Very nice review, Deano! It sounds like a rather fun game.

One question though: How can one be defenestrated in the wild? I don't know of too many windows out in the wilderness!

One is easily defenestrated playing a game under a Microsoft operating system.

Actually technically I probably wasn't directly defenestrated. I was fiddling with a exterior window in some type of structure when the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal came up behind me...I know that it's real game name is a Chaos Elemental but it just looked so damn much like a Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal should look...I digress.

One of the nice things about Runescape is you play for free (some members areas, skills, items etc are off for free players)...so if you feel like looking for the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, just keep going north and east. You'll know it when you find it - or it finds you.

I like free online games, especially MMO's. I still don't understand the subscription model for a game you pay $50 for.

Hey, I play runescape, I have a lvl 88,85,83,72,63,44, and a few lvl 3's who only do skills, and no combat. I have been around for the release of 3 skills while I have been playing, and each time a new skill is released it totally messes up the market. Last year, Party Hats (the rarest item in the game) were around 2 to 15 million gold coins, now, one party hat can cost up to 300 million gold. The reason for this is that as a skill is released, the demand for certain items rises. Known as merchants in game, these people buy items in bulk for 100 gold, then resell those items to others for 150 gold. By most players, this is shamed upon. Another way a new skiller influenced the market was the release of the Slayer skill. This skill brought the Abyssal Whip to the game, one of the best weapons. The first people to get to 85 slayer were the first people who had whips available to them. These people sold whips for 50m-25milion. As more and more got 85 slayer, the price went down and down, however a whip still costs 2 million. This has given people more money, which means they are willing to spend more, hence the rise in party hat prices. To us lower lvls, this is ridiculous, to them, its life.

Sounds like a commentary on real life to me, Tom. Exotic car prices do this -- during boom years (late 90's - early 00's), exotic prices go up as more people can afford them, hence increased demand. Lots of supercars are conceived/designed during these boom years, then the economy slows just as these cars are produced. It happened in the early 90's (Remember the Jag XJ220, Bugatti EB110?) and again the past few years (Unsold/slow selling Porsche CGT, M-B SLR).

As you said in your last sentence, "To us lower lvls (working-class), this is ridiculous, to them (upper class/ biz owners), its life."
And just like life, the goal is always class transendence -- how do I throw off my working class roots and leapfrog myself into the upper strata?

The answer is the same too -- Work smarter, work harder.

My grandmother was eaten by a Chaos Elemental... I didn't raise a finger to help.

Star Wars Galaxies was an excellent game to see a very active market develop and change. Any game with alot of player crafting of item with actual utility in the game will have an interesting economy.

from what i understand, the construction skill came out to take some money out of the RuneScape economy

and if you noticed, it worked, rather well actually

the prices of nearly everything but construction supplies went down, some went down moreso than others

and while the way you were going about getting money before construction came out was a good idea...i would highly suggest collecting whatever runes you were getting and sell them to people, as shop prices are different from what people are willing to pay

Happy 'Scaping

-Ryokobalta (feel free to PM me if ya need some help, i may be able to help you out in some way ^_^)

lots of this is wrong "Just in case you are wondering, the fatality rate for such expeditions as ours was probably 60%. The return for the survivors was typically about 3000 gold pieces, enough to buy some decent mid-level armour and weapons but not much else." its caled mining rune essence and then crafting runes for non members and making bow string for members. AND YOU CAN SIT AND SLEEP IN YOUR HOUSE!!! "if I can keep my son from wasting our hard-earned profits on such frivolity as mitheral swords and dragon-skin armor." weapons and armor are important and if you have money theres not much else to spend it on!!!

folo up im a level 69 with dds( dragon super piosoned dager) 55 of the 105 quests done and have you ever heared of runehq.com!?! its the best help system in the history of rune scape help systems, and you should gain up you combat because the number at the bottom of your screene when you enter the wildy is the higher the lev a type of person can attack you example a level 3 enter area level 2 in the wildy only level 4, and 5 people can attack him.

I dont know who wrote this comment but it is dumb and just unethical. Runescape is a great game and no one should be dissing it. And further more it soundes as though a parent wrote the note above and no parents understand runescape!

i hope you change this site with the new info we have provided.

this url is the help site i was talking about. rune scape is cool and this url helps alot!

