Today is the first of December, surprisingly, this year has gone absolutely nowhere. We've entered Summer here in New Zealand and the last two days have been averaging around 30 degrees Celsius outside and I'm sweltering. It's also shocking for me to find that my last post was nearly an entire year ago! Wow! Sorry for not keeping anyone updated about the awesome happenings in my life.
Okay, my latest achievement has to be the very arduous level 95 Runecrafting, which I have been training the slow way (I hate doing things the typical way...) As I like to watch TV while playing, I've found a very nice and safe way to train Runecrafting, where I'm not likely to be killed by any NPCs and I am able to make some very decent cash along the way, especially with the current GE prices of Astral Runes. Here's a YouTube video I made a while back which outlines the process I have been undertaking:
I've had an interesting year, with the IRL achievement of a degree in information technology as well as obtaining a new job in the IT field, which I start on the fifth of this month. I was also very lucky this year to meet some of my favourite authors at an event held here in New Zealand. To name some: Tess Gerritsen, John Hart, Alix Bosco, Paul Cleave, Paddy Richardson and Neil Cross. After meeting Neil, I went and watched the TV series 'Luther' which he is the creator and writer of. It's now listed as one of my favourite shows and I can't wait for an update on the third series, which I hope will be produced.
I know from my last post that I predicted I'd have at least 99 Runecrafting by the end of the year, but it's honestly not going to happen, I've just been too busy with real world stuff to get the chance to play. From my now revised time calculations (which are just estimates at best) I don't think I'll achieve 99 until May 2012.
Anyway, I'm going to carry on playing now, I'll definitely post again soon,
Adam.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
Another year over and a new one just begun!
Well, it seems as though it is that time again. This year has just flown by. It’s been a very busy one not only for Runescape, but for me personally.
This year I’ve managed to obtain level 99 Magic, which had probably been one of the most time consuming skills that I’ve ever trained. Don’t get me wrong, it was nice to sit and watch movies and TV shows whilst skilling, but it just seemed to drag and drag.
Personally, I had a year of hard study, where I learnt an assortment of new skills and can now happily program in HTML, CSS, PHP and can write applications for the Android platform, which is the pinnacle of my year. Being able to write my own applications for my phone gives me a bit of a thrill and allows me to customise my phone so it does exactly what I need it to do. I have been thinking about doing a bit of a phone upgrade (I currently have a Nexus One) to something that has a little bit more speed and can better run multiple applications without bogging down. (Any ideas on what I should upgrade to would be greatly appreciated!)
Whilst I’m talking about making new purchases in the New Year, I’m also seriously thinking about buying myself a Netbook, so that I can use it in lectures, run standard applications and play a little Runescape during classtime and during lunch/morning/afternoon tea breaks. It’s not that I can’t do this on my laptop; it’s just that my laptop is big and quite hefty. It just doesn’t suit when I want to shoot to the cafe at lunch and I have to haul this big machine around with me which will more than likely go flat, as the machine sucks so much power that it isn’t funny =P. Besides, with the low cost of Netbooks these days, how can I say no?
Let’s start with Runescape. Unlike the rest of you, I’m not really much of a combat person, so I’m going to continue with skilling. In 2011, I’m really only likely to obtain two level 99 skills. One of which is definitely going to have to be 99 Runecrafting. If I can achieve this skill then another 99 will prevail in the days following. There are many other skills that can be easily brought with the money that I will have made for Runecrafting. I am also thinking about possibly taking a break from the boring monotony of Runecrafting and getting 99 Woodcutting. I will possibly do this during one of my two week term breaks, as I can’t see this skill taking too long to get... (I know from previous experience that you can get up to 1M Woodcutting XP per day if you try hard enough...) With this newly acquired wealth, I also plan to buy a Santa Hat. I’ll probably purchase this mid-year when they are least wanted and hopefully at a lower cost that directly before Christmas. It’d be nice to buy a Party Hat, but I just don’t think I’ll quite have the cash for one of these.....
On a personal note for the year, I plan of getting fit this year and making a considerable change to my currently atrocious diet (Coke and chocolate for breakfast...) and start to eat fruits and vegetables. I will also be finishing my degree this year (presuming everything goes as planned) and will hopefully manage to find a job in some IT-related field at the end of it. During the course of the year, I also plan on finishing my project car (I’m making a website about it as you are reading this) and should have it painted and fully restored, ready for summer.
Anyway, I think that I have ranted and raved long enough to put you all to sleep. I hope all of you (my readers) have a safe holiday and a good New Years. I’d love to hear from you all either in the comments section below or on Twitter (twitter.com/Custard17) where you can tell me your New Years resolutions.
