Team Penguin

I never realized how organized World 60 penguins hunt is. I knew about clan chats of course and knew that there was a team of dedicated players who ran those clan chats and trapped penguins, but I had no idea that these people are organized in a formal entity. It's not a clan and it's not a fan site, I am not sure how to define their organization. They call themselves Team Penguin, which fits just fine.

They have an active Twitter account and an active YouTube channel and it's the latter I want to point you to. Here is why.

Return of the Wilderness hit the Team Penguin in an unexpected way. We all knew (from Jagex's Q&As) that one of the penguins will remain in the wilderness, but I personally didn't see a problem with that. My thoughts were that it'll just add some spice to the hunt and no-one will be forced to go there anyway. What I didn't realize was that pkers would start using World 60 clan chats for luring players into the wilderness. Basically a new scam appeared and Team Penguin got hit hard by it. They had to stop calling wilderness penguins, but the problem is still far from resolved. Now they are appealing to Jagex for removal of penguins from the wilderness and in a light of this scamming/luring problem, I think, the appeal makes sense. You can find more information about it here.

So what about the YouTube channel? The thing is that they put up a weekly video with penguin locations out there and it's quite easy to use it to find penguins without having to join any of the clan chats, which means no exposure to scamming and luring. I tried it today - worked perfectly.