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Skeleton Man

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We need crates of vials added to the game as well, this was a broken mechanic jagex attempted to fix first with infinite stocks due to autobuying bots buying out stocks for the sole purpose of reselling on the forums for a much higher price.

This is exactly what is going on now I have seen a buying bot personally.

Also it is redundant to have to walk 100k vials of water / empties from gen stores/taverly to the bank. You haven't trained anything and will have wasted well over 80 hrs doing nothing!

In 2006 when construction was released there was no teleport to player owned houses.

Yet in 2007 we have this option, eliminating the need to needlessly walk the long distances to a player portal to a poh from the bank not gaining any xp in the process.

Adding the crates does NOT make herblore any easier, if that were the case then we need to remove trading of vials completely then because whether you are able to buy them all from the gen store WITHOUT being exploited by this broken mechanic and without having to walk 27 vials from stores to banks 100k worth of vials or you buy 100k vials on the forums you have still received 100k vials. This has yet to change the actual process of mixing herbs, does not increase the speed of the mixing of herbs and secondaries, nor does it allow for something like potions being made from the bank at more than 14 at a time in the backpack.

A witch hunt claiming this is 'easy' mode for herblore is ridiculous as again you can buy them from other players so if buying them all in crates from a store is easy mode then so is 100k in a note from another player. There is NO difference.

08-Mar-2013 19:18:34 - Last edited on 08-Mar-2013 19:22:32 by Skeleton Man

Ghosttalon
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The communication here is top-notch like we haven't seen in a long time. This is wonderful, and I look forward to the polls. The 75% cut-off is a clear majority -- good choice. My one concern is the total level of 100. That basically represents a level achievable in a new account's first day of playing, even in old school. I really think double that would have been better, at least. But that's a tough call, I understand.


As to other things mentioned on this thread:

1.) A couple people have again mentioned the run/rest/musician update. NO! Train agility. It actually makes a more noticeable difference in Old School. It is WORTH it. Please don't have Agility, and Energy pots, be nerfed to uselessness yet again. Stop asking for this. You wanted Old School; useful Agility is part and parcel of the package.

2.) Legacy of Seergaze. Lol, I loved this quest. It was the first big runecrafting update I had seen, and we FINALLY got allowed to make bloods. (And after all this time, where are Souls? Oh right, useless now under the regime of Runespan + EoC.) I have to say it is very tempting to ask for that quest experience back. But you have to realize it introduced a large new area (the Meiyerditch tunnels) which may involve a lot of reworking and may not be feasible. Further the slayer monsters down there (especially mutated bloodvelds) were really actually balanced for the godsword era, not the weapons we had available at this point in time. I'm sure they could be tweaked a bit to be workable. After all, I do remember killing them across a table with d hally lol. Just took a while. So, I'm staying on the fence. But it is an intriguing suggestion.

08-Mar-2013 19:19:29

Ghosttalon
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Ghosttalon

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I said it's intriguing. I'm not sure at this point. Actually a lot of it would depend on the devs. They've already nixed GWD (good) because it would take hours of time rebuilding virtually from scratch. I wouldn't want to get excited about this idea and hear the same reason that this wouldn't be possible. Regardless, I think that would be down the road considerably.

08-Mar-2013 19:32:59

A Lil Nugget
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Seriously guys I think one of the easiest ways to find the bots, and Gold Farmers would be to assemble a team of 3-4 people. 2 of them are hopping worlds at popular spots for bots*, those 2 people check for signs of botting, such as rubbish usernames (e.g. 'gfdhjghgh' or '123048o0u8' or 'ziangchao044') and have the other 2 people on the team check out the logs for those accounts. Then look for their trade history (incase the account is transfering the materials/gp to another account). Through this method you can eliminate possibly hundreds everyday.

Please guys, I'm really tired of mining ess, and then I see kids who have just botted for hours on end, with 100k+ pure essence. Its ridiculous and needs to stop. Its not fair to everyone else!




*- (mainly essence mining spots, green dragons is a bit different I guess, but still equally as important as its a lot faster for gold farmers to gain stock through green dragon botting)

08-Mar-2013 20:24:42

Signal Fire

Signal Fire

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Great! I'm loving that you're getting stuck in with updates, the only update that i'm querying is the instant-click-banking
I think banking shouldn't be tampered with - please do a community poll however, before that update.

Thank you!

08-Mar-2013 20:29:40

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