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That officer totally abused his power. This is like a RuneScape player moderator saying "give me your whip or I'll mute you." Unless the officer has reasonable suspicion, you can refuse the search, provided that he does not have a warrant. Also, if the officer is to arrest you, he must read you your Miranda rights. I hope that the officer would be removed from force. I wouldn't do that, IMO. That would give the officer the right to use lethal force.

I found a rather interesting photo on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/sim/457681551/ Anyone recognize any of them?

Don't forget that EA shut down Earth & Beyond in 2004 so it could direct resources on other games.

When was the last time you accessed the game? Some people report being able to play it even though they didn't log in for several hundred days.

I wouldn't be surprised if this gives someone an idea to brick Jagex's windows for real. :lol: Although, if it really happens, I'd feel a bit guilty since I would be partly responsible.

I dtill can't believe that this all happened, LMAO. :lol:

Did you recognize or talk to any of them?

With the recent updates, Jagex said that it would add content to replace what was lost, and that the newer updates would make the original content even better. Unfortunately, while Jagex did attempt to replace some of the things, it didn't do a perfect job. One idea is to open a few servers for veterans, such as players with over a certain amount of EXP. These "veteran" worlds would have no limits for trading, staking, and PKing. Thus, gold farmers who create accounts just to sell gold wil be unable to use these worlds. For a more practical solution, here are my ideas on how to replace and improve content that was lost. 1. rune running Unless Jagex's upcoming trade restrictions will grant more leeway for making rune-essence trades, then it will be dead. Solution: Add NPCs in the air and law altars that will "unnote" essence for a fee. For the air altar: there would be three NPCs who will "unnote" essence until the player's inventory is filled. The NPCs will "unnote" essence for 40, 60, and 80 GP each, respectively. To emulate the fact that paying runners more GP will get more runners, the NPCs will "unnote" for the player every 30, 20, and 15 seconds, respectively. For the law altar, an NPC will offer two options: "unnote" for the player for free every one minute, or charge the player 100 GP per essence. Finally, these NPCs should be on all worlds, not just the "original" running worlds. 2. General shop merchanting Before the Grand Exchange, players could buy items like from the general shop for low prices, but it is no longer possible. Solution: It is very impractical to transfer items with general shop, especially with non-stackable ones. Plus, it's still pretty costly, though. However, it was possible for people to transfer rares on non-busy servers. A good solution would be to allow players to buy for the original low prices on busy worlds. After all, no-one would transfer there, and busy worlds are the best for general shop merchanting, anyway! :) 3. private drop parties With the party room update, we can no longer have private drop parties. as they would be crashed by noobs. Solution: The party room is an extremely inefficient way of transfering. As far as I know, balloons "despawn" after some time, after which the item is destroyed. The players should be able to choose whether their party is advertised. As for manual item drops, a side benefit prevents drop traders from transfering items. However, no-one in their right mind would drop trade in a busy place. Jagex should change it so that tradable items, regardless of market value, will always appear if there are more than 15 people within a certain radius of the player. 4. merchanting With the upcoming trade restrictions, merchanting will be dead. Solution: NPC merchants can be added. For example, a NPC might occasionally pop up and sell coal for 150 GP each. At another place, an NPC might buy a certain amount of coal for 200 GP each. There would be many of such NPCs. 5. dragon imp hunting and monster drops With the upcoming trade restrictions, players will no longer be able to pay "scouts" for locating dragon imps, or share the profit of single items. Solution: If a player catches a dragon imp, they will be able to transfer up to 80% of the loot during the next hour. For monster drops, such as a dragon chain, the player should be able to transfer up to the value of the items they gained during the next day. For example, if a player gets a 25m drop a 10m drop an hour later, the player will be able to transfer up to 35m during the next 23 hours, and 10m for one more hour. 6. PKing The Bounty Hunter wrecked PKing, and it is no longer possible to randomly PK outside the BH area. Solution: Jagex added revenants as a replacement, but the ideas are only half-baked. For one, revenants should drop high level stuff, such as full rune, or a few hundred rune arrows, which a PKer would usually drop. However, some should still drop nothing. This is to reflect the fact that some players PK with only one item. To make things more realistic, only some revenants would be aggresive, and some revenants should also use trash talk, much like the Evil Chicken does. Also, revenants would gather in more popular places, such as Edgeville. 7. Staking High staking was replaced with the duel tournaments, but it was reported that the tournaments are much harder to win, thus costing stakers. Solution: Players would be able to stake against NPCs, within 3k of either side. Sometimes, the NPC would put up the stake, which the player has to match, and sometimes vice versa. To make things fair, one half of the rules will be chosen by the NPC, and the player can choose the rest. 8. Getting loot from death drops There's few things mroe fun than getting something from a macroer's death pile. An idea is to make it so that regular players can see what the player has dropped; however, if the loot isn't collected before the gravestone despawns, then the loot would be available to everyone. Transfer of wealth To balance the economy, the wealth that is transfered to the replacement NPCs should be given back to the circulation. For example, if an NPC made one billion GP from "unnoting," then that one billion GP should go back into the player circulation. For example, an NPC that has gained one billion GP might randomly put it into the party chest! :D

I'm curious, has anyone here gotten good loot from BH and actually made it out alive with it? Personally, I have nothing to share, as I don't PK. :P However, I'd love to see what stuff you guys got. :)

Well, some players might have recognized a few of the older J-mods from the 2003 team photo, though. http://news.runescape.com/newsitem.ws?id=85 Also, there are pictures of Andrew that are publically available.

