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‘Bot Nuke Day’ – Thoughts…

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Mark Gerhard created a news article on RuneScape’s homepage stating that Jagex will be releasing their “most formidable bot-busting weapon” in RuneScape’s history on the 25th of October 2011. One can say that Jagex are being a bit too ambitious, or you could say that maybe they are trying to reassure players who have had enough of bots.

Bot Nuke Day

Bot Nuke Day on the RuneScape Homepage

Let’s get down to what we know will happen on the 25th…

Codenamed ‘Clusterflutterer’ (if only you knew what I thought that said the first time I saw it), this prevention technology will effectively stop reflection bots from working. What is a reflection bot, you say? Lucky for you, I’ve done my research!

Reflection bots apparently read incoming packets sent from RuneScape’s game servers to your computer which allows them to determine where certain objectives are. For example, if you were in Draynor, the packets would indicate the location of a Willow tree, thus allowing the bot to find the Willow tree and play the game for you.

Most who have done their reading would know that there are not only reflection based bots out there in the world of RuneScape – there are also injection bots. These bots use a more complicated way of manipulating the way RuneScape behaves.

Injection bots use code already made by someone else that can be injected into the client, changing various areas of the game. For example, an injection bot can change the colour of a certain rock or read item codes to figure out what is what. However, these are easier to detect, so Jagex sees reflection bots as a much higher risk to RuneScape.

Though many have said that injection bots will not be affected, Jagex has stated that they will be affected just as much as reflection bots, which leads us to think that RuneScape may very well be ‘bot-free’. But for how long?

JaGeX and Clans

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As you may already know, JaGex, the owners of Runescape have released a new update which concentrates on the clan community within the game. This was an update that was widely looked forward to and it most certainly did not disappoint… much.

Though JaGeX did make a massive step forward taking the risk in providing free tools to assist users to make Runescape clans, they made a few mistakes that are costing the clan community more than they are giving.

I was not amused that this update changed the face of what a clan is in Runescape. Many people see it as either a ‘free cape ride’, or a ‘group of randoms that pk together’. Though this is all well and good, most of these ‘clans’ serve the same purpose as a Clan Chat always did… a chat.

My gripe with this change is that players who are new to the clan world are directly exposed to a mess of free capes and wannabes. I thought being in a clan was about honour, experience and leadership – now that is all changing.

The quality of clans needs to step up, and JaGeX was probably better off making it more difficult to run a clan because overall, you get better quality and a stronger community. Now we must deal with the consequences of making a Runescape clan a 5-minute job.

Guthix help us.

I’ll never ‘quit’ Runescape?

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It may or may not have become apparent to you that seeing as I haven’t been posting a lot – I’ve actually turned away from Runescape a little. I wont say that I have quit the game, because I still have things that I would like to achieve sometime later when I have more time on my hands; but I will say that I have stepped away from it more and more. Why?

Well for starters, Runescape is a simple time game with some strategy added into the mix. I don’t have enough time to plan a good gameplay strategy or grind extra hours into my study or social life to get things done in a virtual world. I’ve gone through this quitting fiasco so many times its like a ritual now… start playing, quit, start playing, quit. It’s a never ending cycle!

Then it hit me, all these years, no matter what the circumstances… I always found my way back into Runescape. I have friends who walked away from the game many years ago and have now come running back due to free trade and wilderness. It’s near impossible to stay completely clear of the game and that’s something that scares me a little! :P

Though I can admit, I do enjoy the game sometimes. I mean, I have my times during the year when I really can’t be bothered logging in, but other times I have these skilling outbursts where I end up absolutely beasting it! It’s very weird :D

Being very experienced in the clan world, I see so many people come and go from Runescape, the amount of people that have joined clans, left them and joined back again because they’re back into the game is ridiculous. What is it about Runescape that keeps people coming back?

Is it the economy? Ha! No. Is it the community? Quite possibly. Though Runescape has a community that is increasingly moving to outside sources of communication to leave their messages, Runescape has one of the warmest, most open communities in the gaming world. The amount of friends you make on this game is amazing, and for me its the community that keeps me coming back, the clan world, too.

But then this raises the question – HOW do you quit Runescape entirely without drastic methods? Is it possible to just do the ‘cold turkey’ method and just leave?

Who knows. XD

JaGeX bringing Free Trade and Old Wilderness back?

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JaGeX has unexpectedly brought to light an issue that has been burning within the land of Runescape for quite some time; what is going to be done about the removal of free trade and the old wilderness? As you may or may not know, the old wilderness and free trade along with staking were removed due to foreign establishments forging membership and participating in real world trading activities, ultimately promoting a very unfair game.

These removals were made to protect Runescape as a whole, and back in 2007 when this decision was made, JaGeX assured as that it was in the community’s best interest for this to happen, so it did. Three years later we are now presented with a burning question – will these removed elements to gameplay return? Could it really be true? Continue reading →

Do you enjoy Runescape?

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The other day I was thinking about how respect in Runescape works and I found something very interesting about what we do in the game. When you ask someone what it is that makes someone ‘good’ at Runescape, they immediately respond with ‘Good levels’ or ‘High overall’, some may even say ‘High combat!’.

With all of these factors contributing so largely to what it means to be a good player of the game, it came to me that maybe Runescape is losing its meaning just a little bit. I’m sure when Andrew Gower originally created Runescape he did not envision a race to see who has the best bragging rights on their XP and levels, which is what it is today. I personally play Runescape for the fun factor, I enjoy skilling, I enjoy activities and running my own clan.

If so many people from around the world are forcing themselves to play the game just for the sake of bragging rights; I say why? Why are they bothering? Why do people continuously play Runescape even if they don’t enjoy it? Easy. They want to feel respected.

I think a true Runescape player is someone who is fascinated by the community, the gameplay and loves to do various activities within the game for a purpose – enjoying themselves. Someone who is torturing their sleeping patterns and planning 18 hour days of playing just to get ranks up doesn’t make them a good Runescape player, does it?