[Informer Article] A Serious April

posted by Shane on 2 May 2013 at 01:19

Hi everyone,

We're back with a somewhat more serious roundup than last months. For those of you who did not notice or did not get the joke, last months roundup was our April fools edition! Hope you enjoyed it.

This month we started off with a personal account from Lord Rickles of 5 interesting things from past RuneScape that you might not know. This article was appropriately titled, Story Time with Grampa Rickles. Congratulations on 10 years of RS! Next up was Alex's usual analytical piece featuring a discussion on hidden updates. He discusses the hidden update from Desert Treasure that lead to the Ghostly Robes being discovered and just what might be in store for those who have completed Brink of Extinction. Finally, we ended the month with an article that falls back to the true RP (Role Playing) fashions of this game genre, 15 Reasons Not to do a Quest in RuneScape Act III from Jason. Give this one a read, it's quite funny and a refreshing break from whatever you are doing.

In our gaming and technology section we have two articles this month. The first from Duke Juker, A Word to the Wise, gives game developers five pieces of advice from us, the gamers. The second article comes from myself and discusses how to be an effective beta tester. This is very important this year because Jagex has given us two betas that they want feedback on. If the testers are uneducated it is often a recipe for disaster.

This months featured article from years past comes from Jason. He's been with us for many years and this one comes from April 2011. The article discusses the many micro-communities found around RuneScape and the effect they can have on your game play. You can read the article here, which is effectively titled, "The Community at Small."

Moving on to other community related news we have the results of the April Cooking Skill of The Month available. Flash obliterated the competition receiving 35,054,935 experience. While Jason B was a distant second at roughly 11.6 million experience gained. Anoi took third with 4.6 million gained. Well done Flash!

Here's your trophy:

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Good luck to everyone competing in the Slayer Skill of the Month for May. The graph should look more normal this month ;).

Before we go for the month, I'd just like to remind everyone that there are only two days left to submit your Informer application. If you'd like to write with us you can send in an application and we'll greatly read it!

See you next month!

This was originally posted as an Informer FrontPage article.

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[Informer Article] Free Topic March

posted by Shane on 1 April 2013 at 06:16

Howdy and welcome to a new month on RSBANDBInformer!


During the month of March we had many great articles come our way, some stood out more than others. First up was the top 5 myths about RuneScape weddings, provided by Jason. We realize this might be a month late but better late than never right? This month we presented our authors with the option of choosing their own topic, as a result we hope you enjoy this deviation from our normal selection. Lord Rickles choose to fill us in on his favourite past time, Hunting for Prey! Duke Juker wrote about his awful college experience and why he dropped out to become a tailor who loves a good piece of silk. Then it was time for an article from myself, Shane. I talked about my transition from Conservative to Liberal and talked about the effect it has had on my life including how the world now is a much more harmonious place. Finally, Alex takes us on a journey to face something we must all face at some point: Mortality.


In accordance with our new tradition of highlighting an article from years past this month we have an enjoyable read for you all. I invite you to take a look at The Geology of RuneScape written by Shwa back in May 2009. The landmasses of Gielinor have really not changed all that much since 2009 which makes this all the more worthy of reading now!


There you have it, a selection of great articles to read and ponder. This month has been truly life changing for us at RSBANDBInformer! Free topic month has enabled us to discover things that we've never even thought of before. Even though March was a month of discovery it was also a month of loss. It is with great regret that JasonC has stopped writing for us at Informer. We wish him well in his continued work on RuneScape. This is bitter sweet since as we say goodbye to Jason as he moves on to the next emanation we look forward to greeting our next writer! Applications for a RuneScape writing position will be opened tomorrow (April 2nd). This means that YOU can take part in all the great fun we have at Informer.


Moving on to other things, specifically the March Summoning Skill of The Month competition we wish to extend a very warm congratulations to Jamandy52. He took first place with a grand total of 4,631,758 experience gained.


Here is your trophy:
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Good luck to all who have engaged in the April Cooking SKOTM!


See you next month everyone and we look forward to reading your applications!


Liberally Yours,

Shane and The Informers

Post April Fools edit: You can find all the information needed to apply for Informer, here.

This was originally posted as an Informer FrontPage article.

[Informer Article] Flavourful February

posted by King Kulla on 2 March 2013 at 09:02

Hi everyone! It's my second roundup in a row; this must be some sort of record! Let's start off with the great articles our Informer team has written for us in the past month.

JasonC reviewed the goals of the Evolution of Combat, and evaluated the changes within. Next, Mason lamented the death of the wilderness skull, and wistfully recalled the glory of the past. Jasonmrc then discussed why it's dangerous for experience and monteary gains to be easy, while Alex talked about how easy it is to get caught up in a game and to not let our lives get taken over easily by it. In gaming, Duke Juker pondered about what the next big thing will be, and how it will change the market as we know it!

Also this month, Arceus submitted a poignant story about two characters that is sure to wrench your heartstrings. Go check it out, and remember that If you wish to submit a guest article of your own, please do! We accept them at any time of the month,  and we'll always look at every application. For more information about guest articles, click here!

For our Legacy article, we have chose MasteroftheVortex's article all the way from September 2007, that's 5 and a half years ago! In it, he discusses the next 10 years of computing, and it's very relevant today! Hope you all enjoy it.

Onto the Strength Skill of the Month, we had a battle of two heavyweights! Jamandy52 pulled a very respectable 9.6M strength xp, but pulling ahead of him was Undoer, with 11.6M xp! Congratulations, Undoer! Here is your trophy/signature/banner/cool dragon thing:

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Thanks to all of our competitors this month, and good luck to our contestants in the upcoming Summoning SkotM!

Safe travels, everyone, and we'll see you here next month!

This was originally posted as an Informer FrontPage article.