Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird... it's a plane... it's a... floating castle?
If you're one of RuneScape's legions of players, you might be waking up to just that sight today. Jagex's golden child has released its Clan Citadel update, and with it the ability to move into one of these sky castles. Just pray that the anti-gravity generators don't fail.
Clan Citadels are meant to be a pumped-up version of other MMOs' guild halls, a place where clans can congregate and party when not slaughtering everything in sight. There are four variants of castles, each of which can be customized to your heart's content and upgraded through seven tiers. These citadels aren't just for show, but for hardcore use: Each comes with a battleground editor that allows you and your clan to create a tailored combat scenario, including capture-the-flag, to compete with other clans.
RuneScape VP Daniel Clough says that this will make the game the toast of the town: "We have been looking for a unique and innovative way to provide new multiplayer features to the game, and we are hugely excited to see what the community makes of this update."
Reader Comments (4)
Posted: Jul 26th 2011 11:00AM DeadlyAccurate said
Are there real people actually playing this game? I tried it for a week, and I was impressed with some of the features (puzzle-based quests!) but I was completely turned off by the number of macro-ing and botting characters I saw. Most of the harvesting nodes I came across were populated by little trains of macro-ing bots, and I saw more characters that acted like bots than I saw of people. If I saw a character that actually acted like a real person was on the other side on the screen, I was actually surprised.
Posted: Jul 26th 2011 11:10AM Raikulxox said
@DeadlyAccurate The f2p servers are infested with bots. It's understandable why there's so many, since it's a browser game requiring no big download and low requirements. On the p2p servers, though, it's way better bot wise.
(And I'm not excusing Jagex for allowing bots on there game. They released a dev blog a week or so ago, saying there going to be trying some new attempts at tracking and getting rid of them.)
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(And I'm not excusing Jagex for allowing bots on there game. They released a dev blog a week or so ago, saying there going to be trying some new attempts at tracking and getting rid of them.)
Posted: Jul 26th 2011 11:32AM Grumms said
I have the utmost respect for this game but...I just CANNOT get into it. I'm not sure what it is. I've tried multiple times to really, really play. It would be a great time killer at work.
But, much respect to Jagex. That game really does have some cool features.
But, much respect to Jagex. That game really does have some cool features.
Posted: Jul 26th 2011 11:54AM dudes said
Hmm I uninstalled the open source client recently. Maybe I'll check this feature out soon.







