RuneScape

RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (English Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game = MMORPG ) made by Jagex. The plot of the game is set in a pseudo- medieval fantasy world. The formerly free browser game today follows the business model of other MMORPGs that are financed through monthly memberships. It is also available free of charge, but the biggest part of the game world, most of adventure, some of the skills that an ad-free gaming environment and other remain more paying members only. There is also the opportunity to buy for real money in the game different items or game currency.

History

By 1998 Andrew Gower, Paul Gower and Constant Tedder developed from the so-called Devious MUD, the 2D online game RuneScape in Java. To make the game known to the developers put it on the website miniclip offered on various Internet games. Quickly, a community of about 300,000 members from around the world developed. Weekly updates released for RuneScape and the graphics have improved with time. In 2001, a paid version of the game by Jagex has been published, but the free version has been preserved. In 2004, a graphically enhanced version of the game was developed, the old version has since been referred to as " RuneScape Classic", it is still available for some of the paying players. Since March 7, 2007 RuneScape is publicly available in German as an open beta version. This could be initially tested by selected German players. Both the free and the paid German version was made available to the public a few months later and now is available to any Runescape player. Since 22 October 2007 German players is also called the " Compendium " is available. The open beta phase is finished. In order to prevent the sale of RuneScape gold and items for real money Jagex has made ​​significant changes in the players fighting in the wilderness and the free trade in the game in January 2008. In July 2008, RuneScape HD was introduced as a new version with much improved graphics with full screen mode, textures and shadows. Also in July, released in 2008 with "Betrayal at Falador " by TS Church, the first RuneScape novel, the 2011 "Return to Canifis " and 2012 "Legacy of Blood" two more followed.

According to the figures of MMOdata Runescape reached the end of 2007 - before the introduction of Runescape HD - more than 1.2 million paying members while since then the number of members has fallen to well below 1 million, placing it behind World of Warcraft, Aion and Star Wars: The Old Republic is ranked 4. The number of active accounts has long been settled at about 10 million, and cited as evidence for the popularity as a free accessible game, but the majority of active free accounts were in the course of 2011, with over nine million accounts closed due to bot abuse.

Game play

The user needs to start create an account and a player character with which he can then log in to the virtual fantasy world. In an introductory tutorial, the basics of the game are taught. After that, the player is a part of the game world to move freely open, there is no solid play goal and not a predetermined course of action. The focus is the development of character, which manifests itself in various skills. These are combat-related on the one hand skills such as melee or defense, on the other hand, the player can through activities such as fishing, hunting or ores earn (game) money that is required for the purchase of equipment and objects. The higher the level in a particular skill is, the more valuable objects can be created or removed valuable ores and subsequently traded to other players. The completing quests ( so-called quests) and killing monsters make more major components of the game dar. addition, it the players are able to assert themselves in the so-called duel arena or in special combat worlds ( PvP worlds) against other players or against to fight them.

Adventure ( Quest )

Adventure genre are typical tasks that you get from an NPC and has to fulfill. You will be rewarded for this, depending on the adventure with experience, items, access to new areas or new skills. It is not possible not to create an adventure final; Although a character can die and lose its objects carried in the course of an adventure, but there is always the possibility of bringing the adventure later, but the end.

Until now (July 2012) there are 183 adventure and a year come several new ones, but only a small part is the same open and accessible. For most adventure certain conditions are met. Game characters that are biased towards only fight or only on other skills quickly reach their limits.

The Adventures grouped into different narrative threads that reveal each part of the history of the countries and peoples of RuneScape. Thus, a series dealt with the history of the dwarves, lead others into the worlds of goblins, trolls or elves. Although there is no fixed order of the adventure as a whole, exist through these narratives to each other numerous dependencies of the adventure. In particular, for the difficult Grandmaster adventure is usually a greater number of other adventures condition.

Skills ( Skills )

There are 26 skills per skill has 99 levels and maximum 200,000,000 experience points that can reach the player. An exception, however, the Dungeoneering with a maximum level of 120 This leads to a high overall level of 2595 (25 times Level 99 plus one step 120).

The skills are divided into four groups fight, collection, processing and independents.

• The combat skills are Attack, Strength, Defence, Magic, Ranged, Prayer, life points and Summon. For these combat skills also a generic value indicating the player for all the relative combat power visible, the Combat Level ( "Combat Level " ) determined. This can be between levels 3 and 200. It is the part of the developer Jagex Ltd.. not published as of the average value is calculated. The life points, known in English as hitpoints represent by a skill that also constitutes a peculiarity of RuneScape in the MMORPG world
• The removal skills allow the player to gain raw materials. These include mining, logging, farming, hunting, fishing and theft.
• The processing skills that help the player can process raw materials into useful objects, are forging, crafts, cooking, architecture, botany, Runecrafting and Fletching.
• The independent or expert skills include Firemaking, Agility, Berserk and since 2008 also summon.

Dungeoneering is a skill over all incumbent members, since you need some of the skills already available in the different levels, one must, for example, the locks to open a door by means of theft, to grow food or evil beings with the help of prayer doors scare. Due to the fact that there are monsters in various dungeons, also makes this a high skill level in martial skills exploring easier.

Updates

Jagex regularly brings out new updates. These usually include bug fixes, graphics improvements, and rarely also new quests or mini-games. Relevant updates are announced each month beginning in " Behind the Scenes " at an early stage.

So-called " festive events " there are public holidays as follows:

• Christmas ( since 2001)
• Easter ( since 2002)
• Thanksgiving ( since 2008)
• Halloween ( since 2001)

They are temporarily available game content that will be permanently removed after about two to three weeks from the game. New skills at the beginning were one to several times introduced in the year, arrived in 2006, only two skills added, Dungeoneering and Summoning.