Making money on an online game may seem easy, but it's just like making money in real life - everyone wants to be rich but few people actually manage it. When you look at the people who have a lot of gold on Runescape you'll find that they have the attributes of the people that are rich in real life. They're usually smart, hard working, cunning and very confident. Making money on Runescape for the last 2-3 years has simply been a matter of grinding because there has been no free trade (which essentially makes laundering gold between accounts virtually impossible). However on the 1St of February free trade and the wilderness (and staking) all return, and so the emphasis won't be on doing repetitive tasks all the time such as skilling or monster killing, it'll be about using your cunning and innovation to get ahead.
There are a massive amounts of scams, hacks, lures and techniques all that help people on their way to quick riches - and that's exactly what they are. Whether it's simply befriending someone and backstabbing them for dragon claws or a godsword, or whether it's a more complex scheme or clan is irrelevant. What is relevant is that they are all using underhand techniques in order to get ahead. Now right away you must be thinking that in reality this isn't how people make money in the real world, but really it is. Whether you're a corrupt banker getting undeserved bonuses or a landlord who gets rent under the table and out of the taxman's fingers there are plenty of ways that people get rich by not playing by the rules.
I recently asked a friend whether he'd join me in backstabbing a few 'friends' of mine - both exceptionally rich, and he declined, not on any moral basis but because he didn't want to risk his account getting banned. Doing this isn't banneable, but other immoral and sometimes even evil methods of getting rich on this game are. You have to ask yourself a pretty simple question in the next few weeks, do you want to play by the rules and get rich slowly. Or do you want to live fast, die young and scam, cheat, steal and hack yourself to billions of gold - because trust me the richest players didn't get there by chopping logs.
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Thursday 20 January 2011
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Easy Money Making On Runescape
Making money on Runescape is usually quite difficult and not easy, but the first thing that I feel we should do is define what exactly 'easy' is. For some people easy is making a lot of money quick but putting in a lot of effort. For others it's making less money at a slower speed but which requires less input and effort from the character itself.
A good example of the first one would be god wars dungeon or Barrows where killing the monsters allows you to loot drops worth millions of gold. With the introduction of a new dungeon at the God Wars you can even kill Nex which is the minion of Zaros, at the moment some of its drop are worth in excess of 200 million gold! But these kinds of activities take skill, effort and concentration all combined. You need to be skilled at fighting, as well as being able to equip yourself well. You need to put a lot of effort into not only know what armour to wear, but actually earning it so you can wear it, as well as getting the key to unlock Nex. It definitely takes concentration because you're fighting a very difficult boss, if you let your guard down you could easily die. This type of money making appeals to a lot of people because you can make vast amounts of money, but it does drain you both physically and mentally.
On the other hand when you're looking at something like skilling, perhaps hunter where you're catching chinchompas, or woodcutting yew trees and so on. There's much less effort required and much less risk involved, in fact you're practically risking northing at all. When you're cutting some logs the worst thing that can happen is that you can lose your axe head, but apart from that nothing else can happen. This is unlike going to Barrows where a death could easily mean losing million of golds, I've had a friend who has died twice for around 10 million gold each time.
What's definitely not easy money making is doing repetitive tasks such as picking flax. This doesn't even gain you any experience, and not only that but it's also terrible for actually making money. It's also very boring and takes constant effort and attention, it's not like you can just click and wait for your inventory to fill up with flax, you have to be constantly clicking and moving. If you're a low level that makes money in this type of a situation, I'd stop right away and focus on something that was actually productive. This means for the time being you wouldn't be making any money as you gained combat or skill levels. But when you have a high enough combat you can go to either Barrows or Godwars and increase your income dramatically. Or when you have high enough gathering levels (for example woodcutting, mining and hunter and so on) you can make much better money while doing something enjoyable. These both allow you to gain levels and make much more money. You may not be making a lot of money to start with but you'lldefinitely start making a lot more then if you were doing a boring and menial task. If you were to relate it to the real world it's like choosing to be a banker as opposed to a factory worker, one just pays better and is seen as being a better job.
To conclude easy money making on Runescape is a matter of preference, and it's a balance between the effort you put in and the rewards you get out of it. I personally prefer a variety of tasks, such as those that make less but which aren't challenging and those which are much more challenging and dangerous but which present much greater rewards.
