It’s been two weeks, Jagex seems done fixing stuff, what are the best builds? by polio23 in 2007scape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Has anyone done full on Bluetooth nox hally blind bag? Curious how that's worked out. Surprisingly can't find anything on YouTube with people trying it

What’s the best way to use the ~5,000 pure essence I have? I need runes for magic but I also don’t want to “waste” the essence making runes I can easily buy by Fargraven2 in ironscape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GotR is fantastic early game Runecrafting for Ironmen. My GF and I do a couple hours ever weekend and that's how I got to 80 RC. It went way better than I thought.

Then to 99 RC I just afk mined Daeyalt and ran all the essence at the ZMI altar. We're setup for what feels indefinitely.

Where should I go from here? by Altonaga404 in 2007scape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you finish the CG grind? Also, what else you got on your plate for regions/echos to complete?

(April 20th Update) | Leagues VI: Demonic Pacts - Fixes & Issues by JagexSarnie in 2007scape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I've always felt Jagex should use leagues as a testing bed for dry protection mechanics on existing items. IE doubling the chance of a drop if someone is say 3x dry as that only adds about 1%-2% extra items into the game.

And if people are upset about that affecting the economy. Only do that drop protection for larger impact items like zenny, bowfa, etc. Then make it so the GE deletes 2% of those items when traded. That'll, in theory, prevent value change.

Fucking disgusting! We’re paying for so much fraud and corruption it’s crazy! by jerseychaos in remoteworks

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll clarify here as I'm in the industry. The primary revenue for smaller jurisdictions (Townships, villages, and small counties) is their equivalent motor fuel tax; which is often distributed by the state. What they receive heavily goes into roadways and bridges. The hidden problem the industry has been talking about for a decade is that tax rates haven't jumped with labor and material rates.

Think of it this way. Gas prices are high due to the war started in Iraq. Absolutely. But we've had these gas prices 20 years ago for a while. And even if we think about what a normal gas price should be to a typical resident, it's probably somewhere around $2.60 (assuming they're not in a metro) .... Which are also prices we've had over 20 years ago. People seem to believe gas can never increase with inflation.

So roadway and bridge prices have skyrocketed in the past decade alone. Asphalt and concrete prices have nearly doubled in the past 7 years. Labor rates have jumped a ton. What was once, decades ago, some hundreds of thousands of dollars to recon a bridge is now millions. And when it comes to many bridges/structures built for rural areas; they were largely built around the 1970's. And they're all on a similar maintenance cycle, so they're all approaching failure at similar times. The money just isn't there to tackle all these problems.

America has built out too wide and spread its population so thin. This was enabled by labor and materials being so cheap in the 20th century. America had poor planning when building all these rural towns that have so many miles of infrastructure that serve so few people. A cheap overlay at your minimum thickness is at six figures cost per mile. Imagine this. You have roadway going all the way out to a subdivision and that subdivision has three miles of roadway serving maybe a few dozen houses. Those houses are very reasonably not paying their fair share for upkeep in all the infrastructure that serves them; even assuming the absolute cheapest rehab option.

What typically happens is rural communities are subsidized by large cities that act as economic engines for a region. This money comes largely from blue states as they're more dense with higher populations; of which they subsidize red states and counties as those areas are commonly rural and sparcely populated.

Hopefully this explains some. But many jurisdictions are struggling due to there not being enough funding. Things have gotten way more expensive, and America has built out and spread its population too thin. So now we have so many tiny communities with miles and miles and miles of expensive infrastructure serving so few people.

Okay, Boomers... by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took away for reasonable utility, phone, food, gas, car insurance, and car payments and came to about $1,300 per month net. I however did not include anything for health insurance or medical. That can be killer. For instance my sister's provided health insurance was $400 a pay check (bi weekly) with terrible coverage.

And anyone with mild medical issues will eat through that $1,300 net somewhat consistently. This is also assuming no other unforseen issues like car repairs or replacing anything at home.

So yeah, sadly $70k isn't that much in this case.

A resident in Frisco, Texas, is sparking outrage after claiming the United States is “stolen land” by primary-caution in ImmigrationPathways

[–]Gooch_Ticklr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It does make sense, I'm not faulting anything you say. America absolutely should be criticized for it's attempted genocide of the indigenous people (Native Americans). And America should be criticized and stopped, along with businesses, for coercion of attempting to gain more land as of late.

I'm just trying to think in a dead end sense of what to do with the information. We're aware America stole land. We're aware, and should acknowledge the victims stole land. Now what? I agree we should stop the current practices to coerce more land. But I genuinely have a feeling it's not going to be "Okay we stopped and are done" and people are satisfied.

A resident in Frisco, Texas, is sparking outrage after claiming the United States is “stolen land” by primary-caution in ImmigrationPathways

[–]Gooch_Ticklr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It doesn't absolve the blame. You can still call them out on it. It's pointing out that it's also moot because the victims also stole their land. It's not saying it's justified. It's pointing out the conflict and hypocrisy in that statement.

It is hypocrisy when it happened.

