Rollback

A Rollback is the reversion of in-game time to an earlier state. Rollbacks within RuneScape, are used under very strict and rare circumstances. They are generally used to eradicate a problem that can not be corrected by conventional methods.

Cases of Rollbacks

 * 14 April 2010 - The Daemonheim Nature Rune Bug

A bug while Runecrafting within Daemonheim, granted 2,000 experience per Nature Rune crafted, and as Rune Essence within Daemonheim is stacked, this led to many players reaching level 99 Runecrafting within half an hour of the glitch being discovered. This forced Jagex to shut RuneScape down for approximately 4 hours during which time, they made a rollback of player data before the glitch. This led to huge rants on the Forums, players spamming the official sticky article reaching over 3 - 4 pages per second. Forum Moderators stated people were being banned for this, and due to the sheer volume of the spammers, many accounts were likely to have been punished for this.

30 June 2010 - Server Breakdown

On this day, many players were not able to log in for more than an hour because of a server breakdown. Those who were on (few players) when this happened were automatically logged out and were rolledback.