How do you get by in runescape?

[Junkieman]

This might have been posted before, but I'm wondering how people get by in runescape. When you need to train something such as smithing, do you go mining yourself and do it all? When you need to train combat, do you get your own fish and cook them? When you do cooking, do you find your own food then cook it? Or are you one those people who buy the raw materials like ores and raws and train your skills with them? Or buy come pre-cooked food when you go combatting? Basically, are you a self-sufficient person or not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT:sorry, typoed in the title. silly me.

[Ocelotbren]

I'd say I'm self sufficient because I fish for my own food for combat training and I don't buy raw materials; I get them myself. I don't buy them because I find it's like cheating myself of the experience (and the money :wink: ), so when combat training, I get woodcutting, fishing, firemaking, cooking and combat experience. I know, the woodcutting and firemaking experience I get is next to nothing, but it adds up in the end and every bit helps eventually.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Same with other skills, I like to get the raw materials on my own because I get the experience from it and I don't have to buy them. Unfortunately, it takes a much longer time... It pays off in the end though, in my opinion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: And I think you mean 'How do you get by in RuneScape'.

[oRsArroWo]

I buy every thing i need always never do it on my own I'm a lazy ass =o

[Zerocool11]

When I used to play I used to be totally self-sufficient when it came to training. Since fishing was a great way to make money back then (and I was a member with access to the fishing guild) I used to fish my own lobbies and shark and cook it for myself and use it when I trained. It was really nice, actually. I'd fish myself stupid then when I got bored I'd cook, and any left overs I'd bank and use for training food.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mining and smithing was a different story. I used to love going into the mining guild and selling the coal but I never found too much excitement in smithing so I never really bothered with it. But after the mining guild started to get overflowed with macros I stopped cold-turkey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Self-sufficiency in RS is the best way to make money, in my opinion. Simply because you're not spending any money on resources and everything you sell or get is pure profit.

[Junkieman]

Yep, I did mean by, i typoed. I also didnt mention it, but im a self sufficient person myself. I always horde everything i find, even if I cant use it yet, because I'll use it eventually later on. :P

[Gugge]

I like to be self suffient, and is most of the time. Sometimes I slip though, I cant stand making cannon balls so I buy them, using a lot of my income on that. And since rune essence mining is so bad exp, I bought a lot of essence. I fished most of my food, cooked it all. Mined most my ores, but have bought a little steel/coal through the years. Cut most of my logs for fletching but have bought some. And so on. Pots and herbs is I think the only thing I never bought, but of course I had someone mix them for me from my selfcollected herbs before I could do it myself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I *never* sell raw materials. I have invested my time in collecting it, I will get that investment back in experience when using the raw materials.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I always horde everything i find, even if I cant use it yet, because I'll use it eventually later on.

 

 

 

Same here, problem with that is that bank always if full ;)

[Junkieman]

Yep Gugge, that sounds most like me. Sometimes I just can't help it, but this way i find i dont have a major need for money unless buying combat stuff really. I do tend to buy herbs though, hard to get things like that. And essence as well. I buy flax usually then spin into bstrings, but recently I've been buying alot more of the raw materials to use, and making alot of money from high alching, fishing, or nats themselves.

[nobes]

we'll i buy my sharks to pk with, but when i want training food ill fish 2k lobs in a few hours and cook em or trade for cooked :P

[proparunescaper]

i'm self suffient, apart from fletching where i'll buy my yews intead of cutting them, cutting takes to long

[richpoepaap]

I'm self-sufficient.And cuz i'm a f2per i cant make my own arrows,and i won't pay for them,so i hav the amazingly high ranging of 3... :lol:

 

 

 

Since 2 days i can cut yews,so i earn money with them now...also fish lobbies,sometimes mine coal.

[neogeo0823]

im completely self-sufficient. i get all raw materials and make everything into finished products. of course, i can never stay doing that for vey long, so i actually train all my skills at relatively the same level. all my levels are between 44 and 55, lol. the only things ive ever bought were my rune armor and weapons so i could finish dragon slayer. even that set me back to like 20k. yeah, i may be self sufficient, but im still broke, lol.