Happy New Years,
Adam.
This year I’ve managed to obtain level 99 Magic, which had probably been one of the most time consuming skills that I’ve ever trained. Don’t get me wrong, it was nice to sit and watch movies and TV shows whilst skilling, but it just seemed to drag and drag.
Personally, I had a year of hard study, where I learnt an assortment of new skills and can now happily program in HTML, CSS, PHP and can write applications for the Android platform, which is the pinnacle of my year. Being able to write my own applications for my phone gives me a bit of a thrill and allows me to customise my phone so it does exactly what I need it to do. I have been thinking about doing a bit of a phone upgrade (I currently have a Nexus One) to something that has a little bit more speed and can better run multiple applications without bogging down. (Any ideas on what I should upgrade to would be greatly appreciated!)
Whilst I’m talking about making new purchases in the New Year, I’m also seriously thinking about buying myself a Netbook, so that I can use it in lectures, run standard applications and play a little Runescape during classtime and during lunch/morning/afternoon tea breaks. It’s not that I can’t do this on my laptop; it’s just that my laptop is big and quite hefty. It just doesn’t suit when I want to shoot to the cafe at lunch and I have to haul this big machine around with me which will more than likely go flat, as the machine sucks so much power that it isn’t funny =P. Besides, with the low cost of Netbooks these days, how can I say no?
So what do I have planned for the New Year?
Let’s start with Runescape. Unlike the rest of you, I’m not really much of a combat person, so I’m going to continue with skilling. In 2011, I’m really only likely to obtain two level 99 skills. One of which is definitely going to have to be 99 Runecrafting. If I can achieve this skill then another 99 will prevail in the days following. There are many other skills that can be easily brought with the money that I will have made for Runecrafting. I am also thinking about possibly taking a break from the boring monotony of Runecrafting and getting 99 Woodcutting. I will possibly do this during one of my two week term breaks, as I can’t see this skill taking too long to get... (I know from previous experience that you can get up to 1M Woodcutting XP per day if you try hard enough...) With this newly acquired wealth, I also plan to buy a Santa Hat. I’ll probably purchase this mid-year when they are least wanted and hopefully at a lower cost that directly before Christmas. It’d be nice to buy a Party Hat, but I just don’t think I’ll quite have the cash for one of these.....
On a personal note for the year, I plan of getting fit this year and making a considerable change to my currently atrocious diet (Coke and chocolate for breakfast...) and start to eat fruits and vegetables. I will also be finishing my degree this year (presuming everything goes as planned) and will hopefully manage to find a job in some IT-related field at the end of it. During the course of the year, I also plan on finishing my project car (I’m making a website about it as you are reading this) and should have it painted and fully restored, ready for summer.
Anyway, I think that I have ranted and raved long enough to put you all to sleep. I hope all of you (my readers) have a safe holiday and a good New Years. I’d love to hear from you all either in the comments section below or on Twitter (twitter.com/Custard17) where you can tell me your New Years resolutions.
Happy New Years,
Adam.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Summer Holidays, Here I Come…
With my exams done and my year nearly over (bar a few assignments), I am now officially on holiday for around two months, which I am so looking forward to.
So… you may ask. ‘What do you have planned for your holidays Adam?’ Well, obviously we have a Runescape player on our hands. So hide yo’ staffs, hide yo’ whips and hide yo’ dragon scimitars, ‘cause I’ll be doin’ all the playing out here…
^^ The funny thing is that I plan to spend an excessive amount of time glued to my computer, attempting to get my old ranking back (43,000 overall), which is going to take so much work that I can only begin to think about it. In the last fortnight I’ve fallen into the 100,000 overall ranking status, which completely disgusts me. I have been playing this game for approximately five years now and I am still getting beaten by a considerable amount of players. How do they manage to do it?
So, to begin with, I plan on getting 99 Magic before Christmas actually hits. I need to gain about 2.7M Magic experience, which shouldn’t really take that much time. I’m hoping I actually get this in about a fortnight. I’ve been doing high-alchs up ‘till now, but once I reach level 97ish I’ll flick over and turn logs into planks.
Once I have assembled this collection of planks I’ll turn them into Construction experience. I’m sort of hoping that I can hit mid-80s with the experience that I should gain. (It’s such an expensive skill to train that I try to do it in smaller quantities, so that I don’t notice my dwindling bank balance.) I’m sort of looking forward to training this skill as I quite like construction and later I’d like to do some Prayer training, so having an up market house will certainly help matters when it comes to gaining additional prayer experience.
