Addicted to Runescape...Yet Again

Recently I haven't been playing the MMORPG game Runescape lately and not just because I had assignment after assignment, project after project, and test after test, but also because I grew bored of the game. Gasp, how could you do such a thing with a huge game like Runescape? Easy for me, I have a short attention span when it comes to things like Runescape, but Runescape is one of the few things I actually come back to. The Sims Online I left once and went back, but that's because our first computer with it broke and we got it installed on our second computer after months of missing the game. Also some things like RPG Maker XP I went back to, only leaving when I understood how much of my life was wasted away on a game I'll never finish or if an event that I can't get right gets in my way. Other things like the Super Mario World editor comes and goes in a single day. I get excited enough to spend two hours looking for the ROM and the emulator and finally getting the broken .rar archieve to work with the actual editor and yet it doesn't last through the night. However, Runescape, like I mentioned, is a whole different experience. You're actually playing with other people doings things that'll make yourself stronger and better than the rest of the people around you besides sitting in a cramped, little computer room with all the pleasure in the world you have is a USB SNES controller, some ROMs, SNES emulator, and an editor for a SNES game. That's just foolish. I tend to do things that matter, however I mostly get lost on the main trail and find a new quest that leads me on a great adventure, however I only get paid 200 gp for my hardships, then a lesser demon pops out of nowhere and kills my cat.

But anyway, I have become addicted to Runescape (hopefully you could tell by now) again and I've been spending my time going with the flow and trying all new things, liking many of them. Last week sometime, my friend, Craig, wanted me to play again. Craig plays the game almost 24/7, beating me in almost every stat besides fishing, which is quite funny because I'm the one who showed him the game, making him the "student" and me the "teacher". But like they always say, the student always gets smarter than the teacher. So anyways, I booted up SwiftSwitch and played the game, cutting yews. Just the whole joy of being back with the Runescape community as I was there standing around chopping yews got me addicted again. Later on, more toward the weekend or on it, (actually now that I think about it, it might've been Sunday) Craig suggested that I fight hellhounds with him in a dungeon east of East Ardounage. I was there at the time fighting ogres in a previously locked room that only becomes unlocked by flipping switches when he PMed me asking to come down to fight with him. I said in horror, "No!" I wasn't going to go in direct combat with a level 110+ dog from hell. I then brought up buying a rune hally because he told me he used to take his dragon halbred in there before he went into ranging, but I'm not the best guy in the Runescape merchenting world. The reason why I want player-owned shops. (There's still no word on player-owned houses.) So I gave Craig 100k gp and told him to go buy me a rune hally from somebody. Some time later, he PMs me telling me he got one for exactly 100k gp. So we trade, I get the hally, and I go down with him to the hellhounds. I didn't like the hellhounds too much. Too much other traffic and they could easily attack you depending on where you're standing and where they spawn. Plus there's only two, big woot. So I went away and walked around wondering where I could fight monsters from behind a fence, rocks, etc. Then it hit me. The Ardounage Zoo.

For some portions of the week, I trained on the wolves, cyclomps, and the jogre at the Ardounage Zoo getting my combat up. However due to my English assignment that was due Monday and my Spanish family tree that was due Tuesday (both of those going well), I wasn't able to play as much as I wanted to. Recently I moved on from training at the zoo and I don't know what made me do it, but yesterday I began to farm. I thought the farming skill would be the last thing in the game I would get up, but it's actually one of the first ones that I plan to get up high, besides my attack, strength, defence, fishing, woodcutting, and mining. I love this skill. Even though the lowest time for a crop to take is about 17.5 minutes, this being for flowers, the skill is a lot of fun, and you can do many other things while doing the skill. For example, I got my fletching up 16 levels since I started farming because I would chop down the abundent normal and oak trees located nearby at the farm in Caterby. Also I plan to get my firemaking up a bit just for the heck of it. Contribute to the overall level. Today I tried growing hops in the hop patches, and in my spare time I tried making glass on Ectraca Island but after a full load of oil lamps I have made, I went back to get some sea weed and there was practically a party there. If I ever plan on using a hop patch again though, it's going to be the patch near the coal trucks on the outside of Seers Village.

Actually I was going to make a little super farming system of my own. You'll see some articles on Runescape sites talking about these fast exp making methods of farming by being on the move constontaly and teleporting here and there wearing fancy amulets and having tons of law runes, but I have instead created my own method. I haven't put it into practice yet but I tried the first part of it and it worked, although there was a bountiful amount of walking back and forth. I call this method I have created due to my outstanding wisdom (sarcasism) the "Farming Triangle of EXP Points". That's the best I could come up with. Anyway, here's the low-down. There's three different farming areas on the west side of White Wolf Mountain that form a triangle. The full farm in Caterby, the hop patch in Seers, and the full farm on the outside of East Ardounage. Now here's the plan. You start off at Caterby, planting the flowers and crops (I can't think of the proper word for the patch now...was it atollement?) and then you head off west toward Seers Village and Camalot. You should come out of the woods near Camolot at the fountains in the front of the castle. Head west toward the bank and walk past it, until you get to a south turn in the road. At the turn, head north, past the coal trucks. You'll find a hop patch surrounded by dead trees and maple trees. Now get your business done there and walk back to that road, going south toward the full farm near Ardounage. Once you get to that farm, getting your business done, head up the coast until you get back to Caterby, watering and checking your plants. Herbs are not guarnteed to work with this method. I only tried from Caterby to Seers so I'm not sure if the whole complete triangle would work, but it may. Also there's a fruit tree patch near the beach at Caterby (one of the most popular fishing resorts in the game) so if you're that high a level and you have the seeds, then you can morph the method into the "Irregular-Shaped Quadrilateral Farming Method of Good Food Fast".

That's enough about Runescape. I just spent an hour typing about it while eating supper inbetween. I was hardly on AIM, Drake's forum, etc. at all lately due to Runescape so I thought I would explain myself why by doing it here. Oh yes, I didn't post here in a while too due to Runescape. How could I forget my own site? I forgot...I had a short attention span...

We've been having some weird weather lately here. Yesterday it was 60 degrees F outside whereas today we were getting 60 MPH winds. Both of these days were wasted on my computer playing Runescape. I was up until 2:30 this morning playing the damn game. Anyway, I didn't waste too much of my life yesterday because I went over Craig's house. I sat there for an hour or more watching him play Runescape because his membership ran out today and he wanted to sell as much junk that he could for a profit. Thankfully he sent out a money order to renew his membership just two days ago so he should have the membership back shortly. Hopefully. Afterwards, we played Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. Then I went home to play Runescape, until 2:30 in the morning... Also I want to show the funniest trade I ever saw so far in Runescape. This guy wanted to give all of this crap to Craig for his dwarf cannon while Craig wanted 650k gp in cash for it. Here's the picture.

I still had some pictures on my digital camera that I took at my sister's on Sunday after I posted my second-to-last previous blog entry so I uploaded that to Imageshack and now I'm going to put them on here for your viewing pleasure. You'll see the towns of Peckville and Olyphant on here (remember the good ol' Secret of Olyphant days?) and also the yet to be unfamous but will someday be famous "Discount Drugs Of Canada" sign. Also you'll see my sister's cat again, Buster, sleeping...thankfully. Here you go, then I must go. So have a good one.

Pictures from this past Sunday at sister's: