Observing the RS community: not picking up your drops

[DarkDude]

When I'm killing abyssal demons I rarely pick up herbs/coins and such drops due to the fact that I'm using wild pies, the 5 seconds I take to pick up the items add up and per trip It'd cost me ~10 demons, those 10 demons could potentialy be 19M, I'd rather have a 1/10000000000000 chance of getting that 19M then just getting 3000gp from coin drops. I'm also usualy full so picking up herbs is just a pain.

[Ervin]

wow what an idiot lol, I would be considered a high level (1700 total), and id still pick those nats up, as well as all the seeds and herbs. Why not?

[gamecube10074]

don't get bones unless they drag...

 

 

 

get all significant runes.

 

 

 

and when i know im nearing the end, pick up everything that could be usefull, but its not like you are using slayer at mid-low lvls to make money, even at high lvls it isn't that good.

[Soma2035]

 

sometimes players don't bother to pick up em if they are like 1 or 2 runes... and if they are hurry... also rich players

 

 

 

I would think not, saying I think of myself as rather wealthy(Green p hat+dragon+barrows) Yet I pick up nats and herbs. Limps if I have room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm doing relatively okay but I'd still pick up natures all the time. Limpwurts too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By "okay" I mean I'm not quite rich yet... but I can buy basically anything I'd want/need.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And it's wierd. I see players with less than 1/400th of what I have leaving stuff that I'd take. Especially nature and water runes from blue dragons, people leave those all the time.

[moopymitchell182]

I see a lot of loot left on the ground at the green dragons, with hides being the most common. I ask them why they leave the hides... and I get a quick "bones worth more money." It makes no sense to me. Why kill more dragons for less money when you can kill the same ammount for more? Also, I see people leaving coins. I always pick up my coins. I always pick up stuff that alches for 1k or more. It helps pay for the cost of the food and tanning of hides.

[xvillexvalox]

most drops are just not worth picking up

 

 

 

like coins from fire giants, black demons, etc

 

 

 

they are usually like 100 gp

 

 

 

although they do stack up in time, i'd rather not waste the extra 2 seconds

 

 

 

big bones are not worth burying imo

 

 

 

they are like 16 exp?

 

 

 

a whole slayer task would be like 2-3k exp in burying big bones

 

 

 

that would take 10+ mins more to pick up and bury them

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today I got from 53-54(about 2k xp was left) prayer burying NORMAL bones (which are 4 or 5 xp) :shame: get into the habit of burying all yuor bones, itll help your prayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for drops being worthwhile to pick up,Flash crawlers in the famine level of the stronghold of security are the best.

 

 

 

5-10 nats per run

 

 

 

500-700 fires per run

 

 

 

40-60 iron ore (noted) per run

 

 

 

100ish dust runes per run

 

 

 

1 law(brought to use with dust rune to tele home)

 

 

 

23 unids (unids drop really often with these guys)

 

 

 

If oyu're lucky enoguh to get some ranarrs (3-4) every run, you can easily make 200k an hour with loads of xp.

[Rebdragon]

Meh, I grab everything I can and drop the least valuable non-stackable stuff when I need more space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The thing that confuses me though is how many piles of Big bones I always see at the Fire Giants. I've goten a ton or Prayer experience picking up the bones people leave behind, and they leave it behind for basically no reason at all. No one's in that much of a hurry so that 2 seconds spent on a bone pile would hurt them, and since you just pick it up and bury it it doesn't take up inventory space. I'm confused :-s .

[xpx]

However, yesterday I was killing cockatrice(s?) for my herblore. I love them, every time I go there, I leave with 50 nats, a lvl 2 clue scroll, 20 limps and some random seeds/herbs.

 

 

 

well, thats a hell of a lot.....

 

 

 

50 nats- 1 trip to abyss

 

 

 

lvl 2 clue- waste of time(i havent done any clues since i was training at greater cave, and that was years ago-utterly useless)

 

 

 

20 limps- if i need any, ill just buy em

 

 

 

herbs/seeds- again- if i need any- ill just buy some

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15k for 15 mins? thats terrible. nechryaels are like 500k an hour, abbys if your lucky about 500k an hour too, nats at 75 400k an hour, stakeing....any amount of money an hour...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i dont usually take up drops from low lvl creatures too- its just too much of a timewaste- i usually one hit them, and taking up a drop is one hit lost

[Unitedite]

I've stopped picking up anything but the very valuable drops when i'm doing slayer... but that's because i use B2P. The less drops i pick up, the more space in my bank for bones, so the less i need to cast it :P