Chaos elemental is easy to kill however isnt worth it kalphite queen is alot better

ya kalphite queen is good yet the TzTok-Jad is the highest level apponent it is level 702!!! only select few have the fire cape wich you get from killing him.

you said your son buys mith swords those are realy cheap so is dragon leather

If you want to make lots of money, merchant. That's how I got my phat for 22 mil and now i have 150 mil.

k to do this u need easy insrument:

u need a tinderbox

and a axe a axe

firt get some logs then use it with the tinderbox and when the fire is make use the tinderbox with the logs againg but faster and the fire will be make



if u dont belive me go to the higth score and type yasel16 and ull see me in the firemaking



u will avance ur lvl woodcutting and firemaking super fast


enjoy

some1 that need some1 to do jobs for hem plz add me and ill do 1of this:

woodcutting:(i only can cutt to willow)

firemakin"(to willow to)

killing monsters:(less that lvl 38)

and some other job

if u need me just add me to ur friend list on runescape and tell me wat u need and ill help u remember i can't do all at the same time and if u r going to add me to ur friend list u got to pay me good

kk bye

if you need someone to do your work i am your man i will do anything kill monsters that are to lvl 40 i will mine anything but not smithing i will mine up to gold and you don't have to pay me a lot of money 100 to 200gp for everything i do if you want me to work for you add me to your friend list in runescape k bye

good review that was funny

hah,u al lbitches,the only way to get rich is to quit playing runescape already,get a life :) im lvl 85 with 80 range and 74 mage 80 fletching 59 runescrafting 80 woodcutting i rule u ya ya ya im da best see ya all in hell!get a life.

A couple of things;

1) you can sit down on the chairs in a player owned house and...

2) In RS classic we used to be able to sleep in beds as we suffered from fatigue. however, with this now gone (replaced by random events, both these things are to detur macro-ers) the beds are now, as you say, just for show, though you need at least 2 in your house to hire a servant of any kind.

Im lvl 67 my name is Mattyc033444 on rs and my wc is same as my combat lvl. RuneScape players hav no life if they play it like ruslan18 there, gay lord you don't have a level 85 account, ha your just a noob who wants to show off but is such a noob has to lie about his levels. HAHA UR ONLY LVL 16 LOL WHAT A BOOBY!

hi my name is stelactose4 and ime a runescape player if any 1 wants a job add me and ile c whatni can do ime lvl 43 skilles are
61 archery
41 wood cutting
61cookign
61fishing
31mage
6atanck-gona train soon
10 strength-also training soon
6 prayer-wont train till high lvl
1 defence-i hate defence ile leave it at 1 the go kill some greaters and train it to 99 when everything else is 99 and thats about it

lol rusla 18 u such a noob my main lvl 126 99 all stats except members stats i have 83 fletching 91 thieving 1 constructioned-quite being a mem be 4 it came out i have over 391 mill and 1 of each oarty hat i also have like 18 maskes 3 pumpkins 2 sets of gothix still have my full dragon and guilded i have all god armer and like 7 zammy sets full rock shell and i have abyse whip and slayer staff and full ruen (g) and much more add my noob file stelactoe4 and ile be able to give people some free stuff i never play on him and rulsa18 ur such a noob ur only lvl 16 u nooblit ile also fight any 1 here from lvl 38-46 on my lvl 43 with 61 archery i hit 1s and in mem world 17s with range pot, glory ammy, full green d hide(cant were red ime 1 def, rune arows and mage short , so if i do the special attack that shootas 2 arows thtas like 34 hp gont and most people are lvls have 45-50 ime 52 hp so bring it if u wana fight me or just need free stuff and stelactose4 or stelactose00( my noob mage 45 mage 31 combat) if u dontbelive stelactose4's stats look him up and meet up with me in the game piec out

