Unusual Runescape tips from Runewise

I've been trying to encourage Runescape fan sites to share their content with each other via lightweight service (similarly to the way Jagex is letting fan sites to access highscores), but without success. Apparently there is a huge "trust" issue despite Jagex's efforts to bring the community together. My offer for other fan sites to tap into tips accumulated at Runewise wasn't taken. It's actually quite sad, though not completely unexpected.

Anyway, I wonder maybe there is a place in Runescape blogs where such services could be used? I don't want to push anyone, but if there are people willing to experiment with this, I'd be awesome.

Here is an example based on "unusual tips" service from Runewise. If you embed this code somewhere in your blog template/section:

<iframe src="http://www.runewise.net/rs/services/utips.php?key=temp" width="250" height="150"></iframe>

you'll see something like this, and the tip will be different every time the page is displayed.



Is it worth pursuing or am I day dreaming?

New Service at Runewise

I have a good excuse for not posting yesterday :-) I've been working on a new totally unique service for Runewise (and possibly other fan sites). It is also the first Runewise's service I implemented in collaboration with another PHP developer (benzrf), which I haven't done before.

Anyway.

Here is what it is about. Now, when you see Runewise Advice you may notice that some of the items and commodities are highlighted. Hover your mouse over and you'll get a nice little tooltip with the current GE price of this item or commodity. Seemingly simple, but very convenient :-)

P.S. underneath the hood a basis text analityc solution was implemented, so any text can be annotated with such tooltips now.

Collaboration between Runescape Fan Sites

I've been nurturing this idea of Runescape fan sites being more open to each other. And not just being "non-hostile", but actually helping each other and sharing ideas and services. I might be too idealistic, but I honestly believe, there is a way for fan sites to benefit from such openness.

Take this collaborative RWT ads filter environment I've been pitching for quite a while. RuneTower, TruthScape, RuneWise have been using it successfully for two years. Recently MechScape World joined in and also is benefiting from it. By doing it in a collaborative matter, amount of work for each fan site is minimal and benefit is obvious - no RWT ads on all these sites.

That's just one example, but for a long time I wasn't thinking beyound that (well, except for being fan site neutral in this blog). Interestingly, joining the Twitter Runescape community gave me another spur. There fan site owners are actually TALKING to each other! Anyway, I realized that there is nothing wrong with RuneWise's content being served to other fan sites via services. Indeed, I would love to see more players taking advantage of all those Runescape tips and suggestions accumulated at RuneWise throughout the last 3 years. So I made services out of level based tips and unusual tips. Joost indicated his interest in the project, so hopefully the idea can be validated at RuneTower. Rune Legion is also interested. The only thing I am asking in return for RuneWise's content being served from other sites is some kind of "powered by RuneWise" message/link. Win-win situation? Yes, I think so.

Now, what about Runescape Items or Monsters databases being exposed as services? Of course, I don't have them at RuneWise, but if some fan site offers such services, I'll be more than happy to use them while giving credits to the service provider. And I am sure there are other areas for such kind of integration.

Finally, here is a link to Baldwin's (from Rune Legion) post on the same topic with Joost's (from RuneTower) comments. Take a look.

What do you think about all this?