a good reason not to help noobs

[Outsanity]

I think that old proverb someone once said makes for a perfect fit in this topic:

 

 

 

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.

 

 

 

In other words: Quit feeding the pigeons of Runescape. Eventually you'll feed them too much and it'll end up blowing up in your face.

 

 

 

^ How do you like that for a proverb? :wink:

[Adventurer]

^

 

Pwned.

 

 

 

I use that proverb when selecting worthy newbies fresh off of Tutorial Island to help. I test them by seeing if they actually care to learn the game, help them along, then give them a financial booster later.

 

 

 

Heck, I even reformed a beggar this way.

[lwilson100]

i dont help any noobs anymore i used just give them advice and last time i tried to help some noob with a tt he reported me, so the moral is HELP NO ONE!!

[Triforceelf]

The most I would ever, ever give a noob is full steel with his choice of weapon. Other then that, he needs to learn how to make his own way in this game.

[1travino]

i like: give a [racist term]r a rope an he wats to be a cowboy

[1travino]

^^^^^^^ lol negro

 

 

 

anyway, when im feeling generous, i like to play with the "noobs" ( i dont normally call anyone that, but cant avoid atm).

 

 

 

i go to a f2p world, always lummy bank.... i explain that im gonna host a gameshow to everyone who wishes to participate. 1k for the winner.

 

 

 

i explain what the game show is called; Trade. The first person to trade me wins 1k. i start a countdown from 5 then exclam "Trade", it takes a bit for people to work out whats goin on lol. first trade i see on my screen an i say 'winner x' an trade 1k.

 

 

 

when everyone who wants in get the jist of what im doin, after 5 or so rounds i then countdaown an on 1 i run behind the bank, then first to track me down gets the 1k blah blah , five more of those rounds, then.

 

 

 

down the stair case...... people have a really good time an i do too. nobody can wreck it and its unbiased. i encourage u to try it! 15 rounds 15k lol

[SwreeTak]

This shows that you should be carefull of not giving away to much to one person. Spread it to more noobs, and if they later begin begging from you, just add them to your block list. Myself I usually give noobs free stuff sometimes, but never any really valueable stuff. Then they will probalby just start begging for more.

[Bini]

Giving stuff to a noob will help him/her for a short time, giving advice

 

might change his/her whole experience in RuneScape.

 

 

 

Here is an example of a real life situation:

 

A starving man has no food or a home, he will surely die without some food,

 

You give him a fish, he survives the day but

 

if you learn him to catch his own fish, he will survive for many years and

 

make a living of fishing.

[Madouge]

ill still give them stuff just not 100k again :S

 

 

 

Did you not pay any attention to what I just said?

to tell ya truth i dont care what ya said.

 

 

 

Then why did you make a topic about it? If you don't care about the discussion it brings =S, geez, you really are an idiot.

[aussy4321]

I do remmember a time myself, when i had run out of Membership for a week or so.

 

 

 

I was sitting first in Draynor and someone was having a sort of "newbish" drop party, so i pulled out most of my rune drops and bars and TT (f2p tt's) and dropped them. It was great fun and actually felt more fun than actually playing Runescape.

 

 

 

One of them became very friendly and i ended up giving them extreme amounts, At first 200k, then 400k, Then 600k and Full rune.

 

 

 

Then i was off to Falador and she followed, and while i was there someone begged me for money and i gave 2gp and said "Don't spend it all at once" because this is something i do to beggers often. but guess what they did, "This isn't enough, give me more noob"... So i had at least 10 people backing me up (10 people that had made my pocket extremly lighter) and i ended up giving out about 2,000,000 to this new group of people.

 

 

 

Eventually i had cleared all of my f2p Items, made 12+ friends who i'd actually consider talking to even though they are f2p and i had some fun.

 

 

 

but about 20days later, they all had forgotten who i was... "have we met?"

 

"oh that money, thanks anyways" "Yeah i spent it on full addy"

 

HOW DO YOU SPEND 300k on full ADDY!!!!!... anyways.

 

 

 

my story isn't about being Nice and getting alot of "newbs" begging. (Wow it's like that South park episode, the newest one) My story is about being very generous and getting no newbs or people talking to you or remmembering. As if you had just dropped the money... But hey! it's just 2million which these days is nothing hard to obtain. AND I HAD FUN! and fun to me is alot in this game as the amount of Fun you can have playing Runescape has deminished(spellcheck?).

[agira]

we'll ofte. n if a noob ask me for somthing ill give him full addy, mith. well a few weeks agho i felt generous gave a noob 100k, now i cant turn friends on lol, every time i do i get a msg from him, i was hacked can i have free stuff and then 300 more msgs from his friends... well i try and help noobs but sometimes, they dont appertiate it enough i guess.

 

 

 

Helping them you really don't help them, they then newer rearch so much by themselfs and they then all the time will ask for something knowing then is effective to ask and in this way they get some stuff free, same is when you meet in real life some person on the street which asking for money, if you will help him he newer start to think how to change him life situation & he then will ask and ask again for help!

 

 

 

Good for it Chinese saying:

 

 

 

ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅGive a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetimeÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬ÃâÃ

[aussy4321]

ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅGive a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetimeÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬ÃâÃ

[agira]

This really not mean then you must lvlup him.

 

 

 

Just if you give to him fish, he ask for fish tomorrow again, if you learn him power fishing (RS fly fishing which is really profitable too) he fast rearch good fishing level not trying to lvlup on lobsters what takes a while to fish sharks.

