Lumbridge Jobcentre

[rudestlink]

A lot of people seem to make suggestions of ways to make the game easier for new players, which seems to mainly consist of giving them money or personal advice. The first is often unproductive since it can make the person lazy. The second is hard due to the limited amount of people can be reached this way.

 

The lumbridge guide does give some advice but the player has to seek him out.

 

 

 

What I am suggesting is an NPC in the courtyard. This NPC would be more proactive and should shout things like "jobs for low leveled players" (maybe something more snappy than that).

 

When spoken to he could give some spiel about the Duke of Lumbridge trying to reduce the number of beggers in his duchey creating a jobcentre. He would be able to give out a few jobs and the player would be able to choose between them.

 

 

 

Example of jobs could be,

 

"go to draynor village and fish me 10 shrimp"

 

"go up to Varrock and mine 14 copper and 14 tin and forge me 14 bars of Bronze"

 

"Cut 10 trees for logs"

 

 

 

The NPC would give the player any tools they lacked for the job, so if they had lost their pickaxe then he would give them a bronze pickaxe to keep, these tools are hidden around the castle as free respawns anyway. The NPC would only accept goods if they have been produced by the player themselves. If you completed certain jobs you would unlock others, e.g. once you had sold him the bronze a job would unlock to smith weaponry out of bronze.

 

 

 

Each job would pay a fair price and the NPC would tell the player which shops will buy the products and give rought directions after the job has been finished. Also they NPC would spout out useful advice about things like how to look for jobs from players and good merchanting practice. The player would hopefully gain a bit of experience in using their skills to make money.

 

 

 

Each job would be avaliable to every player once and the jobcentre would not pay more than selling at the shops in towns. They would also be totally optional if a player decided he did not want to take these jobs.

 

 

 

All constructive critism and suggestions are welcome especially as to ideas with details

[Loge_05]

There is the Lumbridge Guide already in place to give out helpful hints. A NPC giving out jobs would just cause people to be more reliant on him/her.

[rudestlink]

They could become reliant on him, but is it any worse than them becoming reliant on begging. I think of this like an extension of the tutorial and it would have to be set up in a way that it forced them to learn how to use their skills to make money.

 

 

 

I don't know how useful the guide is since I never used him, I used my own wits to make money. There will be a load of people who don't use him but could use his help. This idea would be more proactive.

 

 

 

Thank you for your input

[TheEmoSanta]

There are multiple guides that already give Tips/Hints

 

Tutorial Island ALSO gives Tips/Hints on money making (Fishing/Mining/WC)

 

The whole process would be problematic because they would become relient on it

[blakdragon39]

I don't think they would become reliant on it.

 

 

 

It's not like he's giving them anything other than a few necessities to finish a job. Plus, sooner or later, they are gonna want to find something better than that to make money?

 

 

 

Please explain how they would become reliant on him?

[Striker6]

what next? unemployment benefits?

[Kewl_Sabre]

I don't know, I'd say the game is already quite easy and open to new players.

 

 

 

It's not a bad idea, but if they keep the already there lumbridge guide updated and make him give out good advice on money/training, it should be ok.

[Barihawk]

I like it. The Wise Old Man of Draynor already has a system like this in place, but it would be nice for a newbie just starting out to find work and it would give hand-on experience in skillwork.

[Scudman126]

When i got off tutoiral island, i didnt begg.

 

 

 

For i listened in the tutiuoral! I wondered around a bit, and found a cabbage patch and i thought "wow free food" so i stocked up alot, then i killed some rats and goblins, and got 30gp and went to Al karid, i then killed soem men till i could afford a iron scimmy from the shop and then i just wondered aroudn doing quests, becomign more eduacted in the rs world and how to make money from skills. All by experince, not NPC helping or handouts!

 

 

 

The ones who begg are dumb, why werent they listen in the tutorial?!

[bacab]

I think this is a good idea and an optional extension of TutIs. 8/10

 

It would be rather helpful to the new players.

 

 

 

I like it. The Wise Old Man of Draynor already has a system like this in place, but it would be nice for a newbie just starting out to find work and it would give hand-on experience in skillwork.

 

Wise Old Man jobs are members only. lol imagine a nonmember trying to find swamp paste. Or getting seeds as a reward.

[maximus]

the beggers ar eusually young kids with no knowlage hwo to work, in runescape or in real life. They just want everything handed to them...

 

 

 

 

 

theroy 12572

 

~maxi