into playing runescape and watching porn? You sure live a great life. What about school? Friends? Movies? Sports? Other games? Eating? Reading? Homework?

 

 

 

 

 

i did not separate spare time into runescape and watching porn. in fact, i stated myself that runescape and watching porn would only take x hours a day. if you would perhaps take the time to actually read my posts, you'd make one yourself that actually sounds intelligent for a change. and to further assume from your idiocy that i don't live a great life, maybe you should know a little more about me before you make judgment calls. i'd answer your questions with a yes and more, but i have nothing to really prove to you.

 

 

 

to everyone else who is about to respond to what i have said: if you really don't want to make a fool of yourself, really read what i've been saying and ask yourself if i'm wrong. if the answer is yes, go right ahead and speak whatever blasphemy you have to speak. more than likely though if you're honest with yourself, you'll realize that i've made a remarkable point that's just a little hard to accept.

 

 

 

but just for the record, as childish as this is, i've been around here far longer than most of you and witnessed much more of this game than many of you probably will. my character is good through long-term dedication, not through no-lifing and sacrificing a social life.

 

 

 

You didn't even respond to my posts but go on about how stupid i am. The only thing you said that was even slightly related was that "runescape and watching porn would only take x hours a day". I said that because you presume that everything apart from sleeping is free time. Its kind of funny and hyprocritical at the same time that you don't even respond to most of what i said. At least i gave reasons for my argument. Could you please tell me what your remarkable point is? From what i see, your one of those rare breeds of ignorant high levels who think that they are cool and superior to other people because they have more money or better skills or better gear. If i say something im instantly "jealous". Its my choice i want to spend my time. Some people might, but i dont find clicking on trees very fun and prefer to use spare time as a break from work. Please actually respond to my other post and make me "look like a fool".

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I have to admit, I first used to think that all high level players were mega nerds...

 

Then I began slowly becoming a rather high level... and, frankly, I'm not the

 

stereotypical nerd. I'm a nerd, definitely, but not some little sweaty fat guy

 

with circular glasses that talks with a constantly snot clogged nose.

 

I'm rather tall, semi-buff... average, basically.

 

 

 

Same with other games...

 

For instance (this may not be the place for this, but it is an example that goes

 

along with the thread subject) if anyone watched the WoW PvP arena battles on

 

TV... they were all mainly average, and they were/are the best of the best on that

 

game.

 

 

 

So, yeah, I think your right.

 

I think what it all comes down to is a combination of patience, mental planning

 

and multitasking.

 

I believe those... skills, if you will, are the dependents of how high a level you will

 

become on a game like RuneScape.

 

 

 

 

 

:)

 

~Kevill

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Est0rrath wrote:

 

In which they are breaking the rules, im talking about a legitimate rs player.

 

 

 

In which yes, they would play to much.

 

 

 

 

 

these two sentences make no grammatical sense. you also misspelled several words in your previous words, among them the word 'awesome.' are you still in grade school? (LOL THIS IS IRONIC BC I JUST NOTICED YOUR SIG SAYS 'I SUPPORT GOOD GRAMMAR')

 

 

 

 

How do they not make grammatical sense, They refer to the previous post.

 

 

 

(Edit: Oh yea, now that i think about it it sounds sorta [developmentally delayed]ed. Anyway, it pretty easy to comprehend, so its not worth poking fun at for no apparent reason other than an attempt to further your argument)

 

 

 

PS: see highlighted section.

 

 

 

Also, sometimes i don't need a long and extensive small essay to state my opinion so i can make myself look smart, but would rather say "awesum" because its perfectly comprehensible and states how i feel about the subject.

 

 

 

My signature is less about good grammar (in my opinion) and more so about hating leetspeak.

 

 

 

 

first of all, have you ever tried to get a 99 skill? to me, you seem like an easily distracted child; you own two characters, neither of which have a stat over 72. (creating second characters are blatant symptoms of a disease i invented just two seconds ago: icannotmakeagoodcharactersoi'lljustmakeseveralofthemitis)

 

 

 

Yes i have, and i failed miserably because i'm not a powerleveler.

 

 

 

att, def, str = 260 hours each for 99, 780 hours for all 3, and if you do this you get 99 hitpoints also.

 

 

 

Remember, your not taking into account time spent getting to levels which get 50k xp an hour, And sure in this case it takes a small amount of time, but in other cases it may take longer. (Eg runecrafting)

 

 

 

if you sleep 8 hours a day (more than any student should be getting) you are left with 5840 hours of free time.

 

 

 

Have you ever heard of school? By the way, to be healthy you need AT least 8 hours of sleep.

 

 

 

conclusion (sleeping 8 hours a day)

 

2 hours a day for a year to max melee @ 50k/hr

 

45 minutes a day for a year to get 99 att, def, or str @ 50k/hr

 

stop watching porn and you get +4.8m xp (if you care to)

 

 

 

 

Yes, so max melee it wouldn't take that long assuming you play every day, get constant 50k an hour, don't do anything but level, and play for 2 hours. Anyway, I admit its not to bad, but thats not what i was really trying to say.

 

 

 

And just in conclusion to my post, i don't think i made myself clear with the fact that i didn't mean that getting multiple 99 skills made you nerdy. More that playing to much runescape made you nerdy, but they sort of go hand in hand, so whatever.

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