Leetman

Two vibes I'm picking up on are people calling this desperation on Jagex's part, and that people would not be willing to let the world know they play Runescape. On the issue of desperation, I need to show you only one image This is the state of affairs in our increasingly converging world. Cheese wants to be your facebook friend in order to sell itself to you. Why Can't Jagex? Why can't a company, originally built around word-of-mouth internet advertising, offer loyalty rewards and discounts for spreading their product? Is that too much like selling out for you guys? Are you really that delusional? This is what happens when a company matures; sorry if it ruins your faulty conceptions of the real world. ...Which segues nicely into the second point. Why are people so afraid to tell other people they play Runescape? That's so terribly insecure it scares me. Is it because the people are afraid to let the world know they spend so much of their life doing nothing but clicking to increase xp? If you can't admit this to yourself and others, that's a problem. Typically people hide grubby little skeletons in their closet like a diaper fetish or a heroin addiction. Even when I played 8+ hours a day I didn't take the game so seriously that I was afraid to tell my friends. I feel like nobody who would play a game like Runescape would have such a competitive friend group that their friends would do anything more than occasionally dog them on playing RS. That might be too much a conjecture, but from my own experience they don't understand why I play, but frankly they don't give that much of a [cabbage]. I feel this comes off a bit judgmental, but I wish people would, you know; get real about the impermanence of their cherished video game. It's always the people who live in the past that creep out the rest of everyone.

[hide=real important talk] I've been waiting for this. What if people didn't constantly [bleep] about it and just play the game? What if we could enjoy the game more without bots? What if you could man up and go play WoW, a game with a far simpler economy, a far better bot detection system, and far less frequent updates? [/hide] The Horse. He died. We killed him months ago. There's a difference between removal and reinstatement, and neither at all. All the inflation suffered at the hands of making player-killing worthwhile, among other things, have affected the game even with the deflation.

The first point stuck out to me. If Runescape were anything like Real Life, I would think there would be vendors selling herbs out there somewhere. No, all the herbs in RS are found in corpses or gardens, never growing wild or at a pharmacy or apothecary. If there were vendors, then prices would (most likely) drop by some degree. If they were readily available at stores, making potions might turn profitable as most of the economic pressure on herbs is the acquisition dimension. I think the skill would overall make a lot of sense, and wouldn't be just a scramble to a high level for reward outside of the economy (overloads). That scramble is partly why the grind up to 96 is one big hemorrhage. I can't speculate on the second point - charms have enough rationality (to me) as is.

It struck me today. While I was going through some routine smithing on a choobie account I have, I looked at my Runecrafting stat. I compared my level to what it would take to make multiple air runes as in previous years multi-airs would make a profit (albeit small) after 3x. It isn't quite the same today, with air runes costing 1/7-8 of the essence needed to craft them. Because the experience of air rune crafting is independent of multiple runes per essence, there really isn't a reason to craft airs after level 14. But what if multiple runes per essence would give you experience based on runes, not essence? How would that change rune prices, and how would it change the experience rate of the skill? Runecrafting would become easier by some order of magnitude. Further, what if Runecrafting was introduced with this difference? How would that change the course of it and other skills in Runescape history? I didn't want to stop there; what about Woodcutting? What if logs were ridiculously hard to obtain? Or if their experience rates were drastically reduced at the same order of magnitude as the rune experience increase? What about if Mining was more like woodcutting and less of an exclusive resource? Basically it became a big theorygasm and I felt I would turn it over to the forums for their own postulation. TL;DR: Pose a hypothetical situation in Runescape (like if the RWT changes never actually happened) and how it would affect the game.

Does anyone else see the correlation between the amount of people posting 'no discussion value close topic' posts, and the amount of flame topics around? I think we're causing this flame fest because the only topics that survive the razor-sharp moderation are argument threads. Don't confuse 'discussion value' for 'argument.' and maybe we won't get so many flame posts.

I never thought that reaching my 2006 goal, attaining a Barrows set and 100 combat, would leave me as a mediocre-tier player. It's wild to think of how the game has changed, almost as an exponential function when compared to the changes of real life. There was a time early in my RS career when making 100k gp a day was a feat. Now I make multiples of that without logging in, thanks to MTK. It's not because I wouldn't believe you, it's simply because I never thought about it.

I'm really confused at what argument is to be proved by this topic. The title doesn't help The information describes a well-known reoccurring trend I see supply and demand used, but superficially at that So what, is this seriously a discussion of something that came to light years ago? Maybe my brain isn't working today, but this whole topic confounds my greater intellect.

Supporting the awareness of old websites is analogous to supporting world history sites and national parks, in the Runescape dimension. Here are places where the history of this game are preserved as a direct resource - people who experienced the events. Transferring (especially uncredited) the information to another site loses the direct quality, and while the information may be literally copy and pasted, who is to say that without sources? Disregarding the necessity would be similar to taking all the artifacts from sites like Persepolis or the Pyramids and placing them into museums, where they are more accessible. Such an act does not take into account the value of direct experience. Plus, there's an aesthetic quality to the old sites. Maybe it's nostalgia, but old geocities sites will always have a nature far more akin to how I remember the internet, and not how web 2.0 has made it. Think about the 13-year-olds, who are coming of age with facebook. Kind of hard for them to understand how different the web was, and Runescape sites might be one of the ways to preserve such a knowledge, even if it seems rudimentary and uninteresting compared to youtube.

