Another Tip.It Times for you!

This week's article, The Coal in our Stockings by Ts_Stormrage, teaches us to be glad with what we have. Enjoy

and discuss your thoughts on the article!

A few weeks ago an interesting article came by about how Jagex had missed a big opportunity when introducing the Dragon Platebody. I wasn't

 

 

 

entirely sure that I agreed with that. I was left with a distinct "but what about..." feeling to it. So I decided to to do a little research and compare it to some of the other game

 

 

 

improvements...

>>>The Coal in our Stockings<<<

I really enjoyed this one actually, ty ts :)

I feel spoiled too : )

edit: first post? \

i liked the article too, nice idea to compare it to other years, but i think that should be expanded

i would think the did u know would be obvious but i guess thats the point :D

I really agree with the message of this article. However, one point I doubt would ever happen:

making junk trading obsolete to everyone but those wishing to transfer coins illegally

Unless they remove trade limits, this definitely will stay. For newly related items, the value changes every hour, I doubt Jagex can keep up with that. For super rare items (phats, 3a and those spirit shields ATM) the price range people trade those items for are way above 5%. And what about item lending, those almost all depend on junk items. So for those three reasons I don't think junk trading will become obsolete.

I really agree with the message of this article. However, one point I doubt would ever happen:

 

making junk trading obsolete to everyone but those wishing to transfer coins illegally

 

Unless they remove trade limits, this definitely will stay. For newly related items, the value changes every hour, I doubt Jagex can keep up with that. For super rare items (phats, 3a and those spirit shields ATM) the price range people trade those items for are way above 5%. And what about item lending, those almost all depend on junk items. So for those three reasons I don't think junk trading will become obsolete.

Unless Jagex changed the 5% thing for certain items. Or even for all items.

Good Read :D

I do think this year was good for F2P :thumbup:

I'll have to say, out of the many years i have played runescape, this has to be the best by far.

P.S: TS Stormage, I saw you at the X-MAS quest, I was just about to shout HYT! But you went into the cave before I could. :

I really agree with the message of this article. However, one point I doubt would ever happen:

 

making junk trading obsolete to everyone but those wishing to transfer coins illegally

 

Unless they remove trade limits, this definitely will stay. For newly related items, the value changes every hour, I doubt Jagex can keep up with that. For super rare items (phats, 3a and those spirit shields ATM) the price range people trade those items for are way above 5%. And what about item lending, those almost all depend on junk items. So for those three reasons I don't think junk trading will become obsolete.

It might not disappear totally but it will be reduced heavilly... mostly because by fixing the frozen items, there won't be alot of junk to use for the junk trades... Junk is only in existance because their prices are frozen too...

Back on topic i totally agree with ts there... I have never been this happy with JaGeX before... they made huge improvements to the game this year... i have been playing since 2002 and they have never made anything as good as this year... just the graphics and new bank is enough to have made me happy tbh...

People are being spoiled... but i believe most of those people are spoiled irl too... because they come into this game and believe they can do anything and that JaGeX are supposed to do everything for them... those people should really open their eyes and think about all the content JaGeX gives us...

My thoughts exactly.

Well said.

Its been the best year but the moment I am spoilt is the moment I get members for free and then complain something doesnt work. When I pay someone to both buy and test a present for myself and discover its broken I get a little annoyed. (Or atleast its understandable for those who do.)

Excellent article, a great read. :thumbsup:

Sc not f2p is big coal in f2p stocking but oh well JAGEX LUMBY ACHIVE DIARY FTW!!!! oh and d pl8 is rlly late

What they need to do, to rid of almost all the junk trading, make 3a TT pieces rewarded more commonly.

Very good read, it covered all the right points in my opinion.

I enjoyed reading it, but I do have one small problem with it.

Personally this year has been the best with updates in almost every field, but 2005 is a close 2nd with Desert Treasure, Barrows, Slayer and Mournings End. But as awesome as those updates have been, they simply cannot compare to this year's.

How can 2005 be a close 2nd and not be able to compare to this year's at the same time? I know it's not that big of a deal, but it's slightly annoying.

excellent read love how it focuses on those who Cry and Pout about updates that arent all that bad \

My only quarrel with Jagex is the lack of old content revamped, but then again they're always adding new stuff instead of updating old content *cough*castlewars*cough*. However, even there they did very well by updating bounty hunter, clan wars, revenants, etc. The article was well written and straight to the point :thumbsup:

Great read, really think this is your best one yet.

I liked the article but....

The intro about the dragon plate, jagex really did miss the timing on the d plate, but thats not to say that jagex really didn't do great this year

but good job on the article in general :

I enjoyed the article. Sometimes for me personally, I find it hard to take it all in and see what has changed in a year, let alone this whole time I have played. While I don't complain about the improvements or additions, I don't care for them either. I just take them as they come. Though I do think this was a great year for free to play. :thumbsup:

Great piece and thank you for reminding us how much we really have received from Jagex this year \

Lets hope we get another great year in 2009!

Good article but junk trading will never be eliminated because #1 it is used for renting items and #2 as long as we continue to get new items there will need to be player set prices because Jagex never guesses right.

He realy reminded me how many updates we got this year compared to our previous years.

I was suprised when I did see N_odie post this :D

*thinks about summoning batch 2*... =P~ =P~ =P~

ok, this might seem like a strange request, but can someone just copy and paste the article on a post please..

unfortunatly my ISP has blocked the word runescape so no more runescape.com, tip.it/runescape or anything alike

but i really would like to read this article.

THanks

Anish

Very good article.

I agree with the fact that weapons are getting too powerful. I enjoyed the simple days of RS when members only had armor/weapons that went from bronze to dragon. Now that there are whips and godswords and dark bows things just don't feel the way they used to be.

Jagex has some issues to work out with the ever increasing +attack power and +strength yet keeping armor ratings stagnate. Hopefully Jagex can rectify this and make PvP a little more fun for those of us that don't have these OP weapons.