My Runescape Diary

You may be aware that there was an update today, you really couldn't have missed it, if you did its a way that you can help other lower level players with skills that they can not normally do.

If you read the forums there were hundreds of threads saying OMG levels with no work, an easy game just made easier, level 3 crafting players making full black dragon hide and fury ammies, no need to train skills anymore.

Mass hysteria over a new Runescape update that means the end of the game as we know it.

This new update nothing really has changed with the exception of making it a bit fairer, I often make pots, dragon hide armour and other items for players, all this update does is make the person who wants the items do the work instead of you, as far as I see this is the way it should be, if someone wants me to make 15 full dragon hide sets for them to sell I have the skills to make it, these skills I have worked for and should be rewarded for training them, the other player wants the benefit why should I do the work for their benefit.

People were complaining that low level players can make anything leaving it open for bots to rule the RS world, high level players could get double xp as they train and assist other players.

I would never make a statement in front of other players unless I knew it was true, this mass hysteria was cause by ignorance and people not finding the facts before commenting.

The fact is the system gives no more or no less than you had before, it simply passes the workload over to the people who want the help, this system is flawed and there are problems with it but not the ones that theses people are complaining about, Jagex have a forum for you to tell them what you think, this is currently being ruined by people complaining about things that they do not understand or have not been bothered to investigate.

There are problems, Jagex will listen to the reasonable complaints and moans and ignore the complaints of the ignorant.

The ones I have found so far.

You can not do anything while you are assisting, this is not a problem this is a must to stop the system being abused, the problem arises that when you are helping someone you must be by them, you can not do anything except chat to friends or people around you, it brings up a screen with a list of things you can use to assist the other players, while this screen is up you can not see who is around you, the person you are assisting can go off and you will be sat in this screen unaware that they have gone off, you need to rely on them telling you they are done and this doesn't always happen.

There is another problem with serial assist abuse, this is when a player seeks assistance from everyone in a bank and just leaves them in the assist window and not doing anything except wasting their training time.

These problems will be sorted by Jagex in time, it is however not helped by the spamming from the ignorant.

If you want to make a comment on the forums please do, but don't guess what you are commenting on look into it and see the benefits and pitfalls then let them know.