Help Someone Out!

[huntinater5k]

Let me just start out by saying im not asking for handouts!

 

 

 

I have been playing Runescape for almost 4 years now, and a lot has changed. But one thing that hasnt changed is how most higher level players treat lower levels. I am only level 90, which isnt much compared to how long i have been playing, but thats just it. I play Runescape, I dont sit and grind away for that extra level.

 

 

 

Thats why i always try to help people when they ask. I once spent a couple hours mining silver for someone i just met because they wanted to do a quest that they didnt have a high enough crafting level for. I'm not asking for recognition or thanks, all i ask is that you do the same.

 

 

 

That is why i suggest that on the coming monday, if you happen to be on Runescape, go to a free world and look around for someone that could use some help. I dont want people to go around handing out coins or items, i want people to find serious new players and show them the ropes. I know i wouldve enjoyed my lower levels a lot more if everytime i asked something it wasnt immediatly replied with noob. I showed the game to two of my friends, and helped them through the lower levels, and now they love the game.

 

 

 

So basically, it would be nice if u happen to be on monday and you are a high level or an experienced player, go to a free world, look around varrock and lumbridge and see how many people ask for help and are answered with "stupid noob!" and see if you can help them out.

 

 

 

I know that if someone helped me through my lower levels i wouldve enjoyed them a lot more, and many people i know quit because they thought Runescape was stupid, because they didnt understand what to do or how to do it.

 

 

 

And if you are a lower level player reading this, feel free to add me and pm me if u need help with a quest or simply finding something. Im glad to help, and hopefully some others will be too.

 

 

 

I just hope the tip.it forum members are more responsive than the rs forum members, and i hope they care a little more

[Robert_de_Sable]

I do that all the time.

 

A great tip....

 

don't wear high level gear; it corrupts them and they ask you for free stuff.

[Fire_Slyzer]

hmm yeah ok but how are you going to give them for example the 100 silver ores you've mined, when there's a 3K cap?

[huntinater5k]

you can help them with quests, and increase that 3k limit

 

it may be a little more difficult now, but still, the 3k limit resets every 15 mins i believe and most low lvls dont need that much to lvl up, and at really low lvls, 3k seems like an amazing amount of money. I remember at lvl 4, or even 5, full bronze was my dream, and now i wont even bother to pick up addy things, because i really dont need them. If you think about your lower lvls, you'll realize you didnt have 100k to throw around all the time, and i never imagined i would have a mil, so a little goes a long way

 

 

 

u can also use the new assist system, allowing them to mine their own silver

 

 

 

there are solutions, you just have to think a little, and use what u have learned to help other people

[Phantom]

Agreed.

 

 

 

This is exactly why some players act all mighty when they're higher leveled because they were probably treated like trash when they were a noob also, it's like a cycle :x

 

 

 

Nice advice hunter.

[ddaanniiellh]

I'm glad to say I already do this =]

 

 

 

Just that I use my other accounts to do this, not my main. I attract way too much attention, no matter what I wear.

 

~Ddaanniiellh

[Sy_Accursed]

I agree but also disagree with you.

 

 

 

1) Yes its a good idea new players out, but giving them free stuff is not helping them. So avoid that

 

 

 

2) People always say hardly anybody helps new players out this is bs. People just remember bad things more easily than good things

 

 

 

3) You say you don't want recognition for it, but you obviously do even if only subconsciously.If you didn't want recognition you'd get on with it and not make a thread about whihc goes into high detail about how much you've done or how you don't want recognition for it. Not being bitter or anything but its true.

 

 

 

If you TRULY didn't want ANY recognition you'd just do it and not make the thread

 

If you wanted a tiny bit of recognition you'd make a thread that didn't go into much of what you've done

 

If you wanted a fair bit of recognition you'd make a thread with detail of what you did.

 

If you wanted lots of praise you'd put in lots of detail of what've you have done AND say you don't want recognition.

 

 

 

Its like on big brother all the ones who spend half the time saying they don;t want to win are the ones who spend the rest of the time playing up to the camera or in diary room explaining how thier bithcy ploys will help them win.

