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Batchman · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 1413 Location: Orlando FL

Well, I found it mentioned in here while looking at other topics exactly once, but figured I might as well start up a topic on it, since I've been playing with this in my so-called spare time for the last three months or so.

Who else still spends some time on Runescape? Thoughts? Comments? Anything?

I've got about a third of my stats up to the 50 mark now, but it is sure starting to get slow!

CooJoe · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject:

I've played it, the game seems like it's made up mostly of people wanting to cyberbang other avatars.

I'm not big into rpgs though.

bannie · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Boston

I thought thats what second life was for

Anyways, in a nutshell, what is runescape?

Batchman · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 1413 Location: Orlando FL

Runescape is a MMORPH or whatever they are called, like Evercrack, Ultima, or some of those. The difference is there is no software to buy, ever.

There is the free version, which gives you access to maybe half the skills and items, and perhaps a fifth of the world to play in, which let's you run around enough to really get the idea of what things are like, and find out if it interests you.

Then you can become a member for $5 a month, at which point you have five times as much world to explore, ten times as many quests to decide to complete, and half again as many new skills to master.

It probably isn't too terribly different from Ultima, which Skeebercat tried to get me into, or Evercrack, which I tried to get myself into at one time ... but Runescape actually managed to get me somewhat hooked, where none of the others did.

If you want to try it, sometime, visit http://runescape.com to sign up for a free account.

crispybacon · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

I've officially quit RS because of my disgust with a lot of the changes they made last year, notably the demise of the PvP system and the Big Brother-esque control of the economy by Jagex. They destroyed PKing and merchanting, so I really don't have any interest in the game any more. Also, their quests have really gone downhill since I started playing 8 years ago.

It's a good game, especially if you don't spend any money on it. However, be warned: Once you pay for members, you will NEVER have the same satisfaction from the free worlds. It's just too big of a difference.

I personally have moved on to World of Warcraft (Daggerspine server name crispybacon if anyone cares) and I find it a lot like the runescape I used to know, but with better graphics. So, my statement is this: If you like the current emasculated version of RS, then by all means stick with it. If you preferred it back when they had decent quests and PKers made life interesting, then spend your $12 a month and play WoW.
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AriesQtPie · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:18 am Post subject:

I too, have moved on. I spent 2.5 years playing RuneScape and quit for good in December after they made the hideous changes. I've been playing WOW (World of Warcraft) since Dec. and have several "toons". I will never go back to RS. My daughter has taken over my RS account (I was lvl 106 when I quit).

I'm on Arygos server on WOW

I have a lvl. 70 Dran. Shammy/Resto (healer) Adoralei
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Arygos&n=Adoralei

and 6 other assorted toons from lvl 12 to 32, including one horde toon - a Blood Elf Mage.

crispybacon · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 2:41 am Post subject:

Yay another WoW-ite!

If you ever feel the urge to start an Alliance charecter on Daggerspine, send a letter to Draigua saying you're a friend of mine and join the chat channel Canisius. Draigua is our guild leader (we're the Pwny Express) and a good friend of mine. The Canisius channel is also populated by a bunch of good folk to chat to, the vast majority of whom I know in real life.

(Also, I might be able to use my recruitment of another female into the guild to get some of her cooking. This is worth MUCH effort on my part :D )
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Batchman · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 1413 Location: Orlando FL

Just my luck ... bad timing, and out of the loop, as usual.

crispybacon · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 12:53 am Post subject:

Sorry, Batch. Your timing is incredible-you've managed to join Runescape RIGHT when the two most active RS members here decide to quit. (The third RS player is Broomdalf. He plays under the same name, so feel free to add him)

so...catch up to the trend and join WoW! (Actually, don't join unless you have friends who play already. I really don't think the game is worth playing unless you're playing with someone you already know)

Batchman · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 1413 Location: Orlando FL

The only people I know that I know (if you know what I mean) that play are the people who have commented in this thread, and I don't really know any of you all that well.

I'm guessing that WoW requires both buying a program, and then paying monthly for server access, and possibly even buying expansions, which usually manages to tick me off. One or the other, fine ... both iritates me.

Plus the cost is probably quite a bit more than Runescape. It seems like every game wants more than the one before. Runescape is, what, $5? Ultima Online was $8 ... how much is WoW?

Besides, right now I am pretty happy with Runescape ... I finally figured out how to make real money. After months of either killing everything in sight or making arrow shafts to sell in the general store for maybe 2000 gp an hour, I finally hit on mining pure essence for an hour, then selling it at the Grand Exchange for 150k.

