01-Feb-2010 - Double Runes & Trading with Friends

Mike · **Posted:** February 1st, 2010, 8:24 am

Jagex wrote:

01-Feb-2010 - Chance of Double Law, Death and Blood Runes

Based on player feedback to last November’s Runecrafting update, we’ve extended the ability of double-crafting runes to include law, death and blood runes. As the Runecrafting level to guarantee double-crafting of these runes would lie much higher than level 99 (following the pattern established in the rest of the skill), you will only have a chance of doing so, with that chance increasing the closer your Runecrafting level gets to 99.

The ability to double-craft law, death and blood runes now means that it is possible to receive more than one of each type of rune from a single essence. The greater chance, at higher Runecrafting levels, of crafting two law, death or blood runes per essence should provide more incentive to train the skill through the last few levels.

Mod Nancy
RuneScape Content Developer

Jagex wrote:

01-Feb-2010 - Trading With Friends

How much wealth you are able to trade with your friends has been made more generous. Exactly how much depends on how long you’ve been friends (i.e. how long you've been on each other's Friends Lists).

If you’ve been friends for at least one month, your trade limit will be doubled; for two months your limit is tripled; and for three months your limit is quadrupled!

As before, when trading, you will continue to be limited by whomsoever has the lower trade limit, but remember that you are able to increase your trade limit by earning Quest Points.

Mod Hope
RuneScape Content Developer

Adbot · **Posted:** February 1st, 2010, 8:24 am

Italy4life · **Posted:** February 1st, 2010, 3:15 pm

think the trading with friends update was a really smart one, i can now trade decent amount of cash with my long time friends and not a chance gold farmers can come back because you have to be friends for a long time to get a decent amount.

5/5

Pennstate315 · Runite Member 5-25-10

Congrats to Jagex, this was a great idea. Just like italy4life said gold farming won't work but you can still help out your friends.

Tim · **Posted:** February 1st, 2010, 10:23 pm

Finally I can be a nicer person to my friends. Instead of having them pay me for getting brews, or super sets, I can give them away for free. Double Runes, can't get them so I will need to get my runecrafting up for it to be useful. 4/5 only because I can't use the double runecrafting update.

Cnbc-e985 · **Posted:** February 4th, 2010, 5:00 pm

Its unlike the multiple rune?

Hells Sponge · **Posted:** February 4th, 2010, 10:04 pm

Glad Jagex is finally listening to their members... I can't tell you how long people have been bringing up the friends limit change on the rants forum for...

Adbot · **Posted:** February 4th, 2010, 10:04 pm

Wolvespwnyou · **Posted:** February 4th, 2010, 11:12 pm

The friend list thing is good, but like what if me and a friend that's been on the list for years get in a fight so I remove him cause I don't want to listen to him then add him back later that day? Bu wih the multiple runes... Yeah! I can finally get 55 magic now with the coming decline in law runes!

Brimmk · **Posted:** February 5th, 2010, 5:51 pm

really good update, good for friends and RC skillers, and on the whole, a solid update.

Weoika · **Posted:** February 6th, 2010, 1:56 pm

Nice rc update

I've recently done ~40k pure ess at nats since the multiple-nats-before-91 update, which got me a fair amount more than 40k nats
And hooray for a friends trade limit change, even if it did take a lot of nagging.

Flash · **Posted:** February 6th, 2010, 6:38 pm

Yay now I can trade 40k with my long-time friends.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Definitely good update. That you can trade more with friends is nice. Also, the runecraft update is very nice. Since you can't double craft level wise, that they increased the chance is a good solution and will hopefully decrease the price of higher level runes over time.

Flash · **Posted:** February 9th, 2010, 1:54 pm

Duke Juker wrote:

Definitely good update. That you can trade more with friends is nice. Also, the runecraft update is very nice. Since you can't double craft level wise, that they increased the chance is a good solution and will hopefully decrease the price of higher level runes over time.

Why do you care about the runecraft part duke your f2p :shock:

Bonsai99 · **Posted:** February 9th, 2010, 7:21 pm

One problem i see with the trading with friends update is that i tend to accidentally delete friends and that resets it completely. :/

Gareth · **Posted:** February 10th, 2010, 3:40 pm

bonsai99 wrote:

One problem i see with the trading with friends update is that i tend to accidentally delete friends and that resets it completely. :/

The system remembers your last 5 friends (pretty sure its 5, might be 10) so as long as you add them again before u add/delete 5 more people it doesn't get reset.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Flash wrote:

Duke Juker wrote:

Definitely good update. That you can trade more with friends is nice. Also, the runecraft update is very nice. Since you can't double craft level wise, that they increased the chance is a good solution and will hopefully decrease the price of higher level runes over time.

Why do you care about the runecraft part duke your f2p :shock:

The last part of what I said is what I mean. Even though it won't help me as I'm f2p, members will be able to make more important runes in somewhat greater numbers which should drive down the price of laws significantly. I guess that's really all I'm excited about. If laws went down in price, that would be great for anyone buying. I'm always in need of laws at some point in Runescape. I'd rather not pay more than I have to. I'm a cheapskate like that. :wink: