Members Loyalty Programme

The Members Loyalty Programme was released on 28 June 2011. It was first announced in the Behind of the Scenes of June 2011. Loyalty Points are an additional reward for being a Member of RuneScape. Players with pending or existing subscriptions will receive Loyalty Points for their remaining days of membership, but will not earn these points for the days before the actual update. On the release date of the Loyalty Programme, players were given a discount on most items in the rewards shop for a limited amount of time.

Loyalty Points can be spent on a various range of rewards, including emotes, costumes, and items for the new Aura slot. All rewards are simply cosmetic, except the auras which enhance gameplay in many diffrent aspects. Concurrent members accumulate points at a higher rate than the players who only subscribe occasionally, so that the very loyal players can earn their rewards faster. Items, emotes, costumes, colour changes and titles can be bought from Xuan east of the Warrior's Guild in Burthorpe or in Varrock Square.

Loyalty Points accrue more quickly the longer a player has membership. For the first month, players receive 500 points. The next month, they will get 3,000, then 5,000 the next, followed by 7,000. From there it increases by 1,000 per month, to finally, after a year's continuous subscription, stop at 15,000 points per month. There is a 7 day grace period in which to continue to subscribe, at which point the number of points per month will drop down to the amount from two months ago (eg. if a player subscribes for 6 months and then waits 10 days to resubscribe, he/she would get points for the 4th month). If players does not resubscribe after 30 days, they will drop down to 500 points for the month they next subscribe.

Auras
Auras improve gameplay in many different ways, including effects with Combat, Fishing, and Agility. Other auras serve no practical purpose. They all have a particle effect that glows when the aura is active. This particle effect does not show on a free-to-play server. They are equipped in the aura slot, and are activated by clicking Activate aura. All of them have an activation time, which shows how long they last, and a cooldown time, which shows how long it takes to be used again. This is clock time and count down even if you log out. If they are lost, they can be replaced by Xuan. Only one aura can be used at once.

If you un-equip the Aura, you cannot use it again until it is recharged.

All auras that were released with the first update except for Jack of trades had a reduced price for the first two weeks, when the original price was decreased to 400 points.

Emotes
There are eighteen emotes that can be bought from Xuan and used in the same way that all other emotes are used. They give no benefits.

The emotes Cat Fight, Talk to the Hand, Shake Hands and High Five had a reduced price for the first two weeks, where the original price was decreased to 100 points for Cat Fight, and 400 points for Talk to the Hand, Shake Hands and High Five.

Outfits
There are eight outfits that can be bought from Xuan, costing 1000 or 2000 points. All parts of the outfit are bought at once. Only the Dervish Outfit give any benefits - it protects from desert heat. The colours can be changed by talking to Xuan and asking for a new colour.

For the first two weeks after the release, the prices for the outfits were decreased. The dervish outfit's price was reduced to 100 points, and the other outfits cost 400 points.
 * Dervish Outfit — [[File:Dervish female 1.png]][[File:Dervish female 2.png]][[File:Dervish female 3.png]][[File:Dervish female 4.png]][[File:Dervish female 5.png]][[File:Dervish male 1.png]][[File:Dervish male 2.png]][[File:Dervish male 3.png]][[File:Dervish male 4.png]][[File:Dervish male 5.png]]
 * Eastern Outfit — [[File:Eastern female 1.png]][[File:Eastern female 2.png]][[File:Eastern female 3.png]][[File:Eastern female 4.png]][[File:Eastern female 5.png]][[File:Eastern male 1.png]][[File:Eastern male 2.png]][[File:Eastern male 3.png]][[File:Eastern male 4.png]][[File:Eastern male 5.png]]
 * Samba Outfit — [[File:Samba female 1.png]][[File:Samba female 2.png]][[File:Samba female 3.png]][[File:Samba female 4.png]][[File:Samba female 5.png]][[File:Samba male 1.png]][[File:Samba male 2.png]][[File:Samba male 3.png]][[File:Samba male 4.png]][[File:Samba male 5.png]]
 * Saxon Outfit — [[File:Saxon female 1 icon.png]][[File:Saxon female 2 icon.png]][[File:Saxon female 3 icon.png]][[File:Saxon female 4 icon.png]][[File:Saxon female 5 icon.png]][[File:Saxon male 1.png]][[File:Saxon male 2.png]][[File:Saxon male 3.png]][[File:Saxon male 4.png]][[File:Saxon male 5.png]]
 * Theatrical outfit
 * Pharaoh outfit
 * Cheongsam/Changshan outfit
 * Silken outfit

Titles
Titles appear before your username in the chat box on both members and free worlds.

There are 16 different titles, 8 of which depend on the player's gender. Titles can be changed by talking to Xuan, and after one title has been bought it can be changed and used again for no extra charge.

For the first two weeks, the price for the Sir/Dame title was reduced to 100 points, and the prices for the Lord/Lady, Duderino/Dudette and Lionheart title were reduced to 400 points.

Duderino could be a reference to the Simpsons. The character Ned Flanders says words that end in "idly" doodly" "rino" etc. It could also be a reference to the movie "The Big Lebowski", in which Jeff Bridges' character, Jeff Lebowski AKA The Dude, lists various things to call him, relating to the word "dude", including "duderino".

Colour Changes
Various Items can have their colours changed by using them on Xuan. There are four new colours for each item. Once coloured, an item cannot be traded to other players until it is changed back to its original colour by talking to Xuan.



Trivia



 * On the day of release and during the 2 weeks after, some of the rewards were heavily discounted; see table below:


 * The next time users log in after they have registered to the Members Loyalty Programme, a box is displayed, asking the players if they would like to view the shop, giving the option of being teleported to the shop in Burthorpe or Varrock centre.
 * On the day of release, due to the mass popularity of the programme, the additional load on the website caused technical issues to areas of the site related to this update.
 * On 6 September 2011, the mercenary leader, mercenary mage, mercenary ranger, and mercenary warrior were placed in north of Falador wearing items from the loyalty programme.
 * It will take 714250 points to unlock everything in the shop assuming rewards aren't purchased when they are discounted. It would take a total of 53 months or 4 years and 5 months to unlock everything in the shop, assuming membership is kept running the entire time.
 * A formula that returns the number of points gained after X month could be: P(X) = (x+3)*(x+4) / 2 - 12.5; it works only for x≥3
 * On October 26th, there was a bug in which you can buy as many loyalty rewards as long as you had enough points. If you had 7k points, you could buy any and all items that cost 7k points or less.