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For my older son's ideas about Runescape, click on
RUNESCAPE TIPS - one
child's view.
DAD's ideas on how to tackle RUNESCAPE, see below.
Firstly, if you have not already seen the Runescape site, and do not know what it is about, here is the link:
www.runescape.com
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.
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,
then they will suspect foul play.
Update
I understand the need for Runescape to break even if not make a profit, but for me anything over £30 a year is too much, having played it for a year,
and found I was getting bored of the repetitious actions that have to be performed.
Perhaps some bright Runescape spark might consider either a SOLO LIFE membership fee (say £100?) or an annual FAMILY RUNESCAPE membership
(or a "Clan" membership).
Only those of us that have let our membership lapse to be invited after 6 months say? This is to "call the bluff" of normal users, so avoiding reducing
the revenue that Runescape would normally get on renewal. Dedicated fans are not usually going to be able to wait 6 months to continue their quests.
A case of marginal utility (Economics), I get to play with my sons again, and Runescape at least gets some money in, that they are NEVER ever
going to get again otherwise!
Of course there is always the danger of the opposite effect, and obsessive/compulsive players finding that there IS life after Runescape (membership)
and leaving their membership of Runescape as FREE after the 6 months is up.
There is also the opposite argument, that members that support Runescape should be given a "reward" for renewing, perhaps 10% off if they do not let
their Runescape membership lapse?
Perhaps my sons and I might have stayed as members if that had been the case when we were due to renew!!!
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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).
Update
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.
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.com 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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