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"body": "Coming soon from Jagex Software! Runescape, our massive multiplayer adventure. Trade and communicate with other players. Learn skills to earn money, or if you're brave attempt to find riches in the dungeons. Your charactor<sup>sic</sup> will continue to evolve and improve the more you play, with quests to complete for extra rewards. Choose good or evil the choice is entirely yours!\n\nFeatures\n\n* These elements of the game have all already been finished.\n* Full 3d engine renders the high detail world\n* Efficient network routines allow game to run using minimal bandwidth\n* Detailed 3-dimensional map with multi-level buildings, rivers, hills etc..\n* Automatic route finding makes exploring the map easy.\n* Your game is automatically saved on the server when you quit\n* Npcs and monsters which inhabit different areas, and can interact with you\n* Objects which you can take, manipulate, and use.\n* Interactive scenary<sup>sic</sup> (e.g trees can be chopped down, doors opened etc..)\n* Close range combat system between players and npcs\n* Inventory screen\n* Automatic map view\n* Full trading system\n* Charactor<sup>sic</sup> design system allows everyone to look different\n* Players can use weapons and armour changing their appearance & stats\n* Entire quest scripting system, can control any aspect of the game\n* Several detailed 'graphical adventure' style quests and charactors<sup>sic</sup>\n* Information on what you have done is stored and used to influence your game\n* Npc Conversation system\n* Player chat system\n* State of the art compression routines, make the game load as quickly as possible\n\nRecent Updates\n\n* 3rd Nov - Added range check to projectile combat\n* 2nd Nov - Fixed some obscure route finding problems\n* 2nd Nov - Diagonal doors now work properly\n* 2nd Nov - Gates now work properly\n* 2nd Nov - Non-square locations can now be rotated in the editor.\n* 1st Nov - Improved camera motion\n* 31st Oct - Adjusted mouse button assignments\n* 31st Oct - Projectile combat now works.\n* 27th Oct - Added cupboards, gates, signposts, sacks, bookcases etc...\n* 27th Oct - Added new rat monster\n* 26th Oct - Added in skill advancement\n* 26th Oct - Improved combat, can now choose from 4 fighting modes\n* 25th Oct - Injured monsters will now run away\n* 25th Oct - Aggressive monsters now attack when you approach\n* 25th Oct - Big AI improvements. Npcs now have 5 different behaviour modes\n* 25th Oct - Fixed trading mode bug, walking around now exits the trade.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 973836000,
"id": 0,
"title": "Coming Soon from Jagex Software"
},
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"body": "Coming soon from Jagex Software! Runescape, our massive multiplayer adventure. Trade and communicate with other players. Learn skills to earn money, or if you're brave attempt to find riches in the dungeons. Your character will continue to evolve and improve the more you play, with quests to complete for extra rewards. Choose good or evil the choice is entirely yours!\n\nRecent Updates\n\n* 1st Dec - New Quest: Romeo+Juliet Quest (thanks rab!)\n* 1st Dec - Wrote improved quest verifier and fixed a few mistakes\n* 1st Dec - Fixed bug in quest compiling code\n* 1st Dec - Fixed vanishing doors bug\n* 30th Nov - Added new spell: Camoflauge\n* 30th Nov - Added new spell: Shock bolt\n* 30th Nov - Added new spell: Burst of strength\n* 30th Nov - Added new spell: Chill bolt\n* 30th Nov - Modified stats now slowly regenerate towards normal levels\n* 30th Nov - Added new spell: Confuse\n* 29th Nov - Added new spell: Thick skin\n* 29th Nov - Added 5 new script commands for controlling player stats\n* 28th Nov - Added new location: Ruined village\n* 28th Nov - Added support for recoloured objects\n* 28th Nov - Fixed several minor bugs\n* 28th Nov - Actions now give instant colour coded feedback :-)\n* 28th Nov - Fixed occasional misread mouse clicks problem\n* 28th Nov - Client now adjusts move speed to stay better synced with server\n* 28th Nov - Game now loads more quickly and reliably\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 975736800,
"id": 1,
"title": "Coming Soon from Jagex Software"
},
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"body": "<a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Beta.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Beta.jpg\" align=\"right\"></a>\n[Runescape](https://classic.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape) is a massive 3d multiplayer adventure, with monsters to kill, quests to complete, and treasure to win. You control your own character who will improve and become more powerful the more you play.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 978588000,
"id": 2,
"title": "Runescape beta is now online!"
},
{
"body": "RuneScape Newsletter - Issue \\* 1\n\nWelcome to the first ever RuneScape newsletter.\nFirstly a big thank-you to everyone who's been playing, and has helped make RuneScape a great success. We only launched just over 2 weeks ago, and we already have over 28000 signed up players, and the game has been played for a total time of over 4.5 years!\n\n## Help keep RuneScape free\n\nRenting a server to run RuneScape is expensive! I really want to avoid charging people to play, so please please help me keep it free by visiting the website below and signing up for a few \\* free\\* offers. Thanks!\nWant to win Free Cash every day? Try the newest Freebie site on the Internet today, FreebieClub.com. Of course it's loaded with free loot: great vacations, magazines and samples galore!\n\n## What's new in Runescape\n\nThe RuneScape team has been working very hard over the past 2 weeks to improve the game and bring you new features. Major new features are:\n\n### New desert city Al-kharid with:\n\n* Scimitar shop: Buy and sell curvy swords\n* Furnace: Convenient for smelting ore from the desert\n* Silk trader: Buy silk here and sell it in Varrock for a profit.The amount you make depends on how many other people are silk trading.\n* General store: Another place to buy and sell your items\n* Platemail Legs shop: A full range of leg armour to spend your money on\n* Kebab shop: Eating kebabs has a random effect. They're normally good, but rumour has it that a few of them are a bit dodgy. They'll never kill you though\n\n### New Quest in Draynor Manor\n\nDraynor Manor has been opened and there's spooky things inside! There's a vampire asleep in the cellar, and Professor Oddenstein who lives in the attic has accidently<sup>sic</sup> turned someone into a chicken! To make things worse gremlins have hidden the parts of his machine, so he can't turn the chicken back. Can you find the missing pieces to complete this quest?\n\n### Plus over the past 2 weeks we've also\n\n* Improved the map page to show the locations of useful shops\n* Added a 'who's playing' page so you can see if your friends are on\n* Made Lumbridge safe to give a place to hide from player killers\n* Improved the shops to reduce queueing\n* Reduced the network requirements so the game works over more connections\n* Fixed lots of little problems/bugs with the game to make it more reliable\n\n## What's planned\n\nWe are of course working on many more improvements to add to the game to make it even better. We have nearly finished work on the bank which will hopefully be added to Varrock city tomorrow. The bank is a safe place to store your money, such that even if you die it can't be lost. After that the magic system is due for a big overhaul with lots of new spells being added, plus we'll be adding some entirely new professions such as crafting and fishing to add even more variety to the game. The next planned quest is 'The vampire slayer quest' in which you must work out how to slay the evil vampire currently sleeping in Draynor Manor.\n\n## Runescape hiscores\n\nBelow are the top scores as they were at 3pm GMT on Sunday-21st. Only the top 25 players are shown, but I'm planning on adding a new page to the website soon which will allow you to search\nfor the ranking of any player and see how you compare with everyone else.\n\nThe hiscores are currently in 4 categories. If there are more categories which you think should be included let me know and I'll consider putting them in the next newsletter.\n\nTop 25 players - score is total of all skills\n\n1: lightning - 506\n\n2: Gugge - 436\n\n3: Rab - 428\n\n4: Sir - 415\n\n5: ZAPTONE_Z - 352\n\n5: hurkules - 352\n\n7: Devil_Hunter - 329\n\n8: merlin - 324\n\n9: Rodrigo - 321\n\n9: Hellbringer - 321\n\n11: RattSabre - 320\n\n12: The_Unknown - 319\n\n13: stud690 - 317\n\n14: Flex\\_10 - 312\n\n15: Morfnak - 311\n\n16: Day_Dream - 306\n\n17: Lord_Soth - 305\n\n18: TheReturnOfX - 302\n\n19: Ashley - 301\n\n20: Auxilus - 300\n\n21: Sunjon - 288\n\n22: terminator - 287\n\n23: kancer - 283\n\n23: Axebane_Hawk - 283\n\n25: KingKong - 280\n\nTop 25 fighters - score is total combat skill\n\n1: lightning - 200\n\n2: Gugge - 182\n\n3: Rab - 178\n\n4: Robin_Hood2 - 172\n\n5: stud690 - 164\n\n6: Sir - 163\n\n7: Day_Dream - 160\n\n8: terminator - 159\n\n9: Ashley - 155\n\n10: Morfnak - 149\n\n11: merlin - 148\n\n12: The_Unknown - 146\n\n13: Flex\\_10 - 141\n\n14: Lord_Soth - 138\n\n15: hurkules - 136\n\n16: ZAPTONE_Z - 134\n\n17: LoneWolf_LD - 133\n\n18: RattSabre - 131\n\n18: TheReturnOfX - 131\n\n18: constant - 131\n\n21: SilencerLD - 130\n\n22: Auxilus - 129\n\n22: caramon - 129\n\n24: Sir_Beachy - 128\n\n24: Axebane_Hawk - 128\n\nTop 25 player killers - score is number of kills\n\n1: DaRk_RoCk - 100\n\n2: SilencerLD - 95\n\n3: Robin_Hood2 - 83\n\n3: Mortis - 83\n\n5: EndBringer - 80\n\n6: Phadera - 69\n\n7: bomboy2328 - 68\n\n8: donk - 67\n\n9: Windstick - 65\n\n10: Yemen - 64\n\n11: Yokomon - 61\n\n11: RCCBrasil - 61\n\n13: lancelot24 - 60\n\n14: Samhill - 58\n\n14: Samikaze - 58\n\n14: DecIll - 58\n\n17: koma - 55\n\n18: robsimons - 53\n\n18: Rankka - 53\n\n20: ace2you - 52\n\n20: adam2000 - 52\n\n22: plumaglob - 51\n\n22: Wolf - 51\n\n24: God - 50\n\n24: crazy_joe75 - 50\n\nTop 25 smiths - score is mining + smithing\n\n1: lightning - 88\n\n2: dmonik - 87\n\n3: The_Unknown - 84\n\n4: KPOBb - 81\n\n5: Lord_Soth - 80\n\n6: Rodrigo - 74\n\n6: TheReturnOfX - 74\n\n6: Silverion - 74\n\n9: hurkules - 73\n\n9: Garbages - 73\n\n9: Deckchair - 73\n\n12: Sir - 70\n\n12: Auxilus - 70\n\n14: Bubba_bobba - 68\n\n14: Lordrlz - 68\n\n16: Flurble - 67\n\n16: Flex\\_10 - 67\n\n16: stud690 - 67\n\n16: Tiney - 67\n\n20: Gugge - 66\n\n20: natslayer - 66\n\n20: Vit - 66\n\n20: Sgt_Savage - 66\n\n20: STarlude - 66\n\n25: Arcon - 65\n\nThanks for reading this newsletter, have fun playing the game!\n\nAndrew Gower (RuneScape creator)\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 980056800,
"id": 3,
"title": "Newsletter 1"
},
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"body": "Today it came to my attention that by drinking huges amount of beer players were able to make themselves super strong, and then go killing everyone! This has now been fixed so Beer can only increase your strength slightly. Many thanks to the person who told me about this one. If you know of any more cheats/tricks let me know so I can fix them and make RuneScape a fair place for everyone.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 980402400,
"id": 4,
"title": "'Super strength Beer cheat' fixed"
},
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"body": "Ranged combat - You now gain experience for each successful hit, so it's easier to advance a level. Arrows also now fire 25% faster, and I've fixed the cheat/bug which some people were using to shoot super rapidly.\n\nMagic - 4 new spells have been added which are: Fear, Wind-bolt, Rock-skin, and Elemental-bolt. The bolt spells have also been made much more powerful, and they are no longer dependant on your ranged-combat skill. This means each type of bolt now does a fixed maximum-damage, and to shoot more powerful bolts you need to use high level spells. Finally the staffs have been improved such that if you are wielding a fire-staff, water-staff, air-staff or earth-staff it acts as unlimited runes of that type!\n\nPlayer killing - Due to a large number of requests I've changed the way this works. Firstly you can no longer log-out during combat! Closing the webpage or disconnecting your modem will NOT work either! However to compensate I've made it so if you retreat in the game, the person attacking you is stunned for 2 seconds to give you a better chance of getting away. Also when you die you now get to keep your 3 most valuable items! You will still probably lose any ore, food, money, spare weapons, etc... but at least you will no longer lose an item you'd just spent days saving up for! This means if you keep your spare money in the bank you should now be relatively safe.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 980575200,
"id": 5,
"title": "Lots of improvements to the game"
},
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"body": "Following Saturdays update the combat system has been tweaked further. The retreating was still too difficult (particularly when being attacked by multiple players/monsters at once) so this has been improved and made easier.\n\nThe \"keep 3 best items\" rule has also been modified. If you attack another player then you now lose the item-protection for 20 minutes of game time! This makes the player killing aspect of the game more dangerous and exciting, but it also increases your potential reward, as if you kill someone else without item-protection you can now get the best loot! People without item-protection have a small skull drawn above them.\n\nAfter many requests the guards in Varrock city now attempt to stop people fighting. There are large number of guards at the bank, so assuming they haven't all been killed you can now withdraw your money more safely.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 980834400,
"id": 6,
"title": "Further combat improvements"
},
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"body": "A new area at the end of the sewer is now open. Watch out because it contains deadly red spiders! Fight them to get the rare red spider eggs, which when taken with other ingredients to the Apothecary in varrock can be used to make a 4-dose strength potion!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 981352800,
"id": 7,
"title": "New section of sewer opened"
},
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"body": "RuneScape Newsletter - Issue \\* 2\n\nWelcome to the second RuneScape newsletter. Lots has happened since the last newsletter, and we've had a lot of good suggestions for the future. Read on to find out what's planned\n\n## What's new in Runescape\n\nMost of you are probably aware that the player killing in RuneScape has been changed to make the game fairer. Now when you die, if you haven't attacked any other players within the last 20 minutes, then you get to keep your best 3 items.\n\nThe bank we promised in the last newsletter has been added to the city, and is a safe place to store your money. Following a large amount of attacks just outside the bank, the city has paid to put multiple armed guards around the bank area to protect people who have just withdrawn money. The number of guards was further increased last Monday.\n\nThe magic system has also been modified, such that the magic spells no longer depend on your ranged combat skill. So you no longer need to be a high level ranger to use them effectively. The spells were made stronger, but they were still too weak, so they were made TWICE as effective against monsters last Monday!\n\nNew Quest: Vampire Slayer - The vampire sleeping in the coffin under Draynor Manor has been terrorising the inhabitants of the small village to the south and must be stopped! If you think you are up to the task of slaying a vampire, go and talk to the people in the village to find out how you can destroy this evil monster!\n\nThe most recent addition is a new area in the sewer. This contains 2 new monster types, deadly-red-spiders, and the exceedingly strong 'moss-giant'. If you can survive then the red spider eggs can be used to make a 4-dose strength potion!\n\n## What's planned\n\nWe've received a lot of good suggestions, a lot of which we are planning to add to the game. In particular the following changes are planned next:\n\n* Modify the trade window to display the names of items to prevent unfair trading.\n* A lot more spells are still due to be added to the magic system.\n* Proper support for clans, with a full system to allow people to join and create clans.\n* A 'duel' feature. Challenge your rivals to a duel, with the risks and rewards set as you like.\n* More skills such as fishing, and fletching.\n* A friends list to indicate which of your friends are online, and allow easy communication.\n* And of course more quests, more monsters, and more areas of map.\n\n## Runescape hiscores\n\nBelow are the top scores as they were at 12pm GMT on Wednesday-7th. Only the top 25 players are shown, but I'm working on a new page for the website which will allow you to search for the ranking of any player and see how you compare with everyone else.\n\nTop 25 players - score is total of all skills\n\n1: lightning - 682\n\n2: Sunjon - 593\n\n3: Ashley - 583\n\n4: Sir - 570\n\n5: Gugge - 564\n\n6: ZAPTONE_Z - 537\n\n7: DarkPrince - 531\n\n8: stud690 - 530\n\n9: Lord_Soth - 519\n\n10: TheReturnOfX - 517\n\n11: Rab - 515\n\n12: Flat - 508\n\n13: Silus - 508\n\n14: MysticsMagic - 506\n\n15: Rodrigo - 501\n\n16: Morfnak - 501\n\n17: hurkules - 485\n\n18: Devil_Hunter - 485\n\n19: kancer - 481\n\n20: Flex\\_10 - 478\n\n21: RattSabre - 469\n\n22: constant - 468\n\n23: Robin_Hood2 - 449\n\n24: terminator - 446\n\n25: Prophecy3 - 438\n\nTop 25 fighters - score is total combat skill\n\n1: lightning - 230\n\n2: Robin_Hood2 - 217\n\n3: Gugge - 214\n\n4: Ashley - 213\n\n5: stud690 - 210\n\n6: sandytrain - 195\n\n7: Rab - 194\n\n8: Morfnak - 194\n\n9: ZAPTONE_Z - 193\n\n10: Genocide1 - 192\n\n11: Day_Dream - 190\n\n12: constant - 190\n\n13: Sunjon - 190\n\n14: Sir - 188\n\n15: Nightmare888 - 188\n\n16: Rodrigo - 187\n\n17: terminator - 186\n\n18: hurkules - 185\n\n19: Flex\\_10 - 184\n\n20: Silus - 182\n\n21: Prophecy3 - 181\n\n22: joe1002 - 180\n\n23: Lord_Soth - 180\n\n24: x_execute_x - 179\n\n25: Ice_Sabre - 178\n\nTop 25 player killers - score is number of kills\n\n1: Wolf - 132\n\n2: Hells_Archer - 117\n\n3: Phadera - 117\n\n4: Lord_Sam - 113\n\n5: DemonWarrior - 105\n\n6: EndBringer - 104\n\n7: Drew_Royal - 103\n\n8: Black_Waltz3 - 101\n\n9: DaRk_RoCk - 100\n\n10: urgonnadie5 - 100\n\n11: Lord_Stan - 99\n\n12: SilencerLD - 95\n\n13: robsimons - 94\n\n14: shawn6 - 89\n\n15: Mortis - 88\n\n16: Ghost - 85\n\n17: snorch - 85\n\n18: matt_smith1 - 84\n\n19: john246 - 84\n\n20: Robin_Hood2 - 83\n\n21: LovinHacking - 82\n\n22: adam2000 - 82\n\n23: God - 81\n\n24: ace2you - 80\n\n25: RCCBrasil - 80\n\nTop 25 smiths - score is mining + smithing\n\n1: dmonik - 110\n\n2: STarlude - 98\n\n3: natslayer - 97\n\n4: Lord_Soth - 97\n\n5: Viikate - 97\n\n6: lightning - 96\n\n7: The_Unknown - 92\n\n8: beef - 91\n\n9: hurkules - 90\n\n10: Deckchair - 90\n\n11: Kpac - 90\n\n12: Snowdog - 89\n\n13: S_H_A_R_K - 89\n\n14: Rodrigo - 88\n\n15: JB - 88\n\n16: DOC_IRON\\_9 - 87\n\n17: Vit - 86\n\n18: BlueRose13x - 86\n\n19: MysticsMagic - 85\n\n20: AvalonX - 85\n\n21: TheReturnOfX - 84\n\n22: Dizier - 84\n\n23: RoaDDoGG - 83\n\n24: Sir_Beachy - 83\n\n25: KaGi - 83\n\nThanks for reading this newsletter, have fun playing the game!\n\nAndrew Gower (RuneScape creator)\n\nand Paul Gower (Map and Quest designer)\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 981525600,
"id": 8,
"title": "Newsletter 2"
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"body": "I finally worked out why netscape-6 wouldn't run RuneScape, and have now fixed the problem! The game will probably also now work properly on a few other browsers.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 981525600,
"id": 9,
"title": "RuneScape now works on NetScape 6"
},
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"body": "Firstly I have fixed the error which enabled you to make double doors vanish by lighting a fire next to them. So hopefully no more trapped people.\n\nI've also modified the trading window, so that you can point at an object someone is offering you to find out the objects name and description. This will help make trading fairer and safer.\n\nSome new locations have been added to the map, there is a new shop in Al-kharid where you can buy plate-mail skirts.\n\nThe 'champions guild' has been added south-west of Varrock. Only Adventurers who have proven themselves worthy by gaining influence from quests are allowed in.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 982044000,
"id": 10,
"title": "More RuneScape updates"
},
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"body": "Prince Ali of Al Kharid is being held captive by the Lady Keli. If you think you're up to a daring rescue mission then go to Al Kharid and talk to Chancellor Hassan. This is a long quest with many parts! Many thanks to Rab for the many hours he spent creating it, and to Paul for configuring it for use in the game.\n\nI've been working on a new options menu, to allow you to configure the game to your liking. So far there are only 2 options. The 1st option allows you to choose the behaviour of the camera, the new camera mode is the first step in a new system I am developing, which will ultimately make RuneScape run MUCH faster for people with slow computers. The 2nd option is to switch your character between PK and non-PK. (you can only switch twice, so choose carefully). I will be adding more options to the menu as required.\n\nI've also been working on a system to support clans/friend-lists. This isn't ready yet, but work is progressing well and I expect it to be available soon.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 983340000,
"id": 11,
"title": "Yet another new quest\\, and new options menu"
},
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"body": "I've fixed a few minor problems with the new quest. In case you don't already know getting the skin paste now works, and I've just solved the clay shortage problem.\n\nI'd also like to apologise for the slow speed of this site on the 28th-Feb. This problem has now been resolved and we're back to full speed again. I've also ordered a 2nd dedicated server to increase the reliability and speed of RuneScape in the future.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 983512800,
"id": 12,
"title": "Problems fixed"
},
{
"body": "I've been busy this last week setting up a new server, and modifying RuneScape to use it. I'm pleased to announce that RuneScape is now running using two dedicated servers. This should allow more simultaneous players, and make the game more reliable at peak times.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 984204000,
"id": 13,
"title": "Second server online"
},
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"body": "I've just uploaded this weeks update. I was really hoping to get a lot of interesting new features added this week, but due to a worrying amount of attempted cheating and password stealing I've had to spent most my time programming the system to detect and stop that instead.The players who continually try to break the rules are merely depriving themselves and everyone else of more interesting improvements. This week's updates are:\n\n* Added a button to email forgotten/stolen passwords back to their owner\n* Made changing your password easier (there is a new option in the config menu)\n* Added timeout to conversations - to prevent people blocking shops\n* Added code to detect which players are attempting to break the rules\n\nLuckily whilst I was busy doing this Paul had time to add a cook's guild which you can only enter if your cooking skill is 32 or better. Cooking has also been improved with a wider choice of things to make. (You can now make a variety of different pies.)\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 984808800,
"id": 14,
"title": "This weeks update"
},
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"body": "Asgarnia is online and includes:\n\n* Ice Mountain\n* Monastery with healing monks\n* Dwarven mine\n* Goblin village\n* Evil red monks\n* Black knight castle\n\nCity of Falador\n\n* White knights castle\n* Chainmail shop\n* Mace shop\n\nPort Sarim\n\n* Food shop\n* Battle axe shop\n* Ice giants dungeon\n\nWe also have 4 new quests!\n\n* Doric's Quest - fetch Doric some materials for making amulets\n* Spy quest - go on a spying mission for the white knights\n* Witch's Potion quest - fetch the ingredients for an evil witches brew\n* Sword quest - help a squire recover his knight's lost sword\n\nIn addition to this there is a new friends system, and new privacy features! Have fun!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 986533200,
"id": 15,
"title": "Massive update!"
},
{
"body": "We seem to be having a few server problems at the moment. This is due to the large amount of new code we added to the game yesterday. I'm working on fixing it though, so please be patient, and I'll get everything running smoothly as soon as possible.\nThe good news is that I think I have just resolved the server down-time issues, so hopefully the server won't go offline completely anymore. There is still an issue with certain players having problems when more than 1024 people play at once, this is only a problem at peak times and I expect to fix it on Sunday evening.\n\nAlso I expect to get the message boards, current-players, and password-emailing features working again on Monday. These have just been temporarily disabled whilst I get the new server code working properly.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 986619600,
"id": 16,
"title": "Server problems"
},
{
"body": "I have now fixed the majority of the problems with the new server. All the major problems are now sorted, and I'm now working on a few less critical issues. I'm also going to update the world-map as soon as possible so you can find your way around Asgarnia.\nMore good news is that I have just put the message boards back-online. I have taken the chance to redesign and improve them, so I hope you like the new design!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 986878800,
"id": 17,
"title": "Server fixed + message boards online"
},
{
"body": "The updated world map is now online, and I've labelled all the key locations in Asgarnia, so you can now find your way around without getting lost!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 986965200,
"id": 18,
"title": "Asgarnia map online"
},
{
"body": "The 'current players' page was getting too long so it's been replaced with a new 'server status' page which tells you the number of people currently playing, and lists the top players who are logged in. So you can still tell which of your friends are playing I've also added a new 'my-friends' page which tells you if the people on your friends list are online or not.\nI've also got the lost password recovery feature working again. It's now available by clicking 'lost password' on the menu to the left and entering your account details.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 987138000,
"id": 19,
"title": "Server status page\\, my-friends\\, and password recovery pages"
},
{
"body": "It seems to me that the current player combat system isn't ideal. The fact that the vast majority of players have opted to be 'non-playerkiller' seems to confirm this. Therefore I'm considering changing to a new system which more people should enjoy.\nWith the new system different areas of the map would be allocated as combat or non-combat zones. In the current map area (including all the major cities and mining sites) no fighting would be allowed. To cater for players who want to fight each other I would instead add a huge new area around the edge of the map called 'The Wilderness', where player combat is always allowed.\n\nThe further out into the wilderness you go the more dangerous the game becomes, and the less restrictive the combat rules become, (so right at the very edge anyone can fight anyone!). But there will also be more treasure available to tempt people into venturing out despite the danger. If you don't want to fight you don't have to enter the wilderness area at all.\n\nAs well as the change above, I would also a new \"duel\" option to allow players to fight each other in the main non-combat zone. Duels would work a bit like trading, in that both players would have to agree before a duel could commence. Before the duel starts the players get to agree on the stakes (what the winner gets), and if things like magic and food can be used during the battle, and if retreating is allowed or not. This would allow you to try fighting other players in a much more controlled way, and should hopefully be a lot of fun for people who don't want to get involved in just randomly killing other players.\n\nThis would be a major change to the game. I know the newbie killers won't like it all, but I am trying to cater for the majority, not a few individuals. So please use the form below to let me know your opinion.\n\nWhat do you think of the proposed new combat system?\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 988866000,
"id": 20,
"title": "Proposed new system - vote now!"
},
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"body": "Runescape is still growing massively in popularity. There are now so many players at peak times that I've just ordered a 3rd dedicated server to cope, and I hope to receive it within a few days time.\nThe new server will be used to run a 2nd copy of the runescape world to reduce the overcrowding. The 2nd world will be exactly the same as the current one, and so will effectively allow twice as many people to play Runescape at once.\n\nWhen logging in you will be able to choose which server to play on, and will still be able to private message your friends even if they are playing on the other server. The existing saved games will work on either world.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 989038800,
"id": 21,
"title": "3rd Runescape server on the way"
},
{
"body": "I've just updated runescape to add the following features:\n\n* Better smithing tables, with more even spacing of items\n* New goblin quest - help the goblins find a new look for their armour!\n* New crafting skills - make jewellery and pottery\n\nI have also just received the 3rd server I promised, I am now configuring it, and hope to have it online shortly.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 989298000,
"id": 22,
"title": "Runescape updated"
},
{
"body": "The new runescape server is online! I was planning on testing it a bit more and launching it tommorow, but so many people are trying to play tonight that the system couldn't cope so I've been forced to launch it early. Hopefully everyone who wants to play will be able to now.\n\nImportant: You can only play on one server at a time. If you try to log onto both servers simultaneously with the same account you will be told \"Invalid username/password\". This message should read \"Username already in use\", but currently does not. I will fix this tommorow, and I will also improve the page which lets you select the server so that it displays the number of players in each.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 989384400,
"id": 23,
"title": "3rd runescape server online"
},
{
"body": "I've been busy making lots of minor alterations and bugfixes to the game. The main changes are:\n\n* My-friends webpage now works properly, and also shows which server they are on\n\n* You can now private message friends even if they are playing on the other server\n\n* Windows client now lets you select which server to use\n\n* Reorganised the stats list to prepare for coming updates\n\n* Improved speed and reliability of the servers\n\n* Introduced new quest-point system to replace the old 'influence' system\n\n* Fixed 'using ranged combat advances other skills too' bug\n\n* Fixed 'impossible to mine gems' bug\n\n* Fixed 'pottery menu wrong way around' bug\n\n* Fixed 'server sometimes sends wrong error message on login' bug\n\n* Fixed 'friends list gets blanked on lost connection' bug\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 989470800,
"id": 24,
"title": "Lots of small improvements"
},
{
"body": "I've updated the frequently-asked-questions page to answer some more common queries. Click here to view it.\nIf you think there are further questions missing from the FAQ then let me know what you think I should add.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 990421200,
"id": 25,
"title": "Updated FAQ"
},
{
"body": "Last night saw over 2000 simultaneous RuneScape players for the first time ever. Hurrah! To keep up with the increasing number of players I've just ordered yet another server to help keep the game running smoothly. I hope to have it within a few days.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 990680400,
"id": 26,
"title": "4th RuneScape server ordered"
},
{
"body": "The RuneScape magic system has been massively improved with the addition of lots of new spells. Magic can also now be used during combat! In addition to this there is also a new prayer system which lets you temporarily cast various effects on your character. This means there is now a total of 42 spells and prayers to choose from.\n\nFor more information on the new systems click below:\n\n* Guide to magic\n* Guide to prayers\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 990680400,
"id": 27,
"title": "New magic system online!"
},
{
"body": "I've removed the pop up windows because there were just too annoying. Hopefully the remaining adverts will make enough money that I don't have to put them back (E.g. the revenue from banner-advert clicks doesn't fall any further)\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 990680400,
"id": 28,
"title": "Pop up windows removed"
},
{
"body": "Due to popular request, female players can now go and talk to one of the characters in the game, and get their armour modified to look more feminine.\nThe ice dungeon has been expanded and improved. It also now includes a new ice-warrior monster.\n\nThe server status page now shows the top crafter, top magician, and top cleric.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 990680400,
"id": 29,
"title": "Runescape updated"
},
{
"body": "The 4th runescape server is now online! (this means we now have 3 game servers, and 1 web server). It has now been fully connected so you can use it with both the windows and online versions of the game\nI have also modifed the game to prevent people from logging in multiple players at once from the same machine, because doing so is against the rules! If you have problems with the system seeing your home-network as a single machine, then try using the window client which is better at detecting your network configuration.\n\n**Update:** Even if you can't use the windows client then up to 3 people on the same home-network can still play at once, as long as each player uses a different server.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 990766800,
"id": 30,
"title": "4th Runescape server online"
},
{
"body": "It seems most people thought they prayers weren't quite powerful enough. I've therefore now changed the game so that all the prayers last 50% longer, before you need to recharge.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 990853200,
"id": 31,
"title": "Prayers last 50% longer"
},
{
"body": "Any regular runescape players will have noticed that the servers have been experiencing problems over the weekend. I have been working extremely hard to try and resolve this problem, and hopefully everything will be back to normal now. I believe it was caused by a memory leak in the new magic system which I added on Friday. I have now fixed the memory leak so hopefully the server will now be stable. I apologise for any inconvenience caused. - Andrew\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 990939600,
"id": 32,
"title": "Sorry for recent server problems"
},
{
"body": "I have add a new button to the stats menu which shows you which of the 15 quests you have completed. I hope this proves useful to people who are trying to work out which ones they have missed, so they can complete them all!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 991026000,
"id": 33,
"title": "Completed quests list"
},
{
"body": "I've added a whole new skill for you to try in RuneScape! There are various fishing points scattered around the rivers and ocean. Go to the fishing-shop in Port Sarim to get the equipment you need and then try your hand at fishing. There are 10 different fish to catch, and 5 different fishing techniques to try!\nAs well as the fish, there are now even more things to cook and eat in RuneScape.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 992235600,
"id": 34,
"title": "New fishing skill and more cooking"
},
{
"body": "Paul has now finished the island of Karamja! Go and talk to Captain Tobias at Port Sarim if you want a boat trip to the new island. Karamja also features a brand new quest in which you must hunt for hidden treasure! To start the new quest go and talk to Redbeard Frank at Port Sarim.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 992235600,
"id": 35,
"title": "The island of Karamja is open"
},
{
"body": "Just made a quick update to fix and tweak various small problems. This update fixes the following:\n\n* There are now even more customs officers on karamja\n* There is more fishing bait available in the shop and as monster drops\n* Burying bones now gives 50% more experience\n* The pirates quest is now added to the quest list\n* Added button to deposit 1000 coins at a time in the bank\n* Fixed making cake takes flour pot away bug\n* Fixed catching tuna doesn't give XP bug\n* Fixed food shop doesn't work after completing pirate quest bug\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 992322000,
"id": 36,
"title": "Lots of minor fixes and tweaks"
},
{
"body": "I've updated the world-map. It now shows the location of the jewellery shop, gem shop, crafting shop, armour conversion shop, fishing shop, and the places where you can catch fish.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 992322000,
"id": 37,
"title": "Updated world map"
},
{
"body": "I've changed the system for retrieving a lost password. The new system doesn't use email because not everyone has a secure email account they can use, and people's email address often changes.\nNext time you login you will be asked for the answers to 5 security questions. Then if you should lose your password you can use these answers to set a new password on your account. You will only be allowed to set the questions once, after which they are permanently fixed. Therefore you should be careful to choose questions+answers which other people won't be able to guess, but which you will easily remember.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 993013200,
"id": 38,
"title": "New password recovery system"
},
{
"body": "I have now fixed the following bugs with runescape:\n\n* improved password box to allow up to 20 characters\n* fixed it so you can still stack extra runes/arrows even when your inventory is full.\n* fixed a bug which could cause stack of 0 coins to be created\n* fixed a bug with arrows of different types not stacking on the ground properly\n* fixed it so that leaving the bank displays your balance properly\n* improved runescape auto-update code\n* logging out now works properly when you log out at the exact moment of attack\n* fixed it so people no longer randomly get added to your friends list\n* fixed it so lumbridge and karamja shops don't share the same stock!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 993272400,
"id": 39,
"title": "More runescape bugs fixed"
},
{
"body": "Paul has extended the crafting skill so you can now also use it make items out of leather. Take a cow hide to the tannery to get some leather. You can then use the leather with some thread to make gloves, boots and leather armour.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 993272400,
"id": 40,
"title": "New tailoring ability"
},
{
"body": "The world map page now shows where all the quests start. It also shows the locations of altars where you can recharge your prayer points, and the new tannery shop.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 993358800,
"id": 41,
"title": "Updated world map"
},
{
"body": "* New monastery area which you can enter if you are a high level cleric. Includes monks robes and a special new altar to pray at.\n* Silver rocks to mine (requires level 99 mining only joking its 20 lol)\n* Holy symbol of Saradomin, made by crafting from silver. Take it to the new monastery area to get it blessed to make your prayers last longer\n* The black hole experience in the dwarven mines!\n* A few minor bug fixes\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 994914000,
"id": 42,
"title": "Improved prayer system and more!"
