Global RuneScape Community Announcements

New skin & limits on signature sizes

Aliensvortex — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:43:13 -0500

With the redesign of the site, there is now a new standard forum skin. The new forum skin is significantly different from the old skin, and it has been based on a different standard skin from phpBB, so we will not re-use graphics from the old skin. Forum icons and other images may soon be replaced with something that matches the rest of the design in a better way. Everyone has been switched to the new skin. If you prefer the old skin, you can change back to the old skin in your user control panel which is now called "Global RuneScape Classic". The Black Pearl skin is still available if you prefer to use a darker skin. This will only affect the forum, and you will not be able to change back to the old design on the main site.

We have also introduced a hard limit on signature sizes. All images that are larger than the maximum allowed sizes will now be automatically resized. If the whole signature is higher than the maximum allowed height (300px), it will now simply be cut off at 300 pixels.

If you have any suggestions or find any bugs or anything that doesn't look quite right, please let me know!

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Forum code updates & performance improvements

Aliensvortex — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:26:13 -0600

Hello all! You may have noticed that the front page of the forums has been quite slow for a while. We've now changed the code and made it significantly faster, so you will hopefully notice that the forum loads much faster than before. Please let us know if you experience any problems.

On a side note, I know I've been somewhat inactive lately, but stay tuned as there will be some pretty big changes to GRS soon!

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Display Names Error

Illicit_Rage — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:22:24 -0500

Attention:

To all those who did the recent "Display Names" change....you must change your RS name on this site to the new display name for them to show up in the Highscores. I just realized that a majority of us (all the ones who have changed your names) have disappeared from the HS list and also a majority of the skill bars are out of date now as well.

To do this, you must go to the:
1) 'User Control Panel'
2) 'Profile'
3) 'Runescape Username'

Change the name to your new display name, you must also do this in the coding for all stat bars for them to not read 0% on everything.

Thank You
~Ducky

Example of how to change your stat bars:

Old way with original name:
/cooking/99/swimmajor.png

Change the username to the new display name to get:
/cooking/99/Illicit-rage.png

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A Quick Reminder

Slim50 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:55:37 -0500

This is just a little reminder to everyone here that visits Global-rs.com. Seems there's been bit of a spike in rule breakers coming to our forums. Please remember ALL JAGEX RULES APPLY! We don't tolerate account traders, hackers, or any of the rest of their sort. This goes for the forums, the IRC, and even the Cc in-game.

If you happen to come across a post of any sort that looks suspicious, report it and please don't click any links that may have shown up. The staff are working hard to keep these rule breakers at bay, but regardless some manage to slip in under our noses.

Just remember to be aware of what you're doing on here and everywhere on the internet. Security is key!

Thank you on behalf of the GRS Staff,
Slim50

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Pineapple

Lil McGinley — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:13:30 -0500

Hey GRS,

This post comes with some sadness. Pineapple has decided to step down from being a Moderator and one of GRS's best Site Editors. I can assure you that this is a personal choice made by Pineapple and not a demotion. He is not leaving GRS; he has simply chosen to resign from his positions here at Global Runescape for personal reasons. He will continue as a Retired Staff member and is welcome back as a Site Editor anytime.

Regards,
Lil McGinley, on behalf of Pineapple and the GRS Staff.

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Additional Staff Changes

Lil McGinley — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:17:47 -0500

Good evening Global Runescapers!

It is with great honor that I get to announce that GRS is promoting 2 new Moderators and 1 new Administrator from within our family here.

Night Elf45 and Illicit_Rage have been selected to become the newest members of the Moderating team. Night Elf has been a very active member of GRS for almost 3 years and Illicit_Rage is a rather "new" member but has shown great maturity and dedication with his work as a Site Editor.

Hitman will become Global Runescape's 4th Administrator. He has proven himself as an excellent moderator and community leader. AV, Dave and myself feel that Hitman will be a great addition to the Administrator group here at GRS and will help us tremendously as we continue to grow as a community.

On behalf of the Staff here at GRS, Lil McGinley

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Staff Changes

Lil McGinley — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:13:26 -0500

Good morning GRS'ers,

Didn't want to leave y'all in the dark about what is taking place behind the scenes, as you may have noticed and probably already assumed, we are making some staff changes around here. As of this moment, Tim has been Retired from the Staff and will retain his Honored Member status. Also Slim50 has been promoted to Senior Moderator.

Be on the look out for other updates coming your way.

Lil McGinley, on behalf of the Staff.

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IRC Chat Update

Slim50 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:52:41 -0500

Just for everyone's information, the IRC is back to normal now! Feel free to pop in and say hello, or use the RuneScript bot! Whatever you wish to do.

Hope to see all your smiling faces soon!

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IRC Chat Problems

Lil McGinley — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:27:28 -0500

It appears that SwiftIRC, the people who host our IRC channel, have been experiencing problem with their DNS servers. Therefor, their servers, including their DHCP server, are offline. You can not connect to the channel nor their website. They are working on a solution and hopefully it will be resolved soon. This is just an announcement to let you all know. Hope to see y'all back in the IRC Chat soon!

