Runescape Videos

Many runescape players enjoy making videos to document their ingame activities and to share the experience with other players. This isn't new and has been done my people before youtube was used.

There are many video hosts that enable players to upload and share their game experiences easily, although yotube is likely the most popular - it is also easy for webmasters to embed video content into their websites that help spread the popularity of runescape.

Any player wishing to make their own runescape video should be aware that they should only ever upload videos that are within Jagex rules, otherwise they may risk their youtube account along with their actual runescape account.

I do have plans to try and get a lot more good runescape videos onto my blogs and main runescape help site - although real life has left things very hectic for me and development is not as fast as I would ideally hope. Maybe some players out there would like to help me get achieving this goal by providing some regular videos they wish to share.

Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com

Dark Bow Not Yet Obtained

Since Jagex released the Dark Bow into Runescape I have spent plenty of time fighting at the Dark Beasts in pursuit of a Bow. However, as yet, almost one week later I still have not been fortunate enough to get a Dark Bow in a drop.

According to almost everyone else I have spoken to during my week or so fighting the Dark Beasts, I must have the worst luck in runescape. Almost everyone else has had multiple drops (ranging from 2 - 12).

Initially I had hoped to get a few drops and be able to sell at a higher price. However, as time has passed by and I still haven't managed to get even one in a drop, the price has been the only thing dropping. It is almost at the point where it will be pointless selling should I be lucky enough to get a drop soon.

Maybe next week.

Runescape Guides and Bloggers

Runescape has a significant amount of people who write constantly about the game, either through providing guides or certain indviduals providing an insight into the average players mind. In an equal world everyone would have their voice heard and their good work appreciated. Sadly the world is not equal.

Due to the popularity of runescape it has attracted a number of people who hover like vultures trying to drive web traffic to their sites - mainly to get people to pay for runescape money. Unfortunately, people pay money over for runescape coins and then risk their account as Jagex catch many people via that method.

The popularity of runescape has also attracted a lot of spam bloggers who are constantly updating daily to generate more buzz for such shops. It annoys me that I am trying to get a group of bloggers together who are interested in promoting the game and associated runescape guides without any secondary agenda of funding an activity that breaks Jagex rules. However, the only active bloggers I come across are generally the people that are working together to cross promote their sites.

I guess I could say I am appealing to all honest runescape players, that is the players that play within runescape rules, for them to make a stand and help me form a network of runescape bloggers that have an agenda to help promote legitimate runescape help.

Requirements would simply be:

1. People wrote about the part of runescape that interested them the most
2. People regularly updated the content - at least weekly would be good
3. People within the network helped each other through advice on writing technique or on other technical issues with whatever blog platform or content management system was used for the website or blog.

Those three requirements would be simple to achieve if people were willing to help establish such a network for runescape players. If anyone does want to help form such a group then please get in contact via the contact form on my main runescape help site.

People who are interested can either want to write runescape blogs or simply become a runescape guide writer to help develop my main site.

***Update***

I let my main site expire when Jagex announced EoC so it no longer exists. To bring it up to date would have required a substantial overhaul and a large time investment. Since then, Jagex have released 07 runescape servers and a friend has started a dedicated wiki type site for 07 runescape at http://www.07runescape.com. I am sure he would appreciate any help updating information for that site to ensure it becomes a valuable reference for all 07 runescape players.

Runescape Bloggers

Runescape is an MMORPG that has a lot of dedicated fans, many of whom are avid bloggers who like to express their opinions to the masses. Unfortunately, many players do not maintain their blogs over a sustained period of time and leave plenty of unfinished thoughts.

Personally, I had stopped writing on my runescape blogs when I got bogged down in real life with a course for starting your own business. It has now finished and I have started blogging again, hopefully I will continue to be able to do so in my spare time as frequently as I can.

In that time I have also read a lot about blogging communities as a whole and I have improved my writing style to be more inclusive of other runescape sites in general. This is what I believe will help keep me motivated to continue blogging this time - including others and making it a community.

If anyone wants to get involved and are an existing blogger (doesn't have to specifically be about runescape - but if you play the game it will be so much easier to know the way things work), then get in contact as we can work together and be more helpful to the overall runescape community - instead of letting the writing stop, we can keep each other motivated to continue and increase the overall help offered.

If blogging was tried and writing guides would be better suited, then any player can register on my main runescape help site (site no longer existing - but editors and guide writers can sign up at http://www.07runescape.com for old school runescape game help) and submit a guide for inclusion in the database. Hopefully in 12 months time the site will be much more comprehensive on the help offered and that I would have a good team of guide writers working together.

Runescape Knowledge Base

Runescape knowledge base has been updated in the latest overhaul by Jagex to make it more accessible and more used by all players. The idea of the knowledge base has come about mainly due to the fact that so many fan sites have been developed over the years that addresses things that Jagex had not previously catered for.

