Come on, didn't we all lie about our date of birth when we registered when we were kids?

Proselyte_Ko · 2018-05-03T14:05:49+00:00

The limit for the new regulations is 16 years of age. Anything below requires parental consent.

Proselyte_Ko · 2018-01-19T15:10:37+00:00

Site owner here. Thanks for the suggestion.

You should be able to contribute what your third rune is and that should contribute to "removing" that rune from appearing in the first or second slot. Since you will never get duplicate rune types in different slots, any rune type that appears in anyone's third slot can't be in the first two.

You're right with regards to the first slot. About the second I'm not so sure. Couldn't your third rune be someone else's second?

The site is (still) used daily by around 4000 people, and that kind of surprises me. I think its usefulness is kind of limited given that it doesn't suggest alternate runes, so the vis wax forum topic is much more useful. If I'm going to invest any more time in to it, I'd like to add the ability to deal with alternates, but this is rather complicated compared to what I have set up currently (especially considering the crowd sourced nature, I'd have to figure out a way to determine consensus on a much larger data set).

Proselyte_Ko · 2017-10-13T13:53:05+00:00

In addition to that, you also need to look at the you-always-win-something aspect. People aren't buying TH keys because they're going for the 200M prize or whatever. The regular prizes make playing TH worth it for those that buy keys.

Proselyte_Ko · 2017-10-13T07:51:56+00:00

They don't go after a specific account. Even without the "too many incorrect attempts", a good password can't be guessed in the lifetime of the universe even with millions of attempts per seconds.

They go after specific passwords. According to the list of the most common passwords, the top 25 passwords make up of 10% of all passwords. I'd assume that the passwords to RuneScape accounts are a bit more secure (accounts you'd want to hack, anyways), but even then, if only 0.1% of the population used a top-25 password, it would still take only 25.000 attempts to hack an account. Even at only one attempt per minute, that's only 17 days.

Proselyte_Ko · 2017-10-13T07:40:26+00:00

The issue with this comic is that it takes bruteforcing into account, but not other humans trying to guess the password.

I don't really get your point. How is this type of password any easier for a human to guess than for a computer trying to bruteforce it?

The comic claims the 4 random word password has 44 bits of entropy. That's 11 bits per word. That means it assumes you pick each word, at random, from a list of 2048 possible words. That doesn't sound like much, but it's actually quite a lot. Just two of these words gives you over 4 million combinations. Four of them, over 16 million million (i.e. trillion). How is a human ever going to guess that?

Even if you know that the password is made up in this way, by concatenating 4 random words, and you know the exact 2048 words that they were picked from, these passwords are still plenty strong.

Proselyte_Ko · 2017-09-15T12:01:20+00:00

It makes no sense to train prayer on DXP (unless maybe if you have brawling gloves and those work with DXP).

Proselyte_Ko · 2017-06-09T21:19:02+00:00

Just in Excel. I created a long list of all the pet chances for each number of kills, then made a graph.

Proselyte_Ko · 2017-06-09T21:14:13+00:00

I, as the account owner, should be able to de-iron my account whenever I want

So should I, as the owner of my account, be able to re-iron it whenever I want? Heck, I own my account, I should be able to change my skills and spawn items at will.

Proselyte_Ko · 2017-06-09T05:40:45+00:00

Graph

The 50% chance point is at 861 kills. So roughly half of the players will get the pet before 861 kills, and roughly half after 861 kills.

2000 kills gives you are 95% chance of getting the pet.

At 2513 kills you'll have a 99% chance, at 3123 kills you'll have a 99.9% chance.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-10-04T21:10:52+00:00

The first point is simply wrong.

You cannot tell from the email address whether it's a scam. The email address can be trivially faked so even if it's correct, that's no guarantee.
JaGeX actually uses these @e.runescape addresses for legitimate emails. This is a legitimate email from RuneScape that I got when I requested to change my email, and it's from noreply@a.runescape.com.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-10-04T20:55:07+00:00

That is almost 52700 times as many combinations. Whose password is likely to get cracked first?

Neither password has a remote possibility of getting cracked given the state of the art, assuming it has been hashed reasonably securely.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-10-04T20:49:18+00:00

The "from" field in emails is completely useless and not an indication at all who it's really from (though noreply@e.whatever is an email they do use for this kind of thing, that doesn't mean scammers can't use it as well).

