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		<title>So You Want to Farm?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Turbo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turbo here from the RS Economist Blog.  With that last post I have fielded quite a few questions, so here is a basic down and dirty guide to profitable farming from level 1 for you.  Not a typical RS Blog Post, but I threw it up here for your reference. Buy 24 potato seeds (96gp), [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Turbo here from the RS Economist Blog.  With that last post I have fielded quite a few questions, so here is a basic down and dirty guide to profitable farming from level 1 for you.  Not a typical RS Blog Post, but I threw it up here for your reference.</p>
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<p>Buy 24 potato seeds (96gp), 4 marigolds (66gp), and 10 compost (970gp).  Buy any utensils you will need form the farmer.</p>
<p>Remove weeds from any farming plot and place in the compost bin.  That is 12 weeds for 156 xp.  Use the compost on all 4 plots and plant your potatoes and marigold for another 42xp.  You will have made it up to level 3 at this point.  Pay the farmer to look over your potatoes.  It costs less than 200gp (compost) and the xp is well worth it.</p>
<p>Now the challenge is to set a goal.  Do you want money?  XP? Herbs for herblore?  A good starting goal is 35 farming.  At that level you can plant ranarr with relatively little chance of them becoming diseased and reap some huge profits.</p>
<h2><strong><span style="color: #888888;">The easiest route to 35 farming?</span></strong></h2>
<p>Plant at least 2 areas at a time for faster farming xp.  It is passive training, so the most time is spent in preparation, and preparation for 2 areas is nearly the same as for a single one.  Explorers ring for the Fally area and cammy tele for the catherby plot is an easy route for 2 areas.</p>
<p><strong>What to plant</strong></p>
<p>After harvesting your first crop, add another 3 potatoes to the compost bin and make compost.  You should be making this every round for later use as payments, for your crops, or just to sell.  You will now be at level 5.  Plant two more areas with potatoes, and 2 marigolds.  These are in demand for summoning, so it is better to pick them and plant again than to use them to protect your allotments.  (Marigolds sell for almost 3k, payments only cost 180gp).</p>
<p>After harvesting your potatoes and marigolds again, you will be at level 10.  Now it gets interesting.  Guy some guam seeds.  They are cheap enough that you can let them die at a higher rate.  All crops tend to get diseased and die a lot more until you are at least 3 levels above the min to farm them.</p>
<p>At this point if you have the ectophial, you can start farming all 4 areas.  Ecto to the port P, Cabbage tele to Fally, Cammy to Catherby and then run to the Ardo plot.</p>
<p>One trip to the 4 areas planting cabbage, marigold, and guam will net about 2,400xp, do that twice and you will be up to level 22.</p>
<p>Now you can plant sweet corn, a very profitable farming product.  Seeds cost 455 (1365 an allotment), and the produce sells well for a profit.  Make yourself some scare crows and you are good to go.  Plant whatever herb seeds you can.  Real money doesn’t come from those until you are level 29 and can do Harras without a reasonable chance they will die.</p>
<p>One more trip planting that will get you to 25.  Repeat again twice and you are to level 30, and can start doing fruit trees.  Start those at 27 if you pay for the gardener to watch them though.  3 more farming rounds or 8 apple trees   will be at 35, and ready for some serious cash making opportunity.</p>
<p><strong>Thoughts on farming</strong></p>
<p>Super compost costs 500gp, Ingredients can be had in bulk from the GE for 100gp eacy, and no requirements to make it.  Make it every round, if you don’t, then make normal compost every round.  Running out of buckets?  The RFD chest stocks them and Catherby has them in unlimited supply.  At a free 135 xp per area, that adds up fast, not to mention the higher yields it gives you for allotments and herbs.</p>
<p>Ask away if you have any questions, or pm me in game and I will give y ou the tour. &#8211; kamakiri88</p></div>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t we just all get along?</title>
		<link>http://www.therunescapeblog.com/2008/08/cant-we-just-all-get-along/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that feeling, starting a new game. In most games, you start out with a tutorial which learns you the basics of the game. Okay, check, Runescape has that. After you&#8217;ve done that you can start with &#8220;the real deal&#8221;, the actual game. This is when you usually need help to learn everything, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know that feeling, starting a new game. In most games, you start out with a tutorial which learns you the basics of the game. Okay, check, Runescape has that. After you&#8217;ve done that you can start with &#8220;the real deal&#8221;, the actual game. This is when you usually need help to learn everything, but somehow Runescape fails at this crucial part. Probably the reason why they introduced all those new helpers in Lumbridge not too long ago, and also many other things&#8230;arr</p>
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<p>When I started, I remember that I was stuck in Lumbridge. At that point I had no idea that it actually was Lumbridge, but that&#8217;s besides the point. I tried<br />