Personal scores for Stelactose4
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Ranged 273,946 62 354,635
Prayer Not Ranked
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Cooking 416,471 61 324,332
Woodcutting Not Ranked
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Fishing 443,823 61 310,520
Firemaking Not Ranked
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Ppl i play rs, and rly often, but u all need 2 get lives, argue on rs, not on side sites lol and 2 u ppl who r advertising urselves for jobs, go 2 world 1 and world 2 to find jobs =P and ruslan, if u rly have an acc that high, u should shut up, cuz u rn't 2 brite 2 be saying get off rs and bragging about a hi lvl acc at the same time lol =P Remeber frez luves u all!!!! lol

I know how to earn money fast in high fluctuative economys, but to learn the skills that I learned you had to be around during the time before rune essance was nerfed. I'm not telling. =P

heh i sold my account to someone at school for $100 because and before i did that i sold him 10m for $100, i did it because i didn't want to use him anymore so i could use my pure

I'm level 113, I make my money cutting mage's and fletching them, then selling 3k ea. I also high alch yew longs, and I like to Pk with ancients, So far i have like 22M, feel free to Pm me!

this is a awsome game best i have ever played so play

Hey guys! i am new here! is anyone here selling full rock shell if so i will buy it for 410k

hey bro i need a lil help on rune scape i need to get 2.3 mill for a wip ...got any ponters? hit me up on rune scape larr27

thanks a lot

Me plai RS me good me kick ur asses!!!

if anyone needs food im your man bacuse i have 60+ fishing and i have 50+ cooking so if you need food ask me im venom1135 im almost alwasys on

Even though Runescape's economy is encouraged to stay away from the real-world economy, it is inevitable that they mix. Both Runescape currency and real world currency are products of time and work. Time and work are constants across the real world and Runescape economies. To make Runescape gold, you need time, and to make real world dollars, you need time.

In my opinion, Runescape needs to make gameplay more dynamic and involved. It shouldn't be the repetitive clicking that it is now. There was a very in-depth discussion topic on zybez about this. It explored the motivation that Runescape players are led to experience. It's that repetitive time-intensive task of raising stats and earning gold that allows Runescape to function as a business. However, in my personal opinion, I believe Runescape's business model can be sustained while making the game more entertaining. This will drive away players with the sole purpose of collecting gold and bring more actual players into the game. This revolution should distance the real world and the Runescape economy.

Ok, first, I am lvl 118 in runescape, i have about 60m in items, but ive been playing for 2 years, and personaly i think your all noobs, no offense, the enconemy swings, rare prices rise other items fall, its just part of the game. play the game to have fun, not sit around and merchat all day, currently im working on 99 atk & str, which i have acheived 99 str, and will be 99 atk this saterday, after spring break i plan to get 94 mage, to pk, because overall i tihnk the wilderness is the most fun of the game.

Don't add me cuz ill never be on, to many noobs pm me neways.

Hello :D
I really enjoyed this blog.
I currently am in the market too.
I play a middle man and recently earned over 7 million gold in a week from a newly discovered marketplace.
A well guarded secret of course but very good luck to you :D

Hi, Deano,
I am a friend of jason.
I really like the way you explain runescape, I also like the nice thing of runescape -- it's free.
On the other hand, however, to earn money is a tedious and dangerous task, so sometime you needs to spend real money for in game "runescape gold". Last week Jason and some of our friends just bought the rs2 gold from some site called ogpal.com, it's just 50$ but I don't need to do the boring stuff.
I had a runescape account of lvl 118, and 2 months ago I start taking up the maple stories, so I sold it for 120$ to my school mate.

runescapes a great game if you need to make money get your mining to 30 and become a member, mine pure ess for 100gp ea! woodcutting also works well. the best thing i have found is getting your runecrafting to 33 where you can make 4 air runes per ess making 1.5k per run! my runescape name is hellhole247 pm me for help

jeff i dont even know you, ive never bought rs money
either, your just trying to get people to buy yours.

dude i think runescape is awesome!im level 47 so im not that good but i still like it.

look up nat_thwaites i have been playing for 5 years now :)

you can acctually sit in RS you know..

SO GAY! RS CRASHED! NOOOOOO WE"RE ALL DOOMED!!!

hey im lvl 75, and im buying full gilded for max price. Silent engag.....add me

You have a lot to learn about how to earn money in the game. There's a lot of easier ways than that.

Why don't you try Zybez - It's a really good site with loads of information about how to do stuff, and it has a great forum too.

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