developed RuneScape with the assistance of his brother Paul Gower.It was originally conceived as a text-based MUD, but graphics were incorporated early in development, adding it to the ranks of what were then known as "graphical MUDs".The first public version of the game utilised a mixture of three-dimensional and two-dimensional sprites. It was released as a beta version on 4 January 2001, and originally operated out of their parents' house in Nottingham.In December 2001, the Gower brothers, along with Constant Tedder, formed Jagex to take over the business aspects of running RuneScape.Among its early innovations Jagex developed an interpreted domain-specific scripting language called RuneScript, which is used by RuneScape's server for event handling.On 27 February 2002, a monthly membership service was introduced, allowing access to additional features including new areas, quests, and items not available to free users.

As the game gained more users, Jagex began planning major changes.The developers rewrote the game engine, producing a new version of the game with entirely three-dimensional graphics called RuneScape 2. A beta version of RuneScape 2 was released to paying members for a testing period beginning on 1 December 2003, and ending on 29 March 2004.Upon its official release, RuneScape 2 was renamed simply RuneScape, while the older version of the game was kept online under the name RuneScape Classic. On 12 January 2006, Jagex banned more than 5000 Classic accounts for cheating. To prevent further cheating, RuneScape Classic was closed to new accounts, and access was restricted to accounts who had played Classic at least once between 3 August 2005 and 12 January 2006.


Ranged combat in RuneScape ClassicTo support RuneScape's free content, advertisements appear on a banner above the playing screen on the free-to-play servers. Since computer users may use advertisement blockers, which may discourage advertisers, Jagex introduced a rule that prohibits players from blocking these advertisements.On 13 July 2006, Jagex signed an exclusive marketing and distribution contract with WildTangent Games,which granted WildTangent the right to handle advertising in and around RuneScape in the United States, and to distribute RuneScape through the WildTangent Games Network,reaching over 20 million consumer PCs.

On 16 May 2006, Jagex upgraded RuneScape's game engine, improving the game's loading times and reducing its memory requirements.The engine was upgraded again on 26 June 2007 to allow the addition of future content.On 1 July 2008, Jagex released a beta of their "High Detail" mode for members, which was extended to free players two weeks later.Before the launch, Jagex stated that it would be officially revealed at the 2008 E3 trade show.

In September 2009, it was announced that RuneScape Classic would be re-opened to the public, including a feature where players could rent and administer their own server, giving them the ability to allow or ban any player of their choice, as well as enabling or disabling cheat codes they want.The game was re-opened for two weeks on 11 November 2009, and again for two weeks on 1 June 2010, to paying RuneScape members, who were told they would be permitted to continue playing Classic after that time provided they had logged in during the two-week period.

In an interview in May 2008, former Jagex CEO Geoff Iddison stated that, "We do plan to go East with it [RuneScape] to the Asian market and the Eastern European market too" [...] "RuneScape is not for Japan, but it could work well in Malaysia for example. And where's India in all this? I think RuneScape is a game that would be adopted in the English-speaking Indian world and the local-speaking Indian world. We're looking at all those markets individually."RuneScape later launched in India through the gaming portal Zapak on 8 October 2009,and in France and Germany through Bigpoint Games on 27 May 2010.

Servers
RuneScape server locationsAs of August 2009[update] there were 171 English RuneScape servers located throughout the world, which are numbered and referred to as worlds by players and by Jagex. They are located in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, Mexico, France and India.The large number of servers scattered around the world provides the best connection for players in the most cost-effective manner. Servers are moved or added as the need arises.

Each RuneScape server allows up to 2,000 players to log in simultaneously,allowing a maximum capacity of more than 340,000 players. The servers are divided into free servers which are available for all players, and servers which are reserved for paying members. Some servers are given activity labels, allowing players performing tasks that require or desire group participation to group together.

In addition to the English servers, there are two RuneScape servers where the game is translated into French,five servers translated into German,and six servers translated into Brazilian Portuguese.There are also three servers for RuneScape Classic.

