I was wondering if anyone else does what I do. If I need some runes, I go craft them. If I need some arrows, I go fletch them. If I need some coal, I mine it. If i need some fish, I catch them.

 

 

 

Is anyone else like me?

I am, i always get my own materials. I dont like buyin stuff i can get on my own.

I always thought it would be cool to be but I'm most definately not. Later on once you get alot of money, you realize instead of fishing your 1k lobs you could buy 1k, and make the money for 5k lobs back in the time you could have fished them.

 

 

 

Maybe that's just me, good luck staying that way!

I will usually make my stuff If I can. Especially runes.

 

There are things I can't make though so I have to buy them. But other than that I hate spending my money.

for a long time i was self sufficent but once i became a member and started making cballs i realized that i could make like 10x the gp per hour if i bought my coal

I'm definitely self-sufficient. I rarely buy materials from others, but often sell finished goods to other players.

 

 

 

Along with that, I've also been maintaining my Miscellania kingdom for over a year, which has helped immensely with my herblore (average 100-150 herbs each week, set at 80%) and about 1k coal per month (set at 10%).

 

 

 

What this has done is kept my funds low, so I'm not able to afford large quantities of materials with which to make stuff. However, if someone wants me to make stuff for them (d-hide or full mith armor, enchanted jewelry, craft runes thru laws, etc), I'm usually willing to help out.

 

 

 

- Sligo

I'm about half and half... But I try to lean more towards getting my own stuff. Like when my clan, Eternal Darkness, goes on Steel Wars, I try to make the steel on my own.

I'm just too darn lazy. I can do (F2P things) I think anything but mine runite, craft diamond amulets and smith half of the mithril things and over.

 

 

 

Most people do this themselves, saying it's fun, and I completely agree. But I suually spend too mcuh of my time PKing.

I am just like that, im glad to know someone in the runescape world isint lazy.

I didn't know buying things because you don't have time to fish 500 shark to last you a few days is considered lazy.

Self suffiecient = inefficient.

 

 

 

Earn money, pay others do the dirty work. It would take decades to level up skills if you were to harvest all of the resources yourself.

I try to be self sufficient when possible, but what I end up saying to myself is "I'll buy the supplies I need now and get them back myself later on", and never end up getting them myself.

since i mostly melee i just buy my own stuff because most of the things im fighting i get a large amount of cash from so its acctualy a waste of time for me to go and get my own stuff. But if i need something for a quest ill just make it myself. :roll:

I try to be. However, I've realised I can make X amount of money very quickly out of one thing to buy the materials wanted without breaking my bank.

There was a topic on this a while ago.

 

 

 

I see nothing wrong with spending some cash to save a little time.

 

 

 

There are some raw materials that just take too long to gather. Wool is one of them-- it takes forever to shear sheep for wool in mass quantities. I suppose I could take shears to the pen just outside of Lumby, glory to Draynor, and walk back, but the time invested vs. the money spent at the store in Ardougne-- well, it's cheaper to buy wool balls at the store.

 

 

 

Flax for bowstrings and rune essence are a little different-- you can gather flax in Lletya and spin it reasonably fast in Seers, and ess is fast if you have access to the Magic Guild. But yet people spend money on bowstrings and ess all the time.

 

 

 

I see a greater case for spending money on skills than saving up for rares (especially as they are so high now) but your mileage may vary.

I'm working towards being able to do that. As someone said, I'll probably end up buying some stuff eventually to level. But I want to be able to get stuff if I need it quickly, like fish for pking or smithing armour. Sadly, I'm still a long, long ways away. : P

I usually keep to my self since i got no friends on rs but my skills are getting up there so i can pretty much do anything on f2p except craft smith and make runes =\

I am a f2p but i make alot of stuff

I usually try to do that, but if i'm really mad because i can't get it, I'll usually buy it overpriced.

When I started I was 100% slef-effient. I could make my own steel armor. But eventualy my defence raised and I could use mith. I could'nt smith nor mine smith, so I bought it. Instead of getting waod leaves to make a blue dye for a matching blue cape, I just bought it off someone. Ever since then I've been less self-effience.

I fish my own fish.

 

I mine my own coals and irons because I like mining.

 

I fletch all my yew longs to alch so it gives me fletching exp.

 

 

 

BUT I never craft runes of my own except for airs, takes too much time. :oops:

 

 

 

Is that pretty self-efficient?

 

 

 

Edit; Oh, and I buy all the bowstrings and yews for the fletching. :oops:

i burn my own logs.

 

i cook my own fish.

 

i get my own feathers.

 

i smith my own bars.

as u step into the mil XP area in a skill its faster to buy like steel bars and shark, back in RSC i got my own items

I tried to be self-sufficient... but then I got to the point where I could wield mith and couldn't smith it. I've bought a bunch of things here and there (ex: party hats, santa hats, rune full, etc.) but when it comes to materials needed to raise skills, I'm pretty self-sufficient.

i cut my logs

 

i cage/cook my lobbies

 

i craft most of my runes (im f2p)

 

but i have to buy my armour because i can't smith it yet ;(