[huntinater5k]

i understand what you mean, but i honestly dont want recognition

 

i simply put that thing in as an example as wut someone could do, not to bring any fame to me

 

and I cant help every1 by myself, thats y i made a post instead of simply "helping people" because if ten people read this, we can get 10x more done

 

i think that you are also missing the big point behind this whole post

 

i want people to see that little things, be it mining silver, or giving someone directions, or helping with a quest can make a big difference to someone

 

i still ask people for help even today

 

i ask for advice on how to train more effeciently and how to make money quickly, and most people i meet now are glad to help

 

i wrote this because i wanted others to help people too, and im not saying that there are no helpful high level players, but i really wasnt helped very much unless i already knew the person in real life.

 

i know from playing more in members that there are many helpful people, but i think that they are often quick to say that low levels are all greedy, they are all annoying, they all ask too many questions, and are more helpful to people their own lvl then they are to people below them. I think eventually, the longer you play the more you realize that you should help people

[Sbrideau]

I have been myself helping others, expecially when I was a lower level. Now, it is mostly my friends that I will help, as some people had been taking advantage of me, as that one guy was asking me full steel armor (when me and him were both lower levels) then selling it and asking me for another the day after saying he had died.

 

 

 

The only thing, is I would've liked to be helped when I was a new player, but all the answers I got in those times were "N()()b"...

[icecube]

It's a good idea, but I don't believe many people will really do it besides those who already do it.

[chase_cool7]

So where are these players asking for help? I'm lvl 84, f2p and I rarely get asked for help. In fact I think I used to get asked more when I was lower lvls. You make it seem that new players get no help and you are some holy saint O:) . We'll I doubt making a Topic telling people to help out people will do anything. There are many people that help out new players including myself, but I don't find the need to make a post about all the things I've done. I think you have good intentions, but for some, it could almost be considered bragging.

[Turtlefemm]

I think that you have a good idea here.. and it is not bragging to invite others to help folks who need it, regardless of what some users who have posted here might think. I am glad to see someone attempting to bring some good spirit and community minded attitude to a time that is really going to be a difficult adjustment.

 

 

 

This thread gives me a good feeling.. let's keep it that way and not pick it apart with silly accusations or assumptions about why the author might have made it. The bottom line.. is that he is being goodhearted and wanted to share a way for others to be that way as well.

[highlanders]

I don't really see the use of making them 'learn the ropes' when every information they could be looking for is explained in the knowledge base with more detail. If you want them to be independant, teach them how to use the knowledge base.

 

 

 

Good luck finding a serious newbie though. You'll get "Can i hav more plz?" from most of them.

[salim123]

Same with me, ive been playing for like 5 years and only level 100

 

its cause i help people who need help and hang out with my friend

[w0ngt0ng]

Helping out lower levels is a nice thought, but not all lower levels are actual new players to rs (maybe they're pures), so they know a lot about rs already.

 

 

 

One time I tried to help one of those people and they called me noob >.>

 

 

 

Oh and, if you help them with quests it wouldn't increase the 3k limit.

 

The F2P max qp you can have is 39 which is below 50, which is still 3k.

 

 

 

And also, most of them if asked for help will obviously ask for money or items. :l

 

[Dragon_lord]

Not once was anyone nice to me when I was a new player. I was even surprised by how other treated new players. Experienced players jumped to the conclusion that, just because I don't have high levels or a lot of money, that I'm stupid. They used to try and scam and lure me, thinking I didn't know better.

 

One time, I was selling cowhides in Al Kharid, and this lvl 86 comes up to me and offers to buy them all at 4gp each. I politely declined, explaining that I was aware of the price of cowhides. He tried his best to convince me I was wrong and even went as far as acting flabbergasted as to where I go this "false information. When he sa that I wouldn't bite into it, he called me a noob and walked away.

 

 

 

I used to keep telling myself, that if just one player would be nice to me, it would help me a lot and I would remember it forever; alas, the day never came. Now I take time to help each and every new player that comes along, even if it means dropping what I'm doing to help them (be it with an F2P quest or just information sharing). I must have given out hundreds of sets of full iron armour, cooked a thousand reberry pies and made multiple visits to the same areas, all to help new players in exchange for nothing but the good feeling that comes from helping others.

 

You'd be amazed what cutting a diamond for a player that lacks the necessary Crafting level can do for said player!

