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Latest News
Monday Update - New games and such
New Quest. Enakhra's Lament.
Agility Pyramid tweaks
Over 15000 RuneScape accounts banned for cheating
Update servers currently quite busy.
Monday Update - New games and such Posted by FireballX301
Posted at 31st January 2006, 8:23AM (GMT +1100)
30 January 2006 - New Look Hiscores
We have updated our hiscores pages to look better than ever before. Also, you can now compare your highscores with someone else, side by side.
To compare one character with another, simply click on one name in the hiscores tables to see their personal hiscores, then enter a second character name in the 'compare to' box and click 'Change'.
Check out the new hiscores pages by clicking the 'View the hiscores' link on the front page.
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30 January 2006 - Runesquares, Harpie Bugs and new potato recipes!
The Prince of Burthorpe is well known for his love of games and puzzles, and he's just learnt some new tricks! Runesquares and Runeversi are now available in the Burthorpe Games Room in addition to the usual games of Runelink and Draughts.
Runesquares involves players "drawing" lines in an attempt to create squares, scoring a point and gaining an extra turn for each square they complete. Runeversi is the Prince's version of Reversi, and uses the standard rules.
The stairs down to the Burthorpe Games Rooms can be found in the entrance hall of the Prince's Castle in Burthorpe, north-west of Falador. There is no entrance fee and there is a bar in which to relax between matches.
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The natives of Karamja have been complaining recently of a new type of bug giving them a bit of trouble, so the slayer masters have decided to add this monster to their lists. Think you could help them out? If so, head to the northern coast of the island to find this new slayer monster (slayer level 33 required).
Beware: these bugs aren't easily hit, so you'll need to buy a special lantern from the slayer shops to distract them and make that killer blow!
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Players can now use their culinary talents to make more baked potatoes. With toppings varying from a simple chilli-con-carne potato to a mushroom and onion fry-up, there's something for cooks of all levels. High-level cooks may find the tuna and sweetcorn potato to be very filling indeed...
Unfortunately, the ghasts in Mort Myre have got wind of this, and may now rot your potatoes - and your rare gout tubers - if you enter their swamp, so be extra careful.
To make baked potatoes with toppings:
1. Bake the potato on a range.
2. Add some butter.
3. Combine topping ingredients by chopping them into a bowl.
Ingredients for toppings:
Chilli-con-carne: meat & spicy sauce (made from garlic and gnome spice).
Egg and tomato: scrambled egg, tomato.
Mushroom and onion: fried Bittercap mushroom, fried onion.
Tuna and sweetcorn: tuna, cooked sweetcorn.
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In other news, the Strange Box anti-macro event has been modified to ensure that it no longer penalises our colour-blind players. You'll now see a variety of shapes with numbers written on them; identify the required shape or number to open the box.
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Yay for general maintenance. I still wonder who's going to actually play in the games room, however, seeing as there's no reward.
We have updated our hiscores pages to look better than ever before. Also, you can now compare your highscores with someone else, side by side.
To compare one character with another, simply click on one name in the hiscores tables to see their personal hiscores, then enter a second character name in the 'compare to' box and click 'Change'.
Check out the new hiscores pages by clicking the 'View the hiscores' link on the front page.
-/-/-/-/-/-/-
30 January 2006 - Runesquares, Harpie Bugs and new potato recipes!
The Prince of Burthorpe is well known for his love of games and puzzles, and he's just learnt some new tricks! Runesquares and Runeversi are now available in the Burthorpe Games Room in addition to the usual games of Runelink and Draughts.
Runesquares involves players "drawing" lines in an attempt to create squares, scoring a point and gaining an extra turn for each square they complete. Runeversi is the Prince's version of Reversi, and uses the standard rules.
The stairs down to the Burthorpe Games Rooms can be found in the entrance hall of the Prince's Castle in Burthorpe, north-west of Falador. There is no entrance fee and there is a bar in which to relax between matches.
________________________________
The natives of Karamja have been complaining recently of a new type of bug giving them a bit of trouble, so the slayer masters have decided to add this monster to their lists. Think you could help them out? If so, head to the northern coast of the island to find this new slayer monster (slayer level 33 required).
Beware: these bugs aren't easily hit, so you'll need to buy a special lantern from the slayer shops to distract them and make that killer blow!
________________________________
Players can now use their culinary talents to make more baked potatoes. With toppings varying from a simple chilli-con-carne potato to a mushroom and onion fry-up, there's something for cooks of all levels. High-level cooks may find the tuna and sweetcorn potato to be very filling indeed...
Unfortunately, the ghasts in Mort Myre have got wind of this, and may now rot your potatoes - and your rare gout tubers - if you enter their swamp, so be extra careful.
To make baked potatoes with toppings:
1. Bake the potato on a range.
2. Add some butter.
3. Combine topping ingredients by chopping them into a bowl.
Ingredients for toppings:
Chilli-con-carne: meat & spicy sauce (made from garlic and gnome spice).
Egg and tomato: scrambled egg, tomato.
Mushroom and onion: fried Bittercap mushroom, fried onion.
Tuna and sweetcorn: tuna, cooked sweetcorn.
