Old School Runescape

Blog written by Mod Mat K on 12th April 2013


So, the second content poll has now finished with over 75,000 of you taking part. The biggest and one of the most time consuming updates will be bringing back F2P style worlds. These F2P style worlds will only be accessible by members but are limited so that the skills, items and areas act as a F2P world. This offers a whole host of opportunities for the community.

The biggest opportunity is going to be for the Pk community. Do you remember the days of hanging out just north of Varrock waiting to jump over the ditch and pumelling someone to death? You will soon be able to do that in a F2P environment.

Of course many of you will be asking what difference does it make whether they PK in a F2P environment or a members environment? The difference is that in F2P you do not have the range of weapons, armour and equipment that members have. This means that the skill involved in PKing becomes more important as the armour and equipment two opponents have is often the same. It is no longer who has the best set up, but who knows when to pray, when to swap weapons and when to eat.

The community which will most keenly benefit from the F2P environment will be the clans. On top of all the skills they have to show as PKers, they will also have to be organised to be successful. The clan that can focus on one enemy, tank when they need to and return quickest will hold the field. Soon we hope to see battles like this happening.

So, when can you expect to see FTP worlds and what will we do when you get them?

We hope to have these worlds in place in around a month’s time, and shortly after that we will be announcing details of the Old School PVP competition. So, get your rune sets and your strength pots ready, F2P war is coming to Old School.

Thanks,

Mod Mat K

Old School Rare Item poll #1 – April 2013
This poll runs from 10th April to midday (BST) 17th April

This poll comes in two sections, please make sure you read the Dev Blog: Rare Items on the Old School Forums prior to voting.

Tradable Rare Items are: Easter eggs from 2002, pumpkins from 2001, Halloween masks, Santa hats, Christmas crackers, party hats, disks of returning and half full wine jugs.

Untradeable Rare Items are: bunny ears, scythes, yo-yos, rubber chickens, zombie heads, hats and scarves from Christmas 2005, marionettes, Easter rings, the skeleton set, Jack Lantern's mask, reindeer hats, Wintumber trees, war ships and chicken suits.

1. Would you like rare items to return in some form? (a list of all rare items can be found at the top of this poll)
   Result:
   
2. If you vote for rare items to return, would you like the currently tradeable rare items to remain tradeable? (a list of all tradeable rare items can be found at the top of this poll)
   Result:
   

Old School feature poll #2 – April 2013
This poll runs from Thursday 4th April until Wednesday 10th April (inclusive).

1. Some additional OldSchool worlds will be added, with F2P restrictions applied so that clans and PKers can engage in PVP combat in the Wilderness without members’ items or abilities. The worlds will remain accessible only to RuneScape members. Players who do not wish to use these worlds would not be required to visit them, and the world-picker would not send people to these worlds who had not manually selected them.
   Result: Yes
   
2. Improve the pathfinding/routefinding code to prevent the bugs where players run back and forth and dance around large npcs when trying to fight them.
   Result: Yes
   
3. Update some of the training obstacles, such as pipes, at various agility courses to allow multiple players to use them simultaneously.
   Result: Yes
   
4. Holding down the mouse wheel button will allow you to rotate the camera, like the arrow keys do.
   Result: No
   
5. The list of activities (e.g trading, Castle Wars) from the themed worlds forum post will be added to the world select pages.
   Result: Yes
   
6. If a world is full, players trying to log into it will be placed in a queue, rather than having to repeatedly login until there is space.
   Result: No
   
7. While you are trading with another player, their chat messages will be copied to your Trade chat tab so that you can read them more easily.
   Result: Yes
   
8. Players will be permitted to return to Ape Atoll without claiming the Defence XP reward of the Monkey Madness quest, allowing pures to attempt the monkey chapter of Recipe for Disaster.
   Result: No
   
9. If you cast a second alchemy spell while a previous alchemy spell is still in progress, the second spell is queued up to run when the first one finishes. This would not queue up more than one spell at any time.
   Result: Yes
   

Old School feature poll #1 – March 2013
This poll runs from Thursday 14th March until Wednesday 20th March GMT (inclusive).

1. The Easter 2007 event is re-activated for Easter this year.
   Result: Yes
   
2. ‘Unidentified herbs’ are changed to become ‘grimy <herbname>’.
   Result: No
   
3. A command is added to toggle the visibility of roofs on and off.
   Result: Yes
   
4. On the log-in screen, pressing the 'enter' key initiates the log-in attempt
   Result: Yes
   
5. Pressing the 'tab' key starts a reply to your last incoming private message.
   Result: Yes
   
6. Right-click on a private message to start replying to it.
   Result: Yes
   
7. Worlds are made available so PKers can fight with free-to-play gear limits. (NB: membership is still required)
   Result: Will be in the next poll
   
8. Your run-mode setting is remembered across log-ins.
   Result: Yes
   
9. Left-click on bank booths for direct access to your bank.
   Result: Yes