Runescape Member

 

Members, pay-to-play or P2P, are players who have paid subscriptions to have access to the full version of RuneScape. The pay-to-play version of RuneScape was first announced on 4 October 2001, and fully instated on 27 February 2002.

Jagex, the company that owns RuneScape, introduced Membership as a way to cover the vast majority of the costs of RuneScape, such as in-game updates, extra staffing, server hosting, etc. As a benefit, members have many more privileges and usable features in the game and on the RuneScape website.

Many people's critiques of the game are due solely to the limitations of a non-member in the game, specifically at a higher level as content and areas becomes repetitive and dull.

 

In order to become a member and access the pay-to-play version of RuneScape, players must first have a subscription. When players subscribe, they receive members credit which allows them to access the pay-to-play version of RuneScape. When you start a subscription by credit card, it will be paid monthly. Subscriptions through different payment methods may have varying lengths, although there is a minimum length of one month. Jagex is affiliated with several payment providers, which each provide different subscription payment methods and prices. Different payment methods require different information to be given during a secure payment process.

Membership unlocks many features of RuneScape that are not available to free players: almost all recent updates to RuneScape have been for members, with the exception of a few major updates in the past months. There are very few quests available to free players, while new quests available to members are added at a rate of one or two a month. This is a condensed list of features unlocked with membership below:

* Ability to use the Display Names feature.
* Nine extra skills, as well as more capabilities in free-to-play skills.
* Ability to purchase skill capes when achieving level 99/120 in a skill.
* Higher capabilities in other skills.
* Use of several transportation systems.
* Ten times as much explorable map area.
* More accessible servers. (members can access free-to-play worlds and pay-to-play worlds, although they cannot access most members only features in free-to-play worlds)
* More Activities, such as Pest Control, Soul Wars, and Stealing Creation.
* Better (and a more varied range of) equipment, such as Dragon, Barrows, Bandos, Crystal etc. weapons and armour.
* More bank space. (Non-members have only 78 bank spaces whilst members have 438)
* More space for Grand Exchange offers. (Non-members have only 2 spaces and members have all 6)
* Members can create their own house using the POH system along with the Construction skill.
* A huge amount of members-only items.
* Many more quests.
* More music and sound effects.
* A few more emotes such as air guitar (requires 500 unlocked songs).
* Ability to post on the RuneScape Official Forums regardless of their character's level/experience. (The only non-members who can post on the forums are those with at least 2.5 million XP total or have an overall skill total exceeding or equal to 350)
* More efficient ways to make money.
* The ability to access fullscreen mode on the main screen.
* The ability to take a photo using the Photo Booth feature for use on the forums as an avatar.
* The ability to fight hard bosses like the King Black Dragon and more.
* The ability to fight a wide variety of other monsters, ranging from Yaks, which are good training, to Dragons, which drop items such as Dragon bones that sell for a lot on the Grand Exchange.

It is important to note that these benefits will only be available if the member logs onto a members server. If a members-only item is on a non-members server it will not be usable. The name of the items is replaced with "Members object" and the examine is "Login to a members server to use this."

Although if you go onto a free server while membership is activated, the bank space will still be increased beyond the normal free limit, and you may still place things in even if there isn't one already in there. Fullscreen mode is also available on free servers while membership is activated.

Members-only skills Members-only skills section

Currently there are 9 skills in RuneScape that are only available to members out of a total of 25 skills. The members-only skills are listed in alphabetical order below:
 Agility
 Construction
 Farming
 Fletching
Herblore
 Hunter
 Slayer
 Summoning
 Thieving

A player at a Summoning obelisk.Requiem1160Added by Requiem1160 There are many benefits upon unlocking these skills. Many members quests have members skill requirements. Agility allows run energy to recharge faster, and allows entry to certain areas and use of many shortcuts. With Construction, players can build their own player-owned house. Farming allows players to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, and trees that only they will be able to cut. Herblore lets players make potions to aid them in combat and the training of other skills. Hunter is a great money maker, and items from it help train several other skills. Thieving allows entry into certain areas as well as being an easy money source. Slayer unlocks new monsters and items, as well as the Magic Dart spell.

Because free players do not have access to these nine skills, they cannot be raised. This makes it difficult for free players to be listed on the hiscores, and makes them look less experienced overall. Members-only skills make up over a third of the total number of skills to train in RuneScape.
Summoning Summoning section

With Summoning, members can achieve a maximum combat level higher than that of free players. With 3 out of the 4 skills Attack, Strength, Defence, Constitution at 99 and the last at 96 in Summoning and 98 in Prayer members can achieve a maximum combat level of 138. As Summoning is members only, members will still retain the maximum combat level of 126 regardless of any Summoning level if they are within a free-to-play world. The Summoning cape can be bought from Pikkupstix in Taverley.
Members-only areas Members-only areas section

Free players have very limited access to the world of RuneScape. Free players can only access the kingdoms of Asgarnia and Misthalin, the north-eastern most point of Karamja, and most of the Wilderness. Instant Demo players can only access the kingdom of Misthalin which has extremely limited access. Membership allows full access to the entire world. Remember that these new lands bring with them new quests, people and activities to experience and explore.

Here is a list of some, but not all of the lands reserved for members: