#5 – Summoning
I say that Summoning is coming out soon because it's one of the last planned major updates in the March 2004 BTS. On top of that, it's been talked about more than the rarity of 3rd Age gear. Even the Chaos Elemental has clued some of us in with his last rendition:

“In the basement of the tower of life you'll find the homunculus; he's crossing a lobster with a jubbly! A spider with a sardine! A newt with a rooster! It's all underground, where there's a hole in my pocket. Pockets? The Chaos Elemental has no need for pockets!”

Now, technically, homunculus is a created life form, made unnaturally in the means of regular birth of any living organism. If you're familiar with Full Metal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi), then you would understand this a bit better.

#4 – Clan Support
I say that Clan Support is coming out soon because of the recent changes to Rule 7, thus prohibiting or severely restricting 3rd party software which communicate with IRC and RuneScape simultaneously. To subside these, Andrew has planned to write his own version of clan chat.

#3 – Continuation of the Elven Storyline
Now c'mon. If you've done all of the elven quests up to this point, you know you're just dying to find out what's next.

#2 – High Level Ideas
I say this because a thread has been made and has obtained high level suggestions for the past five months. We're bound to see something someday...

#1 – New Skill
Jagex always has a skill in the woodworks, so I think we'd be bound to see another one surface this year. Perhaps very late this year, but this year nonetheless.

Now, that's all the stuff I think will happen. Here's what I think will never happen.

#5 – Segregation of Certain PvP Games (Castle Wars, Pest Control, etc.)
If you segregated all of these games based on level, then what the heck would be the point of even playing it? No one would want to play with anyone their own level, and if you're in a CW game with a varied number of levels instead of a “stacked” team, then you're more likely to win.

#4 – High Level Island/Paradise
I use the same reasons as above to justify that there won't be a creation of this...with an added twist. No one, not even Jagex, knows what the high levels really need on their own little island. Suggestions have been made in the tense of mid level resources, but I don't think that such a thing could come to pass.

#3 – Daytime or Nighttime
I don't think that Java could be that durable as to allow an environment-type setting in the game. It would add an extra dimension to the gameplay, but I don't think it would be inherently possible.

#2 – Incentive to Grind Runecrafting
There isn't really any reason to get beyond level 65 in Runecrafting at this point. Even if Blood and Soul crafting come out, that's abut level 91, which sounds ludicrous to me. Runecrafting is too little experience versus time, and not even Blood Runecrafting would make me change my opinion on that.

#1 – High Level Ideas
Some of the ideas being tossed around just may never come to pass. If they did, they'd be so twisted and level-lowered, they'd be unrecognizable as high level.

Post your opinions.

Summoning I think will be the "Next New Skill" you aforementioned, since it is like the one thing people think will be next. It offers many ideas for PKers and duelers, because what happens if he's secretly a 99 summoner, and summons a Black Demon and pwnts your ass? That would be so amazing, I'd love it. It also offers many skill ideas, like maybe summon some type of being to visit the bank for you and drop off a load a magic logs so you don't have to walk all the way back to Seers Bank. Like maybe split the monsters you can summon into different categories, like "Fighting" "Skilling" and something like "Social" monsters, like I'm think social monsters can be used for announcing at Clan/Guild events. Just basic thinking.

RuneCrafting is probably the best resource for money in Runescape, the fact that you would never want to get past 65 is beyond me, for the reason of gaining level 91 Runecrafting, which I can see a reason in never getting passed. Why do you always see the people wearing the Runecrafting skillcape almost always wearing a party hat or some other rare? Because they supply Runescape with scores and scores of nature runes with the amount they can produce within one day. I'd hate to see people do what Makoto said and not get past 65, because if you don't, good luck ever trying to get a party hat.

#3 – Continuation of the Elven Storyline
Now c'mon. If you've done all of the elven quests up to this point, you know you're just dying to find out what's next.

As much as I hate to admit it, the RuneScape official forums is a hot ticket right now. Mostly, the really hot discussions pertaining to RuneScape are either in the Rants or in the Suggestions forums. There are approximately 884416 'ideas' floating around and 373997 disapprovals going around at the time of writing.

So, I start this topic by telling you the top five things that I feel are going to happen this year.

#5 – Summoning
I say that Summoning is coming out soon because it's one of the last planned major updates in the March 2004 BTS. On top of that, it's been talked about more than the rarity of 3rd Age gear. Even the Chaos Elemental has clued some of us in with his last rendition:

“In the basement of the tower of life you'll find the homunculus; he's crossing a lobster with a jubbly! A spider with a sardine! A newt with a rooster! It's all underground, where there's a hole in my pocket. Pockets? The Chaos Elemental has no need for pockets!”

Now, technically, homunculus is a created life form, made unnaturally in the means of regular birth of any living organism. If you're familiar with Full Metal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi), then you would understand this a bit better.

#4 – Clan Support
I say that Clan Support is coming out soon because of the recent changes to Rule 7, thus prohibiting or severely restricting 3rd party software which communicate with IRC and RuneScape simultaneously. To subside these, Andrew has planned to write his own version of clan chat.

#3 – Continuation of the Elven Storyline
Now c'mon. If you've done all of the elven quests up to this point, you know you're just dying to find out what's next.

#2 – High Level Ideas
I say this because a thread has been made and has obtained high level suggestions for the past five months. We're bound to see something someday...

#1 – New Skill
Jagex always has a skill in the woodworks, so I think we'd be bound to see another one surface this year. Perhaps very late this year, but this year nonetheless.

Now, that's all the stuff I think will happen. Here's what I think will never happen.

#5 – Segregation of Certain PvP Games (Castle Wars, Pest Control, etc.)
If you segregated all of these games based on level, then what the heck would be the point of even playing it? No one would want to play with anyone their own level, and if you're in a CW game with a varied number of levels instead of a “stacked” team, then you're more likely to win.

#4 – High Level Island/Paradise
I use the same reasons as above to justify that there won't be a creation of this...with an added twist. No one, not even Jagex, knows what the high levels really need on their own little island. Suggestions have been made in the tense of mid level resources, but I don't think that such a thing could come to pass.

#3 – Daytime or Nighttime
I don't think that Java could be that durable as to allow an environment-type setting in the game. It would add an extra dimension to the gameplay, but I don't think it would be inherently possible.

#2 – Incentive to Grind Runecrafting
There isn't really any reason to get beyond level 65 in Runecrafting at this point. Even if Blood and Soul crafting come out, that's abut level 91, which sounds ludicrous to me. Runecrafting is too little experience versus time, and not even Blood Runecrafting would make me change my opinion on that.

#1 – High Level Ideas
Some of the ideas being tossed around just may never come to pass. If they did, they'd be so twisted and level-lowered, they'd be unrecognizable as high level.

Post your opinions.

Personally I think they need to increase the size of the game window. At the moment it takes up about 1/4 of my screen which is pathetic compared to about every other decent game out there.

None of the likely will happens really appeal to me except summoning, although I'm really not sure how they would implement it. For eg. how will it be controlled; go around attacking all agressive creatures or player controlled, and what happens in non-multi combat can the summoned thing still atk. etc..