Members


 * See also Free-to-play

Pay-to-play or Members are users who have paid subscriptions, and are sometimes referred to as "p2pers". The Members version of RuneScape was first announced on October 4, 2001 and launched on February 28, 2002.

Membership costs $5 USD/£3.20 GBP per month via credit card, although other methods cost more. Pay-by-SMS is not currently available to Australian players.

Membership includes the following features:


 * Extra skills such as Agility, Fletching, Farming, Herblore, Slayer, Thieving, Construction, and Hunter
 * Higher capabilities possible in the other skills
 * Use of several systems
 * Three times as much map area
 * Mini-games and other features, such as dueling under set rules and risks
 * Better items, such as Dragon, Barrows and Crystal weapons and armour
 * More bank space, though there are many more items available
 * Many more quests, including quite a few with experience level boosts
 * Members' servers
 * More music and sound effects

If you want the best value for money, and don't intend to remain a member for more than a month or two, then get your free-to-play skill levels up to the point where you can benefit from members features, such as crafting better runes and lay in a stock of items you will need, such as logs, bars and feathers for fletching arrows - you would have to start with Bronze arrows, so it would be the first time you've needed bronze bars for a long time. Also in your last few days of membership get at least 1 of every log ore and bar as well as other skills you intend to practice within the free worlds. So if your bank space is over you can still store things