Login Problems 29-Apr-2006
One of our 8 loginservers has suffered a hardware failure. We are currently in the process of attempting to restore the system. This means 1 in 8 of our players will be unable to login.
We take full offsite backups of the system every 24 hours, and also have another backup system on a secondary harddisk which keeps everyones state as of 15 mins ago.
We are currently trying to restore the '15 minute' backup so nobody loses more than 15 minutes of playtime. That part of the hardware is still working , but copying the data to our standby replacement server is running slowly.
It might be a few more hours before we manage to restore the system on new hardware, but we feel this is better than players rolling back a full 24 hours.
In the meanwhile if you have another account you might want to try using that instead, or just wait whilst we try to restore the system.
Please accept our apologies for this outage. We are doing everything we can to restore the system.
***Faster Loading + some Home Page Changes*** 28-Apr-2006
All of the pictures in my Easter 2006 Guide were in 24-bit .bmp format (which basically means although Runescape only uses the basic 256 colors, the file was coded for a picture with 24 thousand or million [I can't remember] colors) so it was a LOT bigger than it needed to be. Also, the .bmp form loaded the whole picture before it displayed it on the browser that means it didn't look like it was making any progress. I have changed them to .png format (that I think only saves 256 colors, but no matter how it does it, its a LOT smaller) that will make them load a lot (10x) faster! Although this DOESN'T mean the picture quality will be reduced at all. Because the Easter holiday stuff is over, I won't be modifying this year's Easter Guide again. I also have added a Runescape Classic world map and a Runescape Classic Wildy map, all in the fast-loading .pdf format of course. I have reworded my introductory paragraph to include more up-to-date things about my site with extra links. There are now some pictures by the Runescape Maps Page and Guides Page links to help them stand out and be more recognizable. For anyone who wants to know what the "New & Improved Wildy Graphics" look like, just thing of mustard. The entire lava area is pure light mustard yellow like this hightlight. Ipersonally think is is just plain stupid and looked A LOT BETTER the old way because, I mean, since when was lava just pure yellow? Never before until Jagex decided to "upgrade" (or make it stupid looking) the old nice looking lava. The only cool things are that it smokes and shoots out random fireballs that fly through the air, which they could have easily just done to the old lava...
Readers' Letters - April 24-Apr-2006
April's edition of the Postbag from the Hedge is now out! Those of you lucky enough might actually see Postie Pete in game, so if you see an odd-looking character with a postbag, don't be surprised!
This month, the letters page tackles the burning issues that are the mysterious lands that lie beyond Port Phasmatys, the old "black hole", beards that talk, and even a chat with the mime - well, sort of... and more!
Check out the new readers' letters today!
Wilderness graphical update 24-Apr-2006
Wilderness Update
We are continuing to improve the graphical look of our older areas of map to bring them up to the same standards as the new areas we've been developing. This week we've updated the graphics throughout the Wilderness, so if you're feeling particularly brave, check out the new lava areas, castles and an extremely fiery volcano.
To help you get around all of this, we've also introduced some new teleportation portals. The portals act as a new way of travelling around the Wilderness, but be careful: Once they're activated, there will be a short pause after which everyone in the immediate area will be transported to another portal, so don't rely on them to get you out of trouble. You may find that trouble follows you through... and you might end up in a higher level of Wilderness!
Battle Tortoises
The ingenious gnomes are continuing to come up with new ways to battle the Khazard troops. Now they've started breeding battle tortoises at the Stronghold. These armoured tanks, mounted by gnomic magi and rangers, are sure to be quite a challenge for General Khazard and his troops. They've already trundled some of them out onto the battlefield south-west of Ardougne.
Adjustments to Pest Control
We've made some adjustments to the Pest Control minigame we released last week.
Firstly, the game has been encountering issues where people turned up at the island with no intentions of helping to win, but just to stand around and get the rewards due to the efforts of their teammates. This is clearly not in the spirit of the game, therefore you now need to have dealt at least 50 points of damage to the attacking monsters over the course of a game to get a reward. To keep things fair for players who spend their time repairing the defences on the island, each section repaired counts as doing 5 points of damage.
Secondly, we've put in a level 40 combat requirement to board the lander and play the game. Each player in a game of Pest Control increases the number of monsters in the game. As a lot of the monsters are pretty tough, this meant that it was extremely hard for lower level players to contribute enough to the team effort to make up for the added difficulty their presence had created.
We've also made it so that if more than 25 people board the lander, the people left behind will be given priority in being transported to the island on the next game.
We are planning some more changes, most significantly the ability to spend your Void Knight Commendation points on a greater variety of things than just combat xp. Taking a cue from the popularity of decorative armour from Castlewars, we are planning to make it so that you can earn that cool looking equipment you may have seen the Void Knights wearing.
If you're wondering about the Wilderness Tag minigame we mentioned in the monthly Behind the Scenes announcement, we've put that on hold for the moment. We felt that it could do with adjustments to make it enjoyable enough to meet your high standards.
Pure Essence now craftable on free servers 24-Apr-2006
Non-members whose rune essence was converted to pure essence in last Thursday's update should find that they can now trade it and use it for runecrafting.
If you haven't already read it, then please see the previous news post entitled Rune Essence adjustment for more details on the Rune Essence changes.
***A Map Upgrade and some new ess*** 21-Apr-2006
I have updated my Easter guide by added pictures to it, making important points in it easier to find in the game. Click here to view the new and improved guide! As stated in the 2 posts below, because of stupid rule breakers Andrew and his team have had to redo rune essence to keep people from breaking the rules by using auto-miners. The 6 normal runes (air, water, earth, fire, mind, and body) can still be made with normal essence on free-servers. As long as you are on a member's server (which means you're a member) and you have at least 30 mining you will receive pure essence instead of normal (note: you receive the same amount, 5, experience from either type you mine). You get both from getting teleported to magical rune-ess land and mining the rocks and they both also come from the same exact rocks. Pure essence can be used to craft the six basic non-member runes and all of the member's runes (cosmic, chaos, nature, law, and death)/combination runes (mist, dust, mud, smoke, steam, and lava). Here is the runecrafting guide (Rune HQ Link) and Rune HQ also now has out a Pest Control mini-game guide! I want to remind people too about my Guestbook, new Polls page, the Contact Me... page and NOT BREAKING THE RULES!
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