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It was called "Ghost Town" on the earliest maps. With the creation of the Widlerness it was renamed "Edgeville" and a general store and bank were added - prior to that it was just some place you'd go to access the Ghost Town dungeon.

Ah yes, who could forget LKJ (front-runner in the "nicest player" thread of '02 and one of the "three ladies" alongside sisters LadyKalica and Ladycali - LadyLinda didn't count as she wasn't related). True, at the time people were playing it for fun - but there was still such excitement as everdred cut those last few trees to be the first to 99 of any skill.

Although back then it would have been the Ghost Town Dungeon (unless you joined post-Wilderness).

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a3e9ed54-a1e6 ... 07658.html So Sony is wanting to emulate RuneScape, but going the micropayment route Jagex were thinking of for ThirdScape possibly.

There is my site MechScape World which is the first MechScape fansite. Most of the latest information is in the Confirmed News Section on the forum. The forum's gallery also has much more concept art in it than the main site's one. There are some other sites which aren't mine, but they are less comprehensive and mostly just copy the early research I did for MechScape Central.

I'm glad they found someone - they've been advertising that post since May/June when Imre Jele left to become project director of the Volatile Games division at Blitz Game Studios. According to MobyGames our new Head of RuneScape is credited with working on:

1. Try https://ticketing.runescape.com/a=135/billingsupport.ws 2. Try [email protected] 3. If you paid via credit card then take it up with you credit card company.

I used to love being able to PK anywhere, it was really fun. This 2001 post from Robin Hood is a good example of how people were against "PK anywhere" being removed from RuneScape: Along with his follow-up post: (Of course, Robin Hood went on to be one of the top Wilderness PKers. Oh, and by "900+ players" he means the majority)

Lol dude.. go to bed and think again in the morning.. bb6 has never ever been banned, he doesn't even have a single black mark on his account.. Here's a list of top100 offenders of the mass ban: Ah yes, the mass ban of February 2004 in which 957 players got banned for "cheating and using macro software to automatically play the game for them".

BTW, the text was: And for PK/NPK:

Player Killer Mage.

I wrote that. Quests are written in RuneScript, as are NPC and other interactions. Hence only the technologies (tools/engine) department need to be Java-savvy.

Where exactly did Jagex say that, care to post a source? http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/883/883931p1.html - but IGN may have got their wires crossed a little.

"Since 2004, Jagex has donated over £200,000 to various charities" (source)

Their balance of "how much we put back into RuneScape" vs "how much we invest into other projects / keep in the bank for next year / give to our shareholders (primarily Andrew Gower)" directly effects your gameplay experience because it decides how many developers there are, how much customer support there is, etc.

It isn't. WOW is first and Habbo Hotel is second. RuneScape is the second-most subscribed MMOG as per mmogchart.com.

I'm definitely not offended by being asked to provide sources for information. People should be able to back up their claims. 1. Jagex had an 05-06 turnover of £16.8m with pre-tax profits of £10.2m, giving them a profit margin of 60.7% - they also had a dividend payment of £5m (source, source) 2. Jagex had an 07 turnover of £28m with pre-tax profits of £15m, giving a profit margin of 53.5% - they also had a dividend payment of £8.6m (source) 3. "Blizzard has a profit margin of over 40% on their monthly fee" (source). 4. "estimates that in 2007 the title will generate revenues of $1.1 billion with operating margins of more than 40%, creating some $520 million of operating profit" (source). I hope those sources are satisfactory.

Actually, that is not the case for Jagex. As I stated earlier their pre-tax profit margin was 60.7% in 05-06 and 53.5% for 07 (and that's with the money invested into FunOrb/MechScape/Hi-Def). WoW's profit margin is 40%.

Well, they do have free fair trade tea, and some members of staff go for two teabags per cup due to the cup's 3/4pint capacity (tho some staff also bring their own teabags).

1. Jagex had an 05-06 turnover of £16.8m with pre-tax profits of £10.2m, giving them a profit margin of 60.7% - they also had a divident payment of £5m. 2. Jagex had an 07 turnover of £28m with pre-tax profits of £15m, giving a profit margin of 53.5% - they also had a dividend payment of £8.6m. 3. Jagex have been investing heavily in MechScape (it has been under development since 2005), and investing in FunOrb. 4. Jagex employ around 400 people with an '06 average salary of c£24,000 (that's around £9.6m in staffing cost).

It seems like Jagex are already talking about NextNextScape... http://www.myth-games.com/news3416.htm

When RSOF closed TIF was like the only decent forum.

MechScape's release will mean more support requests are required, but not more developers - they've had a separate development team working on it since 2005. In that sense the release will mean Jagex can start recouping the costs of MechScape so that it isn't subsidised by RuneScape subscriptions. And any money going into technology development (e.g. new graphics mode) due to MechScape directly benefit RuneScape players as they share tools and core coding between projects. Also, you are talking about NextScape and MechScape as if they were two projects - it seems clear that NextScape is just the codename for MechScape.

http://www.developmag.com/news/30000/Ru ... on-new-MMO Last time Iddison spoke about MechScape he said Q1 2009, so this is more specific. Jagex also said that FunOrb games cost less than £12k each to develop. Note: If you want more information on MechScape then check out http://www.mechscapeworld.com/ (Feel free to move this topic if you think its in the wrong place)

Boycotting wouldn't solve the underlying issue of credit card fraud which is supposedly why the old version of the wilderness was taken out in the first place, so I don't see how it could bring the old wilderness back.