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| - Hello, folks! My name is Mod Howes and I’m responsible for developing our events community support, as well as organising J-Mod support for in-game and forum activities. In this CM blog I hope to give you an insight into how we’re strategising our work with the events community, what challenges we’ve faced, how we've met them and also where we might be heading in future. So what function do community events play in RuneScape? Well, one of the things we aim to promote in Community Management is building interlinked communities within the wider citizenship of RuneScape. The wider player-base of RuneScape is an overarching super-community, but in order for Gielinor’s citizens to get the most out of their experience in such a diverse landscape, it’s often more fun to get involved with groups of people who share similar interests to you. The first patrons of the Events Forum were members of established sub-communities such as the clan community, the role-players, the corporations and our plucky volunteer mods. They’ve always posted regular invites to open events in the Events Forum, but more recently, a core of event-mad players have taken the events community to new levels by making it a community in and of itself. We began to see players dedicated to making quality events who were posting new lists of activities every week, and it was this explosion of additional activity that first prompted us to evaluate what support we could offer.
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