i absolutely love the economy angle of runescape so far and i cant wait to see what stuff is in store for me w/membership on main. maybe my next goal will be to max a skill? or fire cape, either one. :)

i did technically have like somewhere around 24-32 hours before making that first bluesky post beforehand but i have been grinding very consistently.

almost all time spent on high alching or crafting ruby/diamond necklaces which seem to be the most consistent gp value for my time.

i'm not going IM because i'm not even sure if you can buy a bond w/gold while being ironman. even if you could, that sounds WAY too tedious even for me.

so far, i think i vastly prefer main over IM. that is, comparing the very limited experience i had with a group IM i didn't get too far on

only history i have with runescape is not knowing how to leave tutorial at like 8 y/o, then playing a group HCIM with friends & i got effectively nowhere before quitting.

so, uh, i don't really know how difficult this challenge *should* be, but i've got a shocking amount of progress very quickly!!

it's literally to the point where some ppl ping me on discord when they randomly roll autosteal now because of how much i talk about it LMFAO

ALL OF THIS TO SAY.

yeah no it's basically like maybe 1-5% efficiency added to your farming at best, it's INCREDIBLY useless knowledge even when you play around having it, but i will defend it to the death and i will absolutely minmax/use it when i can.

you might ask "why do you need to analyze? wouldn't the game explain what a stat does?"

no. it's such a dated obscure mechanic it's LITERALLY NOT EVEN IN THE UI ANYMORE. when they modernized the UI, they forgot to add autosteal in the stat screen. its THAT level of forgotten/outdated.

we don't have any data to show because it's already basically impossible to find analysis on autosteal as autosteal itself is near impossible to do analysis on. you'd need an impossible amount of data to come to any conclusion.

according to some, and I do believe it, autosteal from familiars is lower value than autosteal on gloves. realistically this is very possible. familiars are weird as hell and don't really work the way they should normally anyway, BUT:

* the % chance of autosteal is allegedy/reportedly roughly equivalent to 1% of drop rate, so if you have 25% autosteal like I do, it's roughly equivalent to 25% drop rate *WHEN IT PROCS.*

BUT THATS NOT ALL

* autosteal sources aren't made equal.

* it can only be acquired from rerolling the potential (stats) on specifically gloves with only one specific type of cube, OR, from the familiar system which is exclusive to a select few regions of maplestory (notably not in the 'base servers' aka the version of maplestory in Korea)

basically, autosteal as a stat (not to be confused with drop rate, which everyone knows and loves):

* only procs on non-summon attacks against enemies that are not boss monsters

* when it procs, it gives a % chance to make a mob that wouldn't drop an item to drop an item, or to drop more currency