It didnt include my 2 x black masks from cave horrors or my 3 mystic tops from gargoyles

Item found: a dragon chainbody
26 April 2010 01:00
After killing a Dust devil, it dropped a dragon chainbody.

Item found: an abyssal whip
26 April 2010 01:00
After killing a Abyssal demon, it dropped an abyssal whip.

I killed 4 giant moles.
26 April 2010 01:00
I killed 4 giant moles.

Levelled up Hunter.
26 April 2010 01:00
I levelled my  Hunter skill, I am now level 92.

I killed 2 King Black Dragons.
25 April 2010 01:00
I killed 2 King Black Dragons, the biggest, meanest dragons around.

I killed  Bork.
24 April 2010 01:00
I killed  Bork, a big ork.

Item found: a dragon plateskirt
24 April 2010 01:00
After killing a Steel dragon, it dropped a dragon plateskirt.

Item found: a dragon plateskirt
24 April 2010 01:00
After killing a Steel dragon, it dropped a dragon plateskirt.

I killed  Bork.
23 April 2010 01:00
I killed  Bork, a big ork.

I killed 2 boss monsters in Daemonheim.
23 April 2010 01:00
I killed 2 boss monsters   called:  Har’Lakk the Riftsplitter    in Daemonheim.

Levelled all skills over 40
23 April 2010 01:00
By levelling up my Dungeoneering skill, I achieved at least level 40 in all skills.

Levelled up Dungeoneering.
23 April 2010 01:00
I levelled my  Dungeoneering skill, I am now level 40.

Dungeon level 20 reached.
23 April 2010 01:00
I have breached floor 20 of Daemonheim for the first time.

Levelled up Mining.
23 April 2010 01:00
I levelled my  Mining skill, I am now level 87.

Item found: a draconic visage
23 April 2010 01:00
After killing a Black dragon, it dropped a draconic visage.

20000000XP in Slayer
23 April 2010 01:00
I now have at least 20000000 experience points in the Slayer skill.

34000000XP in Strength
23 April 2010 01:00
I now have at least 34000000 experience points in the Strength skill.

Item found: a granite maul
23 April 2010 01:00
After killing a Gargoyle, it dropped a granite maul.

Item found: a granite maul
23 April 2010 01:00
After killing a Gargoyle, it dropped a granite maul.

Levelled up Construction.
22 April 2010 01:00
I levelled my  Construction skill, I am now level 82.

Levelled up Agility.
21 April 2010 01:00
I levelled my  Agility skill, I am now level 93.

I killed a boss monster in Daemonheim.
19 April 2010 01:00
I killed a boss monster   called:  Stomp    in Daemonheim.

Dungeon level 19 reached.
19 April 2010 01:00
I have breached floor 19 of Daemonheim for the first time.

The surprising part was that well over 50% of the active players on my friends list have changed their names already, when I started playing I had a few accounts that never gained many levels the first I abandoned because I was killed by a guard and didn't know how to get my tut island stuff back, I do not remember the names but must be something like Steve**11, I then found a unique name that I liked and stuck with that as my new account.

Perhaps when they created their accounts they just made do with a random name some with a few numbers after, I know at least one did but perhaps some just decided for a change, my son changed his name, its his account but I did feel quite sad that the name he has used for 6 years has changed, I have found that I am attached to friends names and it is quite strange seeing them as something else.

On the P mod forum years ago there was mentioned changing names that did not meet the acceptable name policy, at the time not possible because the name stipulation was not compulsory when some of the older accounts were created, adding a rule after an account was made would have met with stiff opposition and valid reason for complaint, instead they would be tagged for change when the ability was implemented.

Well I had immunity from ban for offensive name because they modded me and then demoded me with the same name but I did expect to be tagged for change, it hasn't happened yet but I am sure its just a matter of time, by the way I do not hold it against Jagex I believe it was the correct decision even though I was very annoyed at the time, they did apologise after I put in an official complaint, my name was only offensive if you read it a certain way and was rarely interpreted as offensive by younger players.

The thing is what happens now, do all old unused account names disappear after a certain amount of time ready to be snapped up by the quickest hand, will a player called "y" that hasn't been used for 7 years be available for registration by a player new to RS, I can see there being a desire for single, double or triple character names but how to watch and get them may be interesting, what if I take a 1 year RS break and someone takes my name, I am not going to be a happy bunny.

The thing that surprises me is how many unique names are available now, I see so many new names many starting with lower case letters without numbers after them, are they reclaimed from old/expired accounts or are people getting more imaginative, perhaps because many people have played for a while they can make names more appropriate to their playing style, lots of unanswered question that without doubt will be answered over the coming months.