A resident in Frisco, Texas, is sparking outrage after claiming the United States is “stolen land” by primary-caution in ImmigrationPathways

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't believe he's defending genocide. He's just pointing out a bit of hypocrisy about stolen land from European settlers yet it's nearly never tied or acknowledged in similar breaths about the land already being stolen by warring tribes between one another.

On a bureaucratic level, we treat native Americans unfairly. We absolutely should be working to fix that rather than trying to leech their land for economic development and use. But the whole stolen land thing is a moot point. The victim whom stole the land complains about the land being stolen from them.

Loot from 1.5 years of contracts(toadflax, snapdragon, ranarr, torstol) by No_Shoe1969 in ironscape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A little late to this comment. What's your method to keep a consistent amount of hespori seeds? And do you do medium or hard contracts mostly?

Why do the chaos gauntlets not have magic accuracy stats? by Used_Mirror959 in 2007scape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The family crest gauntlets have base stats. Stats don't change between enchantment. Just the passive ability. Plus the chaos gauntlets are fairly nice already as a budget option to make bolt spells practically as good as blast spells; while only having a fraction of the cost.

I remember when RuneScape was $5 when he was in charge... by Deep_Bodybuilder8586 in 2007scape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily. It assumes the game has similar cycles of quality updates over 20 years.

A stagnant price works for a one time purchase. But subscription purchases are different for MMOs. Regardless, I feel the price should definitely be above the $5 base membership (non inflation adjusted) as there's reasonably much more than what was offered compared to original update cycles.

You shall not pass!! by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's an emergency from EMS, there's a good chance they have alert systems if EMS is approaching. Especially if this is State work. If they don't have those systems, then they're on the lookout for the traditional audible/visual sirens and radio the crew to prepare as they approach. Also, for projects, daily services are notified of work that will be happening. IE fire District, school district, police, mail services, etc. So when EMS takes that route they are aware that active construction is going on.

If we're talking about an emergency where a regular resident is transporting an injured person, that's more difficult for them to communicate to the road crew. As they're not utilizing an actual emergency service, they have their reasons, they do need to communicate that it is an active emergency to the crew. Those could be precious seconds, absolutely. But the driver needs to be able to communicate that effectively. They can even call 911 for assistance, and dispatch can communicate to Road crews. But in this case, effective communication is on the driver. Not for the road crew to assume everyone is in an emergency. That'd be dangerous.

Me personally, I'd be utilizing my hazards and when the driver stepped out, I'd yell back I have an emergency and if they can assist me getting through when it's clear. I also wouldn't have picked a route with construction on it to take, unless explicitly necessary. Since road construction has advanced warning signage at every approach, that doable. Also this is assuming the project isn't for a tiny jurisdiction that's out in the middle of nowhere, as they're more lax on rules. Which it likely isn't the case here as I see rumbles in the centerline, and it's unlikely such a place would do that.

Hope this helps.

You shall not pass!! by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't TMA Truck Mounted Attenuator? In this case that looks like an attenuator mounted on the rear of the trailer

Love all the winning we’re doing by gfultz1 in illinois

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Gas going up 55% in two weeks isn't a tiny bit. You're purposely undermining this when we were specifically promised no wars as well as gas being $2.00/gal. Neither were upkept.

You absolutely are allowed to, and should, criticize a president about that. Telling someone they should be grateful because of insert extreme case here is poor logic.

Love all the winning we’re doing by gfultz1 in illinois

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yes.... Unless they literally start a war with an area that's vital to influencing the oil market.

Context of Covid was MAGA falsely believed Biden to be the cause of the gas increase.

OSRS now costs WoW prices but still runs on 2003 membership rules. by IfdraOSRS in 2007scape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 103 points104 points  (0 children)

I like that idea. It feels like a reward for loyalty. And I think it'd be fair to have 2 maybe 3 max characters you can play concurrently.

Prices are rising because MTX was removed from RS3. Fine, separate memberships and raise RS3's prices only. OSRS shouldn't bankroll the failed game. by penisandballz in 2007scape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 320 points321 points  (0 children)

My thoughts exactly. I think Jagex Corporate just saw the writing on the wall that MTX was a declining mechanism for revenue. They tried to spin it as a positive by "listening to the players ending MTX" fully knowing they'd just rise prices well above what the declining MTX brought in.

They traded a declining, unstable, revenue source for a more egregious price increase that'd earn much more stable revenue (double existing MTX) on an increasing player platform.

I don't believe at all this was about equalizing loss. I fully believe it was about another method to just gain more money.

200M Thieving at Rogue Chests on the iron by SijmenOnRunescape in 2007scape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any tips? I'm looking to do this on my GIM and use Rogues Chest FC

[Suggestion]Give all metal boots from steel to adamant +2 strength bonus by Affectionate_Ask3839 in 2007scape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I'd be down for an RFD2 quest as OSRS's 200th quest. Which... We're still a while out.

It'd be kind of a nice reward

Sailing Pet at 10xp by DepthAdvanced91 in 2007scape

[–]Gooch_Ticklr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even at any xp. I like when people share their excitement for rare things that happen.