A Few "Help & Advice" Board Suggestions

[aaron1120]

I have a few suggestions that I believe would help out the "Help & Advice" boards.

 

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I know that currently you have an "Announcement" topic that overviews your guidelines for the Help & Advice forums. To start out, I think your should set a guideline that players should edit their title (example: How do I get to Falador [answered]). I know that some already do this, and that the moderators of the board encourage it, but it would be better to set that as an official guideline.

 

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As another suggestion, I think you should create a "Quick Answers" sticky. This should include a formula for how long doing something may take them (explained below), a collection of popular training monsters, a "useful links" section (which would link to sites perhaps including a POH planner, etc), and some popular guides (AOW or Regular Player Made) listed with categories. Also, you should be able to make this guide subject to change with new user demands/etc. Maybe you could encourage them to PM information they would like to see in that sticky too.

 

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(Elaboration of time formula from above)

 

 

In the Help & Advice forums there are a lot of threads in which the poster wants to know how long it will take them to complete something (EX: mine 5000 iron, cook 1000 shark, etc).

 

 

 

99% of the time, no one will know the answer to that poster's question because they aren't the level the poster is, they may use different techniques, or maybe they just have never done the task that the poster is trying to accomplish.

 

 

 

So I believe you should add a sticky that would explain how to figure out the length of their tasks.

 

 

 

Here is my theory of the most efficient way to do this:

 

• ~Get a simple timer (such as a stopwatch).
   
  ~Start your timer and begin working on your task, for about 15 minutes. (This would give you time to bank a few times, maybe have a few randoms, or drop your goods if your are power-working)
   
  ~Keep track of everything you were able to produce (whether it be what you banked or what you dropped)
   
  ~Divide the amount of good you want, by the amount of goods you received in that 15 minutes.
   
  ~Then multiply that number by 15 to find out how many minutes it will take you to complete your goal.

 

So this is how it would look in theory:

 

• ~Someone wants to mine 1000 iron ore.
   
  ~They time themselves, and are able to mine 100 iron in 15 minutes.
   
  ~They divide 1000 by 100, their answer is 10.
   
  ~They multiply 10 by 15, their answer is 150.
   
  ~It would take them 150 minutes to mine their 1000 coal.

 

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Any other ideas/comments would be helpful.

 

 

 

Well there's my two cents...

 

 

 

Aaron

[Captainkidd]

Is a great idea, and would be super helpful. Just theres one problem, people that don't read or follow it. Tip.it can't really stop them cause there all over the place :| I mean there will always be a few posts here and there that will say "How long will it take me to mine 1,000 iron?" then some one will reply, "Use this please." The person will reply back "Well, what is it?" -.-

 

 

 

I don't really see anything wrong with it, maybe make up what it would say in the sticky(s) and submit to a mod, or just post here. I mean if some one has already made it then I doubt the mods will say no to putting it up unless they disagree with it. So try it out.

[aaron1120]

Thanks for the input. I agree that there will always be people that don't understand what you want them to do, but what can you do?

 

 

 

I have already talked to an admin about it, and he said it would be good to try to get some feedback from others.

 

 

 

Thanks. :)

[tripsis]

You two are right in saying that there's no way we can get everyone to read the sticky. But quite frankly, it will help the people who choose to read it and nothing bad will come from adding another sticky to Help & Advice.

 

 

 

In short, I think it would be a nice addition :)

[Dragontotem]

there's no way we can get everyone to read the sticky

 

 

 

Thats unfortunately true -.-

 

Would be alot less hassle and less useless posts and stuff if people bothered to read annoucements and stickies..

 

 

 

But yea, still, its a nice idea though :D

[aaron1120]

Thanks to all of you. :)

 

 

 

Any ideas of what you would want to see in it?

[Errdoth]

I think you've pretty much hit got what was needed. Maybe it could be updated every so now and then when a new genre of questions hits the board (other than "How long...").

 

 

 

Great job, you put some thought into that.