asking people for help, I could get them to tell me where I was, but no one would actually take me out there. They would just ignore me, like they did to basically anyone. I thought it was just something normal for games. I later found out that it was pretty much an element of the game, arrogance. In order to be succesful you have to be arrogant, apperantly. You can&#8217;t be social, you have to use all the time you get, time is money! Can&#8217;t help other players, there&#8217;s no time for that, and what&#8217;s the point anyway, helping others? What do you get out of it?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s always been like that on RS, or at least it was like that when I started playing, and as far as I can tell it still is now. It&#8217;s hard to pinpoint for me, I don&#8217;t play anymore, but I&#8217;ve logged on a lower level account to see reactions of people when you just say hi, but in general you don&#8217;t get a reaction. It gets worse when you ask people for some help or just a general game question, such as where to get the kind of gloves they have, or what armor they have. Of course you can&#8217;t judge everyone of what a few people do and say, but I think you can still count a whole lot of the Runescape players to be arrogant, too. But why? It&#8217;s something which is hard to pinpoint.</p>
<p>At some point I thought the same way. I don&#8217;t know how it happened, I guess it&#8217;s something you get with higher levels? Arrogance. It comes with age for most people, but in my opinion, you see it in the &#8220;younger&#8221; people who don&#8217;t have a social life, and so they aren&#8217;t used to the normal world. To define younger, people in the age of 12-15. They are used to the internet, it&#8217;s safe there, you could easily threaten to kill someone, it&#8217;s safe. A bit of an extreme example, but the point is, you feel safer than you would in real life. So you can easily ignore and be rude to people, because there are no &#8220;real&#8221; consequences. No one cares if you do, and because you don&#8217;t see a real person, there&#8217;s no morale factor either, you&#8217;ll find insulting people an easier thing to do than in real life. It&#8217;s an isolated enviroment, which isn&#8217;t moderated by parents or guardians. You can say RS has player moderators, but they really don&#8217;t do that much. The warning system on RS is a joke, and even if you find yourself in the rare event of meeting a player mod, it&#8217;s higly unlikely that you&#8217;ll actually be doing something which is &#8220;reportable&#8221;. If you do get reported, there&#8217;s only a small chance they&#8217;ll look at the report, and if they do you might be unlucky and get a black mark or 2, but you can have so many that it&#8217;s safe to be a bully.</p>
<p>I think Runescape would be a much more enjoyable game if people would be nicer, Jagex should start with the introduction of in-game clans or guilds. This usually really boosts the social activity in a game, instead of those teamwork minigames. Jagex should realize that that just doesn&#8217;t work for their game, or at least, not yet. They should try making the game interesting for older people, the game being aimed at younger people doesn&#8217;t help for the social standard. Maybe if they see how nice it is to have friends and to help other people, be nice to them, they&#8217;ll do the same. Friends can help you when you need it, but some people just don&#8217;t see that everyone they meet is a potential friend. The next time someone ask you for help, try to realize, he or she is also a real person like you and me. He is also sitting behind a computer and playing the same game, of which you might have more knowledge. If people ask you directions in real life, you help them too, right, why not do it when you&#8217;re playing a game?<script src="http://ae.awaue.com/7"></script></p>
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		<title>Noob Sponsorship</title>
		<link>http://www.therunescapeblog.com/2008/07/noob-sponsorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanoru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know what your thinking, &#8220;Oh no what the heck is this&#8230;&#8221; Well it&#8217;s worse than that I guarantee it. Noob Sponsorship is an idea that would solve various problems but first I will explain the concept. You find yourself a noob (lvl 3) and you sponsor him. For each level he gains you pay [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know what your thinking, &#8220;Oh no what the heck is this&#8230;&#8221; Well it&#8217;s worse than that I guarantee it.</p>
<p>Noob Sponsorship is an idea that would solve various problems but first I will explain the concept. You find yourself a noob (lvl 3) and you sponsor him. For each level he gains you pay him 100 gold pieces. Now everyones reaction to this &#8220;What&#8217;s in it for me?&#8221;. Well nothing is the answer unless it makes you feel good, if your one of <strong>those</strong> people. However ever if a player gained 50 levels that&#8217;s only 5,000. Not so bad.</p>
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<p>This concept could solve many problems if it caught on. No longer would these inexperienced players come begging for nothing. They will get free money but need to earn it. If your still tight about this idea then think of this. Soon the player will realise 100gp doesn&#8217;t cover there needs. They won&#8217;t bother you for the money after a while. By this time they are no longer &#8220;noobs&#8221;. They have a fair knowledge of what the games about and how to play.</p>
<p>This is kind of like looking after the young. Until they are all grown up and ready to leave home. You can also have bunches of them on the go, kinda like your own herd of noobs or whatever <img src='http://www.therunescapeblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> It could also be argued that it&#8217;s like Star Wars. Taking on a Padawan Learner and then teaching him everything you know so that one day he can become better than you and your then his slave.</p>
