------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 27th, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Gielinor Tribune is the oldest Player-made Runescape Newspaper on Tip.it (Tip.it Times does not count). We've been working hard since May 2007 (the first opening) to make the best RS Newspaper out there and to always keep our reader's expectations. 1. Gielinor Tribune News by Book(GT Manager) 2. Halloween Event & Other News by Randox 3. Armadyl Godsword; A Price Rollercoaster by Master_Smither 4. Blahing it Up! by Moneyman6369 5. The Exiles Part 1: Leaving the Guard by Andufus 6. ~Comic Contest~ by Dkw0101 7. 85 Mining, Time well Spent by Master_Smither 8. Why F2P Will Always Be There by Book(unorclan) 9. Interview of Peterpan538 by Old Ducky 10. Blah! by Firsttsurugi 11. Imponderables by Book(unorclan) 12. The Drunken Dwarf's Tip.iter Pick! by Yours Truly 13. Gielinor Tribune Accepting Guest Articles 14. Gielinor Tribune Staff List ~ Part One: Gielinor Tribune News by Book Gielinor Tribune Welcomes Our Newest Staff Members! Recently in the Help & Advice forum on Tip.it the GT has been recruiting new people to join the staff and help out in making the new edtions of the Gielinor Tribune. I'd now like to welcome...Old_Ducky (Interviewer), Deathlord552 (Critic), and Master_Smither (Marketplace Writer) to the Staff!! I'd like to thank everyone else who took their time to apply and even if they didn't make it we hope you'll continue to read and enjoy the Gielinor Tribune. - Book(Unorclan) Gielinor Tribune Manager ~ Part Two: Halloween Event and Other News by Randox I know, you all want to get right to the Halloween event. Well, I won̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t hold you up for too long. I would first like to quickly visit LootShare which unlike the Halloween event (as good as it may be), will not be disappearing soon. The LootShare is a well designed system for deciding who gets monster drops. It will only give you loot if you were close enough to the defeated monster, which means you have to stay where the action is. They also made sure that the system will try to give everyone something. They have not said if this system accounts for the values of the items, or if it just deals with all the same regardless of game or player value. I suspect it does not consider value, that would be quite complicated and the values of items can be very different between stores and what players trade them for. It does not apply to every world; this prevents clans from being able to hog all rewards in multiway combat. It should also be noted that this does not work for player killing, which is probably just as well. Player killing tends to involve valuables, and those should go to the person who contributed most to the kill. And just before we get to Halloween, I would like to point out that Jagex has modified the Ring of Life so that once activated it will cure poison damage. This will prevent your ring from activating only to have you die from poison upon arrival. An excellent update and I don̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t think ANYONE has a good reason to complain about this. For once everyone really should be happy. Ok, Halloween is almost upon us, and I expect many of you have already completed the holiday event. Anyways, as decided by the player polls, we all got to clean the Grim Reapers house this year. Yay. Ok, I admit I had fun doing it, and I like his house. My chief complaint is that it was way too short. It took me about 9 minutes to complete, and for something I can only enjoy once, that̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s not very long at all. I favour events that take a while (30 minutes is good), and can be re visited upon completion. I̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢m sure many of you remember the Easter where we got the Easter ring. While the quality of the reward is hotly debated, that was by far the best event they ever did in my mind. It took time, and I got to have fun hoping around as a bunny afterwards, the perfect event. There is also a huge groan from many members about how we already have hoods up to ying-yang. Oddly enough, most of those hoods are part of a skill cape, and I doubt that many people have many of those. Also, there is something about the way it hides your face that I find really neat. Now if only it were actually black (not grey-black) so that it might match some of my clothes. I know the free players are for the most part ecstatic as this is now the only F2P hood in the game. I don̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t understand why people voted for the zombie hand emote; it̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s not really something that̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s going to be used once Halloween is past. Ah well, you can̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t get everything. My parting words to Jagex this edition is please make the Christmas event longer than this Halloween was, and make it revisit able. And great job on the Ring of Life. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Honest1 Productions Events Team are always recruiting. Please stop in and check us out, and be part of a commuity dedicated to fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Part Three: Armadyl Godsword; A Price Rollercoaster by Master_Smither 28 August 2007 - God Wars Dungeon This was possibly the biggest update of this year, bringing fame and fortune to those who were to master the ancient bosses that came with it. There was many new items released that day but I'm only going to touch upon the Armadyl Godsword (AGS). The AGS is considered the best godsword, because of its special attack, (inflict 25% more damage). It could easily kill anyone in 2 hits. The Armadyl Hilt was a very rare drop due to the high level of the boss monster. So it went to a maximum of 80,000,000GP for that one rare hilt. Startled at the very high price even with its recent release the rich avoid paying so much for a "weapon". With the other Godswords prices at a mere 40,000,000-50,000,000GP they were much more affordable and appealing to the rich who didn̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t want to spend nearly double for a fairly untested item. As the Armadyl Boss finally got killable the price began to decrease to around 50,000,000GP. With it's recent but shot lived price reduction, the rich ran to the sellers and bought them up like people would buy rares at 1gp a piece. With the recent buying frenzy the sword was ready for combat testing. When the word of the massive 70+ damage it was dealing the prices again bounced back to 80,000,000GP. However, this time people bought them because it was worth the damage it dealt. With the demand rising rapidly and the supply staying relatively the same, the price continued to rise. Breaking the 100,000,000GP mark the AGS became THE more expensive Godsword. With its new found PKing potential, it rose even more until finally topping at 140,000,000GP. The AGS has gone from 80M to 50M and back to a whopping 140M GP in less than 2 weeks time after its release. The price seemed to rollercoaster all over the place fort this Godsword because of its special attack. *All prices came from RSOF. ~ Part Four: Blahing it Up! by Moneyman6369 Section 1: Best Worlds to Choose̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâæ (Make a wise choice now, save time later!) ̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãââ World hopping for respawns like Addy ore? Don̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t always choose the least populated world; most likely that̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s what all the other respawn people will be doing. Instead, choose a world a couple spaces up̢̢̮ââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ã