[Mirror]

I do everything by myself. Combat training, I cook the fish that I fish ( :) ) and then just work by myself, unless a friend is on but then they would be in member worlds, so then it is just me myself and I. It is a great group that we have here. We all know each other pretty good.

[Ocelotbren]

I'm self-sufficient.And cuz i'm a f2per i cant make my own arrows,and i won't pay for them,so i hav the amazingly high ranging of 3... :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This sounds much like me! That is, until I finally broke down and trained range a bit. Although you have me beat, mine stayed at level 1 for a very long time. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do everything by myself. Combat training, I cook the fish that I fish ( ) and then just work by myself, unless a friend is on but then they would be in member worlds, so then it is just me myself and I. It is a great group that we have here. We all know each other pretty good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heh and this sounds very much like me also! I fish, cook them, combat train (almost always by myself), bank the drop items, and it's back to fishing again. I know what you mean; Me, Myself and I are very good company! :P

[imhomer]

Yay lvl 75 mining. I just get by in Rs by mining. I sell almost all of my ores which is why my smithing is so low compared to my mining :( . I have only bought fish once when I went to fight Elvarg and I have never bought bars or ores. Happy self-sufficiency everyone!

[Muffin_Daddy]

I do everything myself, makes the rewards from it more meaningful. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I'm not against people who don't do things for themselves, otherwise I'd make no money. :(

[Stely]

I do everything myself, makes the rewards from it more meaningful. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I'm not against people who don't do things for themselves, otherwise I'd make no money. :(

 

 

 

I do the same thing, you also gain XPs from make everything yourself.

[MrMoo]

I buy pretty much all my resources except for fish.

[Stallion4589]

yeah, i may be self sufficient, but im still broke, lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so true. dunno where u ppl get your millions from. i spend my time cutting yews to make money. im glad there are those non-self sufficient ppl who will buy my yews for 300 each. even when training combat, i fish for my own food, and i am usually the only one on the karamja wharf who brings logs and a tinderbox.

[Ocelotbren]

even when training combat, i fish for my own food, and i am usually the only one on the karamja wharf who brings logs and a tinderbox.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not alone! I bring wood and a tinderbox too. I was sure everyone else just begged for fire. :D

[ranger12146]

only thing i buy is my ess cant be bothered mining them

[Doomster]

Other than buying armour and weapons, self sufficient all the way... my main, my low level test guy and my almost pure mage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also have a preference for non-fish cooking, for that extra HP healing at lower cooking level, but fish'n'cook for levels and a bankful of recovery food - though my other recovery trick is to kill & cook a few giant rats, chickens or anything else, rather than eat the good stuff.

[uber_dad]

I tend to get everytihng for myself... "live off the land" as they say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As I was training higher level monsters, I had to buy a couple lobsters here and there and it annoyed me, so I just worked on fishing until I was able to fish them for myself, and raised cooking at the same time for the same reason. Since I get my own materials for myself, and tend only to get when I need at the time (not to sell) I don't have much money in the bank. So, buying materials or bones, etc isn't really an option.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only exception to this is armour and weapons. Being f2p, I didn't think it was practical to get my smithing and mining up to get rune ore.

[Willis]

I'm self sufficient, although if I had the money I would probably buy some runes or something. I also can't stand powermining, it's such a waste of good ore so I have 83 mining and 37000 iron ore banked :]

[Adeluz]

I do just about everything when it comes to training anything. I mine my ess, make my own runes, make my own arrows. Heck, I'd make my own split bark if it weren't such a pain. Only stuff I buy is stuff I can't make or is too high of a level for me to make. I'm way too cheap, and poor for that matter, to buy anything. Hence why I'm such a bad merchanter and only take cash.

[apinagez]

I get by....with a little help from my friends :D