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A zone-based game world can be extremely large and accommodate a huge number of players, because each individual zone can be managed by a single server, with a farm of servers working together to form the entire game world. Transitioning from one zone to the next involves actively moving the player from one game server to the next.
Zone-based games can experience what is known as a zone-crash, where the server supporting that region of the game world stops functioning. The rest of the zones making up the game world continue to function normally around this one inactive area, while those avatars stuck in the crashed zones remain unable to log on until the server crash is fixed.
Seamless environments tend to have the entire game world managed by a single server. If that server crashes, everyone is disconnected at once and none of the game world is accessible.
Anarchy Online is zone-based and accommodates thousands of players with only three primary game worlds (or dimensions, as they call it). The World of Warcraft environment is continuous (except in the case of instances), but needs a hundred separate game worlds to accommodate all its players.
Karamja
Karamja is a tropical island in the center of the RuneScape world, only accessible via ship routes from the mainland. All of these ships cost 30 gp one-way. There are two parts to Karamja island, joined only by a narrow sandbar . The north half is again further divided into the members section and the nonmembers section (the south half is completely members only).
In the nonmembers section (to the northeast), there is a ship route to Port Sarim , a general store, entrance to the Karamja Volcano (tunnel to Crandor Island and home of Lessers Demons, Skeletons and the notorious Elvarg of the Dragon Slayer quest) and most importantly, the only place where nonmembers can fish tuna, lobsters and swordfish.
The members only northwest section of Karamja is based around the city of Brimhaven , a town where tribesmen meet pirates and colonialists. The main attraction of the town is the Agility Arena, which offers a place for members to obtain agility tickets that they can later exchange for agility experience or items. The entrance to the Karamja Dungeon is just west of Brimhaven. This is definately one of the most dangerous places in all of RuneScape. Pay 875 gp to enter, and chop down the vines inside with a hatchet . The monsters that can be fought down here include Moss Giants, Wild Dogs, Fire Giants, Greater Demons, Black Demons, Red Dragons, Baby Red Dragons, Bronze Dragons, Iron Dragons and Steel Dragons. The last three being the only monsters to drop the rare Dragon Skirt and Dragon Legs. A dock just north of Brimhaven allows travel to Ardougne , and lastly, some of the best gold mines in all of RuneScape exist in the far reaches of this section.
The southern section is three times as large as the northern section. The most remarkable thing about this area is the amount of quests that take place or originate here, including the Jungle Potion quest, the Shilo Village Quest and the thrilling Legend's Quest . The area is based around two cities, Shilo Village and Tai Bwo Wannai. Tai Bwo Wannai is home to a small tribal village, whereas Shilo Village houses a bank, the hardest Slayer Master in the game, and area to mine Red Topaz, Opals, Jade Rocks, Saphires, Emmeralds, Rubies and Diamonds. Outside of the cities is basically nothing more than a dense forest with Nature Rune altar for Runecrafting , a Jogre Training area, a Gnome Glider to the east, a one-way ship to Port Khazard and the Kharazi Jungle (the setting of the larger part of the Legend's Quest ).
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