September 15, 200718 yr Someone Has Replied! = The Idea = This idea first came to me whilst I was trying to buy some coconuts on the official RuneScape forums. I replied to a thread wherin a player was selling coconuts. I asked to buy some, and then waited. After ten or so minutes of waiting, I began to wonder whether this player was still online, or whether he was online but has forgotten about his thread. This got me thinking - How many times had I started a thread selling something and then got back into the game and completely forgot about it? LOTS OF TIMES. Yes, there were plenty of times that I had forgotten about my thread or was too busy in the game to check it, and when I finally remembered it was there, there was a lot of people wondering why I hadn't replied? (Mostly abusive, I may add.) So, I thought, what can be done about this? The answer - When someone replies to your thread in the forums, a message is sent to you in game, telling you that someone has replied to your thread. The message will look something like this: So now, when you see that message you can slap yourself on the head and say, "Ohh, that's right, I was selling some coconuts!" And the world would be a better place. Extras - There will be an option when posting to turn in-game replies ON or OFF. - The message in game will be classed under the "Trade" category. Why I think it CAN be done I don't believe it matters whether they're both Java based or not. I mean, we can see whether we have messages in our message centre in game and the message centre isn't built with java. There is also a feature where we can log into the highscores and see our friend's highscores. Both the highscores (not in java) and the game (in java) can access the friends list. Thirdly, there's a quest help page (not in Java) where we get access to the quests we've done or quests that we're working on in game. I'm not saying it would be as easy as any of these examples, I'm just saying that it could be done. A summary The idea is for some sort of communication between the game and the official forums. If and when someone replies to your thread in the Forums, you will recieve an in-game message, something like: Player-X has replied to your thread, "Selling Coconuts," in the forum "Farming." Thankyou for reading my thread. Suggestions, complements, constructive criticism and your support would all be graciously accepted.
September 15, 200718 yr Good Ide But i usually have them Pm me :) Click for My Blog670th to 99 Smithing July 21st, 07 |743rd to 99 Mining November 29th, 07 | 649th to 99 Runecrafting May 18th, 08 | 29,050th to 99 Defence October 20th, 08 | 20,700th to 99 Magic November 8, 08 | 47,938th to 99 Attack December 19, 08 | 37,829th to 99 Hitpoints December 24, 08 | 68,604th to 99 Strength February 4, 09 | 27,983rd to 99 Range February 9, 09 | 9,725th to 99 Prayer June 8, 09 | 6,620th to 99 Slayer December, 12 09 | 4,075th to 99 Summoning December, 28 09 | 3,551th to 99 Herblore February 24, 10 | 3,192th to 99 Dungeoneering November 11, 10 | 146,600th to 99 Cooking December 29th, 10 | 11,333rd to 99 Construction June 7th, 11 | 16,648th to 99 Farming August 1st, 11 | 19,993th to 99 Crafting August 2nd, 11 | 89,739th to 99 Woodcutting Janurary 1st, 12 | 55,424th to 99 Fishing May 9th, 12| 60,648th to 99 Firemaking May 12th, 12 | 16666th to 99 Agility May 17th, 2012 | 24476th to 99 Hunter June 1st, 2012 | 57,881st to 99 Fletching June 1st, 2012 | All 99s June 1st, 2012 | 3183th to 120 Dungeoneering July 24th, 2012 | 2341st to 2496 Total level July 24th, 2012 | Completionist Cape July 24th, 2012
September 15, 200718 yr Author Good Ide But i usually have them Pm me :) Thanks! And yes, now I usually do say pm me, but there are some people who prefer to post a reply instead. Cheers for the support anyway!
September 15, 200718 yr Np I know it I use forums ALL the time some people just like to post. Click for My Blog670th to 99 Smithing July 21st, 07 |743rd to 99 Mining November 29th, 07 | 649th to 99 Runecrafting May 18th, 08 | 29,050th to 99 Defence October 20th, 08 | 20,700th to 99 Magic November 8, 08 | 47,938th to 99 Attack December 19, 08 | 37,829th to 99 Hitpoints December 24, 08 | 68,604th to 99 Strength February 4, 09 | 27,983rd to 99 Range February 9, 09 | 9,725th to 99 Prayer June 8, 09 | 6,620th to 99 Slayer December, 12 09 | 4,075th to 99 Summoning December, 28 09 | 3,551th to 99 Herblore February 24, 10 | 3,192th to 99 Dungeoneering November 11, 10 | 146,600th to 99 Cooking December 29th, 10 | 11,333rd to 99 Construction June 7th, 11 | 16,648th to 99 Farming August 1st, 11 | 19,993th to 99 Crafting August 2nd, 11 | 89,739th to 99 Woodcutting Janurary 1st, 12 | 55,424th to 99 Fishing May 9th, 12| 60,648th to 99 Firemaking May 12th, 12 | 16666th to 99 Agility May 17th, 2012 | 24476th to 99 Hunter June 1st, 2012 | 57,881st to 99 Fletching June 1st, 2012 | All 99s June 1st, 2012 | 3183th to 120 Dungeoneering July 24th, 2012 | 2341st to 2496 Total level July 24th, 2012 | Completionist Cape July 24th, 2012
September 15, 200718 yr hey, not too shabby idea :D! that actually is alot better than having to look the forums all the time for if someone had replied >.< [/url]">[4Th in Finland to achieve 99 mining. 3Rd of June 2007]Pixels make me horny.
September 15, 200718 yr Very good idea i think this could work, I would love to see it become an update :) ( nice coconuts) 180th to 99 Divination + 1st W36er Rambo, cannot pk call your friends bro :). Wait nevermind none of SAPK/PKS can. Kappa.