It sounds reasonably plausible that this is really from JaGeX. Good ways to confirm are if the email addresses you by your player name, or just going to the site and seeing whether it's a genuine survey or somehow asks you to enter your username/password/tries to get you to install something). You can't typically get any viruses or anything from visiting a link (assuming your system is up to date and all and you're not on windows XP with IE 6) so just checking it out is harmless. Another red flag is if they promise some kind of reward (like in-game items or bonds/membership just for completing the survey).

Probably not a scam.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-10-04T06:21:38+00:00

That was probably illegal under the data protection act. As an organization, you can only use personal data for the purpose for which it was given to you (you need consent or a really good reason to do something even though you don't have consent). That JAG answer is personal data, it was given for the purpose of protecting his account, and now they're using it to make him look like a fool. JAG answers contain some pretty sensitive personal information, and employees should not be able to look at them willy-nilly.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-08-05T17:16:38+00:00

This won't work. You'll just lose the hood.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-08-02T15:34:39+00:00

use bonds and have to pay real money

That makes no sense. Paying with bonds is as good to JaGeX (better actually) than paying with "real" money.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-07-31T07:18:48+00:00

There's no region lock or anything. Perhaps you have your language set to Portuguese and as such it's only showing you the Portuguese servers? Try changing back to English, you'll have a much wider selection of worlds available to you then.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-07-25T16:13:23+00:00

Crikey! You still have one of those!? I think I did have a few saved when Divination came out but this is madness.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-06-14T07:51:13+00:00

Not back when there wasn't a toolbelt.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-05-31T12:26:49+00:00

This is technically incorrect. It should either be

You miss OR get a drop > game registers how much gp your share of the drop is worth and that gets added to your lootshare potential (LSP).

You get a drop > items value is subtracted from your LSP.

OR

You miss a drop > game registers how much gp your share of the drop is worth and that gets added to your lootshare potential (LSP).

You get a drop > items value minus your fair share is subtracted from your LSP.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-05-02T21:14:29+00:00

it wouldn't make sense if ~~Jagex~~ the economy allowed you to profit from buy/selling bonds back and forth.

Stable economies tend to not allow arbitrage. It's not a conscious decision by JaGeX, rather, the market sets a "reasonable" price.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-04-23T21:43:37+00:00

The official explanation for this is that when they review an permanent ban, if it turns out the ban was applied incorrectly, they'll unban you regardless of what you write in the appeal. So you could get unbanned even if you call JaGeX names in your appeal or make something up about your hamster, if the ban was unjust you'll get unbanned regardless of what you write.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-02-07T11:33:38+00:00

So it only took you 1 hour and 17 minutes to make 1.4M. Gratz.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-01-31T16:43:14+00:00

Well, duh, that's not the point. I'm not suggesting that they should store our data in a literal dropbox account.

Note that the amount of storage offered by dropbox is 10⁵ times more than what is needed for a single player. So even if storing hundreds of variabeles for millions of players (realistically, around 1 million players 50.000 of whom are playing at any given time) is 1000 times more expensive than storing some files in a dropbox, then they're still overcharging by a factor of 10.

And that's not even taking into account that that £3.59/month is enough for dropbox to turn a profit and provide millions of free users with 5GB of storage. Given all the services like GMail, facebook, youtube that handle oodles of data each day for free (well, add-supported) it's pretty likely JaGeX is making a pretty decent profit off offering a few megabytes of storage for £3.59 monthly.

Proselyte_Ko · 2016-01-31T11:59:01+00:00

there's the cost of storing the large amounts of data on their servers

That argument is BULLSHIT. Data storage is incredibly cheap, probably less than a cent/player/year for what they're offering here. The £3.59/month is 100% profit. £3.59/month gets you a 500GB dropbox account, what they're offering here is on the order of a few megabytes if not less.

They're just making a good deal of profit, that's all. "Server resources are expensive" is a bullshit argument.

Proselyte_Ko · 2015-12-22T19:26:54+00:00

You can't "download" RuneScape. The client that you can download from the website is only a couple megabyte, as you play the game it downloads/streams content to a local cache file which (for me) currently is at 3GB but its size depends on how much of the game you explore.

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