 

 

 

BTW: Fly power fishing tactics, you buy feathers for 5-10gp ea and sell cooked fish for 45-75gp ea is ever fast fishing & cooking exp and you multiply few times your money, this kind of food buying people who train pure characters.

 

 

 

I randomly found with google some website with this saying improvements, maybye is interesting for somebody (just for fun):

 

 

 

The Improvements

 

 

 

ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅGive a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you will not have to listen to his incessant whining about how hungry he is.ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬ÃâÃ

[Achilleus]

I GUESS I WILL NOT BE HELPING YOU THEN

[aussy4321]

Agira, i wasn't being serious.. I was making a joke

 

 

 

I am more than aware of the Meaning behind that Saying.

 

Although, one must think.

 

It's easier to give something than spend time helping someone to understand how to get something themself.

[agira]

Agira, i wasn't being serious.. I was making a joke

 

 

 

I am more than aware of the Meaning behind that Saying.

 

Although, one must think.

 

It's easier to give something than spend time helping someone to understand how to get something themself.

 

 

 

Ok, but You agree then he will ask for something then again and again and time by time will waste your time, just if you want really to help better is talk about some guide on some website & etc...

[Toxicologist]

For God's sake, this topic is years old. The guys who posted this and originally replied might not be here anymore, stop quoting and talking to them.

[agira]

For God's sake, this topic is years old. The guys who posted this and originally replied might not be here anymore, stop quoting and talking to them.

 

 

 

We just done some small discussion :)

[qeltar]

The fact that someone abused your trust is NOT a good reason to not help people.

 

 

 

Just explain that you helped him but that doesn't mean you will continue to do things for him indefinitely, or put him on ignore.

 

 

 

~q

[atronic92]

For God's sake, this topic is years old. The guys who posted this and originally replied might not be here anymore, stop quoting and talking to them.

 

 

 

The fact that someone abused your trust is NOT a good reason to not help people.

 

 

 

Just explain that you helped him but that doesn't mean you will continue to do things for him indefinitely, or put him on ignore.

 

 

 

~q

 

 

 

:wall:

 

 

 

Wow, all those new fishing proverbs are hilarious.

[qeltar]

Oops, missed that date. :oops:

 

 

 

Well, the subject does still come up regularly and the points are still valid. :)

[Walmart44]

I once gave a rune scimi to a low level just because I was too lazy to sell it, he wasn't asking for anything, I just traded a random person. Later he pm's me asking for more free stuff, and ended up on my ignore list.

 

 

 

The worst is people who beg for stuff in cw, such as asking for a free shield, right after they remove their shield and drag dagger, but thats a little off topic I think. :-w

[Outsanity]

I do remmember a time myself, when i had run out of Membership for a week or so.

 

 

 

I was sitting first in Draynor and someone was having a sort of "newbish" drop party, so i pulled out most of my rune drops and bars and TT (f2p tt's) and dropped them. It was great fun and actually felt more fun than actually playing Runescape.

 

 

 

One of them became very friendly and i ended up giving them extreme amounts, At first 200k, then 400k, Then 600k and Full rune.

 

 

 

Then i was off to Falador and she followed, and while i was there someone begged me for money and i gave 2gp and said "Don't spend it all at once" because this is something i do to beggers often. but guess what they did, "This isn't enough, give me more noob"... So i had at least 10 people backing me up (10 people that had made my pocket extremly lighter) and i ended up giving out about 2,000,000 to this new group of people.

 

 

 

Eventually i had cleared all of my f2p Items, made 12+ friends who i'd actually consider talking to even though they are f2p and i had some fun.

 

 

 

but about 20days later, they all had forgotten who i was... "have we met?"

 

"oh that money, thanks anyways" "Yeah i spent it on full addy"

 

HOW DO YOU SPEND 300k on full ADDY!!!!!... anyways.

 

 

 

my story isn't about being Nice and getting alot of "newbs" begging. (Wow it's like that South park episode, the newest one) My story is about being very generous and getting no newbs or people talking to you or remmembering. As if you had just dropped the money... But hey! it's just 2million which these days is nothing hard to obtain. AND I HAD FUN! and fun to me is alot in this game as the amount of Fun you can have playing Runescape has deminished(spellcheck?).

 

 

 

Not quite sure if you mean to say it's OK to give people money though they will soon forget about you, or if you're advising against it...because you kind of worded the last paragraph oddly.

 

 

 

But, buying friendships is so stupid. I don't even give my closest RS friends free things because I know that if they are a true friend they would talk to me without the free gifts.

 

 

 

So many people are fake in this game, and the only way to set apart the true friends from the moochers is to just simply give nothing to anyone.

 

 

 

It's especially important to learn this lesson when you become higher leveled in combat or have on nicer armor, such as rares or say, even full dragon. People won't say "Hi," or "Hello," or "How are you doing, today?" nowadays without some alterior motive behind it. Chances are, shortly after, they'll ask for a favor, and that favor, almost always, includes cash or discounted items, or free items.

 

 

 

It's sad, but true.

[reaper88888]

*cough*needstotakeagrammarclass*cough*

 

 

 

 

 

Hint: Put private chat to: Friends. They're beggars, the minute some other poor sap gives them something, they'll start begging him/her....

[JordanGM]

Stop calling them noobs, you're the one that can't even spell..