Description: Santas invade World 7 on Christmas Day to hand out gifts to people!

Date: 12/25/2011

Time: Start at ideally 10 AM US EST (GMT -5), lasts all day

World: 7 (F2P)

Location: Meet at Varrock Square, make our way to Lumbridge, and then we scatter all over the F2P world

RSN: Atom Smash40

Contact info: PM on TIF or post in this thread

 

I thought of this great idea and I hope I get many volunteers to partake.

 

It involves dressing up in a Santa suit and Santa hat (if you have one).

 

What I want to do is run around F2P World 7 and hand out freebies to newbs (note the spelling, not n00bs). Basically, I would like to find low leveled, new players (levels 3-10) that have just started to play RS and need a little boost. I've prepared an inventory with newbie starter gear:

 

*ignore the Rune armor sets at the bottom*

 

Note that I have enough supplies for 450 handouts that go as follow:

 

Should the newbie wish to become a melee-based player:

 

1x Iron armour set (lg)

1x Iron scimitar

1x Iron battleaxe

1x Iron 2h sword

1x Leather gloves

1x Leather boots

 

If they want to be a ranger:

 

1x Leather cowl

1x Leather body

1x Leather chaps

1x Leather vambraces

1x Shortbow

500x Iron arrow

1x Leather boots

 

If they want to be a mage:

 

1x Wizard hat

1x Wizard robe

1x Blue skirt

1x Air staff

350x Mind rune

80x Water rune

180x Earth rune

300x Fire rune

*enough runes for casts to get them to at least 17 magic*

1x Leather gloves

1x Leather boots

 

Now you may be asking, "What about the noobs who beg or ask for stuff"?

 

Well, there is only one rule for this event: Do not give stuff out to those who ASK. Unfortunately, this will be harder than it seems as 90% of F2P is bots, 9% are beggars, and 1% actually just wanna play. I don't expect to hand out every single item, and that's OK. I can save them for next Christmas if I need to.

 

Now here is what I would like of you, the participants:

 

You don't have to be as thorough as me in what is handed out; you can decide to only hand out weapons or raw materials. I'd prefer if you didn't hand out straight cash as my goal is to encourage the new players to USE their newly received gear and not sell it for money. Unfortunately, most likely 80% of those receiving the free gear will end up just selling it. Their loss. What they do after they receive their gifts is out of my control.

 

NOTE: I am asking you to do this out of the kindness of your heart and to keep the game of RS alive. If you cannot afford to give away things, then don't sign up. You can tag along and watch, though. I'm am also not asking you to make your inventory the same as mine. In case you were wondering, my inventory sans the Rune armour sets values at over 2.5M. I can afford to give out such gifts. If you cannot or don't want to, but still want to give SOMETHING away, then you can give away what you think a newbie would find useful. The goal of this is not to give them a massive 50k bank (the max given away in a single trade will not be more than 10,000gp. If it is, it won't be by much) off the start of the game.

 

I really don't want to be the only one doing this (from tip.it, anyway) on Christmas Day. And if for some reason I cannot be on Christmas day for a prolonged period of time to hand out these gifts, I WILL give them to someone who can spare the time.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

PARTICIPANT LIST:

 

1. Atom Smash40

This is a great idea, and I love it, but you're too early. I'd wait until ~week before Christmas to start recruiting. People's schedule might change.

Sure, not a problem. But I'm throwing this out here this early just so people know it's there and, if they wish, preparing early.

If you would like to do this, please post :)

Month and a half bump! Already got a donation from the famous OTM :)

 

And I've already started giving stuff away because I realized that there's no way in hell I'll be able to give 450 newbs in a single world all this stuff in one day. I'm aiming to get down to at most 120 per class by December 25th.

Awesome idea, might tell people over at Zaffre about it.

Why only world 7 though? :o

Why only world 7 though? :o

World 7 is the inofficial Tip.It F2p world.

World 99 is its P2p equivalent.

 

That said, it might just be randomly picked by the OP. :P

I'll probably be there, unless my schedule says otherwise

Why only world 7 though? :o

World 7 is the inofficial Tip.It F2p world.

World 99 is its P2p equivalent.

 

That said, it might just be randomly picked by the OP. :P

Nothing done by me is random 8-)

Sounds like a good idea!

 

Since I live in +12 GMT zone I could do a few hours of this on Boxing Day morning (for the US players who will be playing on Xmas day).

I'm willing to dedicate a couple of hours to keep F2P alive!

 

Also, instead of giving out iron armour and noob stuff, give them steel armour/weps so they will have to get a few levels up before they can use the items.

^ not a bad idea. But remember, you don't have to mimic my inventory. You can give them whatever gear you wish (though try to keep it low leveled and worthless so they don't just sell it for money :()

 

Update: I'm not going to get rid of 100+ sets of gear so I dropped my inventory down to 50 of each (more manageable, and I get some money back from selling).

Coming closer...