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Site Editor Openings

Aliensvortex — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:43:47 -0500

Hello all! As Dave announced a few weeks ago, we're now opening up applications for anyone interested in joining the site editor group. You will have to fill out the following application and send it in a PM to me, Aliensvortex. All applications will be posted in a private site editor forum, and we will then choose site editors based on your applications and your past activity in the forums.

To be eligible for this position, you need to have been a member at the Global-RS forums for more than one month (registered before June 09).

Code: Select all: RuneScape Name? How long you have been a member at Global-RS? Do you know HTML? What area of our knowledge base are you most interested in? (IE items, monsters, guides etc) If you were to be given access to edit only certain parts of the site (such as only one of the databases, quest guides or any other section), what part of the site would you choose? Why would you like to be a member of the site editing team? If you would like to add anything, please do so here:

Please note that you do not need to know HTML to edit the site, although it would be an advantage. Being familiar with image editing software (knowing how to crop/resize pictures, remove background from item/monster pictures etc) is also an advantage, but not required.

We will keep all applicants updated through private messages in the forums.

If you have any questions, post them here or send them in a PM to me.

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Staff Changes & Opportunities

Dave — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:58:41 -0500

Today we are making a few major changes to our staff. They are as follows:

Lil McGinley has been promoted from Senior Moderator to Administrator because of his long time dedication and hard work with Global-RS.

Hitman has been promoted from Moderator to Senior Moderator because he has proven himself as an excellent moderator and community leader.

Today we are also welcoming two new moderators to our team, Pineapple and Slim50! These two members have been picked by our current staff based on their activity and display of maturity around the community. Congratulations guys.

We are also adding a few new members to the Honored Members group: These members are Illicit_rage, Rager, and Balatis.

In other news, within the next few weeks there will be a lot of openings within the site editor group. We feel that the current site editor group is under staffed, so we are opening up applications for anyone interested to join the group. Keep your eyes open for more on this soon! This will be a fun and enjoyable way to become more involved in keeping our site's content accurate and up to date.

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New forum skin: Black Pearl

Aliensvortex — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:26:07 -0500

Hello all! We've just added a new forum skin, Black Pearl. This is a dark skin with light text, and is completely different from our two other skins, "Global RuneScape" and "proSilver".

You can change your default skin by going to your User Control Panel » Board Preferences.

Please note that this skin will not be displayed properly if you are using an obsolete browser such as Internet Explorer 6.

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New Moderator: Tim

Dave — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:08:54 -0600

Due to timezone conflicts, it was apparent that a new moderator would help in covering the boards during off hours for the current staff. Tim has been selected to be the next global moderator because of his dedication and hard work for the site, and also he fills in a timezone gap to help keep the boards cleaner during the off hours for the rest of the staff.

Congratulations Tim.

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Submission points, profile layout, rank images and more!

Aliensvortex — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:59:02 -0600

Hello all! We've just added some new features and changed a lot of the existing ones:

Submission points
A new point system has been implemented. Whenever you submit something that gets added to the site, a site editor will have the possibility to give you a certain number of points for that submission. Larger submissions that take more time to make will give you more points than smaller submissions.

You will not be able to see exactly how many points you have, but awards are automatically given to people with many points. The award will be displayed underneath your name in posts and your profile as a bronze star, silver star or gold star, depending on how many points you have.

In other words, if you submit a lot, you will get a shiny star underneath your name for everyone to see, and users with many points will obviously have a higher chance of becoming a site editor!

Profile layout and rank images
We've made several changes to the layout of a user's profile next to a post:

Next to the user's name, you will now see a small green or gray icon showing if the user is online or offline, respectively.
We now have new, improved rank images. There is now an unique image for bronze pages, iron squires and all the other ranks, and the images for special ranks such as moderators and site editors have a colour matching the rank's colour.
A user's RuneScape name and status is now displayed on the post pages too! You don't have to go to the profile to check this information anymore. The RuneScape name also links to the forum hiscore, which will display the user's stats.
And obviously, you'll see a star if the user is a good submitter!

Posting page changes
There have been made some changes to the posting layout too. When replying to a topic, the subject/description field is now hidden. You will only see these fields when posting/editing a topic (i.e. the first post in a topic). Several other smaller changes have been made, such as increased spacing between the smilies.

Other changes
The post time has been moved from the bottom right corner to the upper right corner of a post. The upper right corner used to contain the post subject, but since the subject will only be "Re: Topic subject", this didn't serve any purpose.

Lastly, for those of you who have a special rank and a coloured name, you will now see your name in the same colour as next to your posts at the top of the forum.

That's all for now. Remember, if you have any suggestions or ideas that you believe will make the site or forums better, please post them here!