I am not changing my name until forced but I do think the facility is a great idea and a giant step forward.

He tried Bin Weevils very limited activities but a few hours of entertainment, no membership option so no worry.
He also tried FreeRealms, I'm not adding a link because the name is far from what it implies, FreeRealms owned by Sony you would imagine to be a safe place to trust with your credit card details, be afraid be very afraid never trust them with your debit card details (maestro in my case).

He found this game and played it for free for a while and with most games there is not a lot to do until you are a member, being a big name I trusted Sony and decided to pay for my sons membership when the Club Penguin one had run out.
I was very nervous from the start because you can not buy 1 months subscription for the game you can only pay for ongoing monthly subscriptions, I thought OK its Sony they are a world wide known name and wont stitch me up and my Son really wanted membership, I paid the money on my Maestro card and thought nothing of it, I would cancel the subscription if he didn't want it renewed.

I went to work the next day and came back to see emails in my inbox thanking me for purchasing Station Cash, I had never authorised it so went downstairs and gave my Son a telling off for using my debit card without permission (not that he ever gets permission I always make payments on his behalf), he was very upset and went to bed in tears, after the initial shock had worn off I took a step back and thought about what I had done.

My son was playing a game that promoted the selling of Station cash on every screen refresh, showed all the goodies you can get every where he went, he is only 10 and the lure of fancy armour, faster cars and better weapons is quite a temptation for many older players to resist let alone a 10 year old.
I wrote an email to Sony telling them what had happened and their reply was.

Thank you for contacting Sony Online Entertainment.

There are parental passwords that can be set up to prevent this from occurring from within the game, also all of our transactions require the CCV2 code on the back of the card to be completed. If your son has this information it is the responsibility of the card holder and not Sony Online for transactions made. Also I do not have the account name that you are referring to as your E-Mail address should have been used to create the parental E-mail. There are several child locks built into this game for parents to take advantage of. Could you please provide the account name and I will cancel your account.

I apologised to my son for being unpleasant as I believe he is not solely to blame for the purchase of Station Cash and Sony should take some responsibility for their site.

With regard to their response above.

a/ There may be passwords available to stop this happening but I spent hours searching for it and could not find any that prevented payment.

b/ They state that a CCV2 number is always required, my son showed me how he did it using stored card details and it never asked for the CCV2 number, my card is always with me and he never has access to any numbers neither would he know what it was anyway.

c/ I tried to remove my card details from the system using the Remove credit card facility, I was totally confused because there was no facility to remove the card number all I could do was change the Start and Expiry date which I did to prevent them charging it again.

d/ If I replied with my Sons account name (Which I did anyway) they would have cancelled the account, that's fine after they had just charged me £60 for in game items that I had not authorised.

In my eyes this is Fraud, Fraudulent Sony Online Entertainment LLC and no way to get compensation.

I have considered taking them to court but they are based in Holland and I am not sure how proceedings would be instigated, where and how much, can I take on a multi million dollar industry to court, I will certainly look into it.

Natwest Bank come up trumps again, Yeah right.

I contacted my bank Natwest to have a stop put on the transactions and they said because I paid with my debit card (maestro) for the membership I have authorised them to take as much money as they want when they want and there was nothing I could do.
How many people would open an account if they knew that every time they used a card that is a legal reason for the company to empty your account at a whim.

My suggestion to anyone thinking of using a debit (Maestro, Delta etc) to purchase anything even from a leading manufacturer such as Sony Online Entertainment LLC DO NOT DO IT.

I have not let this go by far, I will pursue this until I get a refund from someone or I die trying.

So Sony Online Entertainment LLC thanks for ripping me off and thanks Natwest Bank for helping them.

I am so glad Jagex don't have Real word payments for online items, perhaps the above is one of the main reasons it is not an option.

Sony just lost an ongoing subscription because of a lack of security in their payment system and no interest in sorting it out, but hey they just got £60 out of me through immoral means.

Everyone else has blamed the Merchanting scams, I mean clans, no I don't I mean scams, but even the merchanting scams do not have the power to change the price on everything, in fact the merchanting scams have very little long term affect on any of the RS market.

At about this time last year I noticed that there was a sudden downturn in the cost of expensive armour, with the help of readers of this blog and the Runescape Readers Digest we determined that the price may be caused by the end of the school holidays and likely end of membership and reduced playing time for many players, selling all their member items for cash to spend for f2p.

It was never totally conclusive but the times and price changes did coincide very closely.

