Teaberry

Every single fansite in the entire world already implements this. How can you view a site if you cannot read the files? You'd just get "Access Denied". You, me, your Aunt Ethel or Jagex could scan for viruses, trojans or derogatory comments about how Andrew Gower eats his toast. If you're so uptight about viruses, I think you should install some antivirus application and stop installing viruses from the Internet (they do not install themselves, this goes doubly so for keyloggers). I recommend Avast or AVG, they're free for home use and very good. They also won't break your PC in the way that Norton AV will.

You're suggesting that Tip.It do not offer what other sites do. If you want a quest guide, where are you going to go? The site who seemingly aren't good enough to get their guide up first day, or the site who are? People vote with their feet, so to speak.

So don't look through the guide. I'm not holding a gun to your head and saying "READ THE GODDARN GUIDE I WROTE!" I do, however, believe that if you want the guide, you should be able to have it. Sites, such as whichever you care to name, are there to give you that choice. Agreed entirely. And this is indeed how it works. It's also the reason I'd have refused. Runesource is my hard work, Jennie's hard work and Chris' hard work, among others. We've had no help from Jagex at all. They don't publish how much XP you get, so we had to go out and make 100 of pretty much every createable item. They don't even publish how to make some items (Ugthanki Kebab springs to mind). They make us do the work, fansites have no obligation whatsoever to listen to a word Jagex say. When they start helping us out is when you'll get the fansites listening to what they say. Jagex should stick to making Runescape. They're reasonably good at it. Punctuation is your friend! How can you expect people to be bothered to read something you couldn't be bothered to write? And no, Jagex have no right at all. Without the extensive documentation which fansites provide, people wouldn't know just how much better the P2P game is. Jagex would not be where they are today without their fansite community. They'd do well to realise that. So who's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use the guide? Quests aren't a skill, they're a one-time-only event which you do, get a reward for doing, end of story. You're just admitting you can't do quests without a guide. I believe most people are smarter than you and can make their mind up if they want to use a guide or not. I created a site to give them that choice before every other site can, and we do. I strongly recommend you do not click the link in my signature, we won't make you welcome.

I'm in complete agreement with the original writer's opinion. We weren't one of the sites asked, but we pride ourselves on same-day quest guides. Our guide for MEP2 was up early Tuesday morning after we'd mapped out the temple and routes. Even if they had asked, they'd have been politely told to sod off. I don't tell them what to do on their privately owned website, they do not tell me what to do on mine. It may sound [bleep]-for-tat but if Jagex are going to demonise fansites over and over, they have no right at all to be asking fansites to delay their content. [edit] I'd like to add that Jagex can see the solution here staring in their faces. If they want some control about what gets published and when, they need to start an "Official Fansite" programme and to stop warning people away because all fansites apparently have keyloggers and want to steal your password, your bronze platebody and your dog.

I got little more to say on the article then that the person who wrote it needs to learn the difference between "Item Worth" and "Pure Cash". Furthermore I would recommend the author to take some courses on economics, as his article makes little sense... How does 300 yew longs a day relate to 1 steel plate? How can he say that the rares market is not part of the economy while the value of that market is huge? That would be me. The rares market: I cannot create a rare. Neither would I (in my right mind) destroy one. I must buy one from another player if I wish for one. (I own a mask set and a santa) Therefore there is no way for me to implement these items in any sort of economy, they are equivalent to cash as backing store. They do trade, but they aren't part of the economy since they don't generate or destroy any cash value. There's nothing I can do with my red mask which would create cash. I could merchant it, but then I'm merely manipulating already existing cash. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "How does 300 yew longs a day relate to 1 steel plate?" though. Care to elaborate?