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Forum and group changes

Aliensvortex — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:18:23 -0600

Hello all. We've done some changes to keep the forums clean and updated:

Marketplace reorganization
Since the Grand Exchange was introduced last year, the forum has become much less active than it used to be. Therefore, we decided that there was no need to keep all the categories that were made prior to the GE. We've now removed all the categories in the marketplace forum, and replaced them with 3 new sub-forums:

Removal of inactive groups
Also, we've discontinued the Herald editor and Event manager groups, as they have both been inactive for many months. However, remember that the Herald is still up, and we encourage people to submit stories. Both groups may return in the future if there is enough interest for it.

That's all for now. Enjoy!

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Congratulations to New Honored Members

Lil McGinley — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:43:42 -0600

Congratulations to Zarzarx1, Night_elf45 and Shane The Pain for being selected as the first Honored Member group of 2009! They have shown that they are here to help GRS grow by being active, writing guides and helping with the overall life of the forums. I hope that other will follow in their footsteps and help GRS grow into the best Runescape fan site out there!

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Concerning All Submissions

Anna Molly — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:01:10 -0600

Hello all! I doubt anyone has noticed, but the Quest Guides / Skill Guides forum, the Atlas forum, the Other Submissions forum, and the Database Submissions forums have all been cleaned out and re-modeled. I have been here for about two years, and I have never seen the submissions forums organized to this extent before. We are calling upon the community to help us keep them organized by:

1) Only making new threads in these forums if they are guides or database submissions that you wish to be added to the main site. Suggestions of how to make the site better do not belong in this forum (please post suggestions in the suggestions forum.)
2) Going back to guides that you or someone else started several months (or years ) ago and finishing them. There is at least a dozen unfinished items in each of the forums listed above. Imagine if we got all of these unfinished submissions finished and added! Thats 40 new guides/database entries for GRS.

Also, please remember that any images which are to be accepted should be saved in PNG mode (NOT JPEG!!! ) and preferebly be taken in high-def.

There are 5 days left in 2008. We, as the GRS staff, hope that 2009 will bring a year of growth for the GRS helpsite, unmatched by any previous years. Of course, the rest is up to you, the GRS member, regardless of your forum rank or which usergroups you are in. Lets make GRS a quality Runescape website, together.

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Event #14 - Barbarian Assault

Nightmare — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:55:02 -0600

Event #14 - Barbarian Assault

This event will be taking place on Saturday, November 8th. It will take place at 3 P.M EDT ( If you're unsure what this time is please click here

The Armor/Weapons is optional, although it is recommended. You can easily get here by teleporting to Barbarian Outpost by using a charged Games Necklace. The world is 6 which is one of the Official Barbarian Assault worlds. The clan chat to join is "grs_chat".

NOTE: I'm sorry to those who are f2p, next week's Event will be f2p!

Also, I will not be able to attend this Event. I'm sorry. But we do have back-up, so the Event will go on

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Event #13 - Duel Arena! {P2P}

Nightmare — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:09:00 -0500

To clear things up, Events are now once every 2 weeks, that's why there was no Event last week.

Event #13 - Duel Arena!

This will be a member's only event, sorry for the free players. Next Event will be f2p. Once again, this Event will be in World 64. 3 P.M EDT If you're unsure when this is, PLEASE click here

This Event is for fun, not for Staking. If you really want to stake, that's fine, as long as the other player agrees. We'll be meeting at the Duel Arena at the designated time, and we'll all grab a partner and start dueling! Once your fight is over, start a duel with another Member of GRS. Bring your favorite weapons, or your worst, for fun

What you bring is up to you. Weapons and Armor is optional, but suggested. Remember, the Duel Arena is a SAFE competition Meaning you will not lose your items if you lose a duel.

Hope you can all make it Saturday!

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Event #12 - Double Event!

Nightmare — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:20:43 -0500

Event # 12 - Double Event!

Hello everybody, this will be the first Event since May. This Event will occur on Saturday October 11th, 2008. We'll be having 2 events - 1 P2P, and one F2P. They will be occurring at the same time. They will occur 3 P.M EDT, if your unsure what time that is in your timezone, please look here.

The P2P Event will be Pest Control. The World will be 64, and the clan chat will be " grs chat " . You must have a combat level of 40 or higher to participate in this event, because of the requirements of this mini-game. If you're not, feel free to go to the F2P Event Also, if you don't want to do Pest Control, feel free to go to the F2P event. Combat Equipment is highly recommended

The F2P Event will be Bounty Hunter. The world will be 81, a common F2P Bounty Hunter world. The clan chat to join will also be "grs chat " so we can all share what's going on between the 2 events What you bring is optional, bring some armor, but please note that you could die and lose all your belongings. If you do die, don't expect someone to get your stuff back Who you kill is optional, but if someone from GRS doesn't want to be killed, please don't kill them.

Note: If I'm unable to make it, please go on with the Event. Just because I can't make it or Wackycats can't make it, doesn't mean it will be canceled

Remember to bring your friends, and your friend's friends, and your cousins, and your 2nd cousins twice removed . Just bring everyone you know. The more, the merrier!

If you have any questions about this Event, feel free to post a reply here or send a Private Message to Me or Wackycats.

And to those who are wondering, there will be no video.

Thanks Everyone!
-Nightmare-

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