The Warriors' Guild Guide has been uploaded to the site!

~ [Im4eversmart] ~

Quotations taken directly from Runescape.com

12 June 2006 - Warriors' Guild

Harrallak Menarous, warrior and swordsmaster, has been away exploring far-off lands. Now he's returned, he has formed a guild west of Burthorpe to train warriors in the arts of fighting. For this training, Harrallak has gathered some unusual people with their own ideas of what makes a warrior - including an ex-Black Knight, a warrior mage and an educated barbarian woman with a fondness for bad puns.

Minigames around the guild prove whether you can defeat your own animated armour, test how far you can throw the shot and let you be the target for an angry dwarf with a catapult! These minigames will allow you to earn some training time in a cage with the creatures Harrallak discovered on his trip. If you're lucky, you might even get one to drop a new blade that you can use in place of a shield!

In between balancing barrels, whacking dummies and being hit by anvils, you can find shops and a bank here to replenish your supplies. To enter the Warriors' Guild, you will need a total of 130 combined attack and strength. Bear in mind that if you die whilst there, you will lose your items!

~Brenden

Once again, Alk12 has provided us with another great map, The Coal Trucks Mine Map!

Thanks again for your great maps Alk12!

~Magic

We have a new map on the site, The Miscellania Dungeon Map!

A huge thanks goes out to Carduel and masterhyperg for the great map.

~Magic

Long in the making, I have finally released RuneHQ's Warrior Max Hit Calculator! Please note that the formula is NOT exact, and should not be treated as perfect, although it should always be within 1 damage point of the correct value (excepting full Dharok, which is as yet untested).

~Oblivion590

We now have a new Crash Island Dungeon Map. Thanks to The Peleton and everyone who helped with it!

We also have a new Blast Furnace room map. Thanks to Carduel and everyone who helped with it!

~Rohan

Quotations taken directly from Runescape.com

06 June 2006 - Pest Control Update

Just a small update this week... we didn't want to interfere with your construction!

This week we are releasing various improvements for the Pest Control mini-game, as well as increasing the range of rewards available to you.

If you take a look, you'll find much more information available in the waiting areas, as well as some nice new interfaces during the game itself. These will tell you useful statistics like the health of the Void Knight, the status of the portals and the amount of damage you have inflicted.

We've also made changes to the rewards. You'll still get 1 point for successfully completing a round of the mini-game, but you can now use those points to buy herb, seed or mineral packs, a new Guthixian Mace with spell casting abilities and an armour set to allow you to blend in with the other Void Knights! There is also the chance to save up 100 points and spend them all in one go, earning you 10% extra XP in your chosen stat.

We have also added some gold and silver mining spots to the Tzhaar Area.

~Magic

Quotations taken directly from Runescape.com

5 June 2006 - Behind the Scenes - June

Hello, and welcome to another exciting edition of Behind the Scenes, where we let you know all about the exciting updates we are adding during the upcoming month. Obviously, we are expecting lots of you will be happily sawing and building things, but we doubt you'll be able to resist the great new releases we have planned!

So, in no particular order...

This month, the Warriors' Guild finally appears just on the outskirts of Burthorpe. It's taken a while to get the ideas right, but with various different minigames to play, earning you time in a rewarding training room at the top, we are sure it's worth the wait. Try out the shot putt, animate suits of armour, smash training dummies in a kind of "whack-a-mole" setting, even try beating a drunken guard at a very odd balancing game. Keep a look out for a rather nice new blade too.

We are also adding new rewards to Pest Control. Players will now be able to spend their points on new Void Knight armour and a brand new Guthixian mace with various autocast options. The generous Void Knights will also exchange your points to buy packs of minerals, seeds and herbs. Players keen to save up all their points will also be able to cash in larger stacks of points for more generous XP rewards. We are also updating the interface for Pest Control, showing you more information such as remaining time, the damage taken by the Void Knight and the number of portals closed.

Our quest this month follows on from the Lost Tribe quest, where you will be invited to escort a very friendly member of the Dorgeshuun around the surface world to see the sights! You'll have to be careful though, no doubt Sigmund and his evil HAM brotherhood will interfere somewhere along the line. A brand new weapon with a rather unique special attack waits for those who take on the job. This fantastic addition to the goblin cave storyline could even force a tear in the most hardy of adventurers, so be prepared.

Anyone ever had any Trouble Brewing? Well, this minigame certainly has, especially when you consider what's involved with brewing the famous Braindeath "rum". Get dyed monkeys to fetch nuts from the top of a tree, but hope there isn't another monkey up there already or it could be the worse for poor ol' Cuddles. Lure out grubs from insect mounds with fresh meat, boil up your flowers, scrape disease-ridden bark from trees and bung it all in the hoppers before the opposing team sets fire to everything! Of course, if they do, you can always blast them with your steam pumps, or even go and burn their stuff in an act of revenge!

Large teams of players compete to brew the most "rum", earning pieces of eight to spend on some very fetching pirate gear and a few other things besides. It's like nothing we have ever tried before, but if you like the madness involved with our current pirate offerings, we are sure you'll enjoy this. With open invites going out to all and sundry, the pirates are bound to open up gates to Mos Le'Harmless, giving access to the rest of the island. Aside from the new minigame, there are deep caverns to explore and new slayer monsters to fight.

A new random event will also be released this month. One of the Camelot beekeepers has a problem. His old beehives have stood around for a long time and they are starting to fall apart. Help him to reassemble the beehives before you get stung and have to dive into a stream to escape the angry swarm! Bee careful not to get stung...

Finally, we have a brand new FREE TO PLAY release this month. After years of giving security advice to players via our website and our customer relation teams, we have decided to build it into the game via a rather funky training area. Players are invited to hack and slash their way through 4 floors of beasts, all the while answering questions to some pushy doors. Various treasures wait on the different floors, with the top floor giving free players a new piece of armour... and it looks pretty good too! Hopefully you'll learn a few tips on how to keep your account secure on the way too.

Enjoy :)

~Brenden

The Fremennik Slayer Dungeon Map has been updated! A huge thanks go's out to Shinraz and Watsermetjou.

Also, we have finished part of the Construction Skill Guide. We are still working very hard to finish the rest of it but decided to release what we have so far so that users can get started on the new skill.

~Magic and ~ [Im4eversmart] ~

In other player-owned housing-related news, I have completed the Construction Skill Calculator! For would-be carpenters or experienced craftsmen alike, this tool can help you plan your Construction goals. Enjoy!

~Oblivion590

Quotations taken directly from Runescape.com

02 June 2006 - 7 new worlds online

The recent release of player-owned housing has caused a very high demand for members worlds, therefore we have put 7 new worlds online. They are in a new location, Vancouver, with 3 worlds for free players and 4 for members only.

~Magic

Quotations taken directly from Runescape.com

01 June 2006 - 4 new worlds online

We have put 4 new worlds online to make sure we have enough capacity for all our members to enjoy the exciting player-owned housing update released yesterday.

Three are in Stockholm and one is in Toronto.

01 June 2006 - Bug Reporting System Updated!

We have given our Bug Reporting system a full makeover, meaning it is now faster and easier to use than ever!

We take any Bug Reports very seriously, and so have made sure that our reporting system can collect detailed reports quickly and easily.

Behind the great new look, players will find they can now view bugs that have already been reported or fixed more easily, and our staff will be able to look into submitted reports quickly and effectively.

You can find the Bug Reporting system by clicking the 'Report a bug/fault' link on the front page, under the Knowledge Base section.

~Magic

Quotations taken directly from Runescape.com

31 May 2006 - PLAYER-OWNED HOUSES!

This week sees the release of our biggest and most anticipated update this year: player-owned houses. No longer must RuneScape members wander the world endlessly, never being able to sit down or have a place to call their own. Members can build their houses and make furniture using the new Construction skill. Start by building a cottage with a few chairs around a fire, and add rooms and gain levels until you have your own palace. Some pieces of furniture will unlock new abilities, magic spell tablets, and even chairs you can sit down in.
This incredible update features over 20 rooms, 330 pieces of furniture, 11 new NPCs, 12 dungeon monsters, craftable toys, new armour and shields, trophy rooms, tool racks, different architectural styles, butlers and a whole host of new games to play with your house guests!

Basic houses, rooms and furniture are priced cheaply enough so that most members will be able to afford somewhere to live. We have also made lots of features for our more opulent players to be able to show off their wealth. If you get your construction level high enough and you're rich enough you can build an entire dungeon to challenge your friends, you might even be able to add your own dragon to it! Or how about a throne room? - with a throne of crystal!

Fancy a change of scene? As you go up levels your house can be rebuilt in completely different designs ranging from the Rimmington "Shack" look, the Rellekkan Longhall and the Brimhaven Beach-house.

To start you must buy a small house from any of the estate agents in Seers' Village (north-west of the bank), Falador (between the furnace and the east bank), Ardougne (west of the eastern bank) or Varrock (east of the castle).

A full guide to the skill can be found in the Knowledge Base. Open the door to your new "home from home" today!

Note - we were originally going to call this skill "Carpentry", but the range of activities involved in the skill soon got much bigger than that title, so we widened it to "Construction".

Please be aware that the Tears of Guthix will not give Construction xp for a while. The god Guthix, in his immortal wisdom, does not wish to pry into your home so soon.

31 May 2006 - Readers' letters, bank space and game tweaks!

Game tweaks

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  We have added 3 more rows of bank space to the game for members only. This now gives you a grand total of 376 slots to store your stuff!
  



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  More plank spawns have been added around the world.
  



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  A small number of Teak and Mahogany trees have been added to the Kharazi Jungle, Ape Atoll, Uzer and the woodland just south of Castle Wars.
  Please note: Miscellanian resources and the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup minigame remain effective ways to collect these valuable logs
  



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  Mort'ton general store now sells timber beams instead of planks. Timber beams can now be used in place of planks to build the Flamtaer Temple.
  

~Brenden

A new Global Gaming HQ, LLC website: GameTalkHQ.com!!