Other skills to train to raise me back to my former glory are a couple of the new ones, which I haven’t actually bothered to train that much. I don’t mind doing a little bit of Hunter, and I know that once I get up to the Red Chinchompa (sp???) level, that I’m going to make a tidy profit too! I also need to address my summoning level and my non-existent Dungoneering level, which I’m hoping won’t be too hard to gain. Training all of these levels should give me a bit of an overall boost, as well as me investing a little more time into combat-related skills and possibly some slayer???
Anyway, I’ll post another update soon when I’ll be obtaining that elusive 99 Magic.
‘Till then,
Adam.
So… you may ask. ‘What do you have planned for your holidays Adam?’ Well, obviously we have a Runescape player on our hands. So hide yo’ staffs, hide yo’ whips and hide yo’ dragon scimitars, ‘cause I’ll be doin’ all the playing out here…
^^ The funny thing is that I plan to spend an excessive amount of time glued to my computer, attempting to get my old ranking back (43,000 overall), which is going to take so much work that I can only begin to think about it. In the last fortnight I’ve fallen into the 100,000 overall ranking status, which completely disgusts me. I have been playing this game for approximately five years now and I am still getting beaten by a considerable amount of players. How do they manage to do it?
So, to begin with, I plan on getting 99 Magic before Christmas actually hits. I need to gain about 2.7M Magic experience, which shouldn’t really take that much time. I’m hoping I actually get this in about a fortnight. I’ve been doing high-alchs up ‘till now, but once I reach level 97ish I’ll flick over and turn logs into planks.
Once I have assembled this collection of planks I’ll turn them into Construction experience. I’m sort of hoping that I can hit mid-80s with the experience that I should gain. (It’s such an expensive skill to train that I try to do it in smaller quantities, so that I don’t notice my dwindling bank balance.) I’m sort of looking forward to training this skill as I quite like construction and later I’d like to do some Prayer training, so having an up market house will certainly help matters when it comes to gaining additional prayer experience.
Other skills to train to raise me back to my former glory are a couple of the new ones, which I haven’t actually bothered to train that much. I don’t mind doing a little bit of Hunter, and I know that once I get up to the Red Chinchompa (sp???) level, that I’m going to make a tidy profit too! I also need to address my summoning level and my non-existent Dungoneering level, which I’m hoping won’t be too hard to gain. Training all of these levels should give me a bit of an overall boost, as well as me investing a little more time into combat-related skills and possibly some slayer???
Anyway, I’ll post another update soon when I’ll be obtaining that elusive 99 Magic.
‘Till then,
Adam.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Mort’ton Shade Burning
With the addition of new Treasure Trails on Runescape, there has been a significant influx in the price of fine cloth (as this is used in the making of splitbark armour, of which the helmet is needed for one of these clues…)
So, I’ve decided that I need to get in on this ‘Get rich quick scheme’ and have started gathering fine cloth. Last night alone, I managed to sell around 600k of fine cloth, which really only took me around two hours to gather. This is a rather good profit, considering that I’m gaining considerable Prayer experience (and Firemaking, although that doesn’t really count as I already have 99….)
By Shade Burning, you will also earn a considerable amount of money by cashing in the keys. In this two hours, I’d estimate that I earned an additional 160k cash, as well as 400-500k in other items (Rune weapons, rune chains, black armour, addy armour, battlestaffs, blood & death runes, magic & yew logs) – Most of these items I’ll just high alch (as I’m working on getting 99 Magic), but I will also sell some at the GE.
For two hours work, in addition of a 1000k, gathering experience, you also manage to get clue scrolls on a regular basis. I’d say that for the two hours work, you’d get around three level 3 clue scrolls – I believe that this is a rather good rate (mind you, if I get a clue scroll, I’m not always likely to do it when I get it and will continue to cash in my keys, forfeiting more clues.)
I should also point out that to do Shade burning you need logs, shade remains, sacred olive oil. So obtaining the remains, you gather a wicked amount of combat experience, and blessing the olive oil you gather a fair amount of crafting experience.
More shade burning will occur when I get home, as I don’t know how long this increased price of fine cloth will remain, so I may as well cash-in while I can……
In other news, I have completed my story for the ‘Stellar Dawn’ competition, so *fingers crossed* it makes it to the top twenty, although I’m not really going to get my hopes up….. I might post it up here over the weekend and let you all have a read, if you’d like?
Anyways, I should really be getting on with my class work…..
If you want, add me in-game (Custard17),
Adam.
So, I’ve decided that I need to get in on this ‘Get rich quick scheme’ and have started gathering fine cloth. Last night alone, I managed to sell around 600k of fine cloth, which really only took me around two hours to gather. This is a rather good profit, considering that I’m gaining considerable Prayer experience (and Firemaking, although that doesn’t really count as I already have 99….)
