The bank we promised in the last newsletter has been added to the city, and is a safe place to store your money. Following a large amount of attacks just outside the bank, the city has paid to put multiple armed guards around the bank area to protect people who have just withdrawn money. The number of guards was further increased last Monday.

Following saturdays update the combat system has been tweaked further. The retreating was still too difficult (particularly when bei

Ranged combat - You now gain experience for each successful hit

'Super strength Beer cheat' fixed. Today it came to my attention that by drinking huges amount of beer players were able to make themselves super strong, and then go killing everyone! This has now been fixed so Beer can only increase your strength slightly. Many thanks to the person who told me about this one. If you know of any more cheats/tricks let me know so I can fix them and make RuneScape a fair place for everyone.

We are of course working on many more improvements to add to the game to make it even better. We have nearly finished work on the bank which will hopefully be added to Varrock city tommorow. The bank is a safe place to store your money, such that even if you die it can't be lost. After that the magic system is due for a big overhaul with lots of new spells being added, plus we'll be adding some entirely new professions such as crafting and fishing to add even more variety to the game. The next planned quest is 'The vampire slayer quest' in which you must work out how to slay the evil vampire currently sleeping in Draynor Manor.