You decide

See that poll on the right side of the page? Would you take a minute to throw a choice in the ballot box? If you do vote, I'll let you in on whether or not the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the world.

And don't click on that link until you vote, buster. 

Srsly.

Two more things

While working on the elusive 5-feathered flappy hats, I noticed my avatar's AI is still awful when I'm trying to target chompys. I'd say perhaps it's due to lack of line-of-sight between me and the chompy, but this whacko delay between my clicking on one of the birds and when I actually get off my ass to fire my stabby chucker (about 3 seconds) can happen when I'm standing right next to a bird or refilling my bellows behind a small hillock with my back turned. 

The other thing has to do with Jagex's magical math-fu. Can you see the mistake in the following picture?

All in the family

Having seen more posts about the need to stand up against bigotry in RuneScape, I want to come out and say my peace.

With a chat message calling out racial slurs or homophobic epithets, I silently report and go about my gaming. I don't get into a big harangue about it with the insulter or call out my friends/clan for argument backup. I don't make a big deal out of it. Why? I think most of it's laid bait for reactionary purposes and I'm not going to fall for it.

As for the swastika-shaped fires/ashes, save for the impotent, do-gooder, "that's wrong" speech, there's nothing to be done about it. Unless  the swastika creator is babbling about the strength of the Aryan race, how Jews/blacks/homosexuals need to burn in their ovens or talks at all, you can't report them. I will say that's the shitty part of the game's report system. I like to think a screenshot is taken at the moment I hit the Report Abuse button, but I think it only goes through the chat log.

Yeah, I know my not giving a shit perpetuates the bigotry. I really don't care.

Reboot

Given serious thought to retiring my current P2P account in favor of a non-combat skiller has opened my eyes to something I've taken for granted: traveling via spells, quest items, jewelry, fairy rings and spirit trees.

In preparation to take a F2P skiller into P2P, I've made lists of quests I can do while keeping my combat level at the coveted number three. As I don't have the ring of recoil fighting method in hand, I eliminated any quests that require any combat. This removes the fairy rings and spirit trees for quick travel around the world. It puts a major dent into using enchanted dragonstone jewelry because I won't be able to access the guilds to recharge these items.

Quests aside, magic remains and with that, money making. I'll have to rely on other people to make games necklaces, dueling rings and teleport tablets since I won't be able to make my own. No more grabbing a few runes and teleporting to wherever. I'll stock up on boots of lightness and Dr. Scholl's gel inserts.

You thief!

My rule on scavenging other people's drops is if I can see it, it's up for grabs. Think about it. If the other person wanted it that bad, they'd have picked it up. Some people don't care if you scavenge after them. Some will get hostile, demanding a death match and/or reporting you.

I suppose arrows could be considered an exception because I do pick those up, but I don't do it to someone actively ranging. I've been in that situation and so have you. You're ranging blue dragons in Taverley and since they take more than a minute to kill, your arrows/bolts start appearing to everyone. Inevitably, someone will grab those arrows/bolts while you're still plugging away at the dragon. [My peeve is when this happens and the arrow picker-upper wants to trade you the ammunition back because they're just being helpful. Like I wasn't picking up my arrows anyway.]

Today, a guy was casting Fruit Fall in front of the Catherby bank while another guy was picking up the fruit the first guy left on the ground.

Iddison isn't looking so bad

Climbing boots were updated today. Now there are 2 types: climbing boots (no stats, cost 12gp) and rock climbing boots (same stats as before update, cost 75k).

"There are always thousands of accounts trying to buy these boots on the GE with very few trying to sell them, because they had low shop prices and complications to obtain in the first place."

People want to buy these boots off the GE and/or other players for one of two reasons: 1) too lazy to buy from Trenzig or 2) haven't done Death Plateau quest.

I'm looking forward to the future rope update which will increase the cost of a rope to 50k with a high alch value of 26k.

Jumping through hoops

Chinahearts mentioned on System Update #18 about the hoops one has to go through in order to join a clan these days. Having made several applications of my own, I've seen common ideologies amongst them.

The first point is there will usually be a combat and/or skill level requirement. For clans leaning more toward fighting, combat will be their big concern while a skiller clan looks toward high, non-combat skills. The lowest combat and skill requirements I've seen were 100+ (without summoning) and 50+ in a single, non-combat skill respectively.

Secondly, event attendance is necessary for, typically, 2-3 events per month. It doesn't seem like a lot to ask. Clans tend to have quite a few events each month and picking a minimum to attend shouldn't be difficult. If you only have a few hours to play, clan events can cut into any training time you may have planned. 

Online forums are standard as well. Minimum post count (10-20) seems to put you into the "I'm serious about this" category. Screenshots of you attending any events provide proof.

It's a rarity to find a clan that doesn't have or has a minimum of requirements. If Canting is considered a clan (in loose terms, I suppose it is), it has the least; merely joining Merch Gwyar's clan chat will get your boot in the door. 

The worst part of joining a clan is going through all the trouble of being at events, posting on the forums, getting or keeping your skills high enough only to find out the clan dissolved.