By Shade Burning, you will also earn a considerable amount of money by cashing in the keys. In this two hours, I’d estimate that I earned an additional 160k cash, as well as 400-500k in other items (Rune weapons, rune chains, black armour, addy armour, battlestaffs, blood & death runes, magic & yew logs) – Most of these items I’ll just high alch (as I’m working on getting 99 Magic), but I will also sell some at the GE.
For two hours work, in addition of a 1000k, gathering experience, you also manage to get clue scrolls on a regular basis. I’d say that for the two hours work, you’d get around three level 3 clue scrolls – I believe that this is a rather good rate (mind you, if I get a clue scroll, I’m not always likely to do it when I get it and will continue to cash in my keys, forfeiting more clues.)
I should also point out that to do Shade burning you need logs, shade remains, sacred olive oil. So obtaining the remains, you gather a wicked amount of combat experience, and blessing the olive oil you gather a fair amount of crafting experience.
More shade burning will occur when I get home, as I don’t know how long this increased price of fine cloth will remain, so I may as well cash-in while I can……
In other news, I have completed my story for the ‘Stellar Dawn’ competition, so *fingers crossed* it makes it to the top twenty, although I’m not really going to get my hopes up….. I might post it up here over the weekend and let you all have a read, if you’d like?
Anyways, I should really be getting on with my class work…..
If you want, add me in-game (Custard17),
Adam.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
91 Magic.
As you can see from the above picture, I achieved level 91 in the skill of Magic today. From looking at my current level, I can also tell that I'm not even halfway to 99, which is slightly disheartening, but achievable none-the-less.
I've been working on getting my Runecrafting level up in the process, and have almost achieved level 80 in this skill (I should get in the next day or two....)
It's been easy enough to do the magic part, as I'm high alching a variety of different objects, mainly steel platebodies. I'm not making excessive cash on training this skill, but that wasn't my objective in the first place.... As long as I'm still able to break even, I don't really care if I'm not making any money...
To make the high alching easier, I've been watching TV shows and movies, to keep myself entertained. (I've secretly been listening to a couple of Audiobooks as well...)
Seeing as how high alching is a very repetitive mouse clicking skill, I've had a go at many different clicking options. I've tried turning on mouse keys, which is a nice way of training, however, you need to be at the keyboard continually for this and you wrist can begin to ache after sitting in the same spot for an extended period. I've also tried the traditional technique of using my standard computer mouse (I have a Logitech trackball as my main mouse), but this can also become strenuous after a while. I've tried a Genius presentation mouse, which is supposed to be used for powerpoint presentations. This is by far my most favourite way of high alching, but it does seem to chew through the batteries..... So I've taken a mini-trackball (one of the finger-held ones) and removed the trackball from the device, so that I'm not going to bump the pointer on-screen. As this mouse has a 5M cable, I can recline my chair back from my computer and put my feet up, which is the most ergonomic position and I can sit like this for an extended period.
I'm going to continue high alching and should hopefully get to 99 around October-ish, as well as a reasonably high Runecrafting level.
Any suggestions for what I should be high alching instead of Steel Platebodies would also be appreciated. For this, feel free to send me a tweet: http://twitter.com/Custard17
Until the next post, happy gaming!
Regards,
Adam.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Goal Finally Achieved
Finally, yes finally, the elusive 99 Crafting has been achieved!
This skill has come close to the point of nearly killing me and costing me an absolute fortune. Like I stated in my previous post I'm not very lucky or good with money in-game, it has turned out exactly the same with this 99....
It has taken me many long months to achieve this skill and I'm so pleased that it is finally over, mainly for the financial strain it has been putting on me. I am now going to start to re-stock the old bank account before I start to seriously train any other skill. I may, however, train Magic on and on/off basis depending on if I can be bothered or not.....
I might possibly make my winter goal to achieve 99 Magic. I think it could be a rather easy skill that probably won't take too much effort (even though I guess it could get pretty repetitive casting high-alch over and over....) I have to admit that these repetitive skills are probably my favourite ones as I don't really have to concentrate too much, lol.
Thinking about what my next 99 might be has got me thinking about long-term goals in-game. I'm thinking 99 Woodcutting might be running in a close second and a possible 90-ish Runecrafting level, so I can make some REALLY decent cash off the skil.
One of my other winter holiday goals is to work on a Runescape video idea that I've sort of had planned for a while. I'm not going to release too many details at this current point in time, but I will make a blog post when I get close to releasing the video. It should be fun.
