RuneScape
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RuneScape is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) created by Jagex. It was programmed using their own scripting language under Java.
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[edit] History
It was first started in 2001 as "Runescape" now called "Runescape Classic", but the code and graphics engine was rewritten in 2004 to form Runescape 2, the game that is playable today from http://www.runescape.com/. The game is designed to allow players all over the world connect and play together in realworld-time. It usually has around over 120,000 members on the game servers at any one time.
[edit] Features
The game is owned and operated by Jagex and it is free-to-play. Extra features in the game are only available to paid members. The game is managed on 131 servers across the globe. These can support a capacity of up to 2,000 users each!.
[edit] Development
The game was originally made by Andrew Gower. He created a game named "DeviousMUD" in 1998. DeviousMud was mainly in 2D graphics and was scrapped to create Runescape. Runescape consists of both 2D isometric graphics and 3D graphics. However DeviousMud was never released to the public and only a few knew about it.
Jagex was soon formed. It stands for Java Gaming Experts. Andrew Gower is the head of development now. After Runescape's popularity, they rewrote the script for the graphics engine and made a few alterations to the game. Runescape 2 was created.
[edit] Summary
The success of the game has changed the views on MMORPGs around the world. Runescape 2 is arguably one of the biggest MMORPG ever made - it has the a large number of members and the most servers.
[edit] Users
All of the characters are controlled by real people. Some players are non-playable characters (NPC) that can only be spoken to or killed if the storyline involves that character's death. A new player starts as level 3. You can train with a lot of weapons and armor, but it's basic.
[edit] Weapons, Armor, and Shields
Like nearly every (or every) have all these. A lot of the weapons in RuneScape have special abilities. Some of the most favored weapons for members are: Dragon Dagger Super Poison (Used to be DDS, but now DDP++), the Abyssal Whip, and the Dragon Longsword. Armor, something to cover your body and is protection as we all know, is important for a lot of players unless they are "suiciding", meaning that they go somewhere to get killed or to challenge a high-level monster (mostly people take their armor off to "suicide". The best Armor, most-expensive, and for high level rich players is dragon armor. It CANNOT be made by smithing (no such thing as dragon ore.) Another strong armor (not armor, but a shield) is the crystal shield. It costs about 700k and you have to do a quest to get it, but it's worth it!
[edit] PK
Player Killing (PK) means that you are in the wilderness (North of the world of Runescape) and you attack someone. If you attack someone first, you will be skulled. Being skulled means that you have a skull on your head. If you die while being skulled, you lose all of your items, important or not. Here is how you can make the skull go away: Once you attack, and have a skull on top, wait 20 minutes and it will go away unless you attack another player during the 20 minutes.
[edit] Skills
There are 23 skills in Runescape and rising! The skills are:
- Attack (Hit %)
- Defence (Guard)
- Strength (Toughness)
- Hitpoints (HP)
- Ranged (Bow + Arrow)
- Prayer (Abilities)
- Magic (Casting)
- Cooking (Food)
- Woodcutting (Self Explanatory)
- ^Fletching^ (Making Bows and Arrows)
- Fishing (Self Explanatory)
- Firemaking (Burning Logs)
- Crafting (Making Things)
- Smithing (Making Weapons, Armors, and Shields and Smelting Ore)
- Mining (Getting Ore for Smithing)
- ^Herblore^ (Making Potions)
- ^Agility^ (Running Farther and Reaching Places You Cannot Reach)
- ^Thieving^ (Stealing from Stalls, Chests, and (only) NPC's)
- ^Slayer^ (Killing Monsters You Cannot Kill)
- ^Farming^ (Growing Crops, Trees, Berries, Etc.)
- Runecrafting (Crafting runes for Magic)
- ^Hunter^ (Killing Certain Animals) Note: Newest!
- ^Construction^ (Building Your House) Note: Said to be money-wasting.
Note: ^(skill)^ means that it is "Member-Only." Please suscribe to Runescape to use them and other many exciting quests and weapons/armor/shields!
Those are all 23 skills. There are new skills coming that no one knows of!