TGIF. Really, I'm so thankful to God that today's day is Friday, because with the multitude of final exams that have been hitting us for the past week, as well as five English essays that we had to compose, I'm academically dead. And yes, that is a legitimate excuse to why I haven't been posting much of this week on the blog. But hey, it's Friday, the first day of June, and I always try to post on the first of a month so here you are. The topic: Runescape is wowing me lately, but are the great updates enough to keep me interested and not move on to WoW?
I don't know what's happening over there in Cambridge at Jagex's offices, as in the past month or two and in the current month of June, Jagex has been wowing players with some of the greatest updates that I have witnessed. Besides the introduction of skills such as construction and hunter as well as some graphical updates, Jagex has been impressing me enough. But! Now they're listening more to players through the suggestion forum on the official forums and through votes in polls, they did a humongous graphical update to the grand and now very medieval-looking city of Varrock, and now they're coming forward with new ranged equipment such as the dark bow, dragon arrows, and the dragon darts. Just wow. Dark beasts always needed a good drop, and I hope the dark bow is good enough to fulfill new goals for people to obtain the high level of 90 slayer. And, of course, it'll be rewarding for those who have 90+ slayer, as whips have been going down to dramatically low levels. I mean, they're 1.5 million gp now. That's nothing compared to the 5 mil+ I forked out for the two whips I had (if you're not a regular reader, then I'll gladly share with you that my first whip was taken when I was hacked). But in conclusion, Jagex has been inputing new features into the game that are satisfying players rather than making players unhappy and unexcited. I mean, rangers seem to be going crazy over the talk of the new ranged gear (as well as the increase in power to crossbows). But I ask myself, will any of this affect me?
Mostly when new features come out in Runescape, such as quests, Achievement Diaries, new monsters, new items, new areas, etc., I'm not too crazy over them. I mean, I'm happy that others are happy about the update, and I enjoy going to various forums to read about what others think about the update so I can give my hats off to Jagex, but I don't actually pack up my gear in-game and check it out. What I know is through others telling me indirectly their own experiences and thoughts of the update, or through visual media. Now when Varrock was updated, I was so hyped up I explored some of it at school. But usually I just continue on in the game doing whatever I was doing, which as of lately has been the firemaking skill. Now as I think of it, me being boring in the game has probably resulted in my own boredom of the game. I used to find a thrill just watching my character chop a tree or fish or kill a chaos druid or farm a ranarr herb, but now I'm wondering why it's fun. After watching Carol play World of Warcraft and watching videos about it on YouTube, I'm finding a grand interest in it. Of course, my father probably won't pitch over all the money that's required for it and I doubt my laptop has the system specs to run it. Yes, I can get a job, which I believe I may this summer, but why should I put money over to an addicting game when I should be focusing more on increasing my intelligence, my job, my social life, and, of course, blogging here. I hardly play Runescape much anymore, but five dollars a month isn't a lot to lose.
I have even questioned Botanreaper2 today on what Runescape has over WoW, and she could only reply agility, to which it may but I don't know if WoW may have a similar skill for a certain race. Maybe the events that have occurred to me in the past few days is peaking up my interest a bit more on Runescape. One day, during English class, we were at the computer lab and I logged onto Runescape. I went onto a f2p server and started walking around when I saw a level 122 advertise for a drop party. So I join the following line, and he leads us to one of the slum buildings in Varrock. Well, he was dropping some pretty good gear. I could have received a Guthix helm and platebody if I were quick enough. However, I received a rune helm, rune platebody, and two rune platelegs. Great success for me! And today I logged on after school with a weird feeling to fish. So I pop onto the recommended members world, which was 88, and traveled to the Fishing Guild. I fished for a few minutes and whom do I see pop out of nowhere? Mod Howes. Yes, the first time I ever saw a Jagex mod in-game. I did take a few pictures, but Imageshack isn't working too well at the moment and I'll have to upload them later. Yes, so these two events made my interest increase again, but for how long? I swear, if I ever become a player moderator, like the lucky two or three mods who were following around Howes looking for autoers, my interest in Runescape would remain high and stable for a long time.
