Friday, March 21, 2008

Runescape

Runescape is a mmorpg (massive mutli online roleplaying game). It is a game where you can meet thousands of people from all around the world. I have met people from Georgia to Lithuania! You meet alot of nice people and alot of... jerks... One of my favorite things is that you have a friends list and an ignore list. This is so if anybody gives you a hard time just put him on your ignore list. Another good thing is that there is a button so you can report people for breaking the rules. Some of the rules are offensive language, encouraging others to break the rules, asking people for personal details. The only problem that they have is there are sometimes twenty or thirty year olds pretending to be 14 and 15... So you really have to be careful about who you pick as a friend. I personally have a few friends who either have graduated college or left because they got homesick. I have met alot of good people on this game. They have been my friends really since i started. They are very good and very true friends. But besides the people there are more things to do. There are many things you can do. You can fight with melee, range, and magic. The only way you can use magic is have runes. Melee of course u need stuff like swords, halbreds and things like that. Then there is range...(one of my favorites). You can use shortbows or long bows, knives, darts and all things you can throw. Then you have to make money to buy these things. You can cut logs for money,its what I do, you can fish food like lobsters and swordfish and if you're really good you can fish sharks. Then you can mine things like coal, silver, copper, tin, gold, iron and smelt them into bars to sell. There is one skill that is called runecrafting, it speaks for itself you can make your own runes to save more or make money. Then you can do fun things like steal from stalls, chests, and pickpocket from people. Then you can use the logs that you cut to make bows and things like that. Then there is a skill called herblore, you use herblore to make potions to raise ur stats and things like that. You can also craft things like necklaces, amulets, rings, ranger armour. Then one of the most popular skills is slayer, slayer is where you kill monsters and get combat experience and also slayer experience. There is also a few skills that dont really help do things... like firemaking, construction and many more. There is a new popular skill that just came out that is called summoning. Summoning is a skill where you summon monsters and they help you kill monsters... the only thing is you have to be in a multi-combat zone. You can find these mutli-combat zones all around the game. One of the major parts of runescape is the story line that just about nobody knows,,, not even I do. But in this story line there are three gods. One god is called "Zamorak" Zamorak is the god of war who is always trying to force people to join him. Nother god is "Saradomin" Saradomin is a very peaceful god. You will find that he has more followers than any other gods because there are monks and priests in the game that like him. The last god is one of my favorites... his name is Guthix he is the god of balance. I have realized that he makes more sense in the storyline. There are many things that you can do.. one of the most popular things in all games is...pvp (player vs player). They now have something called bounty hunter. This is a very complicated minigame where you have a certaian target you can fight or you can pick anyone in the place. When you just attack anybody you are called a rougue. Rougues are the most popular way to fight. but the only problem is that when you just kill a random person is after that you have to wait 3 minutes after you pick everything up and if you get killed you lose all your things. When you kill your target you can just leave and keep everything. There is another mini-game that is called clan wars. Clan wars is where you just fight a different clan. You gain your clan by people joining your clan chat. You can make it so only your friends can join, you can also make it so you can let anyone join and also give your friends and your other clan members ranks. The highest rank is gerneral and the lowest is private. Now when you kill people in this you do not win anything... you only get bragging rights... which is good enough for me. There is only small detail that I havn't mentioned yet is that to get all of the benefits is you have to pay for a membership. Its less than W.O.W. (World of Warcraft). It is only 5 dollars a month which really isnt that bad. My favorite thing about the membership is that there is any adverts that lagg you. Lagg is when your computer freezes and your stuck in the same spot.I personally have a membership but my parents do not pay for it... my friend pays for it... i give him five dollars a month which really isnt that bad. When you do not have a membership you get maybe a quarter of the benefits. You can also make more than one file which do do alot... i have around atleast ten files. When you have more than one file your file that is your highest or makes the most money or that you spend the most time on is what is called your main. This game is made by Jagex ltd. and run by java-script. Now one of the worst parts about the game is the graphics. I personally think they are bad because the game is run by java. All in all I give the game a four out of five. And i think everyone should try it.

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