This update was added on 7 February 2001.
RuneScape Newsletter - Issue #2
Welcome to the second RuneScape newsletter. Lots has happened since the last newsletter, and we've had a lot of good suggestions for the future. Read on to find out what's planned
What's new in Runescape
Most of you are probably aware that the player killing in RuneScape has been changed to make the game fairer. Now when you die, if you haven't attacked any other players within the last 20 minutes, then you get to keep your best 3 items.
The bank we promised in the last newsletter has been added to the city, and is a safe place to store your money. Following a large amount of attacks just outside the bank, the city has paid to put multiple armed guards around the bank area to protect people who have just withdrawn money. The number of guards was further increased last Monday.
The magic system has also been modified, such that the magic spells no longer depend on your ranged combat skill. So you no longer need to be a high level ranger to use them effectively. The spells were made stronger, but they were still too weak, so they were made TWICE as effective against monsters last Monday!
New Quest: Vampire Slayer - The vampire sleeping in the coffin under Draynor Manor has been terrorising the inhabitants of the small village to the south and must be stopped! If you think you are up to the task of slaying a vampire, go and talk to the people in the village to find out how you can destroy this evil monster!
The most recent addition is a new area in the sewer. This contains 2 new monster types, deadly-red-spiders, and the exceedingly strong 'moss-giant'. If you can survive then the red spider eggs can be used to make a 4-dose strength potion!
What's planned
We've received a lot of good suggestions, a lot of which we are planning to add to the game. In particular the following changes are planned next:
-Modify the trade window to display the names of items to prevent unfair trading.
-A lot more spells are still due to be added to the magic system.
-Proper support for clans, with a full system to allow people to join and create clans.
-A 'duel' feature. Challenge your rivals to a duel, with the risks and rewards set as you like.
-More skills such as fishing, and fletching.
-A friends list to indicate which of your friends are online, and allow easy communication.
-And of course more quests, more monsters, and more areas of map.
Runescape hiscores
Below are the top scores as they were at 12pm GMT on Wednesday-7th. Only the top 25 players are shown, but I'm working on a new page for the website which will allow you to search for the ranking of any player and see how you compare with everyone else.
Top 25 players - score is total of all skills
1: lightning - 682
2: Sunjon - 593
3: Ashley - 583
4: Sir - 570
5: Gugge - 564
6: ZAPTONE_Z - 537
7: DarkPrince - 531
8: stud690 - 530
9: Lord_Soth - 519
10: TheReturnOfX - 517
11: Rab - 515
12: Flat - 508
13: Silus - 508
14: MysticsMagic - 506
15: Rodrigo - 501
16: Morfnak - 501
17: hurkules - 485
18: Devil_Hunter - 485
19: kancer - 481
20: Flex_10 - 478
21: RattSabre - 469
22: constant - 468
23: Robin_Hood2 - 449
24: terminator - 446
25: Prophecy3 - 438
Top 25 fighters - score is total combat skill
1: lightning - 230
2: Robin_Hood2 - 217
3: Gugge - 214
4: Ashley - 213
5: stud690 - 210
6: sandytrain - 195
7: Rab - 194
8: Morfnak - 194
9: ZAPTONE_Z - 193
10: Genocide1 - 192
11: Day_Dream - 190
12: constant - 190
13: Sunjon - 190
14: Sir - 188
15: Nightmare888 - 188
16: Rodrigo - 187
17: terminator - 186
18: hurkules - 185
19: Flex_10 - 184
20: Silus - 182
21: Prophecy3 - 181
22: joe1002 - 180
23: Lord_Soth - 180
24: x_execute_x - 179
25: Ice_Sabre - 178
Top 25 player killers - score is number of kills
1: Wolf - 132
2: Hells_Archer - 117
3: Phadera - 117
4: Lord_Sam - 113
5: DemonWarrior - 105
6: EndBringer - 104
7: Drew_Royal - 103
8: Black_Waltz3 - 101
9: DaRk_RoCk - 100
10: urgonnadie5 - 100
11: Lord_Stan - 99
12: SilencerLD - 95
13: robsimons - 94
14: shawn6 - 89
15: Mortis - 88
16: Ghost - 85
17: snorch - 85
18: matt_smith1 - 84
19: john246 - 84
20: Robin_Hood2 - 83
21: LovinHacking - 82
22: adam2000 - 82
23: God - 81
24: ace2you - 80
25: RCCBrasil - 80
Top 25 smiths - score is mining + smithing
1: dmonik - 110
2: STarlude - 98
3: natslayer - 97
4: Lord_Soth - 97
5: Viikate - 97
6: lightning - 96
7: The_Unknown - 92
8: beef - 91
9: hurkules - 90
10: Deckchair - 90
11: Kpac - 90
12: Snowdog - 89
13: S_H_A_R_K - 89
14: Rodrigo - 88
15: JB - 88
16: DOC_IRON_9 - 87
17: Vit - 86
18: BlueRose13x - 86
19: MysticsMagic - 85
20: AvalonX - 85
21: TheReturnOfX - 84
22: Dizier - 84
23: RoaDDoGG - 83
24: Sir_Beachy - 83
25: KaGi - 83