Intelligence Gathering

This is a dangerous activity. On death, Hardcore Ironmen will lose their status. Unprotected items will be moved to a grave.

Intelligence Gathering
Released								7 January 2016 (Update)
Type								Minigame
Members								Yes
Location								Great Kourend
League region								Kourend✓
Participants								1+
Skills								Combat
Reward currency								N/A
Tutorial								No
Music								N/A
Map

Intelligence Gathering is a minigame in which players help the Shayzien soldiers raid gang meetings in order to keep order in Great Kourend.

Players can find out where gang meetings are about to take place by talking to Captain Ginea in the tent just south-east of the bank chest, marked with the map icon. Every 30 minutes, the Information board will give out the location of a gang meeting. After reading the notice, players are prompted to take a note to remind players of the location (activity can fully be done without the note).

Participating in a gang bust is advised when possible, as they are a good source for oak, teak, and mahogany planks.

The location of the gang meeting follows a rotation shared by all servers. This means there is no point in world hopping to look for meetings.

In each meeting are multiple gangsters and a gang boss. The number of gangsters that attend vary, ranging from 4-10 at a time. The weapons the gang members use vary from gang to gang; gangsters may use longswords, warhammers, halberds or their fists to attack the player. The gang bosses either use a cutlass or throwing knives. When a gangster or gang boss is attacked, all the gang members will turn aggressive towards the player. In single-way areas, gangsters will attempt to attack the player; if the player is in combat with another gang member, they will attack once the gang member they are fighting dies.

Five minutes after the meeting begins, any remaining gang members will attempt to leave the area. Non-aggroed gangsters become un-attackable and shortly disappear. Aggroed gangsters will remain in the area so long as one gangster is in active combat; immediately after all active skirmishes cease they will become un-targetable and disappear. This happens as soon as a gangster dies so it is impossible for lone players to drag a meeting into overtime. Wounded gangsters may die instead of disappearing, dropping their items. As there is a chance that wounded gangsters may die after 5 minutes, attacking the boss near the 5 minute mark is an easy way for combat pures to get an intelligence drop without having to risk taking damage by fighting him normally.

Because the gang meeting happens at the same time on all worlds, once a player has fully cleared the meeting place of gang members, they can quickly switch worlds and all the gangsters will be there again for further killing and extra loot. Furthermore, several locations offer safespot opportunities for using Ranged, Magic or halberds. Look for low fences and bushes, even if somewhat far away from the gangsters' spawn spot, and try to lure them there. See the Meeting Location entries in the table below for safespotting tips for each location (work in progress). In open-air locations without safespots, it is possible to minimise damage with hit-and-run tactics: attack a gangster and run, luring them away until they reach their maximum chase range. Attack again and they will try to retreat. Once you are within their chase range again, run away again, rinse and repeat until dead.

Furthermore, many (but not all) of the gang meeting areas are multi-combat, making them excellent for the use of a dwarf multicannon. By using the cannon, it is often possible to clear three or more worlds before the gangsters despawn after 5 minutes.

The male gang boss (who attacks with ranged knives) is much more dangerous than the female one (who attacks with melee), being able to quickly hit for up to 13 damage per knife and kill a player very fast. Which boss is chosen is determined per world, not per meeting, meaning that lower-levelled players are advised to switch worlds until they find one where the gang boss uses melee.

Return to Captain Ginea using the fairy ring DJR. Run east, passing a bank on the way.

Bring a dramen staff, house teleport tab, Kharedst's memoirs, Skills necklace, a Xeric's talisman, and Rada's blessing 1 (or higher) to get to every location easily.

Intelligence can be found from killing gang members; gangsters uncommonly drop them while gang bosses will always drop them. This can be handed to Ginea for a training manual, which when read gives experience in Attack, Strength, Defence, or Hitpoints based on the following formula:

Participating in a gang bust is advised when possible, as they are a good source for oak, teak, and mahogany planks.

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