This thread is drowning in anachronism, especially since none of us were alive in the 80s. Sheesh

Yesterday I saw my first legitimate medical marijuana building, the 'cannabis connection.' Not gonna lie, I got excited. I think I could fake an eating disorder, eh? I completud my short-term smithing goal. Now I'm gonna grow herbs and something else.... dungeoneering I'm thinking, or maybe just meteor/evil treee hunting.

Which place in Runescape is most like Sheol? What I did yesterday. Not much, but I did try the circus FINALLY. It's quite decent. I've decided not to sell my mask, because it's such a relic of Runescape. If we stretched the nine years this game has spanned, to the scale of human civilization, this mask would be from some great Babylonian era I surmise. Possibly Egyptian, but definitely old. I guess that's why I like it, because it's a relic.

haha 'decent'; in the context of Runescape I accept that as praise, considering how easy it is to be elitist. Thanks! This blog needs to get rolling, yes; but at least for this month it'll be semi-painful posting images (this computer was dated years ago. an antique it is.) Still, I'll try to liven it up by something I know I can do without too much teeth-pulling... ...So today I woke up to the power rangers theme playing in my head. This was the full song, with more lyrics than 'go go power rangers' that I heard thanks to the YTMND soundtrack. Four years ago, that was my s***, YTMND. Basically they started to rip off 4chan in late 2006 and I went there and THAT whole can of worms was opened, but before longcat there was Brian Peppers. Look him up if you want a 'wtf is that' moment. They had some real winners, like the Time Traveller classified ad 'I've only done this once before' or the Gary's mod utilization for the Gman series and his adventures; having a wonderful time and grabbing a boob. And who could forget NEDM, the reaction to an animal rights nightmare (dude burns a cat alive) that brought happycat to spotlight and made Coburn's 'we interrupt this programme' my jam for that summer (and this one, actually). But back to the theme, it was awesome, coming off of a dream that I was in a hospital/butchery that eerily mirrored a scene from District 9, which I saw today. It's an amazing film. That's the shortest praise I can give, because honestly right now all I want to do is play Runescape. But seriously, the best film I've seen since step brothers (which was good but didn't have a lot of depth, but who said it should?). Here's what I did yesterday. I leveled smithing. I'm doing it again tonight. I know, f***ing exciting.

@Sah-roo It's that education in godly things.+1 for accurate spelling of sacrilege, I didn't figure that one out until like, last year L. But seriously, folks. This is what I did yesterday (minus like 30k exp from the night before) I don't like making pictures of EVERY stat level up (I did that in 08. painful.) so I'll just have dailies. less clutter too!

O hai guys. My name is Rick, and I play Runescape. I have played this game since february '05 when I was only 12 years old! Now I am an adult, and I still follow the summer ritual of playing this game far past healthy limits. However, I'm still a noob by the ever-growing standard of leet-ness that is required to truly be a non-noob. Of course, that term itself is rather relative, but since I don't have a 99 skill. I haven't killed a GWD boss; solo OR in a team. Heck, I don't even have lunar magic yet (at the time I write this introduction). I guess that makes my forum username a little of a misnomer, but in the past I was known as Leet Man P, which I still use to log into my account known as Spase Peepul. I'm making this blog in order to serve as a distraction from the mind-numbing demands of grinding levels. While I certainly do not play to have my brain anesthetized, its part of getting the levels to do what I really enjoy in this game - whatever I feel like at that moment. Entonces, I grind as we all do, and maybe if I post my progress, alongside whatever I feel like writing, I'll have some feedback to keep me from going a little more crazy. In the Beginning - Stats as of July 1st. [hide=Rick the person] Engage traditional self-shot social netowork picture! ...disengage. I'm an 18-yo boy-man and future attendee of the Ohio University for Journalism. I enjoy performing, making, and listening to music more than anything; and I like writing next to that. I've been called a deep thinker by teachers and peers alike, and I feel understanding and transcendence is the only way to living happily in this crazy modern world. I also like the pursuit of art and beauty; ...and Xavier: Renegade Angel. I went to catholic school for 13 years of my life, and while I consider myself religious in a sense, I certainly do not need to be a part of Catholicism any longer. I used to want to be punk rock, now I want to be a guru of my age some day. I spent the last year in semi-isolation to 'find myself' and I think I did, or at least who I am right now. I believe everything and everyone has value, and that the greatest power of mankind is the ability to create. I think because of that, I cannot stand living idly in such a consumerist culture (television ads make me angry, to give an example) but I know that I'm still kinda part of the problem. In case you haven't figured by now, I have a lot of ideas :3. ...And I'm pretty sure I am a Spase Purson. [/hide]

What on EARTH is wrong with your screen?? I donno man. Hell its getting worse. :eek: I blame windows 7. :razz: I try to kill monsters but everything just swirling around everywhere. Makes it most difficult to maintain the fastest xp rates. *Drinks more alcohol* (95 Range woot!) :rolleyes: whoa, it looks like you've been drinking too many pots bro, you're tripping out!