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 Post subject: 7 July 2008 - Behind the Scenes - July
PostPosted: July 7th, 2008, 2:30 pm 
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It really is the most impossible of impossible missions: how do you follow the graphical improvement of an entire game? Have a nap for a month or two? Boogie with Party Pete? Go on holiday to Brimhaven? Well, we've taken a different approach, following RuneScape High Detail with some updates that have been anticipated for a very long time...

Take your bank, for example. Many players have called for a better way of managing it, to help sort and organise the mess of herbs, long forgotten quest objects and holiday items. So, this month we will be adding a few features, the most prominent of which will be a new tabbing structure. This will allow you to order your bank according to categories that you define: you could gather your runes together on one tab, for example, and food on another. There will also be a search button and extra options for banking and removal that will aid you when moving quantities of items about.

'Moving items about' leads us neatly to our second anticipated feature: Item Lending. This superb service will allow free players and members to use their own wealth for the benefit of their companions by lending them handy items, powerful weapons, valuable armour and a few fancy hats too. Only one item will be lendable at any time, for a number of hours up to and including 24 hours, or until either of you log out. More information on release!

It's at this point in the month that we look back with rose-tinted glasses and get a little nostalgic. Do you remember your first days in RuneScape: leisurely wandering round Tutorial Island, making bread, catching fish and firing arrows at rats from behind a fence? Good times! A wind of change has been blowing about Tutorial Island, however, and it's brought a whiff of danger with it...

The next update will move the Tutorial from Tutorial Island to a quarantined Lumbridge, where a three-headed dragon will be terrorising people and generally being a nuisance. Luckily for the citizens, a passing White Knight, Sir Vant, will be on hand to hold back the beast. Far from being able to handle the situation on his own, he'll be after a willing adventurer to keep him supplied and do a spot of fighting.

The new Tutorial will be more quest-like and exciting, giving players a reason to create a new character and give it a go. If that doesn't sound like your cup of tea, any player will be able to collect the new Tutorial's reward - two experience lamps - whether they have completed it or not.

The Tutorial is not the only planned improvement to Lumbridge. There will be the Lumbridge Achievement Diary, packed with Beginner, Easy and Medium tasks. High-level players will have no trouble completing these assignments, but there are certainly some interesting rewards to be had. Be prepared to craft, mine, explore and tan your way to success!

You thought Lumbridge was only for learning the ropes, respawning and chefs with cake issues? Well, you'll find that there's more to the running of Lumbridge than meets the eye, as a number of NPCs will be looking to employ hard-working and diligent low/mid-level players with their day-to-day tasks. Deliveries need to be made, goblins killed and resources gathered, all in the name of a decent wage.

Our final update this month will be a first for RuneScape: a Wilderness quest. You'd be forgiven for thinking that means relentless combat, stark landscapes and the odd revenant sending you back to Lumbridge (to complete some Achievement Diary tasks, perhaps?); rather unusually, it centres on a small girl, who will have other ideas.

Beginning in the Wilderness but then moving to a parallel realm, Spirit of Summer will require you to meet the young girl's family and prepare them for their first holiday in decades. There's the small issue of a neighbour who's reluctant to let the family leave, but you've dealt with larger problems before, right? A charming adventure awaits, with a few surprises thrown in.

Less of a surprise will be the website updates. The traditional Players' Gallery and Postbag from the Hedge will be on hand, with a wallpaper that shows some RuneScape favourites in a different light.

So, you thought July was only about the graphical updates? It would seem that RuneScape has other ideas...

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PostPosted: July 7th, 2008, 2:30 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: 7 July 2008 - Behind the Scenes - July
PostPosted: July 7th, 2008, 2:35 pm 
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was wondering when they'd get rid of tutorial isle, since they added all the tutors to lumby hasn't been much point to the isle.
wilderness quest eh sounds interestingly similiar to a soul's bane for some reason.
bank organiser and lumbridge achievement diary sound kool wonder what item will be the lumbridge one.


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PostPosted: July 7th, 2008, 4:37 pm 
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Heh, I wonder if we'll eventually have an entire achievement diary outfit?

WOOT for the bank updates, I've been waiting for that a looooooong time. Strangely enough, I was commenting about how they still needed to add bank search earlier this week, and in the clan chat Alex 43 (I think) found the achievement symbol in Lumbridge as well as a weird "Ghost Village" in the wilderness that we predicted may be part of a quest.

If they can just fix the search so that it actually supports keywords, then the bank search will be the best update EVER in RS.

5/5 for getting me all super hopeful and most likely crushing my hopes with a ******* update tomorrow.

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PostPosted: July 7th, 2008, 5:57 pm 
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Heh, I wonder if we'll eventually have an entire achievement diary outfit?

WOOT for the bank updates, I've been waiting for that a looooooong time. Strangely enough, I was commenting about how they still needed to add bank search earlier this week, and in the clan chat Alex 43 (I think) found the achievement symbol in Lumbridge as well as a weird "Ghost Village" in the wilderness that we predicted may be part of a quest.

If they can just fix the search so that it actually supports keywords, then the bank search will be the best update EVER in RS.

5/5 for getting me all super hopeful and most likely crushing my hopes with a ******* update tomorrow.

I found that symbol a few days ago too, didn't know about the camp though. It's rather careless of Jagex to release terrain and map updates before the actual update is added. This allows players to predict the updates, sometimes too easily.

The Bank update will be good, however I think the search will work like the GE's search. That'd be the easiest way for them to do it, though it'd be much better if the search showed everything with your search words anywhere inside its name.

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 Post subject: Re: 7 July 2008 - Behind the Scenes - July
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Haha. I can see this easily being one of the most helpful updates ever, if it lives up to expectations. The quest actually sounds like one I would do because I want to, rather than just because it has a reward I need. Should be interesting to see what they manage to come up with.

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A three-headed dragon sounds a little drastic for a tutorial, but it's obviously not just going to sit there murdering every newbie that makes an account :P

None of this will stop me from woodcutting yet, but I'll probably take some time to mess around with the bank tabs. Great idea Jagex :idea: Hopefully item lending goes smoothly as well.

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PostPosted: July 8th, 2008, 7:42 pm 
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For me, it's just an average behind the scenes article. (You know, regular stuff, nothing that exciting).

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For me this month's updates are totally needed.
Finally we will have our bank organized :D
And a quest in the wildy, wooow scary :twisted:

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"Welcome to Runescape!
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I'm looking forward to the bank update the most. It's about time they let us organize our banks easier.


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"Welcome to Runescape!
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Welcome to Lumbridge!"

I'm looking forward to the bank update the most. It's about time they let us organize our banks easier.




??? It's about time they let us organize our banks easier? HUH? They didn't alow you to organize it before the update? You have to be kidding me. You were incapeable of doing this prior? :roll:

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I cant wait for the bank update, that is going to be really useful.

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2 500 xp lamps meh more free prayer xp :D anyways dragon for totorial sounds harsh yet if i understood theyre concept you gonna supply some dude whit supplys like at totorial island so that gona be action packed totorial :) for f2p bank update is useless but for members... i am out of words that's gonan be definetily best improvment at banks history :) wildy quest hmm seems like they started using wilderness area after all

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Oh, I forgot about the bank update! I have been waiting for that since August 2006 and it's finally coming! W00t!

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You know, I was excited when I saw the words ever RS'er loves: Experience lamps. but then I saw that I would get them straight off of tutorial island, and figured they wouldn't be as good. But I am looking forward to this when I make a new account.

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Oh, I forgot about the bank update! I have been waiting for that since August 2006 and it's finally coming! W00t!

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Lol, same, I have been making Rants about it FOREVER!

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