Wilderness Riot

The Wilderness Riot, "Second Pay to Pk Riot" or "June 4th/5th Riot", as it is called among some players, is an ongoing riot held on 4 June 2008 (5 June in some time zones). The aim of the riot was to express dissatisfaction with Jagex's decision to remove player-killing from the Wilderness and general unbalanced trade on 10 December 2007. It lasted throughout the whole day from the early hours of the morning up until now and is currently ongoing in worlds 1,2,3 and 4 and to a lesser extent on other worlds

Overview
The riot was planned several weeks before, by players spam-posting comments on any Runescape related YouTube videos asking players to join the riot at Varrock Square in Worlds 1 and 2. The comments were generally similar to the following:

ஜ۩۞۩ஜஜ۩۞۩ஜஜ۩۞۩ஜஜ۩۞۩ஜஜ۩۞۩ஜஜ

5th june...

RuneScape Ri0t!!

we want wildy back

worlds 1 &2

Varrock Sq

ALL DAY

bring a black cape

PT: comment the riot on all runescape vids to make it masive

Some of the comments advertised backup worlds however in the general chaos of the riots these were generally forgotten with the primary focus being worlds 1, 2, 3 and 4

On the day itself, hundreds of players flocked together, spamming repeatedly and criticising Bounty Hunter and Revenants.

One of the most striking features of the riot was the huge numbers of spam 'trains' which consisted of many people following one 'leader' and repeatedly spamming using autotypers or attempted to spread the riot to places such as Camelot and Edgeville, but those attempts were, for the most part, unsuccessful, and the riot remained concentrated in Varrock Square. Furthermore, the boundaries of the riot seldom, if ever, extended beyond the Square itself; many players in the eastern and western banks were playing the game as normal.

Many Players standing near to the entrance to Varrock Castle (due to the lack of spam there) dubbed themselves riot police or anti-rioters and tried to either calm down the rioters or added to the riot by starting lengthy flamewars with the disgruntled Pkers.

Pmods were sighted anti-rioting, many encouraged players to join their clan chats and report spammers on sight however many Pmods were spotted in the midst of the riots joining in with the rioters similar to the events of the Pay to Pk riot.

The riot is in full strength at the moment, and players are angrier as ever wanting the Wilderness back. Groups of people spread to Camelot, Catherby and so on. There was a system update at 12:23, however once the world came back online the riot resumed. Some clans even made long lines to riot in, some even having hundreds of people.Some of these were even started by player moderators!

Throughout the course of the day in the affected members worlds several high-level mages cast tele-other spells on players to remote locations such as Waterbirth Island, such a large number of players were sent to these islands that mini copies of the riot ensued there.

On the day of the riot, a lot of people wore either blue or pink skirts. Pink skirts represented hatred of Jagex for the update almost six months prior. Blue skirts were pro-Jagex, blaming the autoers for the updates.The General Store near the square always had a enormous stock of pink skirts,while very little blue skirts could be bought from it though.

During the riot, various revenants killed many rioters in the low level Wilderness. There were lvl many 3's in low level wilderness made just for the riot but were killed by giant rats. Also, low level revenant goblins and imps came and killed thos accounts. Because of that, and other revenants going to that area, many players think that the revenants are controlled by jagex. Several other forays were made into the Wilderness but many were ended when revenants attacked the rioters. This proves that the "wild" is still dangerous without Pking.

Near the end of the day some switched to support Jagex though the riot was still going strong. Tensions were frayed and more swear words were coming out of both rioters and anti-rioters. Many anti rioters distributed blue skirts while neutral parties wore black to show their stance.

Later amazingly world 3 crashed but it was full at the time of the crash.

A mass logout was planned at 7:00 P.M. EST in an attempt to crash World 1 Server. The logout had no real effect with very few people actually logging out of the worlds. This was possibly because of the time zone confusion.