r/2007scape

To give a prime example a few years back when guardians of the rift came out a level 3 skiller got on front page because he got abyssal ashes from the reward guardian, and not being fully aware of what they were or what they did saw "Scatter" and decided to press it, thus "messing" up his level 3 skiller. Of course he makes this big post gets all bent out of shape and writes a lengthy thing which gets a pretty good amount of traction.

Well come to find out this guy has plenty of interests, including runescape, golf, and scat porn, all which he happened to peruse on reddit. As someone way back then once said "The man saw Scatter and couldn't help himself." He then deleted his account, and disappeared (Probably still playing, a small part of me hopes you read this Mr. Scatman you permanently live rent free in my head, but it's because I find it hilarious). I still think about that post every single time someone mentions level 3 skillers. If you're ever wondering what type of person they are, this right here shows it. You ever wonder why they freak out? Well it's pretty clear they are freaks themselves. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Hey y'all, I'm noticing a pattern where lots of other people on the sub are having very polarizing experiences with things, 1kc pets, 7x drop rate no bowfa, etc. I feel like I have to be playing the game wrong or something because probably ~65% of the time, I get a drop within the expected range. And what's crazier, 86% of the time, I get it within at least two standard deviations of the expected outcome. What do I need to do to have a more representative experience fitting with what the online community reports?

Hey guys I just wanted to say Runescape is so fun. This game has so many genuinely interesting aspects I just wanted to tell anyone who works at the company Jagex thank you for making this game. I have been playing since 2nd grade, it's actually how I learned how to type, and have loved it since. I made a post the other day calling Mage Training Arena boring and I kind of regret posting that because (1) I don't follow updates or social media so I didn't know they changed it and (2) I thought infinity robes were best in slot so I got all 3,000+ alchemy points in a row hence why I made that post. This is not a boring game, it's such a fun game that has so many cool and colorful characters, interesting quest lines, diverse sets of gameplay (low input, high input, solo, group, long grinds, short grinds, etc), and I love this game. Thanks guys

Seriously are you telling me all of you complaining about the lack of content have done even half the availible content in the game?

Even if they release the coolest boss ever half of you are gonna do 100 KC max get 1 drop then say it's lame and not enough content

edit: I meant templeosrs, we do Not Want a copy of your weird Christian Linux distro.

edit2: i was wrong again, templeOS was actually a tottally standalone weird Christian operating system sorry Terry I didn't mean to reduce what you did.

This method is completely broken, doing rune incendiary cannonballs you can get around 250k xp/hr with 1 minute of AFK at a time! (See math below, it's not 3 minutes of AFK).

Not only is this XP rate absolutely ridiculous and breaks the game and overall game health, but with current prices, you only lose ~7.5m GP per hour! This means this disgusting method that has made my kids cry is ONLY 30GP/XP!!!
If we compare this to a much more balanced method of training smithing, doing gold ore at blast furnace with 3 runners that you each pay 7m gp/hr (21m gp/hr total), which only gives you a measly 680k xp/hr for a grand total of 33GP/XP you can see how absolutely broken incendiary cannonball smithing is. It absolutely breaks the meta of doing gold at blast furnace which gives 380k xp/hr and costs a wild 0.8 GP/XP. Or making profit doing normal anvil smithing like adamant platebodies for only 240k xp/hr (obviously less AFK though).

TLDR; Incendiary Cannonballs are gaming break and need to see their experience drastically reduced along with a captcha minigame introduced between each set of 2 cannonballs smithed in order to bring them in line with normal smithing methods like hopping worlds to repair struts at motherload mine to protect the long term health of the game.

Math for reference:
4 ticks per 2 cannonballs, 28 done at a time = 112 ticks per 'invent'.
112 ticks = 67.2 seconds = 53 'invents' per hour (not losing any ticks)

10 rubium splinters (600 gp/each) + 2 rune cannonballs (750gp/each) = 2 rune incendiary cannonballs (1250gp/each) = (6000 + 1500) - 2500 = 5000gp lost per 2 cannonballs made
56 cannonballs made per 'invent' = 140k lost per 'invent'
140k x 53 'invents' per hour = 7,420,000gp per hour

All prices are based on current GE prices since everyone complaining about it was super conscious of using the current GE prices to show how broken the method was.