September 15, 200718 yr Wow. This idea rocks my socks and would make buying/selling via forums a lot more efficent. I say the text in your message box should be green or something though since red is already used. Cowards can't block Warriors.
September 15, 200718 yr Very nice idea actually. Would help a lot of people. I support [hide=Quotes]Albel/JustinAlbel doesn't say anything anymore, just comes in, leaves an arrow and vanishes into the night :(Probablypractising some euphoniumYou nearly had me fooled, you fooler youEuphonium/10.9/10. To me, always associate Albel with musical stuff in OT.Everyone with a goatee and glasses is Albel now.lmfao albel m8 wat r u doin, hi though. [/hide][hide=Runescape Achievements]99 firemaking(2007), 99 woodcutting(2008), 99 fletching(2009), 99 magic(2010), 99 cooking(2010), 99 farming(2011), 99 construction(2011), 99 runecrafting(2012), 99 Hunter (2014), 99 ranged (2015), 99 HP (2015), 99 Slayer (2015), 99 attack (2015) 99 Defense (2015) 99 Prayer (2015) 99 Summoning (2015) 99 Strength(2015) 99 Herblore (2015) 99 Dungeoneering (2017) 99 Mining (2017) 99 Crafting (2017) 99 Smithing (2017) 99 Thieving (2017) 99 invention (2017) 99 Fishing (2018), 99 Divination (2018), 99 Agility (2018), MAXED (05/17/2018)[/hide]
September 15, 200718 yr Even though I'm f2p and it doesn't affect me, it sounds like a nice idea. I support.
September 15, 200718 yr The forums and the game are in no way linked... it would require a total forum rewrite to be able to get them to communicate. Currently I don'f feel there is any possible way for actions in the forums to communicate to the game. The current only relation is with mutes ingame.... is a player mod mutes sombody that updates their account status that they are also temp banned fom using the forums. Nice idea but dont think it's possible.
September 15, 200718 yr Author The forums and the game are in no way linked... it would require a total forum rewrite to be able to get them to communicate. Currently I don'f feel there is any possible way for actions in the forums to communicate to the game. The current only relation is with mutes ingame.... is a player mod mutes sombody that updates their account status that they are also temp banned fom using the forums. Nice idea but dont think it's possible. Thanks for the support first off. In my humble opinion I think it would be possible. I mean, the game already interacts with the message center to some extent - When you log on you are able to find out if you have messages in it or not. Plus we can't forget the many talented people who work at Jagex who have brought us such things as The Knowledge Base and RuneScape. But that's just my opinion, anyway. Thanks everyone else for all the positive replies :)
September 16, 200718 yr I support. also this is funny "Ohh, that's right, I was selling some coconuts!" And the world would be a better place. XD Wongton is better than me in anyway~~
September 16, 200718 yr Nice idea, to save space you could probably take away the players name as not all threads are as short as "selling coconuts". Proud Retired Council of The GladiatiorzClick here for our website - 110+ F2P Combat Requirements
September 16, 200718 yr Author Nice idea, to save space you could probably take away the players name as not all threads are as short as "selling coconuts". True, but I can't think of of anything to replace it that would be much shorter.. "You have a reply to," "There has been a reply to," any suggestions? Plus isn't there a limit to the length of a thread title? Thanks the support anyway!
September 16, 200718 yr Maybe you should take up some programming courses. The official forums are not Java coded and therefore, it'll take a long and complicated detour for the message,"someone replied to your thread" to get to the Java game servers and to your screen.
September 16, 200718 yr Author Maybe you should take up some programming courses. The official forums are not Java coded and therefore, it'll take a long and complicated detour for the message,"someone replied to your thread" to get to the Java game servers and to your screen. Hey, thanks, I'm really glad you said that. I am actually doing a pretertiary Computer Science course where I am infact learning Java and I've been programming for several years now, so I DO realise that it wouldn't be all that straight forward to do. But what I DO believe is that it would be able to be done efficiently and wel (read my post a little bit above for my reasoning.) Thanks for your post!
September 16, 200718 yr This might actually work. Although, it should only work in the marketplace section as threads who have hundreds of replies each day will get overwhelming in-game for the authors.
September 16, 200718 yr great idea its very easy then for buyers and imaybe have something for non-members too there is a button during market place which says "I want this" so they can log in and then in the marketplace click i want this the seller gets it and adds the player How does 20 minutes turn into 2.5 hours? Was your math perhaps magical math?
September 17, 200718 yr I think this is a great idea, and I support it 100%. One improvement is take out the player's name and just type something like, "Your thread, 'Selling Coconuts' in the forum 'Farming' has been replied to."
September 17, 200718 yr Author This might actually work. Although, it should only work in the marketplace section as threads who have hundreds of replies each day will get overwhelming in-game for the authors. Yeah, I was thinking about that, because as you said, hundred of replies per day is a bit much.
September 19, 200718 yr Wikipedia has a banner come up when you get a message posted to your talk page... besides, we don't pay the jagex techies to ignore us :ÃÆÃâÃâ¦Ã¾ "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's rock." http://www3.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/98 ... e1782g.jpg[/img]
September 20, 200718 yr "Ohh, that's right, I was selling some coconuts!" And the world would be a better place. I have a lovey bunch of coconuts.
September 22, 200718 yr Author "Ohh, that's right, I was selling some coconuts!" And the world would be a better place. I have a lovey bunch of coconuts. I'm sure you do \
September 22, 200718 yr this seems like a great idea, ill support... but perhaps make it appear in a different colour which seems bolder than the rest. love the pic Luck be a Lady
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