The Future of RuneScape - Notes

[Anarchy]

Fourth Official Live Q&A – The Future of RuneScape

[*]RuneScape 3 will be their most formidable content

[*]Updated audio

[*]New audio for the website and opening game phase

[*]Better graphic

[*]New World Map

[*]When RuneScape 3 comes out there will be no RuneScape 2 servers kept because RuneScape 3 is the upgraded experience of the game

[*]HTML 5 should make the audio, graphic and the speed of the game better

[*]Lore in 2013 –

[*]relationship with players and gods

[*]Actions that players take dictate how the world is shaped and the gods will play a big part

[*]Expect to find lore everywhere and not just in quest

[*]NEW REVEAL - about giving offerings toward gods are mentioned (very vague description)

[*]Updates about the Wilderness

[*]Big project planned for early next year

[*]War bands walking across the wilderness and engaging one of the side

[*]Adding more unique items to the wilderness to encourage more non-pkers to go into the wilderness

[*]Later in the year

[*]Players swapping experience around (early ideas)

[*]Building up experience while you’re in the wilderness and being able to cash them out upon leaving the wilderness, if killed while being in the wilderness not only being able to take the resources the person dropped but also the experience they gained (early ideas)

[*]Evolution of Combat should bring a balanced combat triangle

[*]RuneScape being playable on different devices

[*]Possible early next year

[*]On tablets and Smart TVs

[*]Working on a mobile version

[*]Being able to play offline on your mobile and then being able to gain experience or money online in the game

[*]Being connected to the game chat via mobile

[*]NEW REVEAL - Development on the 2 New Skills (1 at the beginning of next year and 1 at the end of next year)

[*]Gathering type skill

[*]Finishing/Production/Artisan type skill

[*]Players and Ports

[*]Players being able to create a port and ship

[*]Sending your ships to far off places

[*]Customizable ships (masks, cannons, rigging, haul size, crew)

[*]No SvS (Ship vs Ship) yet...

[*]Elf Series

[*]The next quest for the Elf storyline will be a big update (audio, graphic)

[*]Making a crystal city

[*]The 2013 might not have any updates for the storyline, but they should start planning if anything in 2013

[*]Construction Skill Updates

[*]Planned for next year

[*]Benefits for only yourself (short term)

[*]Reworking graphics for the house (short term)

[*]Player own villages, towns, cities (possible long term)

[*]Having your friends living beside you

[*]Forum Updates

[*]In their Top 10 things to do

[*]No plans to re-introduce tutorial island

[*]Plan to move or delete the island because of future quests (Ariane Quest)

[*]NEW REVEAL - Arian Quests planned, dealing with the wizard tower

[*]Possible new locations for the G.E

[*]NEW REVEAL - New Continent (Eastern Lands)

[*]Players will be exploring parts of the Eastern Land via the Players and Ports update

[*]Finishing the current world map before introducing a new continent

[*]All quest dialogues will be redone with voiceovers

[*]With the 200^th quest coming up, they aren’t thinking about it yet. The 200^th quest will be big as recipe for disaster and chosen commander

[*]Possibly leveling weapons, items, or pets

[*]They are working on a new customizable playing interface

[*]NEW REVEAL - Multiple Player accounts are coming in RuneScape 3

[*]NEW REVEAL - Kingdom of Kandarin graphic updates are on the way

[*]NEW REVEAL - RuneScape will be releasing a Spanish update

[*]Making new ways to train firemaking

[*]Working on agility and summoning in the coming year

[*]Evolution of Summoning

[*]Pet system (short term)

[*]Fundamental change to how summoning works (long term)

[*]The amount of time working with pouches and working with charms

[*]Effective strength of the monsters you use to fight

[*]Increasing the return when summoning

[*]Trimming Quest Cape

[*]Might be coming? Trimming a dying thing

[*]Super long epic quest will be released in the early of next year

[*]Agility

[*]How run energy relates to Agility will be reworked

[*]Add more ways to train Agility

[*]Runecrafting & Fletching (being reworked)

[*]The principle of ammunition has died

[*]The skill seems one dimensioned

[*]Agility and Summoning are their top 2 skills to work

[David]

So from what I gather from these notes they're not relaunching a new game, it's just an update to RuneScape titled "RuneScape 3." ....Maybe?

[Jake]

Will accounts be reset?If this is something new, I might give this game a try again.And what happened to their Mechscape game, anyway?

[Brad]

Looking at the wildy thing they actually listened to the players.But what's the war bands all about?Might start pkri wars again!!! :DOh and there classing eoc as runescape 3 because it will change the game completely

[Dy3nasty666]

Will accounts be reset?If this is something new, I might give this game a try again.And what happened to their Mechscape game, anyway?

this is exactly my first thought lol and will accounts still be able to access rs2 kinda like rsc

[Brad]

this is exactly my first thought lol and will accounts still be able to access rs2 kinda like rsc

No they wont be reset.No you cant access RS2No idea what hapened to Mechscape

[Dy3nasty666]

thanks for clearing that up

[Tynisa]

Im 99% sure my account got transferred from Classic to RS2, hence why i got the classic cape without having to log into classic during that two week period, thing.Dunno tho, if they reset my account i would have literally no reason to play.Im sure OTHER people would also have no reason to start all over - guess it depends how big the changes are.W/E, sounds stupid.

[Anarchy]

So from what I gather from these notes they're not relaunching a new game, it's just an update to RuneScape titled "RuneScape 3." ....Maybe?

Correct, it's just a massive update in game play and visual/audio effects

Looking at the wildy thing they actually listened to the players.

But what's the war bands all about?

War bands (see below) so basically from what I understood there are many war bands marching around the wilderness and you can pick a side and fight for them

[Brad]

Correct, it's just a massive update in game play and visual/audio effects

War bands (see below) so basically from what I understood there are many war bands marching around the wilderness and you can pick a side and fight for them

hm sounds like a replacement to Pk Clans unless there run by players?

[Anarchy]

hm sounds like a replacement to Pk Clans unless there run by players?

I think you can still conduct PKing this will only be a side thing in the Wilderness. I don't think players are going to be able to control them because they mentioned that players could join sides. So I think it's NPCs walking around and Players being able to join factions and fighting.

[Huygens]

Seriously, how did you get this information? I've looked on all of the RS homepage and I was thinking first you were trolling , but you seem pretty serious about it.

[Brad]

Seriously, how did you get this information? I've looked on all of the RS homepage and I was thinking first you were trolling , but you seem pretty serious about it.

They did a live stream to discuss the future of runescape these are the notes anarchy kindly jotted down

[Anarchy]

Seriously, how did you get this information? I've looked on all of the RS homepage and I was thinking first you were trolling , but you seem pretty serious about it.

No this is very real xD Here is the Forum Link to take you to the RS Link where the video is hosted