This was one of those random Runescape topics I always put up now and then. Too bad if it doesn't have any rhyme or reason to it.
Here's a small list of blog to-dos that I want to complete anytime from now to the first week of freedom that I have (begins June 11):
Note: This is a recommended list to look at for fellow blog writers or regular readers of the blog. I cannot complete everything on this list alone, and fellow blog writers will have to step up and follow their own obligations.
1. Take pictures and videos off that may result in a negative image of this blog. For example, the infamous 'Spencer' video or pictures of friends that they might not want up.
2. Applying my daily blog specials more often.
3. A larger archive of crossword puzzles.
4. An attempt to create a larger audience for the 'Ask teh Foote' blog special. However, I doubt such a feature to the blog would kick off unless a) the blog was famous, b) I was famous, or c) people actually asked me some questions.
5. To do a new feature for my blog entries, which will be known as a "Follow-up Entry". I will go through the almost two years of blog entries that swarm this site and bring back some of the topics of yesteryear and discuss them again, as I will have a different or same perspective on some things than I did then. However, such a feature will have a twist to it. I can bring back topics that not only did I discuss but what others discussed on this blog. And another twist is that I recommend (and I mean, this would make my heart warm seeing such) that the other four blog writers here at Buddy Foote's Blog v.2 do the same feature. For example, I wanted every writer to do a blog special back in the day, well I want you guys to do this now. Not only will this give some motivation to write more often, as it's like reading a passage at school and answering the questions on it or writing an opinion paper, but it'll refresh some of the forgotten entries from long ago that deserve to be recognized. If blog writers do this, it is mandatory that you leave a link or hyperlink to the original post. The thing I like best about this feature is that it can recycle itself. If you wrote a follow-up entry on June 17, 2007, you may reread it February 3, 2008 and say, "Hey, I feel differently about that in today's world. I might add my current input on it now." And they don't have to be large topics of discussion, but maybe a broken promise or an interesting entry. I often leave promises broken on here, saying I'll get pictures of this or make a video of that, but I never do. Well, here's a chance to fix my wrongs. Give it a shot guys, you'll like it.
6. I should not add any more daily blog specials to my list of current ones. I have too many the way it is and I rarely apply them nowadays. That, however, will change this summer.
7. There's no plans at the moment to make the forum, #Foote_Chat, active again. We need a fan base at the blog before we can create good discussions and have a large amount of active members over at the forum.
8. Actually have the 'Blog Entry of the Week' have a new entry every week. The entries will also cycle through the blog writers (one week may be a blog by me while the next may be by Caitlin) or they may be voted on by friends, blog writers, or the readers.
9. New layout. Yep. Blog's birthday is July 24, of course. It needs a present, doesn't it?
10. The most important factor that will contribute in having the best summer yet here at BFBv.2 is... if all blog writers actually wrote. We have seen large inactivity periods here at BFBv.2, which is pretty sad as there's a large amount of people who can contribute to the blog here, whereas a married mother with two jobs and three kids can write a blog everyday by herself. And I am, of course, a major factor here. I write every once in a while and I wish for that to cease. I need, as well as every writer here, to write more at the blog. If every writer wrote, it would not only make my summer but it would be the ultimate outcome to the blog's success. At the moment, we're lucky to get thirty unique visitors a day.
11. Advertise, advertise, advertise. Signatures on forums, paint it on the back window of your car, hang up a sign on telephone poles in town, write the URL on dollar bills; do whatever you can as a writer or reader to get word out about the blog. I am currently writing the URL on a dollar or two or in textbooks. If it may get me in trouble, who cares? At least maybe I'll make a news release and word about the blog will get out.
Good day to you all, and please consider my words! We need a change, for the better!
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