As a precaution I have had a spring clean, I sold most of my junk including most of my spare runes, 20K laws, 15k bloods, and many more of my other runes as well as my no longer used Barrows sets, sorry Guthans my bunyip has made you redundant, all in all so far I have made 71m just selling my carp, I may sell my God Sword, I only use it for dark beasts anyway, my best sell was my ranger boots, I bought them when they were worth 1.2m and I paid 1m to a guy who wanted a quick sell, sold today for just over 9m, will I buy in 2 weeks for 5m or stick with my chicken feet? I do not know yet.
I bought 35k iron ore for 100gp a while back because I wanted to get my smithing up, it sat in my bank for over a year and I sold it all today for 126 each, if I havent used it in over a year whats the chance of me using it soon?

If your going to sell it may well be an idea to sell now, the holidays end in 2 weeks and I expect the prices to plummet, the prices are still rising but the rise has slowed, I may well be wrong but it may be an idea to consider past performance and maybe sell duplicates you have.

I train herblore when I want to, I am 89 at present and would like to get the magic 90, I can make anything herby so no pressure from that just nice to have another number on my stats page out of the 80's, since the engine update that brought about the above ability I have not tested the cleaning process for herbs, before it took so long to clean the herbs that I sold all grimy herbs and bought unfinished potions, this is fine by me at the moment, you get most of the xp adding the secondary ingredient anyway, they cost more but the time saved by not cleaning and putting in a vial can be spent training what I want to train or a good profit making skill, even if they sped the cleaning process to how it used to be I would still buy unfinished.

I was fishing at the Piscatoris fishing colony, looking at the bank I noticed that the banker could be seen through the window, this is just accepted nowadays but I also noticed that he could be seen through the gaps in the planks the hut was built with, this is a small detail and has no effect on playability but it was a real treat to see it, Jagex took the effort to make it look as real as possible, there are many places Jagex have added little extra detail that will probably be missed by most players but this attention to detail is what sets Runescape above all the other MMORPG's.

As with the good points there are also little things that are annoying, things that don't affect the playability to a great extent but still shouldn't be. three that spring to mind are.
1/ Lapalok (and any other slayer master) can offer as a reward runes for slayer dart, I have never seen a slayer dart spell, is there going to be a new spell or do they mean "magic dart" I reported this as a bug when smoking kills came out and last time I checked it was still incorrect.
2/Another thing on the same lines, you all know the slayer gem? yes? no? there is no such thing yet Jagex still mention it, cant remember when I saw it mentioned, maybe when the ring of slaying turned into an enchanted gem when I had used all charges.
3/ The main annoyance is the ability to run away from the Grand Exchange when you select something to buy, I wanted to buy a pot for the missing my mummy quest, a/ I couldn't find a plain pot listed, b/ it took me 4 attempts to highlight a pot of flour to empty to get the pot, I gave up and went to a shop to buy it instead. the run away when selecting something at GE has been a major annoyance for many people for a long time, is it so difficult to fix?

The good points far outweigh the bad points but the bad points get noticed more, Jagex please sort the GE runaway bug.

Thanks for reading this post, my first for a while, sorry it not particularly well written and probably many errors but im a busy bee at the mo, preferring to play than write about it.

She has just reached 109 combat and I suggested we did some Kalphite Queening, I briefed her on what to wear and what to take and we went to a lootshare world and trotted off.

I wore full Veracs for the first form, with piety, protect item and mage protect on my auto prayer settings, my friend wore black dragon hide and whip, we ran in and started to kill queenie and she was despatched very quickly, her first form being killed very quickly we both switched to range attack with our cross bows and the second form followed not far behind.

We repeated and yet again we killed her off very quickly, its been a long time since I did a KQ run and I remember it being a struggle each time even with a friend.

I was trying to work out has the KQ been degraded to make her more appealing against the lure of great wealth from the other bosses, the KQ lair was there for us, no one else tried to take our queening world, that would have been unheard of years ago there were often rivalries over KQ territory, finding her all alone and neglected seamed very sad.
Myself a level 137, a level 109 with no experience of KQ'ing despatched her very easily, I remember when I though I would die and indeed my friends and I have died at her pincers, in those days we could pick up each others stuff and give them back.

There was one attempt when we were bombarded with range attacks and we did take some substantial damage on her first form forcing us both to leave before we could finish the bug off, this was scary but I remember that happening a lot of the time before, I have soloed K'ril who can hit 49's and draining prayer, I have teamed Armadyl and Bandos and I am fully aware of the damage they can do, am I just used to the harder bosses and the attack of the queen has dulled in comparison, I can solo the KBD with the leftover sharks after a clue scroll with a poor weapon and my natural unpotted prayer, perhaps I am a lot tougher now but I have been a 126 (Pre summoning) for a long time now.