I'm also working on developing an Android program which reads in the Runescape highscores table after you enter your username. I should also finally get around to finishing this off during the winter holidays, although I'm not sure if I can release it on the market place, due to copyright laws. I might do a little research and see if it would be even slightly possible to release it.... Guess we'll see....
Anyway, enough blogging for now, time to head back to the old game and do some more training.
See Ya,
Adam.
This skill has come close to the point of nearly killing me and costing me an absolute fortune. Like I stated in my previous post I'm not very lucky or good with money in-game, it has turned out exactly the same with this 99....
It has taken me many long months to achieve this skill and I'm so pleased that it is finally over, mainly for the financial strain it has been putting on me. I am now going to start to re-stock the old bank account before I start to seriously train any other skill. I may, however, train Magic on and on/off basis depending on if I can be bothered or not.....
I might possibly make my winter goal to achieve 99 Magic. I think it could be a rather easy skill that probably won't take too much effort (even though I guess it could get pretty repetitive casting high-alch over and over....) I have to admit that these repetitive skills are probably my favourite ones as I don't really have to concentrate too much, lol.
Thinking about what my next 99 might be has got me thinking about long-term goals in-game. I'm thinking 99 Woodcutting might be running in a close second and a possible 90-ish Runecrafting level, so I can make some REALLY decent cash off the skil.
One of my other winter holiday goals is to work on a Runescape video idea that I've sort of had planned for a while. I'm not going to release too many details at this current point in time, but I will make a blog post when I get close to releasing the video. It should be fun.
I'm also working on developing an Android program which reads in the Runescape highscores table after you enter your username. I should also finally get around to finishing this off during the winter holidays, although I'm not sure if I can release it on the market place, due to copyright laws. I might do a little research and see if it would be even slightly possible to release it.... Guess we'll see....
Anyway, enough blogging for now, time to head back to the old game and do some more training.
See Ya,
Adam.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Runescape Money Making...... Really?
Hi,
Maybe it's just me.... Well, at least that's what I'm beginning to wonder. I've played Runescape for such a long time now, and I never, ever, seem to have the luck of some of the other players online. The whole "I just got a 10M drop!" Makes me shrink and hide away in the corner of my room.
I don't particularly like combat, which is why I generally avoid it. I prefer the skills that take time and patience to get up, even if they are not really that exciting..... (E.g. I have 99 Mining and Smithing. I am currently going for 99 Crafting, which I should get in the next month or two....)
With these sort of skills, everyone is just like "You must be loaded!" Guess again! I have next-to-no money at all. I might make a little bit of cash, here and there, but I'll put it back into skills that I can't really be bothered gathering materials for. I've poured, I don't know how many million into Crafting so far.... In fact, only yesterday I spent another 25M on Blue Dragon Hides, which might get me one or two crafting levels... At this point, I'll then be completely broke again, and will have to make some more money before I can make a run for 99 Crafting.
Luck just doesn't seem to come easily to me.... Not even once, have I experienced a large drop or got anything decent in a clue scroll - and believe me, I do so many level 3 clues it's not funny.....
So instead, I'm going to continue with Runecrafting..... It may be painstakingly boring, but at least I'll make some decent cash off it.... Even if I do plan on spending it almost immediately...
Until next time,
Adam. (Custard17 - Feel free to add me in-game)
Maybe it's just me.... Well, at least that's what I'm beginning to wonder. I've played Runescape for such a long time now, and I never, ever, seem to have the luck of some of the other players online. The whole "I just got a 10M drop!" Makes me shrink and hide away in the corner of my room.
I don't particularly like combat, which is why I generally avoid it. I prefer the skills that take time and patience to get up, even if they are not really that exciting..... (E.g. I have 99 Mining and Smithing. I am currently going for 99 Crafting, which I should get in the next month or two....)
With these sort of skills, everyone is just like "You must be loaded!" Guess again! I have next-to-no money at all. I might make a little bit of cash, here and there, but I'll put it back into skills that I can't really be bothered gathering materials for. I've poured, I don't know how many million into Crafting so far.... In fact, only yesterday I spent another 25M on Blue Dragon Hides, which might get me one or two crafting levels... At this point, I'll then be completely broke again, and will have to make some more money before I can make a run for 99 Crafting.
Luck just doesn't seem to come easily to me.... Not even once, have I experienced a large drop or got anything decent in a clue scroll - and believe me, I do so many level 3 clues it's not funny.....
So instead, I'm going to continue with Runecrafting..... It may be painstakingly boring, but at least I'll make some decent cash off it.... Even if I do plan on spending it almost immediately...
Until next time,
Adam. (Custard17 - Feel free to add me in-game)
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