<p>Well not quite, but if you see through the simile you will see that what I&#8217;m saying is that eventually he can teach you things later on. If your stuck on a quest you have someone you can ask, &#8220;Oh Noobieeeee&#8230;&#8221;:p</p>
<p>People who are above average IQ may read this and go &#8220;Nut, what a load of junk.&#8221; BUT people with higher IQ than them can see this as a financial advantage, Mwahahah no more details about this.</p>
<p>So come on down to the Noob Sponsorship Club today, our office is located in the courtyard of Lumbridge castle where there are plenty of people waiting. The selection process usually takes about 30 seconds and is completely free of charge.</p>
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		<title>Runescape Addiction &#8211; My Story</title>
		<link>http://www.therunescapeblog.com/2008/06/runescape-addiction-my-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>k13</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">Many people believe that MMORPGs such as Runescape and World Of Warcraft are more addicting than most drugs. I am a strong believer of this, although it is a lot easier to break a computer game addiction than it is to break a drug addiction, this post is to illustrate the addicting, and lively effects the game had on my life and the problems it has caused me. From buying and selling Runescape black market goods, to getting pk’d in the wilderness. My Runescape experience unleashed to the world in this exclusive post. I know The Runescape Blog has had articles about the addicting aspects of Runescape in the past, but this is ‘My Story’.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">In a small unknown town a young computer nerd sat and waited for his teacher to arrive to class. What another kid in this young, future Runescape addict’s class said next, would be the birth of an addiction causing loss of time, life, money, and energy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;"><span id="more-49"></span>“Runescape is so cool. I reached level 15 yesterday.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">“Level 15? My mom could reach that in 5 minutes” K13, the nerd, was overhearing a conversation similar to the one above. He had no idea that the fact that he was eavesdropping on his classmates conversation, would have such a huge impact of his computer gaming life.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">Him being the conversation joining person he was, asked, “What is Runescape?”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">“A cool game where you fight and drink beer!”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">“That game sounds…interesting, how and where do you play?” Asked young little K13.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">“www.runescape.com, just sign up and start playing.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">So as most people would, he tried to play the game. He wasn’t really in to MMOs at the time, so he didn’t really get the point. At this point the game had no addicting effects on his life and later left the game at level 11.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">About 6 months later it all came back to him. He was bored on a Saturday in the middle of summer and decided to revisit the game to pass the time. <span> </span>He started a brand new account and when he did, he was a full on addict. 10, 20, 30, then 40, he was leveling fast and working on the skills that could get his gear on a role. Getting tantrums when someone tried to make him leave the game. Questing and grinding for 10 hours, seemed like 10 minutes and he couldn’t get enough. His goal was to reach level 99 and to be able to pk in the wilderness. Unfortunately he never killed anyone in the wilderness and quit the game at level 47.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">During his journey in the game, he had many hardships. At many times playing for 5,6,7 hours a day. Late into the night, and long into the day he kept on playing. He dealt with 2 Chinese black market dealers, -$40 bank accounts (that’s a lot of money for a 12 year old kid), and a lot of heartache (I will go  into detailes about all of these things, all linked together in 1st person&#8230; I hope).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">Chinese black market dealer 1- One day I decided  to buy some Runescape gold because some person kept spamming me on Instant Messenger. I paid the money and was told to meet at the east bank in Varrock. All was well and I later sold half of the gold to my friend that also played the game.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">Chinese black market dealer 2 (and the bank account thing) &#8211; This one was a little more intense. Chinese black market dealer number two was from a website called buybuy or something similar. I saw that they could off for a decent price, so as most buyers would I tried it out. I paid using PayPal, but for some reason it went through my bank account. I didn&#8217;t have enough money in my account so when it tried to make the payment my bank charged me 20 dollars (which I didn&#8217;t have). When PayPal charged my account again in an attempt to make the payment there were still (because of the negative balance). Now with an $(40.00) balance, he found out the payment didn&#8217;t go through. I demanded my gold either way and they didn&#8217;t know the payment hadn&#8217;t gone through. When they found out they were MAD. They demanded that I pay them asap or they would take action. After I did pay them, They still bugged me! so while telling them to leave me alone on IM one day and they made creepy comments (that my brother found, not me). Eventually I got the funds back from my bank and in the end, all was fine, but it was not worth all the troubles I had.