GameTalkHQ.com is now officially open to the public. We have been wanting to expand our business into other websites and avenues so we figured this would be a good way. WeezyRowe is very involved in keeping up with Gaming news and loves her Xbox 360 so she has decided to head the new website.

Feel free to register and let all your friends know. We hope to make this an exciting and friendly community like RuneHQ is.

The Music Guide has been rewritten, thanks to The Peleton and everyone who helped with it!

~Magic

The RuneHQ May Event has been postponed until further notice. It will be rescheduled once the forum upgrade is complete. Thank you.

~ RuneHQ Events Team

The RuneHQ May Event has been postponed until further notice. It will be rescheduled once the forum upgrade is complete. Thank you.

~ RuneHQ Events Team

The Forums are now open!



We have decided to start fresh with IPB 2.1.6. We wanted to clean up all the old tables in the database and also all the old code. We also wanted to clean up all the old trash that was posted by people that were long gone. Several of the things were outdated and needed updated anyway.



The old forum is still available in read only mode and there is a link to it on the new forum.



For all of you that are monthly advanced members, please cancel your subscriptions and resign up for it on the new forum. If you are a yearly subscriber, also please cancel your old subscriptions and we will work with you on setting up a new one and making sure you get credit for time you already paid for.



We have added several modifications and new themes. Some of the old themes were removed however because of compatibility issues.



Some of the new additions :

Blogs

Arcade

IbProBattle

Google Member Map

Member Teams - Advanced members and above only




We still have some issues to work out and things to add. We are waiting on Invision to complete the overhaul of our Auction mod and several other modifications. We will add back the auctions as soon as we can. We have a few bugs that need to be resolved, and we are aware of them and working on them.



Everyone will have to re-register on the new forum! Sorry we did not want to bring over the old user database that was susceptible to the hackers we have had lately.



Please register and use a NEW password that is not used anywhere else, also please make your login is different from your display name when you register as an added security precaution.


Login Name: what you log in with, this is NOT shown anywhere on the forum and should be kept secret, EVEN from FRIENDS!

Display Name: This is what is shown when you post, you will be allowed to change this yourself once per 90 days.



We have decided to give everyone a clean slate as well! If you were previously banned, you again can create an account on the forum. If you behave and follow our rules then there will not be any problems, we however will not hesitate to re-ban anyone that registers just to start trouble.

Also - If you are under 13 and have already sent in your COPPA form, please click on the Link that says you over 13 when you register so we will validate you without it. If you click that link and are under 13 and we don't have the COPPA form, when we find out, we will suspend you until we get the form. We are requred by law to have the COPPA form if you are under 13 and register on our site!

~MrStormy~ and ~ [Im4eversmart] ~

The Royal Trouble Quest Guide has been uploaded! Thank you piro_omar and logansh for helping me with this guide!

~ [Im4eversmart] ~

Quotations taken directly from Runescape.com

22 May 2006 - Royal Trouble

Those of you who made peace in Miscellania may find that all is not well when you return. King Vargas has started a war with Etceteria again, and he and Queen Sigrid agree on one thing - it's up to you, the Regent of Miscellania, to sort it out. War? What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Make your way back to the islands north of Rellekka to get to the bottom of it. Find out what's happening in the Miscellanian dungeons, and why things have been mysteriously going missing, or both kingdoms will be in for some Royal Trouble!

Those brave enough to once again step in between these raging monarchs will be rewarded with a generous helping of Agility, Slayer and Hitpoints XP. In addition to that, they can also call on the services of Etcetaria to join in with collecting resources for them, this time providing farming seeds, mahogany and teak.

We've also improved the rewards from the first quest in the series (Throne of Miscellania). Players can now ask their subjects to collect flax as well, and each type of resource has its own bonus rewards if you tell enough of your subjects to work hard at it. Your subjects will also collect more resources than before for the same amount of money and time!

Read more about it in our Knowledge Base article about Managing Miscellania.
Our new QuestHelp system will be updated with hints for Royal Trouble tomorrow.

Two new Random Events

Pinball

The mysterious old man has built himself a strange device he calls a pinball table, although he has unusual ideas about what pinball actually is. It's one enormous table where trolls stand guard with clubs as the flippers! Naturally he's keen to whisk away players to get involved, this time to be used as the balls!

In this random event the player must run around a giant pinball table tagging ten poles. You can't tag any old poles, though, only the ones with rings around them. If you tag the wrong pole your score goes back to zero and you have to start again.

Grab The Evil Twin

Molly has always had difficulty with her twin sister, probably because her twin is an evil twin. Continuing in the amusement arcade theme from the pinball event, she's rigged up a giant claw to try and catch her sister and drop her in a cage, she just needs you to operate the controls.

The only problem is that Molly's twin managed to bring four innocent citizens with her. Simply move the claw around using the control panel until the red target is on the girl that looks just like Molly, then hit the 'Grab' button to hoist her into the air and dump her in the cage.

See the Random Events article in our Knowledge Base for more details on both of these events.

~ [Im4eversmart] ~