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Alexa Rank Comparisons - Weekly

Laydeeeez an' gennelmen, for your viewing pleasure, witness the spectacle! The thrills and spills of the fair, see the amazing clowns juggling flaming Alexa-ranks. Please remain in your seats and don't feed the monkeys. (this follows from the Fansite discussions, you want comparisons, then you got them). Following from the discussions over fansites, here is a listing of Alexa ranks for the major sites. Remember lower is better and means the site has more visitors. QuagmireDog 22:02, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

This weeks Alexa rankings are:

• RuneHQ - 4,152
• Tip.it - 5,945
• Zybez - 2,833,950
• RuneVillage - 229,919
• Sal's Realm - 15,238

What an upset, what a result.. oh wait, it's RuneHQ again -.0 You've been a lovely audience, please mind the step as you exit the tent. RuneHQ has the lowest ranking (the most visitors), another comparison will happen next week. QuagmireDog 22:10, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Accepted, please forget all about this as the last thing I'd want is for you to dwell on it. I'll edit the text and in future try to remember that my own brand of humour is best in small doses, so as not to leave other visitors and contributors wondering about my intentions. QuagmireDog 00:35, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Here's the link . Though I'd assume that all the information is refreshed every time it's accessed, I clicked on each individual page's alexa results to make sure it was up to date. For comparison, look at Wikipedia's own Alexa rank of 17 - not many sites weigh in heavier than this baby. QuagmireDog 00:19, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

It's a new week and it's time for some new results:

• RuneHQ - 4,208
• Tip.it - 5,929
• Zybez - 2,835,286
• RuneVillage - 234,673
• Sal's Realm - 15,366
• RS Bits and Bytes - 300,355

Remember - the lower the number the more unique visitors that site has had today - RuneHQ is the most visited for the second week running. QuagmireDog 15:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

RuneHQ has been ahead of the other help sites since around the end of last year (Nov/Dec). I remember because when I was staff there, a huge party was given to celebrate overtaking Tip.it. Yes, when using Alexa's ranking system lower numbers indicate more visitors. Mamyles 23:19, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Servers

There are 132 servers in RuneScape, not 134.

Forums

Why can't we talk about the RuneScape forums in th article? It is in the topic of RuneScape, and once I added it in, but just as quickly, someone edited it out. Why? DeenMan (talk • contribs) .

But it's a big feature of RS! And we don't have to talk about the community, we can just talk about what features it has. And believe me, it has a lot of features. DeenMan (talk • contribs) .

I once created a forum part with over 7 sentences before, but unfortunately someone removed it. And it doesn't seem like there will be any more chances for me to do it again... DeenMan (talk • contribs) .

So I can do it?

Thanks Amarkov! I added it on, so please, no one delete it. DeenMan (talk • contribs) .

Aww man.......... DeenMan (talk • contribs) .

It's ok, I'll just contribute to that section of Community. DeenMan (talk • contribs) .

Criticism

I'm looking at the criticism section right now and I KNOW there's more criticism than this. I'm thinking that we create a Criticism subpage specifically for RuneScape Criticism. This allows us to do 3 things:

• Reduces the length of the article
• Allow for more criticism on the subpage
• Allows for a more detailed report on criticism

--Ed ^{talk c E} 01:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Biased

This page is so biased in the first couple of paragraphs there is so much how can you claim runescape to be a "top" online game it is supposed to be a neutral point of view I think some one should go thought this badly written piece of work and remove all the biased, runescape is not a terrible game but by no means is it a top online game, Have you ever herd of Halo or Rome Total war they are top games this is not, it is not in any game charts or any thing some one fix it!. Mr Roboto 16:11, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Plus, there are quite a few statistics 'out there', and in terms of players, RS is in fact the largest mmorpg in the world (except not all the players pay). I think lineage 1 and 2 combined have the edge, but each of those two games on their own have less players. Being the biggest imo makes "top" a fair comment. --Awaken 16:37, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

DeviousMUD as a part of RS

I've removed the references to devious mud being v1 of Runescape, it wasn't, even if it inspired the creation of RS. --Awaken 16:38, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Please sign your posts with four tildes Hemhem20X6 03:11, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

As for the edit, it's very minor, go look. DevioisMUD is still there, just the wording changed to avoid it being described as v1 of RS.

--Awaken 16:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC) <- w00t

for the comment above...is devious mud still there? I cuz there are hordes of players who would die to play that game!

Lithuanian?

"For example, some worlds have a greater percentage of players who speak Spanish, Dutch, or Lithuanian."

I have never seen a Lithuanian player, but i have seen a number of players from other major European counties such as France or Germany, is Lithuania realy relevent? P.S. Not trying to sound racist. --Boris Johnson VC 10:20, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

There are many, many lithuanian players in RS, as well as estonian. They make up a large portion of the player base - just a quieter portion :) --Awaken 16:34, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

There are probaly more French, German etc players simple as they are bigger countrys. We cudl replace it with a general term of "main land europe" Ir something along the lines.--Blaze1200 15:55, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't think we should mention any nationalities until we have definite demographical data from Jagex. It's not really necessary in the first place, as the nationalities of players don't really define the game. It just seems like adding trivial information. Strike Force 01:32, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Gameplay of RuneScape

I highly suggest merging all those gameplay subarticles into a "Gameplay of RuneScape" article (with maybe one or two exceptions). See User:Deckiller/Sandbox1. I know next to nothing about RuneScape, and it seems the web is multilayered, so the merges should be spearheaded by someone who understands both Wikiepdia succinctness and RuneScape. — Deckill e r 07:07, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

• Weaponry is being merged into armour, forming a new RS Equipment article (or whatever name is chosen).
• Combat is currently in limbo, it could potentially merge with the equipment article and the wilderness article, but until more work is done it won't be apparent.
• Wilderness has just past AFD with a 'keep' consensus, I'm not sure what the ramifications are in regards to a future merge, but nothing's spoiling ATM.
• Minigames is now a complete list of sub-games in RS, it can stand on its own two feet.
• Skills is in the same state as mini-games.
• Locations is in major need of a fat-trimming exercise and some serious rewriting, but again should be able to stand as a complete article in its own right.
• Gods has just passed AFD with a 'keep' consensus, but with clean-up recommended. What could be done with it hasn't really been touched-upon. Possible merge candidate if we can agree to cut to the chase (yet to be seen).
• Random Events has had all the fat trimmed and has no apparent need for expansion as it's comprehensive but concise - possible merge candidate (would prevent more cruft-stuffing).
• Economy has also been trimmed. Whilst there is scope to expand it (if someone fancies a shot), it doesn't seem like anybody has a grand scheme in mind for it. Possible merge candidate.
• Community isn't a happy bunny. Since trimming has taken place, there's precious little there and the article lacks any kind of direction. It -could- be expanded, but again nobody seems to have any big ideas for it at present. Possible merge candidate.

• In that case, then a main article for gameplay could summarize all portions of gameplay (or, even better, that can be done on this page under the gameplay heading). Yeah, economy could be a subheading under community, and more reconstruction could be possibilities for the future. — Deckill e r 06:18, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Logo

I was looking that the RS image category and I found this: Image:RSlogo3.jpg. Anyone think we should put it up?--Ed ^{talk c E} 16:59, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:Http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/5007/rslogo1ui8.jpg This Image here is clean and I think we should use this. it came from the pack downloadable from the site. We could make it transparent and it would work well.--Blaze1200 15:50, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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