},
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"body": "An increasing number of people are trying to trick other players into giving away their password. Please use a bit of common sense to avoid getting tricked in this way. Some common tricks to avoid are below:\n\nDo NOT enter your password into ANY website other than runescape.com! If you go somewhere else and see a chat room or survey or cheat site which claims it needs your password then that site is a trick and will steal your pass. Don't be a fool. Be very suspicious of anything or anyone that asks you for your password.\nRemember that real Jagex staff will NEVER EVER ask you for your password! If anyone talks to you, or emails you claiming to be me, and asks for your password, then they are lying and are trying to steal your account. Jagex staff will NEVER ask you for your password for any reason!\nBe very careful downloading programs from other websites. I have seen programs which claim to give you money, or make you stronger, or cheat in some other way. However this is IMPOSSIBLE! These programs actually contain a VIRUS, which will record your keypresses and steal your password. Get a decent virus checker, and don't run anything not downloaded from an official website.\nI'm not trying to scare you, all the points above are just common sense! If someone in real-life said \"give me your credit card number and I'll credit you 1000!\" would you? I sure hope not! Just because runescape is a game doesn't mean you should be any less careful.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 995000400,
"id": 43,
"title": "Andrew's guide to not losing your password"
},
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"body": "I just finished setting up another server help run RuneScape. The new server isn't being used to run another parallel world, but is instead working behind the scenes to help manage the save-games.\nThis gives a total of 3 world servers, and 2 support servers. This should hopefully increase the total system capacity to 4000 players at once.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 995346000,
"id": 44,
"title": "5th RuneScape server online"
},
{
"body": "The bank has been upgraded so you can now store any item in the bank not just gold. Useful for keeping your spare weapons, gems, and anything else you might want to store. You can store up to 48 different items, with a maximum limit of 16 million items per stack.\nRunite items have been added to the game! Runite is the most powerful metal in the game, better than even adamantite. Both rune weapons and rune armour are now available to purchase from the champions guild. (hint - there is an extra item only available as a rare monster drop from a particularly strong monster!)\n\nThe player owned houses have been removed. This is because since they were original planned runescape has become much more popular and there is nowhere near enough to go around. Instead the 2 updates above have been included to compensate. The item bank lets anyone store the items they want to, and the runite items are an alternative for people to spend the money they have been saving on.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 996123600,
"id": 45,
"title": "Runescape updated"
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"body": "The new wilderness area of runescape is nearly complete. This is a huge new area which is part of an improved player-combat system which was first proposed a few months ago. A poll on the website at the time showed the vast majority of players in favour of the new system, so we have been working very hard to complete it.\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/Wild1.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Wild1.jpg\" align=\"right\"></a>\nIn the improved system player fighting is only allowed in the new wilderness area. The ability to switch between PK and Non-PK will be removed and instead you just go into the dangerous wilderness area if you want to fight other players, or stay within the current map area if you don't.\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/Wild2.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Wild2.jpg\" align=\"right\"></a>\nThe further you go into the wilderness the more dangerous it becomes, but the more treasure you could find! How much of a risk you want to take is entirely up to you. Some preview screenshots of a couple of wilderness locations are shown to the right.\n",
"category": 5,
"date": 997506000,
"id": 46,
"title": "Wilderness system nearly complete"
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"body": "I just fixed a couple of bugs with the new systems. I've fixed a problem with the wilderness, whereby low level archers were able to attack high level players in the wilderness without being attackable back! And I've fixed a problem with the new stats menu where the XP indicator didn't update properly.\nAlso bear in mind that we might tweak the wilderness a bit over the next few days if it proves to be unbalanced, although everything seem ok so far. We are also planning on adding a dualing system which will allow combat outside the wilderness if both players agree to it.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 997678800,
"id": 47,
"title": "A few bugs fixed"
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"body": "Due to a huge number of requests, the stats menu now shows you the exact number of experience points you have in each skill, and the number you need to reach to advance a level. For the more detailed information about a particular stat just point your mouse over it, and the numbers will be shown at the bottom of the menu.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 997678800,
"id": 48,
"title": "Stats menu now shows XP"
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"body": "The new wilderness area of runescape is online! This is a huge new area which is part of an improved player-combat system which was first proposed a few months ago. A poll on the website at the time showed the vast majority of players in favour of the new system, so we have now written it.\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/Wild1.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Wild1.jpg\" align=\"right\"></a>\nIn the improved system player fighting is only allowed in the new wilderness area. The ability to switch between PK and Non-PK will be removed and instead you just go into the dangerous wilderness area if you want to fight other players, or stay within the current map area if you don't.\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/Wild2.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Wild2.jpg\" align=\"right\"></a>\nThe further you go into the wilderness the more dangerous it becomes, but the more treasure you could find! How much of a risk you want to take is entirely up to you. Some preview screenshots of a couple of wilderness locations are shown to the right.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 997678800,
"id": 49,
"title": "Wilderness system online"
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"body": "I have just updated the worldmap. It now shows the mining guild and the very south edge of the wilderness. The whole wilderness isn't shown however, so you'll have to explore it for yourselves! I've also added 4 new message boards, to give a total of 8, because the old boards were getting extremely crowded. Enjoy!\n",
"category": 1,
"date": 997851600,
"id": 50,
"title": "Website updated"
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"body": "It seems that in certain circumstances the game was still not giving the treasure to the correct player. I have now fixed this problem. Many thanks to the people who reported this.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 998110800,
"id": 51,
"title": "Kill stealing bug fixed"
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"body": "* I've fixed the kill stealing problem, the treasure now goes to whoever damaged the monster most overall rather than the person who got the last hit. XP is split proportionally between all people who helped kill the monster.\n* Teleport spells no longer work once you reach level-20 wilderness or beyond. This makes the deep part of the wilderness dangerous even for high level players.\n* People who are green on your friends list also appear as green dots on the mini-map, making it easier to find them in the game, and easier to go adventuring with a group of friends.\n* Your player's overall combat level is now shown on the stats menu.\n* 2 more items banks have been added to reduce the crowding problems. One is in east Varrock, and the other is in Draynor Village.\n* Fixed seven minor bugs.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 998110800,
"id": 52,
"title": "Lots of small improvements"
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"body": "Runescape is now back online! The reason is was unavailable last night is because my hosting company 'skynetweb' had a power failure which reset one of my main servers. (so much for their backup power-supplies, and supposed reliability!) Skynetweb have had repeated problems since I joined them, so I guess it's time to find a new hosting company.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 998370000,
"id": 53,
"title": "Servers back online"
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"body": "After many days of work I've finally managed to get my brand new servers working! I've setup a much needed 4th world server, and I expect to transfer the rest of the runescape worlds and website to the new servers shortly.\n\n\\*\\*Update:\\*\\*Everything except the webserver is now running from my new servers. Hope everything is working well, many users have reported lower lag, but a few have reported increased problems so I guess it depends where you are. Also people have been mentioning they can't get the new windows client to work. Remember you CANNOT run 2 copies of the windows client at once, this means after downloading the new version you must close the old copy before starting the new one, or it won't work!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1000011600,
"id": 54,
"title": "4th world server online"
},
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"body": "As you probably know yesterday Runescape moved to a new ISP. Please help me access the quality of my new servers by voting with the form below. I know some people are finding them better, and others are finding them worse. I'd like to know percentages so please could everyone vote below to let me know.\n\nMoving the servers was very expensive so I hope lots of people are finding an improvement. Also note that I am unlikely to move the servers back to their old ISP regardless of the result of this survey, since I just can't afford to do so. I just don't have enough money for another move due to not enough banner clicks.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1000098000,
"id": 55,
"title": "Please vote on the new servers"
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"body": "If you have been having problems with the downloadable windows client not working, but can play online just fine, then please try this updated version.\n\nDownload\n\nThis version has a few bugfixes, and gives better error messages. If you find it still doesn't work then send an email to [email protected] clearly stating:\n\n* The exact error message you receive.\n* If the program gives the same message everytime you try\n* Your operating system (e.g 98, 2000, ME, etc)\n* Your internet-explorer version (4, 5 or 5.5)\n Our usual Terms and conditions apply to this software. Please read them before downloading.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1000270800,
"id": 56,
"title": "New windows client"
},
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"body": "Think you've got what it takes to slay a dragon? If so try our new quest! This quest has been designed with the more experienced runescape players in mind so it's fairly tricky.\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/Dragon1.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Dragon1.jpg\" align=\"right\"></a>\nTo start the quest go and talk to the guildmaster in the champions guild. From there you will have to solve a series of puzzles before travelling to slay the dragon itself. Only heroes who have proven themselves worthy by completing this quest can purchase and wear the best armour in the game. The new rune platemail body!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1001221200,
"id": 57,
"title": "Dragon quest online!"
},
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"body": "Due to much demand we are planning on launching a new premium RuneScape service soon. This will bring a whole load of great benefits such as: frequent updates, NO-adverts, good customer support, no scammers/cheaters (we'll kick 'em out), and much more! We're hoping to make it available for just $5 a month, and this tiny amount of money will pay for many great RuneScape updates to come, and will ensure we can keep running RuneScape for YOU.\n\nThis is great news, because it will enable us to offer you more frequent RuneScape updates. Some of the first updates we have planned include: A duelling system, more monsters (wolf, giant-bat, lizard-man etc..), lots of new items, sound effects, more quests, and there will be loads more stuff after this.\n\nWe hope that many people will be able to afford the very small amount we are asking, if you really really can't afford to pay then don't worry, because there will still be a FREE RuneScape service available. Obviously since this service will be offered for free, we won't be able to keep offering regular updates to non-paying members. In actual fact running the free service will cost us a lot of money but we want to thank all the people who have helped us beta-test the game so far, and so will try keep it going as long as possible.\n\nThanks for all your support.\n\nAndrew Gower\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1002258000,
"id": 58,
"title": "Premium RuneScape service coming soon!"
},
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"body": "We have updated our terms+conditions. To continue using this website or the RuneScape game you MUST agree to the new terms. [Click here to view them](http://http://www.runescape.com/runeterms.html)\n",
"category": 1,
"date": 1003726800,
"id": 59,
"title": "Updated terms+conditions"
},
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"body": "I have decided to remove all the non-essential parts of this website such as the message boards. I have 3 main reasons for doing this:\n\n1. This saves a lot of server resources and allows me to increase the capacity of the main RuneScape game itself, which is after all the most important part of the website.\n\n2. Moderating the message boards has become a \\* huge\\* amount of work lately. I am fed up with all the scamming, swearing, and abuse which goes on here, so they are gone. This will save me a lot of time and stress! I have found that lately I am spending more time managing the website than actually programming new features into the game which isn't much fun and is why I felt things had to change.\n\n3. Better security - There is now only ONE place where you need to enter your RuneScape Password. You should now only enter your password into the game itself and nowhere else! NOTHING else I have written will ask for your RuneScape password EVER! The game login uses better security than the other web-based features, so this means your password will be even safer than before.\n\nI have also reprogrammed the chat filter in the game itself, to use a more effective system. This is another feature which has been heavily abused, and I'm not willing to put up with it any longer. The new system only allows a limited vocabulary to be used. The new RuneScape chat is only intended for role-playing within the game, not for talking about real life!\n\nI have programmed a new server core, which should in the long run be more reliable and allow more people to play RuneScape at once. You may see a few glitches.\n",
"category": 1,
"date": 1005717600,
"id": 60,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "The new chat filter isn't working quite as well as hoped. Therefore I have decided to REMOVE it! I have worked out a different way of filtering the chat which will be far more effective than using a limited dictionary, which I will be adding shortly. This means you will be able to talk 'normally' again soon.\n\nUpdate: If you notice any words that the chat filter is blocking, and you feel it shouldn't be then send an email containing those words to [email protected]. Please DONT include a message in the email, send the words you want adding only! If you cannot say your characters name please do NOT tell me, I am fixing this issue separately.\n\nAlso I know a few people were upset to see the removal of the 'server status' page, I forgot to mention that this was removed because in a few days time I will be adding an automated top 1000 players list to this website. :-)\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1005804000,
"id": 61,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
{
"body": "I have fixed a recent error in the friends list where it would sometimes incorrectly show people as 'offline' when they weren't. I have also increased the maximum capacity of this list from 50 friends to 100 friends. Finally the friends list is now automatically sorted so your friends who are online appear at the top of the list.\n\nI have made a few more improvements to the chat filter. I am still working on this however.\n\nAlso I know a few people were upset to see the removal of the 'server status' page, I forgot to mention that this was removed because in a few days time I will be adding an automated hiscore table to this website which will show the top 1000 players in each skill.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1005890400,
"id": 62,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
{
"body": "Chat filter \"cabbage!\" bug fixed. Certain versions of Java seem to have a bug in them which caused the chat filter to malfunction. This is hopefully now fixed.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1006149600,
"id": 63,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "Due to a change in the way this website works (to increase reliability) I have had to update the RuneScape windows client. Therefore if you use the windows client to play you will need to download the latest version. Thank-you\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1006236000,
"id": 64,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
{
"body": "The RuneScape top 1000 hiscore tables are now online. There is a table for each skill in the game, as well as an 'overall' table. Click on the link above to view them :-)\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1006408800,
"id": 65,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "I've made a few tweaks to RuneScape over the weekend to fix a few minor problems: The 65535 objects in a stack limitation has been removed, so you can now carry and trade as much gold as you like. Some people were experiencing lag in crowded areas when a lot of people were talking. To fix this the chat is now compressed, and the chat filter has been optimised. A few other bug fixes, for instance the game now correctly displays your privacy settings in the options menu.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1006754400,
"id": 66,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "I've added a confirm-box to the trade window to make scamming much more difficult. After both players have selected objects, an extra confirm-box showing the details of the trade is displayed. This allows you to check all the details are correct before parting with your items.\n\nIf a player on your friends list is shown in yellow (i.e they are on a different server), you can now find out which server they are on, by moving your mouse pointer over their name.\n\nI've fixed another bug with the chat filter which was making it over sensitive in certain circumstances\n",
"category": 4,
"date": 1006840800,
"id": 67,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "Due to a huge number of requests we are considering adding level requirements to the armour and weapons in RuneScape. The way this would work is you would need a certain defence level to wear the best armour, and a certain attack level to use the best weapons.\n\nThe main reason for this would be to stop the current problem wherby there are low levels players walking around with full-rune which they've been given by a friend (or from one of their own high level character, in direct breach of our rules). Which is considered by many to be something of an unfair advantage.\n\nThe levels we are considering are:\n\nLevel-5 for Steel\n\nLevel-10 for Black\n\nLevel-20 for Mithril\n\nLevel-30 for Adamantite\n\nLevel-45 for Rune\n\nP.S Happy Birthday to me, and to Lightning, and to anyone else who's birthday it is today :-)\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1007359200,
