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[Darkwind]

I tried searching mining and iron and got zero results... how is that possible? I tried searching some vulgar terms and got plenty of results. I was trying to figure out what players thought the best mining spots for iron were... a question I am sure has been asked before and I didn't want to have to search through the completely organized General Help % Advice or Player-Made Guide forums. So I guess I would like the search feature to be improved or some sort of organization to be added to the question and guide forums. (For example adding authors to select which skill they believe their guide/question relates to and allowing browsers to filter the questions/guides by whichever skill they choose)

[Cruiser]

I tried searching mining and iron and got zero results...

 

 

 

You searched the entire forum didn't you? Searching 1.7m posts for 2 words will return way too many posts, flooded by the market boards specifically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I tried searching some vulgar terms and got plenty of results.

 

 

 

Because there are fewer occurrences (mod removal and so on) and therefore return fewer results.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't want to have to search through the completely organized General Help % Advice or Player-Made Guide forums.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If it's 'completely organized', you should have searched it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assuming that quote is a typo, asking 'which mining site is best' is a pointless question because each and every mining rock does the exact same thing, regardless of location. If it was asked, you'd be flooded with some 20 different iron mining locations from the opinionated sheeple thinking their location is 'the best', leaving you where you started, with no useful info.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try different locations, use the map to find some close to a bank and use it.

[Darkwind]

I actually did find it by searching powermining iron which isnt exactly what I wanted because when people powermine they drop the ore while I wanted to bank them but I found a post that dicsussed the best f2p and p2p locations for mining and banking iron.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I actually didn't search the whole forum I search the general help and advice and the player guides forums for iron and got nothing. And if there were too many results it might be useful to indicate "To many results were returned please narrow your search criteria" instead of no results were found. Those are two very different situations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also I don't think what I said was that difficult on RSC forums I searched iron and got the exact results I was looking for. I know these are not RSC forums but if you want to be a competitive alternative there should be a search feature that at least works as well. And yes that was a typo and thanks for the advice.

[ixfd64]

The search function does need improvement. For example, searching for "third" returns no results.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try using Google search instead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"third site:forum.tip.it"

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That's what happens when you use words which are way too common to effectively search :uhh:

[Ks_Jeppe]

The search function does need improvement. For example, searching for "third" returns no results.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try using Google search instead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"third site:forum.tip.it"

Did you even read what Cruiser said? :roll:

[Cruiser]

I'd love to see you search threw the 783 results returned by 'third' for relevant info too.