A good example of the first one would be god wars dungeon or Barrows where killing the monsters allows you to loot drops worth millions of gold. With the introduction of a new dungeon at the God Wars you can even kill Nex which is the minion of Zaros, at the moment some of its drop are worth in excess of 200 million gold! But these kinds of activities take skill, effort and concentration all combined. You need to be skilled at fighting, as well as being able to equip yourself well. You need to put a lot of effort into not only know what armour to wear, but actually earning it so you can wear it, as well as getting the key to unlock Nex. It definitely takes concentration because you're fighting a very difficult boss, if you let your guard down you could easily die. This type of money making appeals to a lot of people because you can make vast amounts of money, but it does drain you both physically and mentally.
On the other hand when you're looking at something like skilling, perhaps hunter where you're catching chinchompas, or woodcutting yew trees and so on. There's much less effort required and much less risk involved, in fact you're practically risking northing at all. When you're cutting some logs the worst thing that can happen is that you can lose your axe head, but apart from that nothing else can happen. This is unlike going to Barrows where a death could easily mean losing million of golds, I've had a friend who has died twice for around 10 million gold each time.
What's definitely not easy money making is doing repetitive tasks such as picking flax. This doesn't even gain you any experience, and not only that but it's also terrible for actually making money. It's also very boring and takes constant effort and attention, it's not like you can just click and wait for your inventory to fill up with flax, you have to be constantly clicking and moving. If you're a low level that makes money in this type of a situation, I'd stop right away and focus on something that was actually productive. This means for the time being you wouldn't be making any money as you gained combat or skill levels. But when you have a high enough combat you can go to either Barrows or Godwars and increase your income dramatically. Or when you have high enough gathering levels (for example woodcutting, mining and hunter and so on) you can make much better money while doing something enjoyable. These both allow you to gain levels and make much more money. You may not be making a lot of money to start with but you'lldefinitely start making a lot more then if you were doing a boring and menial task. If you were to relate it to the real world it's like choosing to be a banker as opposed to a factory worker, one just pays better and is seen as being a better job.
To conclude easy money making on Runescape is a matter of preference, and it's a balance between the effort you put in and the rewards you get out of it. I personally prefer a variety of tasks, such as those that make less but which aren't challenging and those which are much more challenging and dangerous but which present much greater rewards.
Monday 17 January 2011
Best Way To Make Money On Runescape
I get asked quite often what's the best way to make money on Runescape, and frankly I'm surprised people ask. There's a myriad of information and money making guides right out there on the internet and it seems to me that I'm not actually being asked how to make money. I'm being asked for a quick fix solution to a problem where none exists. Even those who've made billions of gold from staking, merchanting, pking and so on had to put in a lot of hard work and determination.
There were (and will once more be) stakers who specifically created accounts which had 1 prayer and purposefully when for stats such as 88 attack, 78 strength and 88 defence to look worse than they effectively were (90 attack, 80 strength, 90 defence).
There were (and will once more be) stakers who specifically created accounts which had 1 prayer and purposefully when for stats such as 88 attack, 78 strength and 88 defence to look worse than they effectively were (90 attack, 80 strength, 90 defence).
Then the were the first mechant clan leaders who profited of the whole of Runescape as well of many of their members. These people had to set up entire clans, organise hundreds of people as well as thinking of the techniques involved in the Grand Exchange manipulation.
Pkers like stakers also had to have specific stats, whether it was keep prayer low as a pure, or getting 95 prayer for turmoil. Not only this, but very specific gear had to be chosen which would give slight, but important advantages over their opponents.
All of these three types of players have done well, and will do so again when the wilderness returns on the 1st of February. But these players didn't get to where they were by repetitively asking how to do this and that, they asked once and got on with it. There's only so much background research and knowledge you can obtain about these types of players before you have to take the plunge and actually do it. If you keep doing what you'll always done (and that's the majority of players), such as chopping yew trees or picking flax then you're not going to be making much money at all. You have to find out who the rich people are, then figure how they got there - but that's the easy part! The hard part isn't knowing what to do, it's about putting in the effort to do it yourself. People complain about being poor, but never try to be rich - and that's the only difference between these two players, one tries and one doesn't.
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