Octorber 2008 | RuneScape 2 Forums
| Post ID: 2443682 Posted at: 03-Oct-2008 08:08:10 | |
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October is traditionally a month of scary surprises and toothache. This month will be no different when it comes to our Halloween content, with a quest AND holiday event both to be available on the free servers. For scary surprises: how about entire worlds where you can PK and hunt other players to your hearts content? Thats right, PvP worlds are coming! But first, a few words about how were going to update RuneScape in the future.
During the last six months weve been reading through the forums, talking to you in-game and running polls on the sorts of updates you really want. It doesnt take a genius to realise that its the bigger, chunkier updates that really get you excited, those like the God Wars Dungeon or a new skill. These are the sorts of updates we found that you wanted to play. Updates that you want to go back to time and time again. So, starting from this month, were changing the way we release content. From now on youll see one massive headline update (such as a Recipe for Disaster or a Castle Wars) every month. On top of that, there will still be a secondary release, much more like the size of update youre used to right now. Were also still committed to making sure that no two weeks pass without something new. Basically, from now on our releases will be like this: Four week months will have two updates: one big headline release and a secondary one. Five week months will have three updates: one big headline release and two secondary ones. So, on to this months updates... PvP Worlds Ever found yourself wanting to say, Look, its my tree. If you dont stop chopping it...Ill chop you! Sounds cool, right? Yeah, but where could you do it? And when? The answers are PvP worlds and October! From log-in, those that are interested in PvP content will be able to join in on special PvP worlds. The danger on these worlds will be very clear from the first messages you see, ensuring that players never log onto these worlds by mistake. After all, we dont want players accidentally getting involved with PKing (player killing) if they dont want to. Normal, non-PvP worlds will still act just as they do now, so dont worry if bashing others isnt really your thing. Those that want to get involved will find a number of differences to the usual set-up on PvP worlds. Firstly, youll be able to fight people pretty much anywhere, so long as their Combat level is similar to yours (within a certain range of levels). This means that almost everywhere is dangerous. Some places, like banks and respawn points, will be deemed safe and no combat will be able to occur there, and some of the minigames will be disabled (you wont be able to PK team mates while playing Castle Wars, for example) but many will still be active. Other places, like Falador, Varrock and the entirety of the Wilderness, will be considered hot spots where the danger will be even greater and a higher concentration of opponents. Now, onto the money side of things. Many of you will be aware of the RWT (real-world trading of RuneScape gold for money) reasons we changed the old Wilderness. We certainly cant just bring that threat back to RuneScape, so we have devised a system that rewards players based on a variety of factors. This means that things such as risk, level of foe and location will help to calculate rewards. Drops will be determined by a combination of drop tables and some of the gear that your opponent drops. We will go into more depth about this on the day of release. Hallowe'en As well as changing things around with the headline updates, we also decided to change the way we do things with our holiday events. We wanted to make the most of the little bits of fun we have every year, and give the free-to-play game a taste of the content we release in the members world. This year, we will be releasing a Halloween-themed quest as well as the traditional holiday event. This quest will be available to our free players for the two weeks around Halloween, along with the holiday event itself, and members will be able to play the quest at any time (the normal holiday event will disappear after two weeks as usual). Whats it about? Well, youll have to wait and see, but expect some funky decorations to start appearing. Spooky player letters and artwork will also await those strong of stomach...so be prepared. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updates being released after October In case that little lot isnt enough for you, lets take a few moments to talk about the headline content were releasing in the months after October: Stealing Creation Not long to wait now for this crazy combination for skillers and PKers. Can you and your team work together capturing resources and equipping your warriors? Will you avoid the multitude of threats bearing down on your safe haven? Will you try to make your own way to the higher level gear, or will you just PK and destroy your opponents hard work? Will you be able to keep the enemy at bay while stealing creation? Mobilising Armies Ever fancied assaulting a castle with your very own army? You will be able to hire a mercenary force to battle against three other players, complete set objectives and earn rewards. Mobilising Armies will be a fast paced tactical minigame allowing you to control your very own RuneScape army with troops made up of humans and other races. There will also be some special effects including dive bombing gnomes and giant catapults. Will you be up to the challenge? Have fun! Mod Mark Lead Designer RuneScape Well i cant wait for the pvp worlds the rest i really dont care about lol. |
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| Post ID: 2444518 Posted at: 03-Oct-2008 23:53:05 | |
desertfusion
Joined: 12 Jun 2008
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Meh, I don't really care much for the PvP world, my Summoning is slightly highish for my level (normally about 40) so I'll get eated by people.
The Mobilising Armies sounds like an RTS, my type of game. =) Might make a whole army of Graardors. Glad to know about the update release times. And about the knew trade limit in relevance to the quest points. I'M GETTING SICK OF HAVING 269 QUEST POINTS! GUVE ME 270! 
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| Post ID: 2474945 Posted at: 09-Nov-2008 17:44:44 | |
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Moore_235
Joined: 24 Sep 2006
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you spelled october wrong..... lol
whargarrbbll
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| Post ID: 2475180 Posted at: 10-Nov-2008 06:59:59 | |
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rsaccount
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please dont bump topics that are a month old.
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