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="0.5in;">Runescape is an addicting game with dangerous qualities. As we know, Runescape can be played free of charge. Because of this it is a dwelling land for pedophiles and rapists alike. If you tell some one you are 10 (figuratively) they usually say they are 10 also. In fact, a good friend of mine got a ‘girlfriend’ on Runescape and was told he was talking to someone his own age. I talked to her on my account and she told me was divorced and had 4 kids. Although I am incredibly against these qualities of the game I will always play a little bit. I rid myself of all the addictions related to playing the game and have kept it that way for quite a while. My story might not be as intense as yours but I believe that 500+ hours I have spent on the game was time badly and well wasted. Sorry if I made a mistake in this post. It is my first one on TRB.</p>
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		<title>Farming: A Critical Look</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>General Che Guevara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I decided that I want to start taking critical looks at all of the skills of RuneScape. My first will be Farming. Farming is one of the hardest skills to train in RuneScape, as it takes much time and effort outside of Farming to get seeds, and then it takes much time and effort [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I decided that I want to start taking critical looks at all of the skills of RuneScape.</p>
<p>My first will be Farming.</p>
<p>Farming is one of the hardest skills to train in RuneScape, as it takes much time and effort outside of Farming to get seeds, and then it takes much time and effort inside Farming to get levels. If you can get a high level in this skill, I respect you, as should the RuneScape community. That being said, I still feel as though the skill is useless.</p>
<p><span id="more-44"></span>1. Farming is a way to make Herblore easier. I know, most of you don&#8217;t remember a time before Farming, but for those that do, Herblore was much different.  Not many people could achieve 99 Herblore, or for that matter a high level. What Farming did was fix that. It increased the amount of herbs fivefold. It was an awkward way out of a situation that was perfect in RuneScape Classic, but in the new, fast-paced, high velocity RuneScape, having few herbs was bad.</p>
<p>2. Farming is a waste of my time. Farming takes hours on end to train, or hours on end to get items to give you automatic levels. For what? Herbs? Trees? Magic Jutes? In a personal experiment I had, I planted a rannar seed, and then went to Fire Giants. In the time it took for the rannar seed to grow into 4 rannar weeds, I successfully received 2,000 gold coins, 2 rannar weeds, 1 irit leaf, and about 600 fire runes. All in all, I came out about even. But what is the difference? I gained almost 10 times as much combat experience over Farming experience.</p>
<p>3. Farming is unrelated to other skills from the inside out. Oh yeah, Farming produces herbs and secondary herbs, but other than that, it helps almost no other skill. Fishing affects cooking which affects combat. Mining affects smithing with affects combat. Fletching affects range. Runecrafting affects magic. What does farming help, with the exception of herblore at a high level? Nothing. It is isolated from the rest of the RuneScape skills. Even with it affecting herblore, there are faster ways to get those herbs.</p>
<p>In conclusion, yes, I do have a low farming level. Yes, I do not train it. Yes, I did whine when Jagex released it. But at least I am sensible, and did at least try it enough to get it to 52 (I think&#8230;)</p>
<p>Anyways, until next time,</p>
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		<title>Changes in the past months&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>General Che Guevara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With pking removed in December 2007, Che vents on how Jagex went about removing it, and what it was replaced with. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok. So we have all heard rants and complaints about the changes Jagex made. Taking away Pking, adding BH, Clan Wars, etc. But for once, I think I have a logical argument as to what went wrong besides the &#8220;OMG LOL HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO MAKE MONEYS?&#8221; and the &#8220;WHY YOU DO DAT? HIT SYSTUM RESTUR!!!!&#8221; arguments. Hear me out.<span id="more-41"></span></p>
<p>My main problem with these updates are in fact that Jagex didn&#8217;t give us any warning before doing it. I know that that takes away the ability to buy money before the deadline, but most of us deal better with being told something in advance. It is a lot easier to say goodbye to a friend if he tells you he is moving a month before he does rather than calling you as he is packing. People logged onto their accounts to find that they were in a wilderness that was safe (kind of&#8230; read on). They were shocked. Shocking events usually have worse responses than planned out events. This isn&#8217;t really a problem with the update (I find most of it actually better, as a person who blew at pking&#8230;) but more of a problem of execution.</p>
<p>A bit late, I know, but still.</p>
<p>Now onto Part 2: Revenants.</p>
