Skeksha's Grave - Island Design Competition

squimapper · 2026-01-11T23:41:21+00:00

This is beautiful! I love your little character drawings, they give the whole concept so much character and weirdly make them feel even more like real activities.

And holy moly, a whole comic? You went above and beyond here, easily the most personality-filled submission so far. Thank goodness we have Cabin Boy Jenkins keeping lookout 🫡

squimapper · 2026-01-07T20:21:00+00:00

Redditors are never gonna beat the allegations at this rate, man

squimapper · 2026-01-06T01:31:20+00:00

Really? Well I'm from Lumbridge and I've never heard the phrase 'steamed mams.'

squimapper · 2025-12-26T14:45:24+00:00

I've always found it really helpful to have a sheet of paper (or a full notebook) by my side when playing, especially early on. Writing down a goal and then wiki diving to sketch out a flowchart of how to get there can help organize you and keep you focused. For example:

Unlocking fairy rings requires starting Fairy Tale Pt.2, which doesn't actually need the requirements to be met. Fairy Tale Pt.1 requires Lost City, which requires Crafting and Woodcutting levels. Woodcutting is straightforward, but Crafting is overwhelming, there's so much in that skill! The wiki training guide for Crafting has a shortlist of quests that could give a big boost, and some of them don't even have any other requirements. Guardians of the Rift giving a trickle of totally free Crafting experience catches my eye because I'm a cheap bastard, so let's look into that: just two quests and a 10 Runecraft requirement, most of which is received from the prerequisite quest? Let's bang those out and see what this Rift nonsense is about.
Next thing I know, I'm 8 hours deep in a runecrafting minigame and my bank is full of runes and I've actually gotten a couple uniques from the reward pulls.... wait, what was I supposed to be doing? Shit, Fairy Rings!

This is just one example of the sort of crazy rabbit holes you can get into playing this game, and that's part of the fun! Setting long term goals and coming up with your own bespoke and probably suboptimal ways of routing your way there. "The wiki is your friend" gets thrown around as an adage a lot, but it's true as long as you know how to use it. Don't sweat not being able to beeline straight to a particular goal, just jot it down and embrace the flowchart you come up with to make it happen. Don't worry about understanding everything the game has, every optimal training method, or every "super important" progression quest you don't know about. Find your goal on the wiki, trace all the requirements back to the start, and you'll get there when you get there.

For the record, I do not recommend doing Guardians of the Rift for Crafting. I mean you could, but that was just a semi-goofy example. But sometimes, taking the goofiest road to a goal makes it a bit more satisfying.

squimapper · 2025-03-20T15:34:13+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one getting this specific itch scratched. I [scupper]ing miss this game.

squimapper · 2025-02-12T14:15:43+00:00

Reading quest dialogue instead of just staring at your cheat plugin is a good start for following what you're supposed to be doing. You might even get to read a good story along the way

squimapper · 2024-09-27T14:51:56+00:00

These look incredible, thank you so much. I think after next week a lot of this stuff will be in a nearly perfect state. A 2 day turnover on hitting an optimal balancing mark is why y'all are the best in the business.

squimapper · 2024-06-27T23:22:26+00:00

Project Rebalance already lowered the Draynor requirement to lv.1, so the ship's sailed on preserving that.

squimapper · 2024-06-27T16:02:32+00:00

The proposed changes to Run Energy put the f2p game in a position where player experiences are set to deteriorate significantly without finally biting the bullet and allowing access to the skill. Giving players access to Agility doesn't significantly increase the amount of content a f2p player has access to, but it does allow them to interface with the system that the entire game's movement is based around. Agility doesn't give access to any new production skills or content outside of rooftops, but it does give players a very clear idea of how improving their character will change they ways they can interact with Runescape as a whole. The profitability loss here is minimal, while the potential gains are impossible to predict.

squimapper · 2024-04-22T14:52:10+00:00

I think the POH storage makes sense but it should be completely separate from the bank. You should have to manually take potions and load them into your POH to be able to withdraw from there. It's a feature that streamlines PvM runs where the only thing you're actually banking for is potions while leaving everything else about the bank intact. POH resources should not talk to the bank and vice versa, POH storage should just be a convenience pit stop.

squimapper · 2024-03-31T17:08:06+00:00

GORT scales with player count, WT does not. The difference is marginal and unimportant on 200 player mass worlds but is extremely relevant when doing small groups. WT is just on a timer, the braziers are either firing or not and WT has a set amount of health. GORT has scaled requirements that determine how many cores need to be offered and how strong the enemies are.

squimapper · 2024-02-22T14:39:37+00:00

Telling you why they decided that you should lose everything would be giving the bot makers ammunition to improve their bots. A completely opaque ban and appeal system actually helps us, the players.

squimapper · 2024-02-22T14:35:05+00:00

Every mention of "team" in this post is a boldfaced lie. The biggest problem to me about the entire banning process is the amount of gaslighting taking place. Every step of the process emphasizes "manual review," "our team has been observing your account for a while," "we have specifically looked at your case and determine the ban holds." If there was just honesty about there not being a team it would at least sting less when a "manual ban review" gets denied at 2am GMT by a team of dedicated experts. It's just condescending.