Credits go to wikipedia for this good history on Runescape

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TheRook's way to make money
A1.Woodcutting-First off get a bronze woodcutting axe or whatever kind of axe for you woodcutting level
2.From levels 1-15 cut normal trees.
3.From levels 15-75 cut oak.Why do you do that?Sure it is slow but this is a way to make good money because of all the people wanting to raise firemaking or construction.So as of today(2/16/11)oak is 42gp.So 42 multiplied by 32,212(the number of oak trees to cut)is 1,352,904.Easy gp if you have a bot.
4.75-99 cut yew trees or any other tree in between such as magic(if youre a member)
B1.Mining-First get a bronze pick or iron pickaxe.
2.Mine copper and tin all the way to level 30 mining.(Sell the ore or use for smithing)
3.Mine iron ore till level 45.(sell all the ore you mine and buy a rune pickaxe)
4.Now start to mine coal intill desired amount of money is achieved.I never mined rune to do the fact that it take forever for it to reappear and mine again.You will also have compition mining it.

If you have any other ways to make money other than grinding and merching comment or pm me and I will add.

Some helpful tools not included within this topic that may help you get your server started may be downloaded here.




Downloading winRar


To start off, we'll download Winrar. Winrar is a program in which you can use to extract files from .rar format, you may download it here[ [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] ]

Downloading and Installing Java



After you have done so, we will need the latest version of the Java Development Kit found here. Once you have selected the latest version of Java Development Kit, there will be a question asking which platform you have, or operating system. After you have chosen your platform, you then need to agree to the terms and services and as the next page loads, click "Download Selected with Sun Download Manager". From then on out, let it install and you'll be okay.

Here are the steps below.
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Getting No-Ip

Well, if you're going to have your server remain public, you're going to have to get No-Ip. No-Ip is a free service where you can use for websites, or servers.

First, you're going to go here and register an account at the site. You will then click 'Your No-IP' at the top right corner of the page. Then you need to click the 'Hosts and Redirects' button. After you have done so, it will bring you to a page showing your listed domains that you have added, though if you haven't added any you're going to click 'Add a host'. After you have added your desired domain, you're going to need to download the No-Ip Duc, located if you click the button 'Download' on the main page. Like you have done before when downloading Java, you're going to need to select your operating system and let it download.


Pictures of the steps shown below.
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Now once you have downloaded No-Ip Duc, run it and it should look like the picture below.
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Then all you need to check the box next to the domain you want people to log into, and you're good!

Setting up your Environmental Variables


Environmental variables are what allows you to run your server with Java, without it you would simple get 'The path is not yet specified' so this is an extremely important step. We will firstly open 'My Computer' and click 'View System Information'. As you do this, a small applet displaying several tabs, and you will select the one that says 'Advanced' and at the bottom, click 'Environmental Variables'. Now what you're going to do, is go to your 'Path' and 'Classpath' variables and edit them.

In your Classpath variable, you're going to take everything currently inside it and edit it with your latest version of JDK, so right now it would be;

Code: CLASSPATH=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_11\bin;%CLASSPATH%;
Though if a newer version comes out, you would change the 'jdk1.6.0_11' to the newest version.


After you have done the Classpath variable, you're going to find the Path variable and add the code below inside it.

Code: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_11\bin;
The same goes for Path, if you download a newer version of JDK then you're going to change the 'jdk1.6.0_11' to your current version.



Downloading a source/base

We're going to need to have something to start from, so choose one from the download section here[ [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] ]. The base you've downloaded could be anything you want, it's your choice. Now when you had downloaded the Winrar program earlier, this is where you'll be using it. Once you have found the base of your choice, you will need to go into the base file, and once you've done so you need to right click it and click 'extract'. Once it's done extracting, you then are free to roam about your source.

Port Forwarding
Use this site:[ Portforwading.com ] to help with port forwarding

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