ODT2: Runescape (Full resolution in first round)

Before I start off with my arguments, I will establish a clear understanding of my line of arguments. Through my arguments, I will attempt to prove that it will help, most of my arguments being that it will help you learn things or concept whilst playing the game through gaming experience. C1: Through hard work, you learn skills As we are talking to a majority of players of the game, it will not be applicable for us to refer to the geniuses of our past, present or future who earns hundreds of millions of $US (or $AUS) every year. We are referring to differing people from the low-class life, earning a meagre salary $40k to the high-class life $300k and over. Imagine the following situation: A large amount of homework is due in an hour's time and not completing it on time will result in severe consequences and a bad a report. Out of pure luck and dishonesty, your friend who has finished all the homework permits you to copy their entire work, claiming to the teacher it was "groupwork". Not much effort is required, you do not learn anything useful and lastly, you are falsely representing your ability to the teacher who marks off the work. Within the game Runescape, this can be compared to the idea of botting, in which people use a program (like your friend in that example), to do the work for them. The only effort they have mustered through would be to log into their account and begin operating the engine. Eventually the account will be notified of botting by other players and be banned. To truly become good at something, faced with reality, any normal person would require many hours of work to train and eventually master those skills to be used in life. Attempting to imitate others superior to you not only gives you a false impression of yourself, it will later prove to be extremely harmful to you once you are in the workforce and the consequences will prove to be rather fatal. These Botters on Runescape not only are lazy, but don’t really deserve the “skills” that they have earned through all the time their botting program has been left on working through hours after hours to train their “skills”. They have not spent their time working through the levels themselves, but instead, have allowed another thing do it for them. Similarly, “botting” in life works in a similar way. The representation of “botting” in life that I would assume is the use of plagiarism for work and projects in life (like the example I gave out earlier). This is an example of the concept of “botting” in real life. You have not earnt the experience (skills/knowledge) by yourself, but merely leeched it off others (the bot or your friend/colleague etc.) to complete certain tasks for you (reach certain skill levels in Runescape). With these kinds of dishonest actions results in negative consequences just like life. If you are caught botting on Runescape, you risk every moment botting to have your account being banned and permanently closed. If you are caught cheating off your homework off your friend, you risk being penalised an F- mark (or an immediate zero), phone calls to parents or records of plagiarism may also result in severe enough situations. Similarly on DDO, if you plagiarise your arguments and become caught, voters will ensure you lose conduct, and if not, the entire debate. These experiences that Runescape players gain can therefore be applied in real life. They will understand that practicing something over and over again will improve their ability in that skill, both in the game and in real life. C2: Doublers, scammers and other dishonest members: In kindergarten, we were taught to be nice and honest. However, the world we live in has a lot of people who deliberately decide to oppose that idea. These people seek immediate profit (scammers) or to satisfy their sadistic necessities. Whilst they may be benefiting themselves at a rapid rate without much effort, they risk consequences of having their accounts banned. Comparatively, in life, if you manage to scam someone, the benefits for you are usually enormous and requires minimal effort, but in turn, you risk being receiving a jail sentence or loss of respect or friendship others. Through experience, players will learn the patterns of scammers, know how they work and therefore will play safer with their money. Knowing who to trust is important and it is also essential to becoming less gullible and avoid falling for tricks. Some may even choose to be nice enough to warn others of scammers and therefore to avoid them also. On the other hand, if you choose to attempt to scam other people on Runescape, you will start to learn how to be more convincing and how to falsely persuade other members into believing in your lies. You will understand that you need to start off with scamming the "noobs" (the newer members who are not as familiar with the game as others). Although it is not recommeded that you try to scam other people, it can still help you know how to be good with scamming. In real life, scamming happens on online markets (eBay for example) and people need to understand the difference between legitimate purchases/dealers and scams. C3: Team work is better than working by yourself Within the work forces based on similar fields, different companies will compete with each other for their popularity, respect and number of customers. For example, Nike will compete with Addidas or Asics for their customers. Their products are similar, yet the businesses will compete against each other for profit. They require different types of people who are experienced in different fields to work in order for it to be a good success. Team work and good team management is also key. On the virtual world of Runescape, players can grasp this particular concept whilst they battle against each other in clan wars. To put it simply, there are three different combat “classes” in Runescape. They include warriors, mages and archers. A combination of these types of players (strong in each field) and good team coordination will usually result in the victory. According to Runescape wiki (Encyclopaedic information on Runescape), they state that mages are strong against warriors and weak against archers, warriors are strong against archers and weak against mages and lastly archers are strong against warriors and weak against mages. Comparatively to life, a similar concept exists. It is all clear to successful people that they have, undeniably, their own strengths and weaknesses, and will not be able to succeed without the help from others better than them. Meaning, some people will not be as capable in certain areas, and therefore require people more capable then themself to do the work for them. They require others to assist them in order to keep up the work of the entire company. Through these arguments, I hope I have convinced to you readers that by playing the game Runescape, it will help you in life, through all the lessons and concept that can be learnt and later on applied in life. Additional arguments in the next round. And last of all, although Runescape may be a pretty dead boring game, this guy makes it interesting: http://www.youtube.com... Lesson to be learnt: Don’t go gambling, or else you may end up destroying your house. Looking forward to Baggins's response!