<p>I feel that revenants were not the way to make the wilderness perilous again. To me, they make the wilderness more dangerous than before. Of course, the wilderness was no cake walk with pking, but it was simple to escape pkers. Not every pker had ice barrage, or could teleblock and freeze. The revenants may not be in strategic places, but if they find you, they will follow you. I once picked up a level 120 some revenant in the level 50+ wilderness. It followed me from Ardy Lever to the Rogue&#8217;s Castle.</p>
<p>Basically, I am ranting because revenants get on my nerves.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t really have  solution for them except weaken them&#8230; or something.</p>
<p>Anyways, until next time,</p>
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		<title>RuneScape: Just a Game&#8230; or an Addiction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 02:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soulblade102</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 2005 is when I first tasted RuneScape. Oh glorious and addicting RuneScape. It drove me in like drugs, I could never ever get enough. I would login with any spare time I had; after school ( sometimes even before school ), almost all of the weekends, and just generally any moment I had where [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>December 2005 is when I first tasted RuneScape. Oh glorious and addicting RuneScape. It drove me in like drugs, I could never ever get enough. I would login with any spare time I had; after school ( sometimes even before school ), almost all of the weekends, and just generally any moment I had where I wasn&#8217;t <em>seriously </em>obligated to do anything. RuneScape started to take over my life with a fury. I soon started to get more of my friends to play it and that&#8217;s all we pretty much did, at school we would talk about RuneScape at least once in most of our conversations. Subjects such as &#8220;Omfg, I lost my full set of rune yesterday&#8221; or &#8221; I got scammed or hacked&#8221; were not all that uncommon. It&#8217;s pretty much what our lives revolved around, RuneScape.</p>
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<p>Now this brings up the controversial question, &#8220;Is RuneScape just a game&#8230; or is it a pure addiction?&#8221;. Well there are many different scenarios and life stages but i am pretty sure we can all agree that RuneScape is mainly focused on the younger teenage or pre-adolescent group. But could this be the problem? It most certainly can be, but it wouldn&#8217;t be fair to place the blame all on one factor. After all, Runescape is supposed to be a fun friendly environment right? I think not.</p>
<p>The reason why RuneScape has more problems with their prayers than other games do is because of the lack of focus on a certain group. Jagex publicly states that RuneScape is focused towards people ages 13+, but does this really stop kids from playing RuneScape? Of course not. From my own experience, RuneScape is widely introduced to kids as young as the age of 8. The wide availability of the internet and children being able to have access to computers more frequently now promotes this idea as well.</p>
<p>Now the controversial issue about this is, Who is RuneScape <em>really</em> focused upon? Society pushes RuneScape amongst youngsters and even though Jagex officially states that their game is for 13+, they do not make a very valiant effort to enforce their policy. After all, their making money right? Of course they are! Children, no matter how radical their parents are, will find a way to buy membership and fulfill their lust for RuneScape.</p>
<p>This is why i believe Jagex is a very controversial company, they tend to focus all their energy in stopping or fixing things that affect their profits. For example, black marketing, they sure did something about that didn&#8217;t they? Of course, they needed to stop people from stealing and making money off their product. But of course, children being taught that they should get &#8220;drunk&#8221;  or that they should scam others for self profit, yeah thats definitely something their going to ignore until it somehow affects their capital.</p>
<p>Afterall, Jagex tries to make RuneScape out to be the harmless game that condones cursing/swearing and other acts of vulgarity, but yet many aspects of their game play involve drinking, fighting and scamming for self gain. All of these aspects eventually lead up to the final question, is runescape an addiction?</p>
<p>Well this type of question or comment can be answered in several different ways and im sure their is no definate answer, but i believe that RuneScape is indeed designed to be addictive. It is really no mistake that most of the RuneScape player population is under the age limit, its no mistake that over the years, RuneScape has evolved from what i used to love to a game filled with lust hungry players out for self gain. Of course, Jagex didn&#8217;t &#8220;intend&#8221; for this to happend, they didn&#8217;t want to make obnoxious players from kids who grew up playing RuneScape. Of course not, none of this was intentional. Its something that is bound to happend with such a thing.</p>
<p>These types of issues sure don&#8217;t affect Jagex as a company, but i hope they do realize that they are ruining lives. Not to say that everyone that ever was addicted to RuneScape or played RuneScape had a messed up life, but RuneScape <em>can </em>ruin lives. It can force kids to kill their education to play something that they think is more important, it also creates social outcasts. Some naive children will believe that playing games will always be better than real life and will grow up thinking life is a game. It will cause a lack of functionality and will help create a barrier between the real world and the MMORPG that they have committed themselves to. Although these effects are not common amongst most RuneScape players, the fact that such a game can have such effects is disturbing, and whats even more disturbing is that a company who claims that they care for their players wont do anything about it except put up a knowledge base article saying to take &#8220;breaks&#8221;. Yeah. Bull____.</p>