I've got the money to buy all the equipment I need, and pay for materials to continue working on my skills.

crispybacon · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject:

Wow is buying a program and charging for monthly access, though the buying expansions part doesn't really apply. You only need to get the expansion once you've played about 2/3 of the way through the game, and you get a free month with buying the CD. Monthly charges are about $13-15 depending on various factors (what currency you pay in, and how many months you pay in advance)

Also, there are better ways to make money as you level up, depending on how the market has changed. Ask Broomdalf, as again I haven't played in months.
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broomdalf · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 258 Location: Midwest, again

Add me, although I'm quitting later this summer.

Pure ess is good money at the moment due to its inflated prices. I actually play under the name "zoro the cat" -- add me if you wish

Nature running is typically good money, or law running or whatever else -- go to a world, rune between points getting essence transformed -- but I don't know if that got ruined with the castration of the economy to prevent "real world trading"

Herb farming can be excellent money if you have a decent farming level.

Also, if you get 750k+ and do throne of miscellania, that can make you huge piles of money.

AriesQtPie · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 4:50 am Post subject:

crispybacon wrote: Yay another WoW-ite!

(Also, I might be able to use my recruitment of another female into the guild to get some of her cooking. This is worth MUCH effort on my part :D )

:shock: Aww man, I burn through enough golden fishsticks myself! I cook and fish my tail off (almost literally, since I'm a dranaei!) Same applies to you, if you ever want to kick around on Arygos, I'll be sure to be there with "healz" on! =)

ExarKun · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 2322 Location: USA

If you don't like online fees Batch there is the game... was it Guild Wars I believe? Though I don't hear as many people playing that as WoW. Though the game costs to buy the actual game at a store, the online was free at one time, and may still be.

Though if your entire point is getting people from this place to play with defeats the purpose if no one hear plays.

Batchman · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 1413 Location: Orlando FL

Well, right now, I spend about 1 1/2 hours a day mining runes to get about 200k a day in gold, which gives me the money to buy runes and seeds to train magic and farming.

Have magic to 58, Farming to about 45, and can't afford maple seeds to plant maple trees.

In the rest of my time, I am working on the required base quests to let me do Throne of Miscelanea. Just finished Fremmick Trials. Within a few days I need to do Heroes Quest.

Then I can do Throne. Wonder how much money it can make me?

If it can make me a few hundred thousand a day without taking too much time, then I will have the money to keep training! <ggg>

If anybody is still playing and wants to add me, I am Capt_Flax.

In doing some looking aorund, it looks likely that Misc would only probably make me about 50 - 75k a day ... I'm not sure it would be worth while ... but hopefully I am wrong, and it is more than that. Let me know!

broomdalf · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 258 Location: Midwest, again

Yes, it does only make you roughly that much money per day, but you have to do virtually no work for that money.

By my numbers, at current market prices (Middle grand exchange price), using this calculator, I am making about 95k a day.

This is using the following methods:

Royal Trouble completed (allows 50% more money to be converted into items, 75k/day instead of 50k)

Always keeping my account over 750k (10% of your money in the coffers is used daily)

5 people on flax, 10 on raw fish

Ignoring caskets and seeds in calculations, making up for it by blindly rounding up to the nearest thousand in the end

Updating my rating every 4 days. This means that for the 91k/day, virtually no work is expended. Maybe 20 minutes for those 4 days, if you can't use fairy rings or recharge glories.

It can be a little more or a little less, depending on market prices, but coal, flax, and raw fish are usually the best money.
I get there through fairy rings, but using your lyre can be convenient too, so long as you make maybe 10 lyres to make recharging less labor intensive/lyre.

As for farming, while trees are quick, doing strawberries and herbs at the same time, using all 4 vegetable plots is a lot cheaper.

For magic, you can lose the least amount of money casting high alchemy on air battlestaffs or blue d'hide bodies bought at the GE, but this takes a lot of seed money. Some of this could be recouped if you bought your max in normal battlestaffs at Zaff and sold them on the GE each day (maybe an extra 10k/day for stopping in his store on way to GE) But air battlestaffs are lossless.

Batchman · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 1413 Location: Orlando FL

This brings up an interesting point ... is there anything you can do to protect strawberry patches, like using flowers for tomatoes or scarecrows for corn?

I kept trying to plant strawberries in Catherby, and every time, the North allotment would die, while the South allotment would be fine. Finally, I just left my flowers growing, planted the North allotment with tomatoes, and the South with strawberries, and every time, both crops come in. I just don't know why it was always the North allotment that would die. Weird.

What are your thoughts on obtaining seeds? The Winkin Farm mini-game was nice for the really basic seeds when I was just getting started, but is not really very helpful now.

I have some strawberry seeds, but I have no idea where I got them from, so soon I will need more. I am assuming I want to keep advancing the seeds I use whenever I can ... though I have stayed mostly with sweetcorn instead of moving on to strawberries at two of my three allotment patches (have no way to teleport to Port Phantasma area, yet, so haven't started farming that patch) just because of the greater crop yield and the dying of the strawberry plants.

