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Latest RuneScape News - 11th September 2002 New abuse reporting system online! 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. This 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! Please 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. Thanks Andrew Latest RuneScape News - 9th September 2002 New members quest online - The sea slug quest Something 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? We'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 Latest RuneScape News - 4th September 2002 Please vote for us in the golden joystick awards 2002. If you live in the uk then we'd really appreciate you voting for RuneScape as online game of the year. Just click here and type RuneScape in the 'online game of the year' box. It will only take a few minutes and doesn't cost anything :-) Thanks! Andrew Latest RuneScape News - 27th August 2002 Epsiode 1 of our new multipart quest is now online. Edmond's daugher Elena has gone missing in West Ardougne whilst trying to help the plague victims there. See if you can find out whats going on. The story started in this quest will be continued in future updates. We have also added a new Ardougne teleport spell for high level magicians, and a new bank in East Ardougne. Latest RuneScape News - 26th August 2002 RuneScape progress update. It's been a while since I last revealed what we're currently working on, so here goes! 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. The next update (hopefully tuesday or wednesday), will contain a new quest which is epsiode #1 of this story. We've also been working on a 'RuneScape history' page, which gives some background story for the RuneScape world, which we hope to put online soon. Whilst the rest of the dev-team have been focussing 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. I hope to get another preview online with the next couple of weeks so you can see how we are doing. We'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. As I mentioned before this new graphics engine will also allow us much more flexible maps, and so we will finally be able to put the player owned houses and carpentry in. However 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. Note: A few people have been tricked by fake previews of our upcoming updates. Any 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! Click here for security tips. Andrew Latest RuneScape News - 15th August 2002 We've just got another 2 members quests online. Sorry it took a bit longer than expected. We've been trying a new testing method to make sure there are less bugs than the last update. The 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? The 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. Latest RuneScape News - 26th July 2002 The hiscore tables are back online, and we've increased them to show the top 100,000 players!! We've also added a search facility so you can quickly find your name and see where you rank An unrelated warning to free edition users - we've discovered that the members 'gnome amulet' is accidently usable on the free server. However we will obviously be fixing this oversight in the next update, so we'd like to warn you NOT to waste your money buying an object which will become useless to you in the next update! Latest RuneScape News - 23rd July 2002 We've updated RuneScape with 3 new members quests! King 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 Find the secret gnome village, and help them retrieve the orbs of protection which constantly protect their village from the dangers outside. Help 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. We'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. Latest RuneScape News - 20th July 2002 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. Latest RuneScape News - 19th July 2002 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. Latest RuneScape News - 18th July 2002 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. I'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%. Now I'm back at work I should be able to get it working smoothly fairly quickly. Andrew Latest RuneScape News - 12th July 2002 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: Virtual Check Check-by-FAX direct debit (ACH) Western Union® PayPal Citibank's "C2it" service Cash Wire transfer Money order! Latest RuneScape News - 10th July 2002 Today Runescape update fixes a large number of outstanding bugs in the game. The following issues have been fixed: Bug where you could teleport from the high level wilderness dungeon is fixed Bug where iron arrows were usable on the free servers is fixed Bug where you could get a skull for retaliating to a ranged attack is fixed Bug where shadow spiders prevented potions from running out is fixed Bug where arrows did not stack correctly, if multiple players shot the same target is fixed Bug where recovery questions were occasionally reported as 'not set' is fixed Bug where attacking another player immediately after a retreat caused a glitch is fixed Bug where player occasionally ran in random direction after ranged kill is fixed The next game content update should be in about 12 days when we hope to get 3 fairly large quests online. The update will also include a whole load of new areas including a jungle, a tree-top village, a massive battle field, and a huge hedge maze. |