"id": 68,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "The level requirement poll has finished. Since the majority of the players favoured this change it will be going ahead.\n\nI am fully aware that some smiths and miners feel this will disadvantage them. However remember even if you can't use the items in combat you can still make money from buying and selling them.\n\nI have to consider what is good for the game as a whole, and currently the lack of level requirements is unbalancing the wilderness quite severely and making it largely inaccessible for low to mid level players. I am pleased to see that the most players are in agreement with this decision :-)\n\nThe levels requirements will be:\n\nLevel-5 for Steel\n\nLevel-10 for Black\n\nLevel-20 for Mithril\n\nLevel-30 for Adamantite\n\nLevel-40 for Rune\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1007532000,
"id": 69,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "We have finally found the time to update the RuneScape online manual. The manual now contains instructions for all the main aspects of the game, as well as guides for individual skills such as smithing and crafting. I have also updated the world map to show the most recent additions to the world. The map is now in a separate section to the rest of the manual, just use the link above to view it\n",
"category": 1,
"date": 1008741600,
"id": 70,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
{
"body": "Our order of two new servers arrived from Dell yesterday, and after a few hours work they are now setup and running world 5 and world 6. This increases the total capacity to 7500 simultaneous players.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1010124000,
"id": 71,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "I've managed to significantly improve the compression used on the RuneScape client. This means the game should now download more quickly. It also reduces the total amount of bandwidth being used by the RuneScape servers, which will hopefully also mean less lag at peak times.\n\nAll the maps, graphics and code for the RuneScape client are now compressed into just 687k at a compression ratio of nearly 20:1!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1010642400,
"id": 72,
"title": "Compression"
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"body": "We are planning on launching as soon as our new customer support system is ready, I'm \\* hoping\\* that will be early next week\n\nThe following are all already fully programmed and ready to roll\nSome things like fletching aren't on this list, that does NOT mean we aren't doing them, it just means they aren't finished \\* yet\\*\nAfter the launch we will continue working on the members area, and will add many more improvements and updates\n\nherblaw, duelling, sound effects, higher level fish to catch,twice as much bank space.\n\n**Quest**\n\ndruid quest, zanaris quest, heroes quest, ball quest.\n\n**Wilderness**\n\novergrown village, bandir village, dark warrior castle, red dragon lava island.\n\n**Location**\n\nzanaris underground city, entrana island, huge members dungeon, town of traverley, crafting guild, heroes guild, white wolf mountain, pirate town (brimhaven) and dark wizard tower.\n\n**Monster**\n\nred dragon, blue dragon, baby blue dragon, druid, choas druid, bandit, dark warrior, white wolf, grey wolf, giant-bat, thug, poison scorpion, ice spider, guard dog, ice queen, shape shifter.\n\n**Object**\n\ndragonstone gem, dragonstone amulet, 2-handed rune sword, rune battle axe, herbs and potions.\n\n**Other Info**\n\nNo Adverts, scammers and cheats will be kicked out.\nPriority customer support\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1011765600,
"id": 73,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "Dropped item change reversed. Whilst it wasn't intended that dropped items didn't become visible to other players for 1 minute, it seems a lot of people considered it more of a feature than a bug. So this 'feature' has been put back into the game.\n\nNote however that relying on this and dropping your valuable items on the ground still isn't a good idea. If you lose your internet connection for a minute whilst your item is on the ground then someone else is likely to take your item, and you will lose it.\n\nAlso Password Options has changed\nYou just press 'reset recovery questions' type in your new ones, and then in 2 weeks if nobody has opposed the change they switch over.\nFor that 2 weeks each time you login it will tell you that someone is trying to change the recovery questions. If it wasn't you who requested the change you can cancel it, and then change your password quick!\n\nAlso regarding Rune battle axes and 2h Rune swords,\nAndrew decided to put them back into the Free game.\n\nMembers version will instead features 2 new weapons which are even better, the dragon-sword, and the dragon-axe\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1012284000,
"id": 74,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "We are planning on a launching a new optional service called 'RuneScape members' fairly soon. This is in ADDITION to the existing 'RuneScape freeplay' service which we intend to keep running.\n\nBeing a member gives lots of great new features and skills. We currently plan to make it $5/month or $45/year, and to accept both credit-cards and money-orders. The prices are in us-dollars, but we will also accept other currencies. The idea is that the revenue from 'RuneScape members' will enable us to add even more improvements to the game and allow us to keep it going for many more years.\n\nWe're now in the final stages of preparing our members service, so over the next few days you might start seeing new areas and quests in the game which you can't reach. These will then be opened up for members when we are ready.\n\nThe members service is NOT yet available, so there is no need to e-mail asking how you can get it. As soon as it's done you'll be able to subscribe from this website. We don't have an exact launch date, but obviously it will be as soon as possible.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1012802400,
"id": 75,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "## No-risk!\n\nUpgrading your character to member status costs just $5/month or $45 for an entire year.\nIf after trying members RuneScape you decide it's not for you, you can simply switch back to freeplay RuneScape. Of course if you do this any members-only items or skills will be disabled, but they will NOT be removed. This means if you subsequently decide to resume your membership the members items and skills you gained before will start working again.\n\nHeres a few details of what you can expect in Members version.\n\n## New Features\n\n**Herblore:** The herblore skill allows you to mix a variety of potions, poisons and antidotes. Everything from super-attack potions to poison to put on the tips of your arrows.\n\n**Duelling:** Duelling allows two players to agree to a fight outside the wilderness. Either for an agreed prize, or just for fun. In addition to agreeing on the stake you can optionally select other options such as: no-retreating, no-prayers, no-magic or even no-weapons!\n\n**Sound effects:** Optional sound effects are finally available. There are currently 37 different sound effects on actions such as combat, cooking, magic, doors, mining, smithing, etc. Even more sound effects are planned in future updates.\n\n**More fishing:** Higher level fish to catch. Do you think you've got what it takes to catch a shark? Or perhaps you'll get lucky and net yourself a surprise treasure chest.\n\n**Double size bank:** Twice as much bank space to store your items in, and what with all the new members items and features your going to need it!\n\nAs well as all the new herbs and potions you can make we've introduce a new range of weapons. Including the dragonstone amulet, the dragon-sword and the dragon-axe.\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Pic9.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Pic9.jpg\"></a> <a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Pic10.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Pic10.jpg\"></a>\n\n## New Quests\n\n**Druidic Ritual:** Before you can start using the herblore skills you must help the druids complete their ritual.\n\n**Lost City:** Rumour has it that there is a hidden city under the swamp, can you find out how to get in? The fairy market inside apparently has some (literally) out-of-this-world deals!\n\n**Witches house:** A boy asks you to fetch his ball from behind a small house... This apparently simple task turns out to be much more difficult than expected when you realise the house in question is owned by a particularly crazy witch...\n\n**Hero's quest:** Prove yourself as a hero by completing this difficult quest! Only once you have completed the multiple challenges given to you, can you enter the hero's guild to buy the new Dragon-axe.\n\n**Merlin's crystal:** Merlin has been imprisoned inside a giant crystal. Free him and become one of the knight's of the round table.\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Pic3.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Pic3.jpg\"></a> <a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Pic8.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Pic8.jpg\"></a>\n\n## New Locations\n\nWe've filled the wilderness with new exciting places to fight and collect treasure, including the overgown village, bandit camp, dark-warrior castle and red-dragon lava island!\n\n**Quest locations:**\nWe've added a variety of new locations and scenes which as well as providing settings for the new quests are also exciting places to explore and train. These include: Zanaris underground city, Entrana island, Arthur's castle, Fort Grymwold.\n\n**New towns and villages:**\nLots of new towns including the pirate town of Brimhaven, Catherby village, and the town of Taverley\n\n**HUGE members dungeon:**\nBy far the biggest dungeon in RuneScape, this colossal labyrinth of passageways and caverns becomes more and more dangerous the further down you go making it the ultimate place to try your combat skills. Includes lots of new powerful monsters and scenary.\n\n**New guilds:**\nThe crafting guild is a great place to practice your crafting skills, and is available to players with 40 crafting or higher. The hero's guild is similar to the champions guild except even harder to enter, and so only available to the most elite RuneScape players.\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Pic1.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Pic1.jpg\"></a> <a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Pic4.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Pic4.jpg\"></a>\n\n**New Monsters!**\nIf the poison scorpions don't get you, then perhaps the level-200 black dragon will! We've added 19 new monsters, and there's something for everyone. As well as new super-strong monsters, there's lots of new opponents for lower level players too.\n\n**New monsters are:**\nred-dragon, druid, ice-queen, giant-bat, black-dragon, bandit, chaos-druid, white-wolf, baby-dragon, poison-scorpion, ice-spider, black-demon, guard-dog, shape-shifter, blue-dragon, dark-warrior, grey-wolf, poison-spider, thug.\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Pic2.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Pic2.jpg\"></a> <a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Pic5.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Pic5.jpg\"></a>\n\n**Plus**\nIn addition to loads of great new features in the game, members also benefit from\n\n* No adverts!\n* Priority customer support\n* Moderated members-only servers\n* Scammers and cheats will be kicked out\n\nAs a member you will be helping fund further RuneScape developments and features. In return we intend to add even more features and upgrades to the members-area as fast as we can!\n\nPlanned member improvements in the near future include a fletching skill (make a variety of bows and arrows), and the option to purchase, furnish, and improve your own house in the game!\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Pic6.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Pic6.jpg\"></a> <a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Pic7.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/Pic7.jpg\"></a>\n",
"category": 5,
"date": 1014271200,
"id": 76,
"title": "Why should you upgrade to members version"
},
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"body": "RuneScape members is extremely close to being ready. We are currently installing and testing the new software and website on our servers. As soon as this is done you will be able to subscribe and play.\n\nWatch this space....!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1014616800,
"id": 77,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "RuneScape members is online!!!\n\nFor lots more information click here\n\nFor payment options and to sign-up click here\n\n**Note:** The problem we had with the worldpay servers earlier today has now been fixed. Everyone who has paid has now been upgraded to a member.\nIf for some reason you still can't access the members server and you should be able to then please contact the address given in the worldpay receipt which has been emailed to you.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1014789600,
"id": 78,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "Firstly a very big thank-you to all our members. Your support is very very much appreciated!\n\nWe said that the profit from the members would be put back into improving RuneScape, and we're now working hard to do this. During this coming week we aim to get more servers online (to ensure there is enough space for both free users and members).\n\nWe're also looking for a full-time member of staff to come and work with us in Cambridge(uk) to help us provide a better level of support for our users. We're looking for an energetic person, with good communication skills. Your job will involve answering emails, checking the game-logs and incident reports to ban troublesome users, and coordinating our volunteer moderators. You will be working in our Cambridge office with myself (Andrew), and Paul,\n\nIf you're interested please send your CV and an indication of what sort of wage you would expect to [email protected]. Please nobody else use this email address, use the support area linked to below, so we can deal with your query properly. Support emails incorrectly send to the cv address will be deleted.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1014962400,
"id": 79,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "Bug fix update. Today's small update fixes about 8 minor bugs with the game. In particular strange problems seen shortly after a 'connection lost' message should now be fixed, and a few minor glitches with the new quests have been fixed.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1015048800,
"id": 80,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "I sincerely apologise for the brief downtime experienced by players today. After 2 months of uptime our fileserver inexplicably crashed. I hope we can get additional servers setup very soon to reduce the strain on our current servers.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1015135200,
"id": 81,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "We've just put some new members features online. Including:\n\n* A wilderness dungeon branching off the north end of the Edgeville dungeon\n\n* Glass making ability. As part of crafting you can now make vials, glasses and orbs.\n To make glass you need to burn seaweed on a fire to get soda, and mix it with sand in a furnace.\n Finally use a glass blowing pipe to turn the molten glass into an object. (Hint: these items can be found on Entrana island)\n\n* Battle staffs. Craft an orb and then charge it at the correct obelix using a cosmic-rune. Finally use\n your crafting ability to attach the orb to a battle staff from Zaff's staffs.\n\n* New high level magic attacks are now available. Using the new blood-rune!\n\n* New teleport spell to Camelot\n\n* New monster - black unicorn\n\nI'm also pleased to say that our new server finally arrived today, so we hope to get it installed this week to add another two freeplay worlds.\n\nI'd like to welcome our two new employees: Steve and Ian. They joined us last Thursday, and are working in our Cambridge office to handle your customer support queries.\nWe've got a bit of a backlog of questions to work through at the moment, but we're finally able to start tackling it!\nThe RuneScape usernames of all our official staff are now: Andrew, Paul, Ian, Mod_ian and Sirmodsteve.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1016431200,
"id": 82,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "Two new runescape worlds are now online! These new worlds are hosted in a different location to our previous 6 worlds to increase your chances of being able to find a server to which you get a good connection to the game.\n\nI've made one of the new worlds a members server, and one of them a free-edition server. This means RuneScape now has 8 worlds, a total capacity of 10,000 simultaneous users and a massive 35mbps of dedicated bandwidth! Once I'm happy the new hosting company is ok I will buy another 2 uk worlds to increase our capacity even further.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1016517600,
"id": 83,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "Two new severs are now online now. They hosted in a different location to the previous 6 worlds.\nThis will increase your chances of being able to find a server to which you get a good connection to the game.\n\nOne new server is members and the other is free-edition server. This means Runescape now has 8 worlds, a total capacity of 10,000 simultaneous users and a massive 35mbps of dedicated bandwidth!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1016690400,
"id": 84,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "We've increased our bandwidth even further to a total of 40mbps to further improve the quality of our service.\n\nI'd like to welcome another new employee Kyla who is now working in our London office and will be handling billing queries and problems.\n\nWork on the new fletching skill is progressing very well. We're now in the final stages of testing and hopefully the skill will be online early next week. Plus we've nearly finished a new members quest which should go online at the same time.\n\nWe are going to order yet another server to run another two worlds. This time based in New-york. This will give users a choice of three different hosting companies to connect to. Once this goes online there will be a total 7 free worlds, and 3 members worlds.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1016776800,
"id": 85,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "New members map area showing west of Kandarin. You can see this new area and other recent additions on our updated: World Map.\n\nNew fletching skill is online! The long anticipated fletching skill is now available to members. For more information about fletching take a look in the new-section in our online manual.\n\nNew members quest! Thormac the sorcerer will improve your battle staffs if you can find his lost lesser kharid scorpions. Starts in the Sorcerer's tower, southwest of Camelot.\n\nWoodcutting has been changed to a 1-click system. To cut down a tree you now just need to left click on it.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1017036000,
"id": 86,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "We (correctly) anticipated that nearly everyone would want to try the new flethcing<sup>sic</sup> skill at once and that this would cause a rare-tree shortage! Therefore for just one day we decided to make these trees not turn into stumps like normal.\n\nNow everyone has had a chance to try the new skill this has been put back to normal. To compensate the amount of xp you get from woodcutting has been increased.\n\nWe've also changed fletching slightly because we saw a lot of people weren't bothering to put the string on their bows. This obviously wasn't intended! Therefore the proportion of xp you get from stringing the bow has been increased. In actually fact you now get more xp from making a completed bow, but you have to finish it off to get the full amount.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1017122400,
"id": 87,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "The Fitzharmon family crest has gone missing, and the family honour has been lost. Can you find the crest and return it to Dimintheis in Varrock? There are 3 different rewards available, but you can only choose one, so choose carefully!\n\nThis is another difficult quest to complete. Next we will be working on some low level quests, to ensure there is a good balance of quests for all levels of player.",
"category": 0,
"date": 1018328400,
"id": 88,
"title": "New members quest online!"