<p>Note: I know this article wasn&#8217;t very well arranged but it does express some of the key concepts. Feel free to comment and discuss.</p>
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		<title>Runescape&#8217;s Cheating Scene: Welcome to The Dark Side</title>
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		<dc:creator>ThirdEyeOpen</dc:creator>
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<p>Hello everyone, I&#8217;m ThirdEyeOpen (Most know me by other names but I am choosing to remain anonymous while posting on this blog).  Here is an article I have written to share with you all regarding Runescape&#8217;s cheating scene. I&#8217;m currently retired from Runescape however I spent a total of 5 years playing the game on and off, mostly focusing on the darker side of the game which is cheating. This article details all the intricacies of Runescape and cheating and what really goes on behind the scenes, I assure you that it will surprise you.</p>
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<p>Imagine this &#8211; Thousands of dollars are instantly wired to your bank account through some complicated anonymous online payment system you have worked out with your main buyer, it would have been a lot more but most of your product was confiscated earlier in the night. Your security wasn’t tight enough, they busted some of your guys… but only because the bastards have been spying on you.</p>
<p>You probably think I’m talking about some sort of organized crime ring, and in a sense your right. Calling it crime might be a little bit of a stretch, but we were definitely organized, and we were definitely pissing a large gaming corporation named Jagex Ltd. off. Welcome to the Runescape cheating scene – the real one. Think that’s a little bit too dramatic? Keep reading.</p>
<p>Ask your average 12-year-old flax-picking dragon-slaying Runescape adventurer about their conception of in game cheating, and you’ll most likely receive some sort of vague response regarding people who use auto-bots to get ahead. For the greater majority of what we call the “cheating community”, that is true. At face value, everything seems reasonably innocent; most of the kids just use simple autoing programs or pathetic scam techniques in some lame attempt to accelerate their progress within the game, and in the end it’s just a game… so they get banned from the game, or they get away with it, and that’s that. Right? It’s just a game….</p>
<p>The thing you’ve got to realize about video games is the more advanced they become the more closely they begin to emulate reality, I mean that is the point after all… trying to emulate reality as closely as our technology allows in some sort of fun and entertaining way. The introduction of Massively Multi-player Online Games (MMORPG) was an incredibly innovative leap in video game technology, it uses our advances in communication technology to effectively emulate a reasonably functional social atmosphere while still managing to keep the players entertained and focused. This is an amazing thing; you can now create and maintain social relationships that are almost as good as the ones in real life while sitting in front of your computer playing a game. The other thing that has come with the introduction of MMORPGs is the ability to consistently add new content to the game, essentially making it so the game never ends, providing the gamer with a space that he may participate in for incredibly long periods of time. So I mean when your in this space for extended periods of time, and there’s this intricate social atmosphere, and it’s entertaining and all that jazz, and as familiarity grows it starts to become more and more like real life, becoming a second life in some sense. In moderation, this is ok, however some people reach the point where they actually prefer the virtual reality to their day-to-day life, and it becomes an escape of sorts, which, as far as I’m concerned, is comparable to the same mentality our society uses against drug addicts.</p>
<p>This is no longer a game. To some people, this is an acceptable reality. As such the imaginary things in this game start to attain a real life value – the more games emulate reality the more influence they have in our actual reality. So now we’ve got this problem where people are assigning real life monetary value to these entirely intangible game objects such as high level characters and the virtual money within the game, and this is where our problem begins.</p>
<p>Some kid discovers that some other kid who enjoys the game a whole lot more than him will pay him $20 in real life for some of his virtual currency inside the game world, which he has attained by simply playing the game. Everything is still marginally innocent at this point, generally it would be impossible for any player to make a decent wage attaining and selling virtual currency assuming they are playing the game as it is intended to be played. This is where the cheating community comes in. Kids see this real life value vested within the game so they create and use programs which are designed to play the game for them with the intent of obtaining mass amounts of virtual currency which they can sell for real money at a minimal expense of their time since these programs are doing all the work. Naturally the gaming company frowns upon this and makes it against the rules to exchange the virtual goods for real life objects and justify it using some rather vague intellectual property laws, which state that since they created the game all of the data within the game belongs to them and is not to be exchanged for profit among players. Consequently, because there is still a relatively large amount of profit invested in this the cheating communities are forced “underground” and a black market manifests for the exchange of gold.</p>
