Halloween Surprises
I logged on sometime in the morning to find that the game had undergone a system update.
The penguin spies are back in their pumpkin costumes!
The release of the Halloween Event was hardly a surprise since the 31st is this Saturday, while the PvP update to address the growing inflation in the game was a bonus. However, I am still firm in the belief that Jagex should've made the change much sooner, as their previous attempt to counter 76k tricking and the resulting inflation had been pitiful.
Their second and latest solution to the problem is pure simplicity. Loot from revenge kills has been drastically reduced in a bid to stem the flow of money into the Runescape economy, as well as discourage pairs of 76kers from taking turns to kill each other for drops. However, this deterrent may not be completely foolproof.
My clanmate, Phit, was quick to find a potential loophole and pointed out that 76kers could simply team up in threes and do a triangle kill. Meaning, player A kills player B, who kills player C, and player C in turn kills player A, effectively bypassing the revenge system. I certainly hope Jagex had factored this in when making the amendments.
To view the screenshot of my Adventurer Log, click here.
Today also saw the release of a more discreet feature into the game. I was alerted to a certain Adventurer Log by Vaskor's site which tracks down player activities, as well as the total period of time a player has spent in-game. According to my friend SpiritLink (whom some of you may know as Hyruliankid0), the link to the log had initially been put up in the RS website, but was removed a short while later.
Me playing the Trawler minin-game to complete an Easy diary task.
However, by then, players had already gotten hold of the link and started publicizing it around in the official forums. Word about the mysterious website addition got round in the forums and beyond despite of Forum Moderator efforts to lock the threads, which I suppose eventually led to players like me and Vaskor finding out about it.
And even with the initial astonishment of this discovery behind me hours later, the rest of my day was almost equally eventful. I systematically finished up the remainder of my Ardougne Diary tasks and then triumphantly proceeded to claim my full reward (excluding Elite, of course). Just so you know, the final diary task, which required me to win a round of Castlewars, was completed with much finesse on my part. My team dominated the game with a score of 9 - 2 in our favour; six of the flag captures were made by me.
Stuff achieved today: Finished the Ardougne Diary, gained 250k Mining exp