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"body": "We've made a few fixes to RuneScape today. The demon in the family crest quest was too deep into the wilderness, which was causing a major pking problem and wasn't too popular, so we've now moved it the wilderness dungeon at a much lower wilderness.\n\nWe've fixed a bug with magic spells which people were abusing to rapidly fire multiple bolts and kill other players unfairly.\n\nNow you can drink a potion even if your stats are already boosted. Your stats will still not go higher than the maxmium the potion allows, but this means emptying vials you don't want is easier, and you don't have to wait for the potions effects to fully wear off before boosting your stats to max again.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1018414800,
"id": 89,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "Jagex customer support is back online. Sorry for the recent downtime. Membership signups are also now functioning again\n\nI am also pleased to announce that we now have 3 full time members of staff to answer your questions, and a 4th person is joining us on Tuesday! This increased number of staff will enable us to give you more rapid support, and will also mean we are better able to find and punish the players who are breaking our rules.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1018587600,
"id": 90,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "New-York worlds are online. We're pleased to say that we've just brought more new worlds online at a third hosting facility. This means you now have even more choice about where to play which should reduce crowding and lag even further.\n\nWe are aware that some people are worried about how these extra servers will affect spawn rates. Don't worry we are going to change the algorithms used to calculate spawn rates, to compensate for this.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1019451600,
"id": 91,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "New members update online! Many RPGs have a thieving/rogue skill and this is something which until now has been missing from RuneScape.\n\nWe've now added this popular skill to the members version and it includes abilities such as pick-pocketing, picking locks, disarming traps, and stealing from market stalls. For more information about the new thieiving skill please refer to the online manual.\n\nIn addition we have added a quest which uses the new skill. Can you help the rightful owner steal back the lost tribal totem? The quest starts in Brimhaven, and after that is set entirely in the brand new city of Ardougne. You will need a thieving level of at least 21 to complete this quest, so practice your thieving before you start.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1020142800,
"id": 92,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "Both members and free-edition runescape have been updated with new content.\n\nFirst up the members wilderness has been expanded to include: a new level-56 wilderness area, scorpion ravine, pirate hall, rogues to pickpocket, doors to lockpick, high level wilderness dungeon, shadow-spider monster, fire-giant monster.\n\nMembers also can now trade wood certificates for those valuable logs, and purchase/steal spice from the spice stall which when added to stew before cooking can be used to make curry (heals 19hp)\n\nWith all these new wilderness areas for members we've decided to make some of the older wilderness areas available to free-edition users. Explore the bandit camp, dark warrior castle, and overgrown village. Free users also now have access to the crafting guild\n\nBoth members and free versions have been updated with a new 'make-over mage' character, who can change your character appearance... for a price!\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1021006800,
"id": 93,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
{
"body": "Two new members quests are now online.\n\nIn the first quest you must help the dwarves win a fishing competition. To start the quest look for the passage way at east kandarin.\n\nIn the second quest you must carry out a number of tasks for the monks south of Ardougne.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1022562000,
"id": 94,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
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"body": "As part of our promised commitment to stamping down and stopping cheats in RuneScape we have developed a new system to automatically detect people using macro/bot software to gain stats unfairly.\n\nIt clearly says in our rules that using software to automatically play the game for you and raise your stats for you is cheating! This will not be tolerated. It is just not fair on the players who play the game honestly and get their levels fairly.\n\nOur new system is extremely efficient and accurate, and in the last 24 hours we have already identified nearly 2000 players who have been cheating in this way. We also believe that we will be able to identify all future offenders and will continue modifing and improving our detection software to do so. From this point on if you use a macro or use a modified version of the RuneScape client, it is almost 100% certain that you WILL be banned or erased.\n\nSince these people gained their stats/items unfairly we have unfortunately had no choice but to completely wipe the stats and inventory of the aprox 2000 people who we have caught using macro/bot software. It seems obvious that these players should not be allowed to keep what they did not gain honestly in the first place.\n\nIf you are one of the people who we stat-wiped then whining and making excuses to us won't help. Our new system is designed to have a 0% rate of false positives, and we KNOW you were cheating. The stat-wipe is irreversible, so if you want to get your stats back then the only way to do it is to start playing the game fairly, and EARN your way to greatness like everyone else has to.\n\nClick here For a complete list of all the people who have already been stat-wiped. We expect to catch more people at it over the next few days. I hope this proves we are deadly serious about stopping this cheating in runescape.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1022648400,
"id": 95,
"title": "Massive crackdown on cheating players."
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"body": "A lot of the originally planned aspects of RuneScape are now complete, so you might well be wondering what we are now working on, and how we intend to keep improving the game, other than just adding more quests.\n\nThe really good news is that we have lots more planned, and due to the success of RuneScape members we have been able to put together a larger development/support team, (we now have 11 full-time staff), which means we are finally able to do some of the really big RuneScape updates that we've also wanted to do, but previously weren't possible when just Paul and myself were working on the game.\n\nOver the past 3 months I've been doing a lot of absolutely essential work behind the scenes, and laying the groundwork we will need over the coming year, so it's not necessarily been apparent where all the effort is going. I've been working on things such as:\n\n* Reprogramming the system to allow us to setup interlinked RuneScape worlds at different locations. This allowed us to setup the uk and new-york servers, and is essential to allow RuneScape to keep expanding.\n\n* Interviewing and employing new staff. In the short term this takes up a surprisingly large amount of my time, and actually slowed development whilst things were sorted out. However obviously in the long term this will allow us to do so much more.\n\n* Designing the billing and support software that we need to efficiently keep track of who our members are, what payments are due, customer queries, ideas, spot problems quickly, etc..\n\n* A much faster 3d engine, which will be used for one of the massive updates we have planned, (see below).\n\nThings like this sure take a lot of time, and that's in addition to the usual bug-fixes, updates, and new features we've been adding at the same time. The good news is that most of this 'behind the scenes groundwork' is now complete, and now I'm looking forwards to working on the exciting bits that build on this.\n\nNext we will be working on:\n\n* Finishing the new new database driven customer support system. I estimate this will enable our support staff to deal with queries at least 2 or 3 times as fast at the moment, and should really improve the quality of our service. It will also allow us to really effectively stamp down on trouble-makers and cheats.\n\n* Vastly vastly improved graphics. We've had two 3d-modellers working on redrawing all the 2d sprites as glorious 3d models for some time now. These really do make the game look a lot better. To work properly this also needs a faster 3d-engine (which is luckily nearly complete). I still need to do quite a lot of work to integrate the new 3d-engine into the game. I hope to get some preview screenshots of some of the new models on the site soon.\n\n* Interactive music, which changes depending on what you are doing and where you are. To stop the music getting annoying and repetative too quickly our musician is going to have to write an awful lot of it! Wish him luck :-)\n\n* Player owned houses. This is a very complicated feature to add because we don't just want the houses to be empty buildings which do nothing. We are trying to implement all the best ideas we've had from players regarding these, so they aren't just a big disappointment. Making them interesting involves making the maps a lot more interactive than they currently are which is a lot of work, but worth the effort.\n\n* The new interactive map system I am developing for the player owned houses is also going to be used for an all new 'scenario' system. This is going to be a really fun feature wherby the game can randomly generate entirely new areas of map on-the-fly. These areas will be tailored to match the abilities of the players entering. This will allow players to form small adventuring teams, and then get away from the crowded training areas and go on their own private adventure. As a result will allow us to add a lot of clever content in these areas which isn't possible at the moment.\n\n* The usual new quests, new maps and new monsters, etc... Both Paul and Thomas will be working on this, and I believe they have another two quests nearly ready to go online.\n\nThere's even more planned after this, but these aren't small updates, :-) and so will certainly keep me busy for the next few months.\n\nAndrew\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1023771600,
"id": 96,
"title": "Update on RuneScape development progress"
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"body": "As promised here is a preview of some of the new 3d models which will be used when we update the RuneScape graphics. This is just a small sample of the total set of models we have, and as you can see as well as converting all the old graphics we are also introducing lots of new monsters at the same time.\n<a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/12 June beta image1.gif\"><img src=\"/images/12 June beta image1.gif\"></a>\n\nWe've developed some very good 3d model compression technology, which means that even with all the extra monsters RuneScape should load \\* faster\\* than it does at the moment once we do the update.\n<a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/12 June beta image2.gif\"><img src=\"/images/12 June beta image2.gif\"></a>\n\nThere's still a lot of work to be done to get an update of this size online, so it's probably at least two months away, but we'll keep you informed on how it is progressing.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1023858000,
"id": 97,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
{
"body": "I've modified RuneScape to use a database back-end for all the logs, save-games, etc... This is part of the new customer support system we are working on, and makes it a lot easier for us to sort out problems.\nObviously to make this change I've had to alter a LOT of code. So I'm running a test server based on the new core before switching the live-version of RuneScape across.\n\nIf you want to us test this new beta version of RuneScape please visit:\n\nhttp://www.runescape.com/betaclient.html\n\nPlease note that the main RuneScape saves games are NOT available on this server, so you will need to create a new account to play on it. Also this server will be taken offline after a few days and everything done on it will be permenantly lost. Using this test server does not affect your real character in any way. It's purely for testing, and also a rare chance to play in a brand new world where everyone is equal.\n",
"category": 5,
"date": 1024030800,
"id": 98,
"title": "Beta testing server"
},
{
"body": "We've updated RuneScape and added another two members quests.\nIn the first quest a mysterious stranger called Lucien asks you to retrieve an artifact known as the Staff of Armadyl. Speak to him in the 'flying horse' in Ardougne.\n\nIn the second quest you must restore the clock tower south of Ardougne to working order by finding and assembling the missing parts. Talk to Brother Kojo in the clock tower.\n\nWe've also added a fishing guild west of Hemenster which requires fishing level 68 or higher to enter.\n\nWorld map updated - The map has been extended to the left to show the city of Ardougne and other new members areas we have added recently.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1024290000,
"id": 99,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
{
"body": "We upgraded the runescape system to use a new database backend today, this will enable us to offer a much improved customer support service, and to continue making further runescape improvements in the future.\n\nThe game is now back online, our billing and customer support servers are still offline, but should be available again tommorow<sup>sic</sup> if all goes well. Thank-you for your patience whilst we perform this essential upgrade.\n",
"category": 4,
"date": 1025672400,
"id": 100,
"title": "Improved Customer Support Service"
},
{
"body": "Our billing system is now back-online, so memberships signups are available again. More options to pay for people without a credit-card will be available very soon.\n\nThe customer support system should also be back online shortly.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1025845200,
"id": 101,
"title": "Billing System Back Online"
},
{
"body": "Today Runescape update fixes a large number of outstanding bugs in the game.\n\nThe following issues have been fixed:\n\n* Bug where you could teleport from the high level wilderness dungeon is fixed\n* Bug where iron arrows were usable on the free servers is fixed\n* Bug where you could get a skull for retaliating to a ranged attack is fixed\n* Bug where shadow spiders prevented potions from running out is fixed\n* Bug where arrows did not stack correctly, if multiple players shot the same target is fixed\n* Bug where recovery questions were occasionally reported as 'not set' is fixed\n* Bug where attacking another player immediately after a retreat caused a glitch is fixed\n* Bug where player occasionally ran in random direction after ranged kill is fixed\n",
"category": 3,
"date": 1026277200,
"id": 102,
"title": "Bug squashing"
},
{
"body": "More ways of becoming a RuneScape member are now available! In addition to the usual credit/debit-card we've teamed up with paybycash.com to offer the following additional payment options:\n\nVirtual Check Check-by-FAX direct debit (ACH) Western Union PayPal Citibank's \"C2it\" service Cash Wire transfer Money order! Click here to sign up for RuneScape members now!\n",
"category": 1,
"date": 1026450000,
"id": 103,
"title": "New ways to become a member!"