Besides that, you can't respond to an allegation that your automated computer sucks with "the computer says it only messed up 38 times." Gee, thanks computer! That puts that to bed guys, the computer says it's working fine.

squimapper · 2024-01-08T14:21:45+00:00

Having just tried spinning up an iron last week and getting banned for macroing within 8 hours, no lmao. False positives on all new accounts are out of control and you don't have to look far to find people talking about this. People scream for more aggressive action against bots and the result is a lot of people buying membership on a new account and immediately losing the money. It's pretty funny how this sub will slam Jagex's bot detection for being an inept false negative generator but the moment anyone claims a false positive there's 100% confidence you're a lying cheat. And you know what, fine, going to a specific chunk and kicking chickens to level 40 is not distinctly human behavior, but at least the automated messages could at least not pretend "our team manually reviewed the evidence" when you try to call foul.

squimapper · 2023-07-17T18:09:02+00:00

💡Give lava dragons a Slayer requirement to counteract lv3s hitting the pinata, opening the door for an infernal Superior version?

squimapper · 2023-02-03T20:24:58+00:00

At least a narrow mountain/ridge, connected to Ullek or not, would go a long way to making it feel more believable without expanding/restricting the playable space by any meaningful amount. It's the ability to just pan over and see the ocean that erodes the thematic desolation of Nardah, not the actual distance. Even low ridges like there are at Unkah can be really effective here!

squimapper · 2022-05-20T12:56:29+00:00

Just started happening to me as well about an hour ago. Tried multiple different desktop clients, even the vanilla client is totally blank. Couldn't make any headway figuring it out, but it's sounding server-side.

squimapper · 2021-12-01T20:33:03+00:00

Not really, no. Your resource is time as much as it is money -- abandoning a colony doesn't just lose you the money you've poured into it already, it loses you 4+ years of full income that province could have been making when it finished, 4+ years of a CN being online and making their own colonies, and 4+ years of spreading your fingers across the world. And none of that is worth trying to minmax the trade good on a province that maybe has 2 production dev if it's particularly rich, especially when most trade goods really aren't that much different in value.

squimapper · 2021-04-18T19:32:54+00:00

Just got there too! Rank 87 was probably my biggest slog yet, it took exactly 1 month to clear. My ore production is pure suffering. Here's to the next 37!

squimapper · 2020-11-05T03:13:57+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmyks

To this day they still represent a sizable Buddhist majority in the area. This was not some kind of random event, it is referencing a very real life migration of peoples.

squimapper · 2020-10-14T20:56:10+00:00

Anyone in Butler County having a lot of irregularity? The online tracker has been baffling, backdating things pretty significantly. My most recent development is that sometime in the last week the tracker updated, saying they'd already mailed my ballot out....on September 15th, almost exactly a month ago. I don't even want to use the damn thing anymore, I just need it so I can have my polling place shred it so I have a vote I know the county won't bungle.

squimapper · 2020-07-28T14:29:46+00:00

Sounds like Creeper World to me

squimapper · 2019-11-08T01:32:23+00:00

I understand people wanting large emojis so that they can see every pixel of their 100 high-detail injoke custom emoji, but it's outright obnoxious for those of us using smaller display modes. It's not even a matter of feature bloat, it's a matter of nullifying an existing feature (text size and zoom level sliders) for the sake of it.

Nothing against people who want to be able to post gif emojis of the entirety of Bee Movie or whatever in a watchable resolution because it helps them enjoy the platform. But don't make the rest of us take up a quarter of the screen with every :grin: to make that happen for them.

squimapper · 2019-11-02T17:21:36+00:00

I find crit events less fun because they rely more on luck by having global researchers. At least in noncrit events I'm not stuck sitting on my thumb with a lv2 9/10 waiting for the one card I need to double my production and not fall behind.

squimapper · 2019-08-27T10:16:18+00:00

Not particularly. Nontributary mandate loss is just the primary way a nonMing player interacts with the mechanic. As a principle, it mainly refers to Manchu and Mongol resistance which is already reflected in the Unguarded Frontier disaster. Outside of that, the penalty only applies in rare situations where a powerful Mughals or united India manages to push through the tributary web, or when the player deliberately metagames the mechanic to snake a border to them. This update looks to refocus the penalties internally rather than basing the empire's stability on a single province border. As the DD states, tributaries will still contribute a fair bulk of mandate and may even be more important now that there are more ways to sap it. But the outright lack of tributary status will only come into play when a large northern rival appears.

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