Well, it has been a while since I last posted. It has been a busy month for me outside of Runescape, and I have had little time to play the game let alone blog. Though that doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on the blog. As I stated a couple of posts ago I am working on several different new articles. (Un)fortunately I also ended up working on a new section to my website that has taken my complete focus.

In the coming weeks I am going to be releasing a section to my website that will deal with the Runescape economy and more specifically investing. It has been slightly hard going concerning the php programming aspects of this new section which has occupied much of my free blog time. Though some of my efforts have made their way through to the blog already. For example, on the main page there is now a Grand Exchange ticker that displays the daily value of some of my favorite GE tradeable items. In the coming weeks I will have this new section up and running with further useful information including some special indexes like the AMIndex (Absenm Mains Index) which will be my favorite products, or the WIAW Index (What I Am Wearing). Of course there will also be some more useful indexes like Wood, Herbs, Foods, Runes, Armor and Clothing.  And I will also try to make product projections based on past trends.

This new GE section will not contain everything available in Runescape. In fact, it will contain very little in comparison to the whole. More specifically it will contain only information on products that I think are most useful only in an investing sense. Sure, there are many items that are very useful in combat or skilling but are completely worthless from a gp investment stand point. So this new section will basically be the piece of the pie I like. But it should have some useful and interesting information and will contain information on every item I mention in my blog.

I am still working on a multitude of other posts. As my free time opens up a little I will start posting quite a few nice new articles. But I do have a couple of quick tips I thought I would include in todays post.

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Concerning the two Distractions and Diversions mini games of Penguin Hide and Seek (PH&S) and Shooting Star I am recommending that the best way to speed up success in either of these games is to join a clan chat channel that specifically hunts in these games. I have used “riods2525” for use in PH&S. I have used “star find” for use in Shooting Star. Both clans are excellent sources of location information. PH&S is an all worlds effected mini game and therefore “riods2525” limit their searches to World 60 which is the most efficient use of their skills since found penguins are the same on all worlds. Shooting Stars on the other hand are world specific and therefore world jumping is an option and therefore huge lists of worlds and general star landing locations are provided.

Some notes about clans. First, for both clan chats you can properly sign up on the official Runescape Forums. However, as far as the writing of this post, neither absolutely requires sign up. Next, participate properly within the clan chat. Don’t be a dork. If you don’t have anything intelligent to say, don’t say anything at all.  And don’t freeload. If you spot a Penguin let the rest of the clan know. In fact, I usually will hang around with a penguin for a few minutes to help others find it more quickly via the mini map. In Shooting Star, only general regions are given, and therefore a little bit of hunting around is still required. If you find a Star landing location let everyone know as specially as possible including world location and what level star it is. Don’t give invalid information on either chat or you will be banned from that chat. Also try to limit you conversation to specifically the main clan topic of the mini game.

Well, though I try to avoid having this blog seem like a diary as opposed to being a helpful guide type of resource, I’m going to break down and do a little diary entry just so everyone knows I am still alive and doing posts.

First of all, I spotted my twin today. At least outfit wise. This would normally not be notable if it were not for that fact that I wear a fairly bizarre combination of armor. This fellow I spotted was wearing almost everything I normally wear with the exception that he was wearing an Amulet of Glory while I wear an Amulet of Fury. I suppose I will have to change to something even more bizarre so I am unique. Either that or hunt him down in Clan Wars and kill him.

I also spotted my first Penguin Spy. It was near the granite fields in the southern desert. I was pleasantly surprised that I could spy the penguin without having my spy notebook in my inventory. That makes this mini-game a lot more fun. I will probably collect out my spy points as xp as opposed to gold. I’ve got enough gold and I have no initiative to train my construction, so that is probably where my points will go.

I had planned on doing a write up about the three new mini games released a couple of weeks ago. Those being the circus, the penguin spies, and the falling stars. But the truth is that the circus is really the only one I know much of anything about. Like I said before, I just recently spotted my first penguin and have yet to stumble upon a fallen star. I suppose if I did train up my construction I would be able to get a telescope for the house and get some good location and timing data. Then again, another option would be to join one of the many clans who go hunting for the stars, but that would of course violate my whole antisocial stance to game play. Anyway, expect to see a circus write up soon, but don’t hold your breath on penguins and stars.

I have a few other write ups I am starting work on and hope to have posted here in the coming days. One will deal with what I suggest for Runescape travel tips. Another one will be a write up about an older mini game. In fact, I might have three mini game write ups over the coming couple of weeks. But don’t expect anything about clan wars. As anyone who has read the ‘about’ pages of this blog will know, I do not, did not, and expect to never PK. So clan wars holds no interest to me. However, that being said, I say bravo to the people at Jagex for the update. Though I personally don’t PK, I think PKing is an important part of Runescape and should never have been as limited as it was last year.

One final note. Granite is really pissing me off. Mining granite was supposed to be one of those sure fire millionaire makers of Runescape. But I haven’t been able to sell even one piece of granite for any price what-so-ever on the Grand Exchange. Plus, granite prices are dropping like a rock (no pun intended). 500g granite pieces have dropped 20% or almost 300gp over the past week alone.