},
{
"body": "I went away for a short holiday on saturday, and it seems RuneScape promptly broke in my absence. It seems I can't even take 1 week a year away from running this game! I'd like to apologise for the people who have experienced connections problems over the last few days.\n\nI've decided to abort the remainder of my holiday and have come back to the office to fix RuneScape instead. I'm currently transfering the database to a new server which is 6 times faster than the old one which should hopefully get things running smoothly again. Once again sorry things weren't working 100%.\n\nNow I'm back at work I should be able to get it working smoothly fairly quickly.\n\nAndrew\n",
"category": 3,
"date": 1026968400,
"id": 104,
"title": "No rest for the wicked..."
},
{
"body": "The RuneScape database is now running from a faster server so everything should be a lot more reliable now. I have also adjusted the network settings of the New-York servers, so hopefully they are a lot less laggy now. If you live in the US then you should try them out again.\n",
"category": 3,
"date": 1027054800,
"id": 105,
"title": "Faster server"
},
{
"body": "Our new improved customer support system is finally online. I've completely rewritten the system to be easier and quicker to use. (and a lot more reliable!) If you've been having trouble submitting support queries recently the new system should work properly for you.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1027141200,
"id": 106,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
},
{
"body": "We've updated RuneScape with 3 new members quests!\n\nKing Arthur is sending out his knights on a quest for the famous holy grail. If you are a knight of the round table go to king arthur for further orders.\n\nFind the secret gnome village, and help them retrieve the orbs of protection which constantly protect their village from the dangers outside.\n\nHelp Lady Servil save her family from general Kazar who has enslaved them in his fight-arena. Quest starts south-east of Ardougne beyond the monastry.\n\nWe've also added a variety of other features including lots of new areas for the above quests, and a coal-truck track to rapidly transport coal.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1027400400,
"id": 107,
"title": "Members' quests"
},
{
"body": "The hiscore tables are back online, and we've increased them to show the top 100,000 players!!\n\nWe've also added a search facility so you can quickly find your name and see where you rank.\n",
"category": 1,
"date": 1027659600,
"id": 108,
"title": "Hiscore tables"
},
{
"body": "We've just got another 2 members' quests online.\n\nThe 1st quest is the Hazeel Cult quest. Thieves have stolen the Carnillean family armour, and you are asked to recover it. This quest is a bit different because there are two very different ways of completing it! Will you side with the Hazeel Cult or with Ceril Carnillean?\n\nThe 2nd quest is the sheep herder quest in which you must safely herd four plagued sheep away from the city of Ardougne before the citizens become infected! Speak to Councillor Halgrive to start this quest.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1029387600,
"id": 109,
"title": "Sheep and cults"
},
{
"body": "A few people have been tricked by fake previews of our upcoming updates.\n\nAny previews we put online will always be on this website only, and will not require your RuneScape password to view. NEVER enter your password anywhere but RuneScape.com or it will be stolen!\n",
"category": 2,
"date": 1030338000,
"id": 110,
"title": "Fake previews"
},
{
"body": "Lots of people said it would be really great if RuneScape had more of an overall story-line and if there was some sort of ongoing plot. Therefore we're pleased to say that we've designed a massive twisting plot which we're going to release over multiple episodes.\n\nWhilst the rest of the dev-team have been focusing on that, myself and Tony have been working very hard on the promised new 3d-graphics system. This is a mammoth task since we are replacing a vast chunk of the graphics and code. The new engine is coming together extremely well, although there's still a lot of work to do.\n\nWe're now nearly ready to show a preview demo of our new landscape engine, our new character animation system, and our new improved user interface.\n\nHowever since that update is still quite a long way off, the rest of the dev-team is going to work on a new 'agility' skill next. This will give the members something else new to enjoy meanwhile whilst we finish off our big graphics update.\n",
"category": 5,
"date": 1030338000,
"id": 111,
"title": "In the pipeline..."
},
{
"body": "Epsiode<sup>sic</sup> 1 of our new multipart quest is now online.\n\nEdmond's daugher<sup>sic</sup> Elena has gone missing in West Ardougne whilst trying to help the plague victims there. See if you can find out what's going on. The story started in this quest will be continued in future updates.\n\nWe have also added a new Ardougne teleport spell for high level magicians, and a new bank in East Ardougne.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1030424400,
"id": 112,
"title": "Multi-part quest"
},
{
"body": "Please vote for us in the golden joystick awards 2002.\n\nIf you live in the uk then we'd really appreciate you voting for RuneScape as online game of the year. Just [click here](http://http://www.computerandvideogames.com/front_joysticks/votes.php) and type RuneScape in the 'online game of the year' box. It will only take a few minutes and doesn't cost anything :-)\n\nThanks! Andrew\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1031115600,
"id": 113,
"title": "Vote Golden Joystick Awards"
},
{
"body": "New members quest online - The sea slug quest\n\nSomething mysterious is happening on the new offshore fishing platform. People who've gone on their regular fishing trip just haven't returned! Can you rescue the missing father and son from the unknown horrors out at sea?\n\nWe've also added the ablitity to catch oysters whilst fishing with a bignet. The pearls from these can be used to make powerful crossbow bolt tips. Plus we've added two new certificate traders in Zanaris.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1031547600,
"id": 114,
"title": "Sea Slug Quest"
},
{
"body": "We've added a new 'abuse report' button to the RuneScape game which sends an untamperable snapshot of recent chat/trade events directly to customer support.\n\nThis means there is now a VERY easy way for us to catch all the people misusing our game and ban them once and for all! If you continue to be abusive or break the rules now the new 'report abuse' system is online then you WILL be caught almost immediately!\n\nPlease do NOT misuse the 'report abuse' feature. This is feature will allow us to catch and remove the trouble makers from our game. Help us clean up RuneScape by only using this report for serious cases.\n",
"category": 2,
"date": 1031720400,
"id": 115,
"title": "New abuse reporting system!"
},
{
"body": "We're still working on the big graphical update. It's still a way off, so here are some previews to show you how things are progressing.\n<a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/Necromanceranim.gif\"><img src=\"/images/Necromanceranim.gif\" align=\"left\"></a><a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/Giantspideranim.gif\"><img src=\"/images/Giantspideranim.gif\" align=\"left\"></a><a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/Reddragonanim.gif\"><img src=\"/images/Reddragonanim.gif\" align=\"left\"></a>",
"category": 5,
"date": 1032411600,
"id": 116,
"title": "Graphics Previews"
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"body": "We're still working on the big graphical update. It sure is a lot of work! It's still a way off, so meanwhile we're going to show occasional previews of how things are progressing.\n\nAs well as improving all the graphics, we're also reworking all the animation to use a lot more frames so everything moves more smoothly. Here is a preview of how some of the monsters/people look using our new animation system.\nRemember: Don't be fooled by fake websites, offering to let you test the new version. It's not ready yet, and we are not running any tests of this sort. NEVER enter your password ANYWHERE except runescape.com, or you will lose your account!\n\n<a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Human mini anim.gif\"><img src=\"/images/Human mini anim.gif\"></a>\n<a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Giantspider mini anim.gif\"><img src=\"/images/Giantspider mini anim.gif\"></a>\n<a class=\"rsc-image\" href=\"/images/Dragon mini anim.gif\"><img src=\"/images/Dragon mini anim.gif\"></a>\n",
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"date": 1032411600,
"id": 117,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "Tutorial Island\n\nFirst-time players will now start their adventures on tutorial island, where the good people of RuneScape are busy preparing people for the challenges that await them.\n\nWaterfall Quest (Members' quest)\n\nWalk along the river that flows through Kandarin, where the locals speak of hidden treasure, and the legend of the Elven King.\n\nKing Black Dragon (Members' monster)\n\nThe most fearsome monster ever to venture into RuneScape has now... err... ventured into RuneScape.\n\nSo for all you plucky young upstarts, take a break from emailing customer support and pit your wits against the deadliest beast to date! More prudent types might just want to gaze at him from afar. Of course you'll have to find him first.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1032843600,
"id": 118,
"title": "Tutorial island"
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"body": "We've updated the RuneScape world-map to show all the latests areas and additions to the map. Newly mapped areas include West Ardougne, and the Gnome Tree Village. The map is pretty huge now so use the scrollbars to scroll around and view the entire area.\n",
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"date": 1032930000,
"id": 119,
"title": "Map update"
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"body": "Attention all adventurers!\n\nIn response to the constant thirst for knowledge of our players Jagex is proud to announce the birth of the Runescape newsletter - delivered straight to your email account! Forged in the mines at an undisclosed location, this priceless document will give you all the latest development news and info straight from the Jagex team.\n",
"category": 1,
"date": 1033362000,
"id": 120,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "Attention all adventurers!\n\nIn response to the constant thirst for knowledge of our players Jagex is proud to announce the birth of the Runescape newsletter - delivered straight to your email account! Forged in the mines at an undisclosed location, this priceless document will give you all the latest development news and info straight from the Jagex team.\n",
"category": 1,
"date": 1033362000,
"id": 121,
"title": "Runescape Newsletter!"
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"body": "Just wanted to let you know some exclusive behind-the-scenes news from Jagex!\n\nThe Runescape team is still busy working on the 3D update - a fairly massive undertaking as you might imagine! The 3D characters are now pretty much complete, with Andrew now turning his attention to the landscape design. The use of polygons allows for far more attention to detail, as well as giving a more enhanced sense of proportion.\n\nAs for buildings, the paper thin walls of old will be making way for structures that are satisfyingly chunky, and the windows are now extruded from the walls, rather than being flat texture maps.\n\nPerhaps best of all will be the use of a moving vertical camera. Take an aerial view and get the drop on your enemies, before swooping in to see them face to face.\n\nWe don't yet have a final release date for all this, but at this stage you could say that things are looking pretty tasty. As usual please remember any previews of the our work will ONLY be on runescape.com NEVER enter your password anywhere except runescape.com. We will of course keep you posted on all this.\n",
"category": 5,
"date": 1034139600,
"id": 122,
"title": "3-D Update"
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"body": "Hi there - last week I told you about the current state of play with the 3D graphics update. For some the excitement was just too much to bear, so Andrew decided to do the decent thing and release some screen shots...\n<a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/RS2 beta cam1.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/RS2 beta cam1.jpg\"></a>\n\nHere you can see how the new version allows you to the adjust the camera angle, the images show the same scene at different angles.\n<a class=\"rsc-image rsc-image-thumb\" href=\"/images/RS2 beta cam2.jpg\"><img src=\"/images/RS2 beta cam2.jpg\"></a>\n\nSo what else is has been going in our dark, dank lair? Well, Tom and I have been working on the next part of Runescape's large on-going quest. Those of you who have already rescued Elena will no doubt be frothing at the mouth for some more plague-based action. Well froth no more, because part two will be coming out next week! And be warned, it's pretty big...\n\nAnd as if one set of live bacteria wasn't enough, you can also work up a sweat with a new jungle based adventure. As the debut quest from Tytn, the choice of location is all the more surprising, as \"Tee\" is normally known as being an obsessive hygiene fanatic. Still, someone has to clean the kitchen I suppose.\n",
"category": 5,
"date": 1034917200,
"id": 123,
"title": "A preview is sneaked"
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"body": "Biohazard (Members' Quest): This is the second part of our large ongoing quest. Elena has been rescued, but now she needs your help to find a cure for a plague that could kill hundreds!\n\nJungle Potion (Members' Quest) Trufitus Shakaya requires that you collect five special jungle herbs for a potion so that he can commune with his gods.\n\nNew members town - Yanille: Explore this border town in the far south of Kandarin. Experienced Wizards will want to make use of the Wizards' Guild (magic level 66 to enter). Yanille also contains, a bank, a cookery shop, an inn and various other features.\n\nNew members spells - Enfeeble, stun, vulnerability: These are cast using the new \"soul rune\", bought from the wizards' guild.\n\nNew features: Dragon bones - Dragon bones can now be buried for a bigger prayer xp bonus than big bones.\n\nImproved monster A.I. Monsters who are far weaker than you no longer auto attack. This also helps stop cheats who use programs to unfairly keep their character logged in at a respawn point, and gain combat xp unfairly.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1035349200,
"id": 124,
"title": "Updates galore!"
