13 March 2006 - New Improved Game Guide Released!

Brad · **Posted:** March 13th, 2006, 12:42 pm

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Today we have released a beta version of our new Knowledge Base system, packed with hints+tips about the game and answers to your gameplay and technical questions. With over 150,000 words, hundreds of pages and thousands of images, there's lots of information to improve your RuneScape experience.

The aim of this update is to provide better support for our players, so that if you're stuck or just need some friendly advice, you can quickly get the help you need rather than asking Customer Support or hoping someone is talking about it on the forums. The Knowledge Base includes:

* Statistics for armour and weapons
* Quest rewards fully detailed.
* XP gains listed for many activities, to help you decide the best levelling strategy.
* Tips and tricks on how to train.
* Hints on successfully completing minigames.
* Location and transportation guides.
* Basic and advanced sections for every skill.
* In-depth FAQ documents.
* Detailed guidelines regarding customer support, rules, forum use, reporting abuse, bans and safety and security documents.
* Scamming prevention guides.
* Website, billing and technical support.
* Special Knowledge Base news.
* Lists of the most popular articles.

... Plus all the normal "how to start playing" guides.

The RuneScape Knowledge Base also has a search function to help players find the information they want at the touch of a button.

Important Information

This is a BETA launch so that we can get your ideas and suggestions to make the Knowledge Base a better tool. It is, after all, designed to help you, so we want to know if it does!

Whilst it's packed full of info, it's very much a work in progress at the moment. We know some bits of it aren't perfect (yet), and there is still lots more we want to add, and further improvements are planned over the next few weeks. But we thought we'd let you see what we've been working on and have produced so far.

Your feedback is important to us. If you wish to discuss any of the features in the Knowledge Base, we have provided a specific forum for members to discuss the content of the pages and even on the way it is presented. If you find any bugs or mistakes in the Knowledge base, please use the category provided in our bug reporting page and be as clear as possible with your feedback or report, so we can make it a super accurate source of info.

Please remember, some articles contain suggestions and opinions on how to play the game. Your views may differ from the authors' views. Please feel free to discuss this on the forum, but do not submit it as a bug. Opinions are only opinions.

So, if you need illumination about where to find candles, seek enlightenment about the prayer skill, want to hook up with more detailed fishing information or even get technical with technical support, the KB is the place to be!

We hope you find the KB useful, and that it makes your experience in RuneScape a better one.

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Adbot · **Posted:** March 13th, 2006, 12:42 pm

Robbie · **Posted:** March 13th, 2006, 12:48 pm

Looks interesting.

Brad · **Posted:** March 13th, 2006, 12:56 pm

seems to me like Jagex are trying to partially replace fansites, who needs to go to a fan site to look up the stats of an item if Jagex has it on the main site =\

Robbie · **Posted:** March 13th, 2006, 1:02 pm

Well they're making it easier by not giving us the need to make an item db.

Southrend · **Posted:** March 13th, 2006, 1:31 pm

Well they don't have all the databases (like monster database), they don't have quest guides and such.

So there are still plenty of guides we can put up. It's a good update!

Mr Pink · **Posted:** March 13th, 2006, 3:06 pm

Too late for Jagex, there already are many other help sites.

Adbot · **Posted:** March 13th, 2006, 3:06 pm

Mistymaple · **Posted:** March 14th, 2006, 1:05 am

Well I spent about half an hour looking through it yesterday and its got some good stuff in. I do think they're just repeating what some fan sites have already done but while its there we may as well use it. Its easy to navigate and personally I didn't know that capes had bonuses... :oops:

but I do now.

amorous101 · **Posted:** March 14th, 2006, 10:22 am

Brad wrote:

seems to me like Jagex are trying to partially replace fansites, who needs to go to a fan site to look up the stats of an item if Jagex has it on the main site =\

Yeah, I think you are rignt. Did you read the "Tip It Times" article about all the banning that has been going down? It mentioned the fact that many people have been banned for mentioning fansites such as RSBandB, Tip It, RSRealm and others. So maybe they are creating an alternative to fansites, so that instead of saying "check out (enter site name here)" people can just say "check it out on the RS Game Guide" to reduce the number of bannings they have to do...smart on Jagex' part.

Ladderzat · **Posted:** March 14th, 2006, 1:21 pm

excellent

some things i didnt know so again > excellent

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** March 14th, 2006, 1:39 pm

It's crap. Nothiong in there is remotely interesting or helpfull and the search feature is useless cause no matter what i put in i get garbage found.

Anubis · **Posted:** March 14th, 2006, 2:00 pm

This looks useless...

Christopher · **Posted:** March 15th, 2006, 1:35 am

Carbon copy of runehq...what is the point. Plus runehq's search feature actually works.

Robbie · **Posted:** March 15th, 2006, 9:58 am

Robbie wrote:

Looks interesting.

Upon further investigation, I take back that comment and replace it with the exact opposite.

Ult_Mac_Dady · **Posted:** March 15th, 2006, 10:17 am

5/5
it shows they have actualy ben working!

Lord Zamorak · **Posted:** March 18th, 2006, 9:24 am

I think it's good, but it is a bit confusing on how to get to stuff.