Forums Reshuffle

During the last year or so, it has become apparent that our forums are just too busy and fast-moving for most of our forum-users’ needs. This can lead to frustrations such as spending a long time creating a thread only for it to disappear off the forums after a couple of days, or threads receiving lots of ‘spam’ or off-topic posts from people who are less invested in a particular discussion.

As a result, we have created communities within the forums based on your in-game levels and membership status. To start with, there are three member communities and one free-to-play communities. Each of these forum communities enables players with similar in-game levels to discuss tactics and general game discussions relevant to their levels.

In addition to the new communities, there are still shared forums accessible by all players, where you’ll be able to meet with your clan mates, organise events and roleplaying, trade, and ask other players for help. We will be looking to offer more forums to our growing language communities.

We are planning to gradually bring more free-players into the forum community, so that they too can join in and get involved with organising events and contributing to general game discussions and advice. We may also look to create more forum communities in the future.

All of these changes should help to improve the pace of the forums, but, most importantly, improve your experience on our forums by creating like-minded communities with similar levels of knowledge and experience. Maybe you’ll even make some new friends in the process!

Armies of Gielinor Story Competition

Over the last month, players have been battling to prove that their pen is mightier than the longsword by writing short stories based on either the Zamorak or Saradomin campaigns for our Armies of Gielinor story competition. By the time the competition closed we’d received well over a thousand entries, which meant that picking the winners was going to be no mean feat! Finally, though, we managed it and are happy to announce the recipients of lifetime membership for their RuneScape accounts.
After much debate, the judges decided that the best Zamorak campaign-inspired story was entered by celticqueen8, whose story really impressed all the judges due to its humour and originality. Dimitrix is a very worth runner-up thanks to a song which made him stand out from the crowd.
Meanwhile, the judges’ favourite Saradomin campaign-inspired entry came from Lunestruck, whose wildly imaginative story really captured the attention of the judges. The runner-up in that category was roleutrio.
Congratulations to you all!
You can find all the winning stories on the FunOrb and RuneScape forums. We’ll also be adding some more of the best stories to our forums and our official Facebook page over the course of the month.
We’d like to take this opportunity to offer our sincere thanks to everybody who entered. It’s been a pleasure to be a part of such a wonderful contest!

Egg-streme Management

In this year’s Easter holiday event, you’ll once again visit Easter Bunny Jr’s (EBJ) Egg Plant factory, fix his broken machines, de-funk the Easter Bird and retrain a jobsworth squirrel workforce, but all that’s just the start of it! EBJ has discovered the joys of having ‘face time’ with his customers and, so embroiled in customer satisfaction red tape as he is, requires a middle manager to run the entire work-floor production line.

Once the factory floor is up and running, it’s up to you to delegate ‘production resource’ and get everyone ‘moving forward’ with the task of fulfilling this year’s chocolate egg quota. From the look of EBJ’s clients, the word ‘deadline’ couldn’t be more appropriate, so hurry up and deliver the goods before the bunny gets eaten, set upon by goblins, loses his ‘ealth or worse.

Prove your blue collar credentials and you’ll win over some new squirrel-friend workmates, avoiding a ‘Miscellanian Kiss’ from one particular blue-faced rodent in the process. At this rate, you’ll be the one wearing the big bunny suit next Easter.