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For my older son's ideas about Runescape, click on
RUNESCAPE TIPS - one
child's view.
For my younger son's ideas on Runescape, click on
RUNESCAPE TIPS - another child's view.
For the interesting article from Wikipedia, see
RUNESCAPE
DAD's ideas on how to tackle RUNESCAPE, see below.
(updated 15/4/8)
If you want alternative games or additional games to play as a break from RUNESCAPE, visit this webpage
Games alternatives
My sons have now become free members, and it does not seem to worry them, as they play Adventure Quest, Dragon Fable and MechQuest, which have the
advantage of being cheaper AND only requiring a one-off payment that buys a membership that lasts forever. Of course youcan buy extra items if you want,
as you go along, but it is not a requirement. Possibly see the advert banner on this site and join yourself to see what they are like. You can join as
free to see if you like it first, then upgrade (from $25 to $30 depending on whether or not you decide to get all the extras).
(updated 30/3/2008)
I let the paid membership lapse as I no longer think it worth £40 ($80) a year (or more if you pay monthly) to remain as a member, for the amount of use I
got/will get out of it. The tasks are still fairly interesting challenge to your powers of deduction/problem solving/guessing but after a while I,
and possibly you, will get the feeling that the actions you need to do to get that task solved, border on the random, pointless, etc.
Hence it is a good thing that they have a large knowledge base to look up for solutions to what to do next when stuck. What must seem a logical step
in the chain of events to solve for the
Runescape programmers, is not that obvious to some of the rest of us, and their psychology
remains a mystery so you can not always guess what they would chose as the next step to solve a task.
(Still, that is not only a problem with
Runescape, my children and I had a similar problem with the Ravensberger Famous-Five PC games
made with Macromedia Flash, a good job they also had an adequate set of tips and hints for the game as their choices of what happened next often
seemed to be random and non-sequiter.)
My sons no longer play
Runescape much, so that reason for me playing it, to help them, is removed also. When their membership comes up for renewal
in 1 weeks time they will become Free members like me.
To assist them (and you, reading this) in preparing for that event, to avoid the problems I had today when I logged in, prepare yourself by doing the
following:
a. Sell ALL of the MEMBERS stuff while still a member! Once you become a free member you will be unable to do so, and the members stuff will clog up your
bank. The only way out is to then DROP all the items until the number of items has dropped to below the limit allowed for a free member, and you can start
to store items again in your bank account. From memory, and what seems to have happened, the number of free slots to store items in a bank account is 2/5ths
of the storage space of a paying member.
b. If you are stuck with an overfull bank account, remember that you can withdraw member items from your bank account, but not put them back while over
the limit, so eventually your rucksack will get filled up with items accidentally taken out when you might have meant to withdraw something else near it,
for example.
Once your rucksack fills up as well, you can not do anything much even as a free member, except fight and get killed and lose all the contents (but 3)
in your possession, or drop the member's items, or sell or drop the normal items to give your rucksack some space for trading and picking up items.
c. Fortunately you seem to be able to cast spells that you could as a member, most importantly, the alchemy spell to turn expensive but unwanted items into
the equivalent number of gold pieces that you would get if you sold it in the Grand Exchange, just a pity that they do not let you convert member's items to
gold while a free member, you have to log into a member's server to do that, and of course the whole point of what I am saying here,is I do not want to be
a
Runescape member anymore.
Firstly, if you have not already seen the site, and do not know what it is about, here is the link:
www.runescape.com
On it, read the warning about buying RUNESCAPE items with real cash/cheques/paypal/etc, you will lose your RUNESCAPE account if and when they catch you.
Hence if any adverts appear on my site that entice you to buy runescape items for real money, ignore them, or even better, report them to Google as being
fraudulent (as they sell you something that you cannot use when your account gets killed off, and they do not give a hoot so long as they got your money
first).
This does not apply to the R/S Money Guide advert for the information on how to LEGALLY increase your Runescape gold pieces, by your own efforts,
not from buying it, from advanced-runescape.com. I have not actually read it, so I am not endorsing it either. I would rather work things out for myself,
then write the results here for others to benefit from.
The idea is to roam around an imaginary cyberspace peopled with characters representing real human players, a multiplayer online role playing fantasy game.
There are Goblins, dwarfs, a frog princess, Minotaurs. Giant Spiders, Scorpions, Rats, Zombies, Ghosts, Skeletons and many other mythical monsters. Also
various computer controlled humans such as the Mugger, Woman, Man, Guard, Jailer, etc.
There are also online humans, wearing various guises, wizards, warriors in knight’s armour, etc.
The difference is that you can “kill” the monsters and computer generated humans anywhere in the game (if you are high enough level not to get killed
yourself), but unless in the WILDERNESS, you are not given the opportunity to kill fellow online gamers.
Beware the Wilderness, you are warned by signs, and a popup comes up to warn you that you are about to leave the protection of the rest of the game, but if
you do wander into the Wilderness, you are fair game for other online gamers who are permitted to attack and kill you, and take all your goods and equipment.
If you attack another player unprovoked (in other words, not in self-defence because they attacked you first) then you get labelled with a skull and
crossbones above your head for 20 minutes, no matter where in the game you wander (wilderness and the safe areas).
If you die, you get to keep 3 most expensive pieces in your possession, UNLESS you die with this mark over you, when you lose EVERYTHING you carry, armour,
weapons, money and goods in your rucksack. Be warned! I forgot this when I was experimenting, and lost a steel sword, steel chain mail body armour and steel
platelegs, much to my shock.
Good job I had had the sense to save my expensive and rarer MITHRIL /ADAMANT armour and weapons in the BANK.
Many items are in various strengths, bronze, iron, steel, mithril, adamant, rune. In increasing expense to buy, and strength, hardness or whatever other
property is applicable to the object in question.
When starting in the runescape world, as a new player (noobs or newbies some call us), you have to do training before being allowed to move outside the safe
training area to the first village, Lumbridge.
There you can find a castle with a bank on the second floor tower area. Get a PIN (acronym for Personal Information Number) as soon as you can, as it takes
ages to become active, and you cannot withdraw from your account until it does. This is to stop the many hackers and scammers getting access to your goods
saved in the bank, if they hack your account.
One good idea is the many TUTORS in the game, mostly around Lumbridge.
Rather than repeat everything here, visit the link that takes you to the official runescape tutorial.
TUTORS guide
Having given a rudimentary introduction, now for the tips I have accumulated from playing the game for a few weeks as a free member, in order to get some
goods and money for my 2 sons.
By the way, you have to be 13 or over to join!
You are allowed several accounts but cannot log into them at the same time, nor “drop” goods from one account to another, that includes trading between your
own accounts.
You are not allowed to sell accounts to others, it would seem that IP addresses are tracked, if someone in UK suddenly seems to be playing from Timbuktu
(no idea what they may have changed that name to nowadays), then they will suspect foul play.
One last piece of information, THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS CHEATS FOR
Runescape, hence be wary of any site that offers to sell you any,
they MUST be trying
to drop Trojans on you to steal your account details, possibly your credit card details as well! See the main
Runescape site for more on
this, it is important you take
security seriously.
See
www.websitesediting.net for links to anti spy and anti viral software that is FREE.
Try searching for more items if you do not find anything that you fancy here.
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