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"body": "Hi there,\n\nSo what a week it has been. Two new quests, dragon bones, improved monster AI and a magic guild to boot! By now I am sure many of you will be busy trying to find a cure for the plague, or mixing potions with special properties. Just make sure you save some time for Runescape.\n\nI know that many of you in the forums will be pleased about the new monster update. Those \"players\" who rely on macros and other such cheats might not be so chuffed.\n\nSo what's been happening in the Jagex offices? Well, Paul has been working on his skills, and particularly agility. He's up to about a 200 sit-ups a day, and he's talking about throwing in some squat thrusts too. He isn't what you'd call match fit yet, but with Tom, Tytn and myself taking care of the quest side of things, you can be sure that such things are not being neglected...\n",
"category": 5,
"date": 1035522000,
"id": 125,
"title": "Gowerian Agility"
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"body": "Hi there,\n\nSo what's been going on behind the scenes at the Jagex offices? Well, after last week's big quest update, I thought I'd go on line to see how everyone was getting on with the Biohazard Quest.\n\nBeing the honest chap that I am, I decided to use my real in-game character, and not one of those souped up mod things.\n\nNow, perhaps it was a little foolhardy of me to venture onto the member's server with a combat level of 3. But nothing could have prepared me for the reception that I would receive. I almost drowned in a sea of \"lols\" and \"noobs\". And no-one seemed to believe that I was in fact the \"Paul Eyres\" that I claimed to be!\n\nOh well - guess I'll just have to get killing some chickens...\n",
"category": 5,
"date": 1036130400,
"id": 126,
"title": "The Mod-Noob"
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"body": "There is a small bug in varrock, so please be careful. It is possible to get stuck behind a fence in the south-east corner near the 'dancing donkey' inn. Please do NOT go there or you may become trapped.\n\nIf you are already trapped then it is possible to escape by clicking 'attack' on an npc on the opposite side of the fence, or by clicking 'follow' on a player on the opposite side of the fence. If you still can't get out then wait until monday when the builders are coming in to remove that fence.\n",
"category": 3,
"date": 1036562400,
"id": 127,
"title": "Bug in Varrock"
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"body": "This morning we upgraded our philadelphia servers. We've made the following improvements:\n\nAll philadelphia servers moved to a new power circuit Our main database server has twice as much memory (it now has 2gig) We've replaced our webserver with a new one which is four times more powerful\n",
"category": 3,
"date": 1036994400,
"id": 128,
"title": "Upgraded Philadelphia Servers"
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"body": "Mining improved! We have changed mining and fishing so that they no longer consist of hours of tedious repetative clicking. The rocks are now easier to mine so you don't have to click anything like as much, and prospecting always works.\n\nInstead of the repetative clicking we have introduced a new 'fatigue' system which means as you do tasks such as mining your character slowly becomes tired. After a certain point (which depends on your level, and on the rock), you will become too tired to mine. When this happens simply rest at a bed or eat some food, and you'll feel much more lively again. The upshot of this is that the honest miners should be able to get their ore slightly quicker, whilst the cheats will just have to go somewhere else.\n\nAlso due to popular request we have modified the wilderness monsters so they are always aggressive regardless of your level. It was pointed out by many players that the wilderness is supposed to be dangerous place, so the new monster attacking rule has been removed in this zone.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1037167200,
"id": 129,
"title": "Latest RuneScape News"
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"body": "## **RuneScape Wiki:** Due to wiki limitations, this article has an improper name. It should be \"Update:Fatigue - version \\* 2\"\n\nWe've worked extremely hard today to update the mining/fishing system with respect to your comments and feedback. The old system was considered rather too much of a change by many, so we've made a new one is more like the original mining. Here is how the new system works.\n\n* You can now actually see ore in the rock on the screen, so you can see when it spawns\n* Ore now appears in the rocks TWICE as fast as it did pre-fatigue\n* When ore is available you will always manage to get it now, you very very rarely miss\n* To compensate for the faster spawns you get slightly tired as you mine\n* The higher level you have, the more you can mine before you become tired\n\nWe've put a LOT of effort into balancing this system, I even wrote a little test program to compare the overall times of mining and fishing before and after, (this takes into account the extra time taken to go and get some rest), the time it takes to get ore / level should new be pretty much EXACTLY the same it was before, but mining is now much more varied and fun. We've also moved an awful lots of bed, and a few rocks/fish to make certain all the sites always have a bed within a carefully calculated distance,\n\nPlease give the system a good chance before sending any feedback. We've really put a lot of effort into making sure the version\\* 2 system doesn't disadvantage anyone (except cheats!)\n\nWe might need to make a few more tweaks yet, but hopefully we're getting close to a really good system now.\n\nThanks Andrew\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1037253600,
"id": 130,
"title": "Fatigue - version 2"
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"body": "Hi there,\n\nTo those of you who were wondering what happened to last week's newsletter, the answer is, it didn't! But some things in life are worth waiting for.\n\nThis looks like it could be one of those weeks, with the introduction of our much-vaunted fatigue update. Andrew has effected something of a double wammy, by taking the tedium of mining and thwarting the mining scammers in one fell swoop. Never has the onset of tiredness aroused such excitement.\n\nAnd it's a case of \"don't cheat, sleep\", as Runescape players are finding that those big flat things in their bedroom are not simply there for ornamental value after all.\n\nA few confused players seem to think the new fatigue system actually makes mining take longer, but this is not the case. After testing every single mining site at every single level, we can conclusivly<sup>sic</sup> say that it takes no longer to get ore, or level-up than before. But it's a heck of a lot less tedious and repetitive.\n\nFinally you weary warriors can catch some Z's! Even if you do have to do it standing up. Still, horses seem to manage OK. Oh dear, horses. Probably shouldn't have said that word...\n",
"category": 5,
"date": 1037340000,
"id": 131,
"title": "A well deserved rest"
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"body": "Today we've made the following small changes to mining:\n\n* You can now mine twice as much silver before getting tired. This is because it was pointed out that it shouldn't really be harder to get silver than gold. This actually now means silver is easier to get than it has ever been in the past\n\n* We've made it 2-3 times easier to get gems under the new mining system, since that wasn't quite balanced correctly\n\n* We've added a new mine in the swamp south of Lumbridge with 4 mithril rocks, and 1 adamantite rock, this is to replace the rocks removed from elsewhere. The rocks were moved to make sure everything is the correct distance from a bed for the new system to work properly.\n\n* We made bread, pies, and pizza restore TWICE as much fatigue as they did before, which should make these foods much more worthwhile. We predict enterprising pizza sellers will turn up at the mining sites shortly :-)\n\nA few confused players seem to think the new fatigue system actually makes mining take longer, but this is not the case. After testing every single mining site at every single level, we can conclusively say that it takes no longer to get ore, or level-up than before. But it's a heck of a lot less tedious and repetitive.\n\nRemember we've added lots of new beds so you might not have to walk as far as you think, we're hoping to add all bed locations to our worldmap soon to help you find them.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1037340000,
"id": 132,
"title": "Small tweaks to mining"
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"body": "Due to popular demand, it is now possible to mine and fish for longer without getting tired!\n\nThere are now two sort of rocks that you can mine:\n\n**Soft rocks** - These rocks spawn quite slowly, but they are easy to mine so you get very little fatigue from them. Mining these rocks is much like mining was originally before we changed it. You can easily get a full load of ore before you become too tired to mine.\n\n**Hard rocks** - These use our new mining system for less repeat clicking. You can get the ore out of the rocks very quickly, and you can see it spawn so you aren't clicking blindly. However you will need to rest quite often when mining these rocks. For people who don't like clicking the same spot on the screen over and over you may find this way more fun.\n\nWe've also adjusted the fishing system. We considered introducing deep and shallow fish, but it doesn't work too well so instead we've just made the fish give a lot less fatigue than before, and spawn close to the original rate. This was what most players indicated they wanted.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1038204000,
"id": 133,
"title": "Fatigue reduced"
},
{
"body": "We've recently had a few queries from RuneScape users who say the RuneScape Windows client is crashing. (Even though it worked fine previously). We haven't changed our windows client recently, and from what we've been told it seems it's actually a recent windows update which is causing this problem.\n\nWe believe this problem has now been fixed in another windows update. Therefore if you are having problems with the RuneScape client failing we recommend you visit [windowsupdate.com](http://http://windowsupdate.com) to get the latest patches. This should fix it.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1038463200,
"id": 134,
"title": "Important note about RuneScape Windows client"
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"body": "Hi there,\n\nHere at Jagex we've received a lot of feedback about the new mining system. The general consensus is that it's now less tedious, and more strategic. And everyone is pleased that you can finally use beds.\n\nAs for the Jagex team, we've been busy preparing for the launch of a new look website. Tony, our resident graphics man has been beavering away with his virtual pencils, to come up with a design that knocks the socks off the current set-up (not so hard, some might say...) The new website is far more user-friendly and easy to navigate. Runescape.com will be a separate site from the Jagex page, so you'll be able to get straight to the action. And the whole thing looks pretty tasty to boot.\n",
"category": 1,
"date": 1038808800,
"id": 135,
"title": "The Word On The Street"
},
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"body": "**New website online!**\nAfter many weeks of hard work our new website is finally online - think of it as an early Christmas Present! We hope that you will find the site easier to use and to find your way around.\n\nAlthough we have tested the site as best we can, if you do find any problems, please let us know through the 'Feedback' section in our 'Customer Support' area accessible via the main page.\n\nCheers,\n\n\\*\\*The Jagex Team \\*\\*\n",
"category": 1,
"date": 1039586400,
"id": 136,
"title": "New website online!"
},
{
"body": "We've just added another massive members update. The long awaited [agility skill](http://http://runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/viewcategory.ws?cat_id=788) is finally available. You can practice on two different training courses, or try the agility dungeon.\n\nWe've also added a new quest which uses the agility skill - called the \"Grand tree quest\". This is set in an enormous new area called the Gnome stronghold which also includes loads more besides the quest. Even more agility quests will of course be added in future updates.\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1039672800,
"id": 137,
"title": "Agility skill online"
},
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"body": "If you cheat at RuneScape you will be banned. We have very advanced detection routines, and we can tell if you use programs to control your character for you. We've just banned over 400 players for cheating in this way. Many of whom were high level members.\n\nWe'd like to remind our players that using macros to play for you is NOT allowed and we WILL permanantly<sup>sic</sup> ban you for it, no exceptions!\n",
"category": 2,
"date": 1039672800,
"id": 138,
"title": "Cheating scum banned"
},
{
"body": "The RuneScape worlds were getting rather full again so we've put some more online. As previously promised the servers are on the west coast of the US this time. We've added 3 free servers, and 1 new members server.\n",
"category": 3,
"date": 1040623200,
"id": 139,
"title": "San-Francisco servers online"
},
{
"body": "Merry christmas from the Jagex team. We're dropping some santa hats today at random intervals in random places. They're just a bit of fun though, so please don't be too upset if you can't find one. If you manage to get more than one then please consider giving them to your friends as christmas presents. Of course you can sell them but that's not really the spirit of christmas :-)\n",
"category": 0,
"date": 1040796000,
"id": 140,
"title": "Merry Christmas"
},
{
"body": "Hi there,\n\nSo by now I imagine you're all enjoying the new website. Less clutter, more space and generally a more Runescapey feel. I'm sure there will be some who don't approve, but Runescape will always have its diehards, ready with an anecdote about the days when you could pk everywhere, and the economy held its value. Just remember that they will have fought in more wars than you, so they're entitled to be a bit upset that inflation has wiped out their pension.\n\nBut with Tom's Grand Tree Quest last week, and Tytn's Zombie Queen Quest coming soon, I'm sure that even the most po-faced players will be smiling right now. So this might be a good time to point out that the newsletter is now every two weeks, as the more observant amongst you will have already noticed.\n",
"category": 5,
"date": 1042264800,
"id": 141,
"title": "New website"
},
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"body": "Don't accept membership from other players - doing so is dangerous!\n\nWe would like to remind everyone that you must NOT allow another player to pay for your runescape account membership.\n\nIf someone offers you either a low level members account or offers to upgrade your own account to a members account (usually in return for runescape items), the chances are that the way they are paying will be fraudulent. When we discover this, we will cancel the payment, and then ban your account permanently. So please do not fall for this trick.\n\nThe general rule is, if its too good to be true, it normally is!\n\nFraudulent payments will be unearthed and result in automatic and permanent bans for all concerned. All transactions are logged. We can track and prosecute anybody attempting to make fraudulent payments. It is not allowed to pay for the membership of someone outside your family.\n",
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"date": 1043128800,
"id": 142,