Right now, I follow a sort of route doing planting and harvesting of stuff. I start at the Cooking Guild, where I pick up 20 apples at the spawn points, to pay gardners to make sure my trees grow well. Then I head to the Grand Exchange, purchase any seeds I need that I know of no better way to get (willow and others), then I run over to the Varrock tree patch, to check on my tree there, and harvest it, if needed.

After that, I run to the bush patch near the Heroes Guild (right one? Wrong one? The guild just south of Varrock) pick berries, dig up the bush, and then replant. I don't pay a gardener, but my bushes always seem to grow all right. I have only ever lost one. I run a little further down to the hops patch for a harvest and replanting (paying a gardener to watch the hops, because these die on me every time if I don't).

Teleport free to Lumbridge, do a bank run, then hit the Lumbridge tree patch. Teleport from there to Falador, and hit the Falador and Taverly tree patches, then head down to the farm south of Farador to hit the allotments patch. I always start by emptying out my super compost, then starting a new batch (do this at every main farm patch), then harvest my crops and replant, except the flower section, which I leave alone. Then I don't have to wait for them to grow to protect my crops.

Teleport on to Camelot, then run down to Catherby, where I stop by the guy on the dock to buy his 30 pineapples if it is my first trip of the day. The super compost they make keeps crops safer, and provides halfway decent experience. Harvest my allotments and herbs, then teleport to Ardough, where I do the same at this farming patch. From there I run over to the battlefield spirit tree, use it to go to Gnome Village, and pop over to the fruit tree patch by Gnome Village.

Finally, I use tree in Gnome Village to teleport to Gnome Stronghold, where I check both the regular and fruit tree patches, before I climb the great tree and world hop a few times to get maybe 150 pineapples from the guy who sells them with a limit of 10 at a time. Roughly 180 pineapples for 360 gp means I can make 12 batches of super compost. Use the spirit tree to teleport back to the Grand Exchange, and I am ready to do the whole thing again ... except I may leave out the trees, if I do things quickly enough that I doubt they are ready yet.

At the moment, I am not seeing much benefit from the stops for bushes and hops, so I am considering droppingthose from my route, unless anybody has a suggestion for why I ought to include them.

I am also open to any other suggestions on how this might be improved. (I don't know why, but I am on a farming kick right now. Just started farming, and in the last four or five days have gone from 1 to about level 45.)

And I guess I have blathered on enough for one note, so I'll shut up for now.

Maus · Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 397

AriesQtPie wrote: crispybacon wrote: Yay another WoW-ite!

(Also, I might be able to use my recruitment of another female into the guild to get some of her cooking. This is worth MUCH effort on my part :D )

:shock: Aww man, I burn through enough golden fishsticks myself! I cook and fish my tail off (almost literally, since I'm a dranaei!) Same applies to you, if you ever want to kick around on Arygos, I'll be sure to be there with "healz" on! =)

Bah! I've been a Wow-er since release in 2004, and any player too lazy to work their fishing, cooking and first-aid skills deserves to be toast! It's not like you're sacrificing a primary skill slot.

I finally got tired of mailing bandages and snax from alts to my main (70 undead warrior), and it took a whole three days to max all of his secondary skills (okay, I still need to do the skill-cap boost on fishing in Thrallmar). :lol:

AriesQtPie · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:13 am Post subject:

Quote: Bah! I've been a Wow-er since release in 2004, and any player too lazy to work their fishing, cooking and first-aid skills deserves to be toast! It's not like you're sacrificing a primary skill slot.

I finally got tired of mailing bandages and snax from alts to my main (70 undead warrior), and it took a whole three days to max all of his secondary skills (okay, I still need to do the skill-cap boost on fishing in Thrallmar). :lol:

Oooooooo I see Maus...Mr. Hordie! =P

All my fishing/cooking/mining/jc stats are maxed. I try and lvl my alts fishing and cooking when I'm leveling them, because I did it the hard way (like Maus) on Adoralei. Sucks to have to go fishing and cooking for 3 or 4 days straight, then run around for training and recipes!

Maus · Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 397

For the Hooooorde! If you ain't Undead or Tauren, you ain't squat! I tried playing a Blood Elf for a bit, but they are just too precious to stomach, and Silvermoon City resembles a low-rent brothel. :wink:

Quote: Sucks to have to go fishing and cooking for 3 or 4 days straight, then run around for training and recipes!

The annoying part is that, long before I started work on the fishing skill, I did the Hinterlands quest that rewards you with a +25 skill fishing rod. Since I wasn't doing fishing at the time, I sold it to the nearest NPC. I've been kicking myself ever since. :think: