cardovilian

Its not a dumb rule. The reason the rule exists is to protect players from scamming/keylogging etc. web sites set up by unscrupulous people. I do agree that reporting someone for saying Tip.it (or even, dare I say it, RuneHQ) is acting like a mod wannabe. Personally, if I see someone mention Tip.it (or Rune HQ) I normally give them a friendly warning about the rule so that they can avoid getting into trouble from wannabe mods. Sometimes, when I do this I get a lot of verbal abuse from the player concerned, then they get a double report, one for advertising and one for abusive language. :lol: Posting a website link (as you would if you wanted to scam/download a keylogger) is not the same as mentioning a site name. Given a site name, most people will 'Google' it (or us whatever their SE of choice is) to obtain the address and some info on the site. If they don't do this, but blindly enter site names into their address bar, they more than likely have several keyloggers resident on their hard-drive long before they happen upon RS or Tip.It.

Do it a thousand times, multiply that by the average cash-in-hand for a RS account, convert that to RL dollars. Compare that to the average amount of cash in a 13-year-old's bank account (if they even have one). Getting it now?

Yes, we did hope that the pointless discussions would be pushed to the bottom, which didn't exactly happen. Bringing back the Genera/Gen P2P boards will not cause the "pointless" threads to go away. Whether we have one board or two, there will be the same amount of "pointless" threads. "What if/what is your favourite" threads started becoming popular around the time that we decided to merge the threads, which caused some people to believe that the merging is what actually cased the mass increase in those kinds of threads.. which I don't think is true (I think it was a mere coincidence). I'm not saying that the creation of a single 'Discussion' board has caused an increase in poor quality threads, merely that the number of poor quality threads on the front page has not DECREASED. What HAS increased is the number of 'Merger is rubbish' threads, which have definitely increased - from an initial level of zero, obviously. All I would like to see is a return to two discussion boards, then let us deal with the subject of 'Thread Quality' on our own board and on our own terms. What's good for P2P may not necessarily be seen as good for F2P. Why let the greater number of F2P'ers decide what is good for the P2P'ers who provide the bulk of the game's income? (And probably Tip.It's too - how many F2P'ers have made contributions compared to P2P'ers? - given that they won't/can't pay $5 dollars a month for RS)

Dumb rules like this are just one reason why games like LOTRO will result in RS dying a death (members anyway).

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I haven't played RS2 for a long time, certainly not long enough to consider myself 'Old School' (my first holiday event gave me a rubber chicken), but even I have noticed the downturn in the game's challenge and community (and yes I include Tip.It in that /controversy). I have pretty much gone over to LOTRO full-time in an attempt to escape the 'kiddie' element' and while I have found that, on the whole, it has more of a mature 'old school' feel, I was not a little dismayed to find that 12 year-olds are playing the game - and acting like them. I don't want to suggest that everyone under 13 is immature and incapable of playing a MMORPG the way it was intended to be played, but the chances of finding a sensible teen player are much lower than the chances of finding a sensible 'twenty-something'+ player, in my experience.

Herblore is the hardest skill, Constuction is just expensive and haven't been out as long as Herblore has. WAS maybe. With the advent of 'Make X' for herblore, it is now a much easier skill to level, expect to see the number of 99 herblorists to increase significantly over the next few months.

I have to say that the basic premise for merging the two discussion threads of "It'll improve the overall quality of Front Page threads" has been clearly disproved by the overall lack of quality in said threads. Just give us back our P2P and F2P boards, and we will all be happy again, and the needless posting of 'Board merger was rubbish' threads (and associated replies) will disappear overnight, leaving bandwidth for more meaningful discussion!

Hasn't this been done REPEATEDLY for a very long time? Can we please have a sticky that's linked to the Hiscore table that just shows the number of 99s in each skill, to save a) the trouble for people making these posts andÃÆââââ¬Å¾Ã¢Ãâæ B) the trouble for browsing users clicking on them?

I would change Jagex's new propensity for making RS more akin to a WOW clone - clan chat, themed servers etc. I LIKE Runescape as it is, just get rid of the auto'ers, gold-farmers and under 13 year olds...before we know it drop-trading and account sharing will be legal....where's it going to stop?

I would change Jagex's new propensity for making RS more akin to a WOW clone - clan chat, themed servers etc. I LIKE Runescape as it is, just get rid of the auto'ers, gold-farmers and under 13 year olds...before we know it drop-trading and account sharing will be legal....where's it going to stop?

Ahh, lovely I was hoping to find some LOTRO-minded people on Tip.It. Lvl 21 Elf Hunter here, Galandrion is my LOTRO name. By enormous good fortune, I happen to play on Snowbourn. If anyone wants to fellow or just team up (especially for great/north barrows quests) IM me. Lightning, expect an IM imminently... =D>

Definitely 'loved one > strangers'. That's why wars are fought.

Yes but the 8,000 extra for women are to do with clothes, shoes and shopping generally. :twisted: That's a joke (I hope).

God or no god, I just have to say that this is the most intelligent, well rounded and most reasonably stated position on any issue in any forum that it has ever been my pleasure to read. (I'll let you off for the spelling mistakes just this once :lol: )