December 13, 2007

First, I'll say that I think Jagex's note on reviewing the changes they made earlier this week was just flat out dumb. Dumb dumb dumb. The complaints were winding their course. This breathes a 2nd wind into them. I'm not saying I agree with Jagex's changes in the last few weeks. But by posting that note they are encouraging more posting, more complaining and more senseless posting. I've read a lot of really good posts both attacking and defending the changes. But I'd love to just let this die down a bit. Jagex has to look at these issues. We (the players) should give them a little breahing space. Go Christmas shopping if you're so unhappy and let them sort through all the feedback they've gotten.

Having said that here's the two things I'd like to see:

1) Make the wildy the wildy again. Limit the drop that is revealed to the Pk'er to be no more then 50k in value. OR limit the amount of value of what we can take into the wildy to 3m or less (and if you die you keep 3 things so the amount you drop is going to be fairly capped). And no cash drops, ever.

2) The trade differential of 3k is ridiculously low. I say it's 5% of the lower person's total XP with a minimum of 3k. OR....make it 5% of the 2 person's xp. This allows higher levels to have a large differential, which makes sense since it assumes that they have had more time to make money and nicer gear. PLUS....the more time you put into your character the less likely (in theory) you'll do something to get it banned.

Ok...enough of that.

Used up all my seconds and picked up about 20k herblore. Used the humidify spell (lunars) to very quickly fill my 1200 empty vials. And, since I was on lunars, I tele'd myself to Waterbirth Island and grab a ton of snape grass. Herblore is going to be rough getting to 70 but not as bad as prayer. Made some cosmics (double) in Zanaris but mostly used ZMI. Picked up 74 Magic and 69 Runecrafting.

While at Moonclan I bought a about 50 battlestaffs. And realized I ran out of cash. And didn't have any air orbs. So ended the night making about 150 air orbs and knocking out a bunch of crafting xp.