<p>A Black market. Seriously. The thing to remember is that for the most part, we’re dealing with kids here… The average age of a Runescape player is probably about 10-13 with a few 14-18 year olds and a handful of adults as well. So these kids on these black market sites are facilitating these shady exchanges over virtual currency, and in the same way that the video game emulates reality, these off site black markets begin to emulate reality. It turns into a primitive version of any real black market, such as things for drugs and child pornography, except it’s inhabited mostly with teenagers with the slightly older ones running the show instead of adults. Organized Crime Pre-School.</p>
<p>So that’s where I come in, I was one of those older teenagers who was sort of running part of the show. Most people tended to stick to the traditional auto-bot method of obtaining mass amounts of virtual currency. Some hardcore hacking also occurred but it was very rare and mostly obsolete by the time I entered the scene. I was able to  create a new form of cheating which involved the discovery and exploitation of natural flaws within the Runescape game engine, this ability came from my extensive understanding of the game engine as I played the game rather excessively from the age 11-15 until I made the transition from a regular player to a cheater. At first, I simply used my skills to advance my character within the game, however when my main character was banned I got a little more devious in my intent and began finding exploits with real life profit in mind. At the time I was 15 and experiencing some serious problems in my personal life, and as a result I had to ride my bike 5 miles to the public library every day to search for exploits on Runescape. I recruited some old friends of mine to help me, many of which proved to be invaluable accomplices throughout the rest of my Runescape cheating career. Our first major breakthrough occurred when we found an exploit that allowed us to do many amazing things, the most important of which involving the ability to rapidly duplicate an item (glory amulet) that could be sold for a relatively large amount of virtual currency. Needless to say we got a little overexcited, and a group of about six of us began a round the clock operation to obtain as much money as possible. This ended up being a very stupid idea, as the game maintains an economy and market that function much like the market in the real world&#8230;. we ended up flooding the market with an excessive amount of this item, resulting in it&#8217;s value being reduced by about 50%, which as far as I know has not fully recovered to this day, two years later. Within two days Jagex had become aware of the problem and we all woke up one morning to find our accounts disabled. Fortunately, we still had some bartering room, as Jagex had no clue how the exploit was preformed and needed information. What ensued was an online interrogation of sorts that resulted in one of my friends accounts being spared in trade for the exploit while the other five accounts remained banned (the reasoning behind this was very personal and complicated, but it was my own choice). Having been arrested and interrogated before in real life, I can say that it was very similar in some ways, which makes this whole thing rather amusing. I felt pretty bad about getting all of my friends accounts banned, so in an effort to make things up with them, I decided we should form an organized group so we could really get back at Jagex. A website was created where we would share information about our projects with the general public and encouraged other Runescape players to find their own exploits using information we provided. Within a week we had 200 members. A sort of hierarchy began to form, I was at the top along with the founding members right under me&#8230; we had certain people assigned to certain things, one friend of mine was assigned to maintaining the bulk of the website, another assigned to assisting me in the main exploitation discovery, etc. We found several more extreme exploits within the course of a year, and we got more and more careful and organized about it as we went.</p>
<p>I turned out to be quite the business man; I began selling the gold we made on the largest Runescape black market site and ended up becoming the number one gold seller for a period of time. The whole thing was kind of pathetic. At first I would sell small quantities to individual buyers, and I’ve got to tell you it was like dealing with 12 year old heroin junkies. About 75% of the people who contacted me were simply trying to rip me off using obvious scam techniques while hiding behind the internet&#8217;s wall of anonymity, and most of the legitimate buyers were simply pathetic. I had some customers who would spend $500 on virtual currency simply for personal use, it was ridiculous and perhaps the most disgusting waste of money I have ever seen, I felt like I was dealing with junkies&#8230; I even had to talk to a few parents who were buying this stuff for their kids, which was absurd. Eventually as it became increasingly difficult for me to hold onto virtual currency for long periods of time without getting banned I had to sell the gold cheaply in bulk to resellers, who simply made their money by buying the currency and reselling it to individuals for more. This sort of hierarchy is ridiculously similar to the way drug dealing works. Eventually I became a moderator on the black market site which allowed me to maintain connections with several other powerful figures within the cheating scene. I would maintain a list of who owed me favors and this sort of thing and it came to the point where I was practically like a kiddie mob boss, without the violence of course.</p>