It's definitely likely that at least a few of the 10 million players have met a Jagex staff member in real life, but I find it strange that no player has ever reported their encounter.

I know this is getting off-topic, but wouldn't it be illegal for Blizzard to scan a player's computer without the player's permission?

There is one entity in RuneScape that has more secrets to hide than anything else. It is neither the Chaos Elemental, Summoning, or the gods of RuneScape, but the powers that be that created RuneScape itself: Jagex Software. We seem to talk about Jagex as if it's a mythical place on top of a mist-surrounded mountain that no human has ever managed to climb. Indeed, Jagex seems to take security very seriously and seems rather paranoid about contact with the outside world. For example, Jagex lists their employees only by their first name and an initial. Also, Jagex only communicates with players by an inbox system. Jagex claims that this is because staff members can concentrate with just one form of communication, but large companies often offer support by phone and e-mail. Also, a few years ago, Jagex staff agreed to stop posting on fan forums. I'm guessing that this is due to security issues, and to prevent staff-impersonation issues on fan forums. However, when a Jagex staff member is enjoying their free time off work, Jagex can't tell them what to do in the comfort of their own home. Is it possible that some Jagex staff regularly post here as normal players? After all, the majority of Jagex staff have a normal player account. While Jagex lists its Cambridge address, nobody has ever reported to visit Jagex. Of course, it's likely that Jagex has a policy on not allowing guests, but I find it out that not one of the millions of RuneScape players have just happened to run into Andrew Gower or another Jagex staff member. It is reported that the old-school player Snake Slava visited Jagex to prove that he did not macro, but only Jagex and Snake Slava know if this is true. So here's some questions: do you think that Jagex staff post here as normal players (and not give away the fact that they are Jagex staff)? Do you think any RuneScape players have happened to run into Jagex staff in real life?

Interesting read. This reminds me of a Tip.It Times article called "Biased Banning Raises Brows" that resulted in Andrew threatening to sue Tip.It. http://www.angelfire.com/vamp/neokyleshelp/index/ http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=419655 Good luck on not getting threatened with a lawsuit. :lol:

To clarify: when I posted that "news" article, I didn't intend for it to be a hoax/prank. I even said that it was a hypothetical article. However, it seemed that some players had other ideas. Some even decided to change "Thurday" to "Tuesday" in order to make players believe that it was real. :lol:

Sadly, that's not true. For example, with members, you can get level 99 prayer 20 times faster than on the free version, and at only a fraction of the cost.

It's amazing how rumors can spread like wildfire. Recently, a player posted a fake message from Mod Mark which claimed that the Wilderness will be back to "normal" on December 18th, and that stakers over level 75 will be able to stake up to 100k. The message was clearly fake, given the poor grammar, yet many players still believed it. Yesterday, I posted a thread (which was later deleted) about players taking the game too far and doing drastic things. To illustrate what might happen, I posted a hypothetical news article about a 14-year-old boy throwing bricks through Jagex office windows. Here is my original post (the bracketed part was not copied before my thread was deleted; it may not be exactly the same as what I originally wrote): I clearly said that it was hypothetical, yet many players thought it was true, and now it has been posted on several other sites, including the RSOF, Zybez, and GameFAQs. Other people even decided to deliberately spread this as a rumor, and changing the date from Thursday to Tuesday to make it more believable (as it wasn't even Thursday when people started posting it). I guess this is why we should take any rumors with a grain of salt.

Just because Jagex currently has no plans to change or do something does not mean they never will. Some examples: 1. A long time ago, there were no level requirements for wearing armor and weapons. Andrew said that Jagex would not add level requirements, but still did due to player support. 2. Jagex said that it will not answer ban appeals outside the offence system, but some players have reported being unbanned from using "Other" feedback.

It can be safe to say some people cancelled their membership immediately after the updates. Assuming that they will continue to play until their membership runs out (to avoid waste), we won't see the full effect of this "boycott" until after a month. So far, the updates only affect new players, PKers, drop traders, and people who do old-fashioned drop parties. However, assuming that Jagex carries out its plans to remove unbalanced trade, it will affect everyone, not just PKers and drop traders. After the first week of January, we can expect to see another massive drop.

The Alexa ranking of RuneScape is rather inaccurate. Alexa calculates a website's popularity by the number of average page views per person and the number of people who visit the website. It doesn't check how long you've been on a certain page. When you play RuneScape, you simply load the page with the applet and play there, and Alexa will count that as a single page view. The sudden increase of activity is likely caused by the large amount of views in the rants forum.

It seems that Jagex created revenants to simulate other PKers. Part of PKing was the joy of getting good loot; you'd expect Jagex to make revenants drop stuff like full rune, etc.

The English equivalent is "the straw that broke the camel's back."

That's nothing but immature and idiotic, comparing a terrorist attack to a poorly liked update on a java based game is nothing more than childish. ... A good idea and effort, nonetheless. I'll admit, that was dumb. I just couldn't resist posting it. :lol:

12/10/2007 = The September 11 of RuneScape.