It's time again for another Achievement Diary, for those players who like to explore what's available in a specific area. It's the turn of Ardougne to come under the all-seeing-eye of the diary taskmasters, but we're not limiting things to just a few tasks here and there this time. A number of them have either come from or been inspired by player suggestions on the forum thread we ran for this not too long ago.
Explore the Ardougne area as you've never done before! From the Legends' Guild to Castle Wars, and from the Combat Training Camp to Yanille, there's something for everyone. You'll uncover some fiendishly difficult tasks that will push your skills to their limits, plus a rather 'sneaky' reward at the end of your travels. Hopefully, everyone will learn a thing or two along the way too.
So get out those gloves of silence and your teleport runes, and take a walk round Kandarin today.
Mod Maz RuneScape Developer Queen of the Squirrels
Speak to Dr Orbon in the church, Ardougne's town crier or Aleck in Yanille's Hunter shop.
In other news...
Health bars will no longer become completely red unless the player/monster has zero hitpoints.
When you're in resizeable mode, the chat window can now be vertically resized to show more lines of text, chat and other messages. Your stats interface will also expand itself to remove the need for a scroll bar.
After completing Within the Light, you can ask Eluned to help you add a choice of destination to your teleport crystals.
Your gravestone should now be indicated on the minimap.
The position of your Friends and Clan Chat list vertical bars are now remembered between logins, provided you're using the signed applet.
You are now allowed to purchase multiple skillcapes.
We've changed the way the TzHaar Fight Cave records your progress. In future, if you get disconnected during a wave, you'll automatically restart from that wave rather than having to begin the minigame again. You can still use the logout button to make the minigame log you off when you've completed your current wave.
The interface that lets you change the left-click function of the Summoning status globe (next to the minimap) will no longer be closed by combat.
Murky Matt at the Grand Exchange can now combine the charges on members' teleport jewellery.
Back in June, we announced that Jagex has been shortlisted for the Golden Joystick Awards as one of the UK's top developers. We were really touched to see Jagex recognised in this way by the gaming community and shocked by the fantastic response from our players (who crashed the voting website when we released the newspost). This post is just to say that the poll closes at the end of this week, so if you wish to vote for Jagex and have not yet done so, this is your last chance!
If you don't know anything about the awards and still want to show your support for Jagex, you can do so by visiting the Golden Joystick website at www.goldenjoystick.com and clicking on the UK Developer of the Year listing on the 'Vote Now' page. We also recommend that you un-tick the preference boxes if you don't wish to be contacted by the organisers or any third parties.
We hope that you all continue to enjoy RuneScape as much as we enjoy making it.
Duel Tournaments have undergone a little bit of an overhaul. Everything will look the same, but we've been working under the hood to make some improvements to the mechanics of this minigame. The changes are as follows:
On entering the Duel Tournament waiting room, you will now be assigned to a single registrar. This assignment is partially based on combat level, but also on many other factors.
The registrar you are assigned has a Tournament Rank cap. You will not be able to gain rank beyond that cap until you move on to the next registrar. The best way to move up a registrar is to train your combat skills.
Registrar caps are as follows:
Registrar 1: rank cap of 1999
Registrar 2: rank cap of 2499
Registrar 3: rank cap of 2999
Registrar 4: rank cap of 3499
Registrar 5: no rank cap
Please note that you will not lose any rank due to this update if it is currently above your assigned registrar's cap. To remind yourself of your current cap, simply examine your assigned registrar.
We also now record when your rank passes a multiple of 500, which is referred to as a rank milestone. This milestone will be saved so that if you lose a tournament, and that loss would take you below your milestone, your rank will simply be set to the milestone amount. For example, if you had reached a Tournament Rank of 1045, your milestone rank would be recorded as 1000. If you subsequently lost a tournament which would reduce your rank by 50 points, it would only drop your rank down to 1000, since that is the last milestone you reached.
Finally, the most exciting change: we now reward the entrant who places second in a tournament with 20% of the entry fees! Now all your hard work will get some reward.
So, hype. I know what you're thinking, but I'm afraid we're still a little teensy tiny bit off Shamrock coming to your screens. This is possibly better even though I can't tell you too much about the details (partially because of confidentiality and partly because I'm worried that too much excitement at this awesomeness may make your heads explode) . But actually, I'm not sure that sounded excited enough.
Better Not there.
BETTER. I think that's it.
So, I can happily, joyfully, gleefully announce on behalf of Runecrypt that we've now become somewhat more affiliated with Jagex and the nice people there who run Runescape. The benefits to both us as a site and all of you as members will be numerous and will include things such as official support and attendance (where possible) for Runecrypt events, official support (and perhaps other things) for Runecrypt competitions and a host of exclusive content.
We'll also be allowed to submit staff interview questions. So if you've ever wanted to ask Mod Chris L about how he juggles traditional presentation of Elves against those described by Tolkien and how this affects his interpretation of the Elves of Tirannwn, or who just who decided that the Tirannwn Elves should be Welsh, when there's a particularly strong history of such folklore in counties such as Yorkshire (Like the relevancy? I can keep my spiel up to date) this may just be your chance. We'll be holding a mini-comp to obtain some questions sometime soon.
So keep a lookout over the next while as this affiliation will have a great effect on the site. And just so you know, we are still working on Shamrock and I can now personally guarantee that it will be here before I gain entry into Prifddinas.