Jagex obviously stepped up efforts at improving their overall customer service by incorporating the knowledge base into their main runescape site. This gave many players a basic understanding of many of the different features in the game, and it made runescape much easier to play in effect.

The ideal situation, from a fan sites' point of view would have been if Jagex had endorsed some of the actual fan sites as official help sites instead of developing their own solution. Obviously I would have much preferred my own runescape help site to have featured in an official list of endorsed help sites, alas Jagex didn't make this happen.

Anyway, the update in the knowledge base is merely showing continued support by Jagex to address many issues not covered ingame itself. The runescape faq is much more prominent as well as combined with the new feature of article of the week, the new knowledge base will help players out more.

Overall, some fan sites may lose out on some of their audience but it will help reduce any runescape scams if players use the knowledge base or some of the more reputable help sites to get their queries answered.

Players wishing to compile their own runescape faq can register on any decent help site and either add to the existing guides or create their own guides if permitted. In the long term, sharing knowledge about the game on good sites helps everyone get more out of the game.

Runescape Forum Added

After being requested to add a forum to the runescape help site I integrated a forum into the existing help site that meant registered users did not have to re-register in order to be able to post. However, there are not many people making use of the forum and it has been somewhat disappointing as it was a requested feature to add to make the overall runescape help site more interactive and gather more feedback.

Adding to this, I still require more runescape guide writers who are wanting to submit their guides, tips or even comments on existing runescape guides in order to make the overall site more useful. There is no long term committment expected, however, any guide written should meet the basic requirements and should be 250 words or more - they can include pictures to help break up any text.

April / May I plan to work through all the mini game guides for runescape and ensure that a guide exists for each on on the main help site. Any help is appreciated if you already have a guide written or if you have a favourite mini-game, then help this become reality by the end of may.

Any other guides may be submitted in the mean time as there are many runescape guides still required in order to make the overall runescape help site more useful. After the mini-games have been completed I will look at another aspect and then aim to complete that section.

Runescape Guide Writers

Guide writers for runescape are indeed a rare entity. Through the creation of my site I have been approached by many people who desired to write plenty of guides to be published - however, when asked to actually write a guide they have not returned or have simply tried to copy a guide from another runescape fan site and claim it as their own guide.

Without doubt, the biggest burden of my time has been trying to establish a good guide writing team who will be dedicated to helping me realise a complete runescape help site.

The overall task is enormous by myself and the progress is somewhat slower than I had anticipated - as real life comes into play and the time available is reduced significantly when I am practically the sole provider of guides.

I have found one consistent guide writer in Aj that has taken care of the free to play quest guides in runescape, although there are still many more areas that need to be covered in greater detail.

Currently I am looking to finish off the price guides that were initially inspired by Tomisme from the main runescape forums and after that I will look to get some information in each of the main categories on my runescape help site.

If there are any budding runescape guide writers wishing to be part of my guide writing team they can contact me via msn or via my main help site contact form. I do not expect someone to come in and write every guide available, although I do expect that any guide writer will be able to provide a decent quality guide from some aspect of runescape.

Most guides that have been rejected either fail to cover anything to any significant degree or are simply a copy from another fan site. The basic requirement for any guide to be accepted is that it should cover one topic or one aspect of the game that provides sufficient detail to warrant inclusion as a standalone guide (or mini-guide) depending on the topic it covers.

Overall, the website attracts consistently over 100 new people per day but I have not been able to concentrate on promoting it as I am too busy trying to get the background info updated and new guides online to make the site more complete. If anyone wants to help me promote the site or write some guides then they only need to get in contact as I do need all the help I can get.

Thanks,
Latona

Runescape Royal Trouble

Jagex updates continue before I catch up. I am still working alone as the people that have volunteered to help out have failed to deliver. Nothing new or unexpected there then.

I can understand it that people are eager to help a new website develop especially amongst a community they enjoy. However, not many people realise the amount of time, energy or effort that is required to try and build a new part of that community.

There is too much distrust among a large number of Runescape players for them to readily accept a new helpsite as legitimate... I guess it will only prove itself over time.

I urge any player who is interested in writing guides for runescape to step up and register on my site (www.runescape-help.net) and together we will gradually get caught up with other successful sites and then will be able to be more innovative.

Runescape help, guides, tips and making money site

Recently launched helpsite for runescape. Currently looking to develop the community and receive some feedback for future development of the site.

The help site is article based and all runescape players can register to submit their guides or tips. However, the guidelines should be followed as the aim is to build a comprehensive interactive runescape help site.

The aim is really to get at least 10 guide writers who are willing to work together to build up the site. All guides will be considered provided the guide writer is the original creator of the guide.