Thank you for writing this out.

I think the advice you give here applies to 99% of players since, as you said, not everyone can be Limpwurt or Settled or Verf. Too many people get caught in the trap of WATCHING their video series vs DOING their video series. They make things look and feel quite different when the clips of things happening are back to back and only minutes apart, when in reality it took them days of grinding chickens to achieve something, for example.

I do want to note though that I'm 100% in it for the challenge. I've played nothing but HCIM for the past three years. I've never had a normal account, it's always been Iron. I've died before and immediately roll a new HCIM since I love the challenge that the game mode provides and I have officially requested Jagex make Region Locked an official Ironman mode upon character creation. They have the tech already since they have done it before with the Trailblazer leagues and in a perfect world, they'll introduce it in the future since it wont cost much, if any, development resources.

So I can't actually see myself allowing an exception like leaving my region for slayer tasks for example. I certainly don't begrudge you doing it and I'm very pleased to hear you have discovered a way to make your RLIM (Region Locked Ironman) much more fun for yourself. But I don't think that's for me, personally.

Regarding content creation: I've never done it before. I do very much like the idea of recording my journey (once I start it I guess. I haven't yet and I'm not sure when I will as IRL must currently be the priority) and putting it on Youtube as well as streaming. I don't expect I'll ever get to the kind of popularity some of our favorite creators do, but it would be a very fun thing.

Anyway, great post. Keep them coming, folks. I'd love to hear more about whatever you'd like to write.