________________________________
In other news, the Strange Box anti-macro event has been modified to ensure that it no longer penalises our colour-blind players. You'll now see a variety of shapes with numbers written on them; identify the required shape or number to open the box.
-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-
Yay for general maintenance. I still wonder who's going to actually play in the games room, however, seeing as there's no reward.
New Quest. Enakhra's Lament. Posted by FireballX301
Posted at 24th January 2006, 8:50AM (GMT +1100)
Quest Guide
Continuing with the sand theme for this month, we have a quest featuring camel amulets, mysterious ancient temples and a chance to show off those magic skills you've been training up recently.
A shifty, sunburnt sculptor called Lazim wants your help to build a statue in the desert south of the Bandit Camp. Does his choice of location have something to do with the ruins nearby, and why does he react so oddly to the mention of camels?
Use your cunning and experience to delve into RuneScape's hidden past, and discover the reason for Enakhra's Lament.
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Once more, with feeling. Quest guide will be out momentarily.
Continuing with the sand theme for this month, we have a quest featuring camel amulets, mysterious ancient temples and a chance to show off those magic skills you've been training up recently.
A shifty, sunburnt sculptor called Lazim wants your help to build a statue in the desert south of the Bandit Camp. Does his choice of location have something to do with the ruins nearby, and why does he react so oddly to the mention of camels?
Use your cunning and experience to delve into RuneScape's hidden past, and discover the reason for Enakhra's Lament.
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Once more, with feeling. Quest guide will be out momentarily.
Agility Pyramid tweaks Posted by Catatifish
Posted at 20th January 2006, 5:47AM (GMT +1100)
Taken from runescape.com:
We have made some changes to the way the Agility Pyramid works.
As of now, if you attempt to travel backwards over an obstacle, you will always fail it regardless of your agility level. (If you fall down by trying to go backwards you will now only take minimal damage.) This was necessary to stop players from taking advantage of an oversight where it was possible to gain a better rate of XP by simply traversing back and forth over certain obstacles rather than attempting to get to the top.
On Monday we were forced to alter the XP rates for the affected obstacles; the original higher XP rates for all the obstacles have now been reinstated. You will now gain exactly the same XP from the pyramid as you did when it was initially released, and as a useful side effect it will be a lot easier to give up and escape the pyramid if you find yourself running low on food or water.
We have made some changes to the way the Agility Pyramid works.
As of now, if you attempt to travel backwards over an obstacle, you will always fail it regardless of your agility level. (If you fall down by trying to go backwards you will now only take minimal damage.) This was necessary to stop players from taking advantage of an oversight where it was possible to gain a better rate of XP by simply traversing back and forth over certain obstacles rather than attempting to get to the top.
On Monday we were forced to alter the XP rates for the affected obstacles; the original higher XP rates for all the obstacles have now been reinstated. You will now gain exactly the same XP from the pyramid as you did when it was initially released, and as a useful side effect it will be a lot easier to give up and escape the pyramid if you find yourself running low on food or water.
Over 15000 RuneScape accounts banned for cheating Posted by Catatifish
Posted at 20th January 2006, 5:47AM (GMT +1100)
Taken from runescape.com:
We have just banned over 15000 accounts from the main RuneScape game for breaking rule 7, and attempting to use software to play the game automatically for them.
We can detect this type of cheating VERY easily. Suprisingly some people seem to think they can get away with this, but we're making absolutely sure you can't.
As well as having new systems to detect people cheating in this way, we are also using a new system to go through and ban other accounts used by these cheats, so they can't just cheat on a 'throwaway' account they don't care about, and expect their other accounts to be unaffected.
We will not let cheats spoil our game for everyone else. It's just not fair on our millions of legitimate players to let a selfish few try and spoil the game for everyone else.
We have just banned over 15000 accounts from the main RuneScape game for breaking rule 7, and attempting to use software to play the game automatically for them.
We can detect this type of cheating VERY easily. Suprisingly some people seem to think they can get away with this, but we're making absolutely sure you can't.
As well as having new systems to detect people cheating in this way, we are also using a new system to go through and ban other accounts used by these cheats, so they can't just cheat on a 'throwaway' account they don't care about, and expect their other accounts to be unaffected.
We will not let cheats spoil our game for everyone else. It's just not fair on our millions of legitimate players to let a selfish few try and spoil the game for everyone else.
Update servers currently quite busy. Posted by Catatifish
Posted at 17th January 2006, 13:23PM (GMT +1100)
Taken from runescape.com:
Some of our update servers are currently running at capacity, as this weeks update is particular large.
If you get a 'download server full' message then please simply try using a world at a different location, and you should then be able to play ok.
Trying a different world somewhere else, rather than trying the same world again is the best way to quickly get into the game.
We are also taking steps to improve our update architecture, so future updates load more quickly.
Some of our update servers are currently running at capacity, as this weeks update is particular large.
If you get a 'download server full' message then please simply try using a world at a different location, and you should then be able to play ok.
Trying a different world somewhere else, rather than trying the same world again is the best way to quickly get into the game.
We are also taking steps to improve our update architecture, so future updates load more quickly.