 

You just have to be able to tell between people with a new account and actual new players (usually more patient, as they are eager to get help). The trick is to not show off expensive things or brag about how rich/strong you may be and over 70% of them won't beg for free items (hey, you were a new player once, weren't you ever tempted to beg for free items?)

[Albel]

I do this about 2 times a month. Ill go to varrock on F2P worlds and look for people in need of help.

 

-Haseo

[tryto]

I find that usually giving new players items will corrupt them, they can't be happy with what they have. I always take the time to show people where places/things are, to give directions, and give adivice, or assist with refining skills.

[luker2d2]

I do that all the time.

 

A great tip....

 

don't wear high level gear; it corrupts them and they ask you for free stuff.

 

 

 

I wear high level gear all the time. I always walk around in full guthans. Its not to show of. Its incase I get attacked by a random event when im doing whatever i am. I like to beat those annoying things -.-

[Randox]

In f2p, people stoped asking me for help about cb level 62-68. I think bad experiance with what passes as high on f2p started to intimadate them. I got to help people the most between about 54 to 60 where I guess people though I had enough experiance to help without being a [bleep]. Once I started paying for membership I find myself less inclined to help people, though I will still take time for some people I have helped in the past. Sometimes I just help over the pm because I really just dont hvae time to enjoy myself and help. Now at 89 (sad for the lenth of time I have played now about 4 years) people dont ask me for much anymore, which is good and bad. I give advice freely but I dont always help people with quests like I used to, at least not everyone.

[no_way2go]

I'm still thankful to the guy who got me to play rs and gave me 20k on my first day, he also showed me around and helped with some quests :o

[lostdreamer3]

I tried to do this a few times and each time was extremely annoyed. One time I helped someone find camelot from lumbridge. I walked their butts all the way over to there because they didn't understand my directions and could I please walk them over there? So I walk them over, and they run away without a thank you!

 

 

 

Another time, I gave some dude something for free and then he wouldn't stop asking for free things from me. I eventually put him on ignore.

 

 

 

Another random time I had all these extra salmon/trout (or whatever you get from shilo) and I didn't feel like sitting in the general store selling them...so I figured I'd go give them to a NICE free member..so i went to lumbridge and sat there waiting for some nice lvl 3 or under 20 to come by. I sat there for over 3 hours waiting. I eventually dropped them on the ground and walked away. So...I don't see all these people asking for help either and frankly, there weren't many friendly people when I was standing there.

[Sy_Accursed]

I think that you have a good idea here.. and it is not bragging to invite others to help folks who need it, regardless of what some users who have posted here might think. I am glad to see someone attempting to bring some good spirit and community minded attitude to a time that is really going to be a difficult adjustment.

 

 

 

This thread gives me a good feeling.. let's keep it that way and not pick it apart with silly accusations or assumptions about why the author might have made it. The bottom line.. is that he is being goodhearted and wanted to share a way for others to be that way as well.

 

 

 

I never accused or asusme he had other motives.

 

 

 

It is just an undenyable fact of human conscious stat that at the very least he subconsciously did want attention for having done this.

 

 

 

And I find there is already a great deal of community spirit. All my mates and me help out newer players where possible.

 

 

 

If I come across a stucker new barrow i give them one of my barrower mates users to question

 

 

 

Equally my user is handed out by mates to stuck questsers

[Kingtygy]

Personally, I think you have good intentions. But, there really was no need to post this. The people that will help out players already do. The only people who don't are usually those who won't, and those who like the feeling they get when they press those four letters on the keyboard, N, O, O, B,.....

 

 

 

I try to help people out when i'm not busy, but that's just me, and i'm against calling people noob because of their level...... Try to get someone whos not like that though, to help people in need, and whatnot, and you probably have wasted alot of time.... :|

[Kiriyama]

I'm still thankful to the guy who got me to play rs and gave me 20k on my first day, he also showed me around and helped with some quests :o

 

 

 

Heh I'm thankful to the guy who made me a Bronze 2h, and helped me by explaining things.

 

 

 

Yeah I had no idea about required levels and such so I was wondering why the hell I couldn't make it.

 

 

 

If anyone asks a question, I'll answer it, but if they ask me to take them through an entire quest, I'll tell them no, as I don't have the time to do that quest again.