October is traditionally a month of scary surprises and toothache. This month will be no different when it comes to our Hallowe?en content, with a quest AND holiday event both to be available on the free servers. For scary surprises: how about entire worlds where you can PK and hunt other players to your heart?s content? That?s right, PvP worlds are coming! But first, a few words about how we?re going to update RuneScape Gold in the future.

During the last six months we?ve been reading through the forums, talking to you in-game and running polls on the sorts of updates you really want. It doesn?t take a genius to realise that it?s the bigger, chunkier updates that really get you excited, those like the God Wars Dungeon or a new skill. These are the sorts of updates we found that you wanted to play. Updates that you want to go back to time and time again.

So, starting from this month, we?re changing the way we release content. From now on you?ll see one massive ?headline update? (such as a Recipe for Disaster or a Castle Wars) every month. On top of that, there will still be a secondary release, much more like the size of update you?re used to right now. We?re also still committed to making sure that no two weeks pass without something new.

Basically, from now on our releases will be like this:

Four week months will have two updates: one big headline release and a secondary one.

Five week months will have three updates: one big headline release and two secondary ones.

So, on to this month?s updates...

PvP Worlds

Ever found yourself wanting to say, ?Look, it?s my tree. If you don?t stop chopping it...I?ll chop you!? Sounds cool, right? Yeah, but where could you do it? And when? The answers are PvP worlds and October!

From log-in, those that are interested in PvP content will be able to join in on special PvP worlds. The danger on these worlds will be very clear from the first messages you see, ensuring that players never log onto these worlds by mistake. After all, we don?t want players accidentally getting involved with PKing (player killing) if they don?t want to. Normal, non-PvP worlds will still act just as they do now, so don?t worry if bashing others isn?t really your thing.

Those that want to get involved will find a number of differences to the usual set-up on PvP worlds. Firstly, you?ll be able to fight people pretty much anywhere, so long as their Combat level is similar to yours (within a certain range of levels). This means that almost everywhere is dangerous. Some places, like banks and respawn points, will be deemed ?safe? and no combat will be able to occur there, and some of the minigames will be disabled (you won?t be able to PK team mates while playing Castle Wars, for example) but many will still be active. Other places, like Falador, Varrock and the entirety of the Wilderness, will be considered ?hot spots? where the danger will be even greater and a higher concentration of opponents.