Its quite sad that the queen of the bosses has been demoted to a mediocre foe after ruling RS for so long, the lure of the d chain has gone with the value of god swords and armour drawing people away, perhaps she has had her time and is due an easier life away from constant attacks or perhaps she is to be used as a training ground for the up and coming warriors to practice their techniques for a team kill, either way she will always hold a special place in my heart as a memory of my early days in Runescape.

Our drops for that session were
20 zammy wine x 2
Addy spear
19 Bloods x 2
Laws x 2
Rune hatchet

I forget the rest but never covered cost on any run.

I had a slayer task for Hell Hounds, Hell Hounds are OK for slayer xp but the drops are carp, they mainly drop gold charms so pretty much useless all round, some people kill them for clues but greater demons are better for clues have better charm drops and the odd good normal drop plus their easier to kill.
To get the task over as quickly as possible I decide to take my cannon to Taverly dungeon where I can set it up to kill about 4 or 5 at a time, I went to my usual spot and started cannoning, Hounds were falling all around with the normal gold charm and bones, never needing to pick up either I stayed and ranged the close Hounds and let my cannon do the rest, after a while a player comes along and says "OMFG", then "FFS" followed by "don't you have any consideration for others" I chose to stay quiet because it is not worth arguing, arguing only creates the opportunity for aggression and possibly people saying things that they may regret later, my only sentence had I not remained silent would have been, "I changed world 4 times to find a world with no one here it wont do you any harm to tolerate me until my task is complete or for you to find another world without a cannon".
Why a player comes to a training area and expect others to change the way they train when they arrive is beyond me.

Cash for newbs
I have a newb account that I keep just to get the holiday items, I was playing him the other day to get the Easter event stuff, after I got the emote and the carrot I decided to have a play with it and went to chop some logs, I had spent a few minutes earlier in the year so was 40 wood cutting already.
Chopping away I got to the level for an addy axe and upgraded by selling the logs I had chopped, I went to Draynor Village to chop the willows but was attacked by the mages, I couldn't be bothered to hide at the far end just to chop so I went to the oak trees near Varrock, I used my Addy axe and within a few hours I got high enough to use a rune axe, I sold the Oak logs for max on GE, they sold instantly and sold for more than the willows would have, I then bought a Rune axe and continued to chop, I got to 50 wc and sold all the logs I had, I had 50k, that was 50k on a level 7 combat account not including the money spent on the rune axe, so after 2 to 3 hours I had made 50k on an entry level account.

Many of the begging comments I get after free accounts state they have a level 3 account and only 100gp, after only a few hours of work I had gained 50k, had full steel armour and some other bits and pieces, why do these beggars expect to have a good account when they cant be bothered to train their own (alleged) account for a few minutes.
Money can be made easily just by training a skill and sticking at it, the longer you stick at it the more you will get, choose a skill you like and stick with it and cash will flow.

I will train that account to chop yews when the next holiday event is released or when I'm fed up of not levelling, It did give me an understanding of why skill pures find motivation, It was nice to have a low level account with old holiday items and more cash and higher skill levels than some of the other players, I am not going to train it as a skill pure because I like combat but I will stick at it for now.

I have my Santa suit that I had collected from the Christmas event last year and I thought I would buy a Santa Hat to finish it off, I watched the price on GE and the price had dropped to just below 13m and had remained stable for the last month and probably longer, I decide to try and buy at bottom, I left if for a week but no joy so put the price to normal and bought it straight away.

I had my Santa Suit and Santa Hat with blue Samurai hair, didn't quite look the part so I went to Fally to get a cut and colour, white beard and long hair was the order of the day and woot did I look good, I really was Santa at the start of summer, as normal when I skill I wore a ring of life just in case and started to train my summoning dressed as Santa Clause, I just carried on training with no comment from anyone, but I will be wearing it for a bit longer and anticipate a few comments.

Buying when the price was low was a good move financially, It would mean my chance of making a profit when selling later would be increased, the thing is I don't really care if the price drops to 1m, I bought it for fun and I will wear it even if the price shoots up until I have had enough of it.

You don't see many people wearing full Santa in the summer, I also wear chicken feet when I wear my full Armadyl just so I look the part, the fun part of me takes over in Runescape, I have always trained what I want to do, never forced into something to get a cape for the sake of a cape, taking on the kbd in full bronze has some interesting results.

If you play for fun and see Money/levels as a by product then Runescape becomes less of a chore, If you die and lose your armour who cares save up again and buy it back, if you have had it once you can get it again.