Runescape needs Apmeken . The 'Do no evil' quest used an interesting idea, a philosophy. One I have seen before in a Jack Vance book. Basically: the attitude of the gods reflects of of the ppl and area they lord over. When Apemeken disappears, taking her friendly influence with her the evil gods dominated and the desert became an evil and desolate place. Now, the hope is , that with the return of Apemeken friendship, sociability, niceness will also slowly return to the desert. I say, runescape, as a community also needs its Apmeken. With the return of wildy and free trade, and the associated rwt cheating.. I see a big change in attitudes of the average rs player. ( Note- this is NOT a plea to stop the reintroduction of w/ft) A lot of adversarial talk and behaviour, from all sides.. I even see myself getting aggravated till the point that I shout at trolls.. When listening to public chat and even more on the forums you see the verbal bullies and griefers have multiplied already and if the announcements are to believed they will be back in force in the game next month also. A few examples: -putting ppl you do not agree with on forums on a 'death-list' -Names like rapepker, skilkiller.. analpker, iownjesus, gfskiller ( I on purpose didn't look these up, but just wrote them out of memory, because these are examples, not meant to be real player names ) -Al the 'good fight, we won, hahaha, ' treads. -STFU, mofo, gtfo, FU, idiot, [kitties], cowards, (something)yo momma -threads about how to lure ( without getting banned) -defending bots.. opposing fair game play I am sure next month we can ad a lot more, like attempts to destroy organised penguin cc's , stalking airorbers and abyss runners just for kicks.. and other bullie behaviour. A special mention to great player initiatives, like Burstinglobs cc, who bless total strangers in waterbirth tunnels, on the 'pay it forward' principle.. who probably will soon have a hard time. The game Will in my opinion benefit from the return of true pk-ing and free trade, but looting, bullieing, verbal baiting, griefing and trolling will in my opinion only diminish the game and its community. I suggest we need our own resurgence of friendliness, niceness , our own Apemeken. We need to work on that ourselves and Jagex can do things. Suggestions for players: -Keep blessing every grave you see. -Protect others from bullies. -Keep cool ( I am taking note myself here ) -Generally be nice and helpful.. but do not reward beggars. Suggestions to Jagex: -Make graves only lootable after being blessed, if needed reduce blessed time. In doing so encouraging good behaviour. -Make rules against luring and other malicious behaviour very clear and enforce them strictly. -Make statements on the forum explaining and encouraging good behaviour. -Balance wildy so there is no canon-fodder, without making it too safe. In other words, make going to wildy attractive for skillers, cluers, penguinspiers, this will also help pk-ers by keeping the 'food-chain' healthy. -Do the utmost to combat cheaters, rwt, gather bots, mainbotters.. I myself will try better not to lash out at ppl trolling and insulting me.. PAY IT FORWARD! edited 'dessert', indeed English is not my first language, I rely on spell-check.. lol