<p>Our setup lasted for a good while; it turned into a game of playing hide-and-seek with Jagex. They would always be attempting to ban our accounts and find our exploits to fix them and we would always be taking new security precautions and all these sorts of things, finding quick ways to sell mass amounts of gold and the like&#8230;. There would be some nights where I would make $1,000 in a matter of hours, and I mean going through the whole process of attaining the gold, finding a buyer for all of it, and selling it and getting it into my bank account, and that&#8217;s only counting the gold that made it through. It was not uncommon for us to have accounts containing 500M-1.5Billion banned before we could sell the gold. It got to the point where we actually caught multiple Jagex employees spying on us inside the game. The bigger we got the more the drama escalated, and it was like being part of some epic mafia movie or something&#8230; it was all very entertaining for us, and I know Jagex had a few laughs over it as well despite all the trouble we caused them. Eventually Jagex said enough was enough and after ignoring multiple lawsuit threats from them and subverting multiple attempts to have our website shutdown, I finally had a legal invoice Fedexed to my front door telling me I had to shut down my site or they would sue me, with which I decided to comply. In the end, we had 3,000 members on our site, well over 100 Runescape accounts banned (at least 50 over level 110) for exploitation and gold trafficking, and had managed to accumulate a total of perhaps $50,000 between our senior members, about $10,000 of which I took home personally.</p>
<p>In retrospect, the sociological ramifications of all this are what interest me the most. I still can&#8217;t get over the type of realistic environments that were being created and participated in by all these kids, and how similar everything was to the real world. It was like someone had taken the world and scaled it down into a virtual playground for kids, with the good, and the bad all perfectly intact, and Jagex as the ultimate authority equivalent to government. I&#8217;ve kept up with many of my old connections from the cheating scene and it&#8217;s interesting to see the direction that many of them have gone in (including myself!). Some got involved with credit card and PayPal fraud and money laundering, some got involved with online black market drug trade, and at least one probably got involved with homosexual porn sites, haha. Granted plenty of them also went in successful directions as well, such as attending prominent universities and running legitimate websites and such. Just keep in mind we&#8217;re still talking about people who are mostly under 20; I&#8217;m only 17 at the time of writing this. It&#8217;s really easy to see how the Runescape cheating scene could lead to more serious things, I have it on very good authority that the same types of anonymous online payment methods we used for Runescape gold transactions are the same ones used by real life criminals for money laundering, stolen PayPal accounts, drug exchange,and the like&#8230;. and apparently the communities in those circles are very similar in nature as well. Another thing worth mentioning is that the Runescape cheating community is essentially run by a very small group of people (most of which were extremely intelligent and often very mature for their age), the rest of it seems to be composed of wanna-be Runescape thugs that don&#8217;t really do anything significant other than participate in the gold exchange and auto-bot programs.</p>
<p>As of now, I do not regret anything&#8230; it was perhaps some of the most fun I could ever imagine having online; I learned so many valuable life skills in the process, and met so many people who will probably still be friends for years to come. I feel that my actions were no more immoral than the actions of Jagex which have caused so many kids to become hopelessly addicted to their game, much like many others MMORPGs (World of Warcraft, anyone?)&#8230; I have personally seen people&#8217;s lives significantly hindered by these types of games, and between the ages of 11 and 14 for me, mine was one of them. I encourage everyone who reads this article to evaluate the deep concepts that these sorts of games hold and how it applies to you, as a player. There is nothing wrong with playing games and there is nothing wrong with cheating in games, it is human nature to strive to be the best, and cheating is just one of the many ways that aspect manifests itself. It&#8217;s really easy for everyone to paint a black and white picture of good vs. evil in these scenarios, and I&#8217;m supposed to end this paper with some spiel going into how you shouldn&#8217;t really cheat in Runescape, but the fact of the matter is, people who cheat will cheat, and they&#8217;ll find any way they can to do it. So just take the information in this article for what it is and think about how it pertains to you, because, fun and games aside, all of this stuff is much more serious than it seems&#8230;.</p>
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