Level 87 Firemaking, real world item trading and more

Yay I got level 87 firemaking today brining my total level to 1915 – here’s a pic:


Level 87 Firemaking

If I can keep up this pace I’ll be level 99 firemaking in no time.

Today Jagex have announced that they have banned another huge lot of real world traders today. Here’s an quote from their post:

4 June 2007 – Real world trading is against the rules!

We would like to remind everyone again that buying RuneScape gold/items for real world money is against the rules and will result in a permanent ban.

Trying to get ahead unfairly by breaking Rule 12 is unacceptable, and doing so also funds many other cheating problems, so we are taking a very strict stance on this now.

As we said we would, we’ve been working hard to ban players who play unfairly. Since we last posted about this we’ve banned another 4738 players for buying RuneScape items/gold for real money, which is in breach of rule 12. We don’t like banning players, but when they try to spoil the game for everyone else we have no choice. We believe this is also the most effective way to combat the botting, which is a method used by the sellers.

The fact that some people still think they can get away with it and won’t just get banned is quite surprising. We really do mean it when we say that buying gold for real-world money = a permanent ban. We have reliable ways to trace this now. It’s a shame so many people have to find that out the hard way. (These are NOT people lending items to their friends, we really are sure they were genuinely buying gold for real world money.)

Finally, here are another 2 examples out of the 4738 players we just banned for real world trading:

Player X
Total Level: Over 1440
Total time in-game: Over 92 days
Status: Permanently banned for real-world trading

Player Y
Total Level: Over 1500
Total time in-game: Over 113 days
Status: Permanently banned for real-world trading

What a ridiculous waste! Why these players decided to try to cheat – in a way we can easily detect – and throw their accounts away is hard to comprehend. Don’t make the same mistake. Don’t buy items/gold for real-world money.

I completely support Jagex in this move, and was shocked when I read the forums today – for I saw this post:

Skillzz18

04-Jun-2007 19:41:24
Last edited on 04-Jun-2007 19:42:47 by Skillzz18
I recently got an old account I had banned for real world trading. I think that it is unfair because they never put up reminders that it was againts runescapes rules. I think they should give accounts back to people that were recently banned before a couple days ago. People work so hard on accounts and ONE little mess-up caused 2 years worth of playing to go down the drain. In my opinion that is really unfair.:( If this has happened to you then you know how it feels.. makes you wanna jump off the empire state building..

I wish people like this would take a jump right out of the game. People who buy gold like this person, do nothing but encourage the autoing and gold farming problem in the first place, and as for the fact that he had no idea…….

Read these 2 news posts that were posted in the login page of Runescape about real world trading from Jagex earlier in May……

http://news.runescape.com/newsitem.ws?id=785

http://news.runescape.com/newsitem.ws?id=798

He has absolutely no excuse, Jagex has had this rule since day 1 and they’ve been posting quite a few messages on the front page about it, especially of late…..

All I can say to Skillzz18 is this, “Too bad! It’s just a shame you cant be stopped from making new accounts – full stop. You knowingly supported the problem of autoers, and gold farming sweatshops. Good riddance, and ha, judging by your Skillzz on this account, you’re heading for another ban, this one for autoing!

Autoing and gold farming sweatshops are plaguing all multi-player games – not just Runescape. By supporting these practices, you are contributing to the fall of massive multi-player online games everywhere. Personally, as I said in my idea on This Post I’d ban not only the people who run this plague on Runescape but I’d also ban any who support this problem from Runescape on every account they own FOREVER. Using verification, I would stop that person creating anymore accounts fullstop.

On a happier note after that rant, my wife Marlaine and I completed the new quest today, and wow it was actually a challenge! I had to retreat since I only took in 5 monkfish, not expecting a mere 138 to be much of a challenge. I was wrong! I had to actually retreat from the fight and equip with a superset and actually ate 9 shark to beat him. What a fun fight for a change!!! I’m glad to see Jagex slowly making a move to higher requirements in quests. Now I just wish they’d do something about those Bird’s Eggs!

On my last topic tonight, I just wish to comment on the new graphics. I’m not too impressed by the werewolves – they look sort of like cartoonie moles to me with the over sized claws…. The wolves, especially the white wolves, are absolutely gorgeous! If you haven’t seen them yet, take a trip over white wolf mountain and you’ll see how absolutely gorgeous they are. Also, Canifis looks great now – far more like a village than it did before!

11:38 pm on June 4, 2007 by Primefalcon

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