Noob Sponsorship is an idea that would solve various problems but first I will explain the concept. You find yourself a noob (lvl 3) and you sponsor him. For each level he gains you pay him 100 gold pieces. Now everyones reaction to this “What’s in it for me?”. Well nothing is the answer unless it makes you feel good, if your one of those people. However ever if a player gained 50 levels that’s only 5,000. Not so bad.

This concept could solve many problems if it caught on. No longer would these inexperienced players come begging for nothing. They will get free money but need to earn it. If your still tight about this idea then think of this. Soon the player will realise 100gp doesn’t cover there needs. They won’t bother you for the money after a while. By this time they are no longer “noobs”. They have a fair knowledge of what the games about and how to play.

This is kind of like looking after the young. Until they are all grown up and ready to leave home. You can also have bunches of them on the go, kinda like your own herd of noobs or whatever It could also be argued that it’s like Star Wars. Taking on a Padawan Learner and then teaching him everything you know so that one day he can become better than you and your then his slave.

Well not quite, but if you see through the simile you will see that what I’m saying is that eventually he can teach you things later on. If your stuck on a quest you have someone you can ask, “Oh Noobieeeee…”:p

People who are above average IQ may read this and go “Nut, what a load of junk.” BUT people with higher IQ than them can see this as a financial advantage, Mwahahah no more details about this.

So come on down to the Noob Sponsorship Club today, our office is located in the courtyard of Lumbridge castle where there are plenty of people waiting. The selection process usually takes about 30 seconds and is completely free of charge.

Seriously though people should get themselves there very own noob today, you might even enjoy it!

The Grand Exchange – Database

Yeah, we all have our complaints about the in-game trading system now, but now lets talk about the tool they recently’ released, the Grand Exchange Database. For players, this is a miracle-ish type thing, you can easily check an items value and history and would kind of resemble a RuneScape wall-street tool. So in a sense, thats great and all right? Well yeah for the players of course, but with the coming of this also created the death of another. As some of us may know, Zybez was the first RuneScape helpsite to create such a tool, and many many players used it, they worked really hard to keep it up to date, seeing as they have to gather data manually rather than have it easily accessable like Jagex, its easy to say that Zybez put alot of work into their tool. Now this Grand Exchange DB came out, and i won’t deny that its more accurate and useful but it also is another major supporter of my theory. Now onto the next piece of evidence

The Knowledge Base

This was first introduced as a replacement for the game manual but this thing is slowly evolving in my opinion to a fully blown mini help site tool. To be really picky, they have their “Quest Help” tool, which supposedly helps players get past parts of quests that they find confusing, what does this remind you of? RuneScape Help of couse! Except this is Jagex’s version with a little kick to make sure that players play their game more instead of reading a guide and just completing the quest. Then they have their game manual that pretty much tells players anything they really need to know about the game.

So what is the point of this article you may think? Well, in a sense Jagex can really never shut down all the fansites but the things they are doing are helping to drive 3rd party help into extinction, afterall, when a new player signs up, and they need help, the first place their going to probably look now is the RuneScape website, and if jagex keeps on improving, the player will have everything they need at the Runescape website. Maybe this isn’t a loss, maybe its a gain, or it could be the other way around, but it depends on how you interpret these types of events.

We’d like to hear what you think.