2020

Old School Developer Q&A - Transcript 08/01/2020
Eating in the Bank - Game Update 09/01/2020
Sorted. You can thank me later, America.
Best part of this week's update
Many dare not udder it's name... TzCow-Zuk
Sneak Lvl 99
Since level 4s can get firecapes, make the ge locked and require sacrificing a firecape to get in, this will stop all the level 3 spam bots from getting in
It has been an insane two days of raids
Petition to give this duck an Agility cape
nice
default runelite color gang
Better love story than twilight
Petition for new F2P "Fight Caves" Jad-Style Cow Boss
I got the rocky pet while watching a video about Sylvester Stallone. Lmao
JUST GOT MY INFERNAL CAPE
Just when Jagex thought they were safe... Show some love to the Meiyerditch stray dogs! ��
3 years and counting
My first day working for Jagex support!
[Suggestion] Let us combine the max cape and champions cape for a cosmetic
Petition to change Fire cape to Cow cape
When the servers get hit and all worlds are 300 ping, and you're the only Aussie on the raid team
[Suggestion] New ways to obtain dragon ammo
G.E. scammers don't like it when you expose their plan
When you have to sell your whole bank to afford d claws
The actual best part of this update! Finally we can have some diversity in outfit without having to sacrifice the entire graceful bonus
A list of cultural rs things no one does anymore
literally unplayable

Old School Developer Q&A - Transcript 08/01/2020

Posted: 09 Jan 2020 05:05 AM PST

Weekly Q&A with Mods: Gambit, Ash, Husky, Flippy, Tide (Chat).

(See my comment on this post for a non-table mobile option!)

Question	Answer
Timestamp. Starts	Gambit, Ash, Husky, Flippy, Tide (Chat).
Timestamp. [IMAGE] Player art from /u/AlbusAlfred.	Thanks /u/AlbusAlfred looks good!
Timestamp. [IMAGE] Player art wallpaper from /u/Sirblibblob	Check that out if you are after a new wallpaper, thanks!
Timestamp. Couple of announcements. When are the the big updates this year being released?	Don't have a roadmap exactly, but this will be in the next few weeks for the Nightmare. Make sure to be subscribed to email newsletter. Clans, GIM, Leagues 2 are all in the scoping and planning stage so can't give dates just yet. Hope to share dates/timeframes when we can.
Timestamp. Game Center account issue.	We are aware and a fix has been prioritised, we will get that sorted!
Timestamp. Twisted League is ending next week! Make sure to get your last few tasks done.	The Worlds will be closed on Thursday 16th at 9am UK time with the usual update being slightly later than it usually is (maybe around lunch-time!). When that update happens the rewards shop will be open - the tutor on the main worlds at Kourend.
Timestamp. Twisted League account sharing	We have heard your concerns and issue and each account needs to be checked manually so can't look at every one. We have taken feedback onboard and will be looking into this for future leagues.
Timestamp. Another issue where some accounts were awarded more points for completing certain tasks than they should.	The cause of this has been identified and will make sure that at the end the scores and points will be correctly applied.
Timestamp. [IMAGE] This week's preview update - Wielding items via right click in bank interface. Available for equippable things, food, most drinks, other things that can be used. The button on the top left shows equipped items and allows you to view the worn equipment interface.	09/01/2020 update.
Timestamp. Tomorrow's update, update to Crystal Tools to improve using uncharged in inventory and to stop charges depleting when they don't offer benefit.	09/01/2020 update.
Timestamp. Update: Maiden ToB stunning chance will scale to magical accuracy, with it guaranteed at +140 accuracy bonus. Check the newspost for information on that (regarding void, prayers etc).	09/01/2020 update.
Timestamp. Graceful set effect will be split among each piece with a bonus being provided for wearing the set.	09/01/2020 update.
Timestamp. Will be able to dig up herb seeds before they die or mature.	09/01/2020 update.
Timestamp. Duel Arena Clue step being removed	09/01/2020 update.
Timestamp. Could the number of rooms in the POH Dungeon, not be included in the rooms limit?	We have to have a finite number of rooms to allocate the right amount of memory to that so can't allow that to be infinite sorry.
Timestamp. Could Basilisk Knights be changed, the changes made after release make them rubbish to farm.	Husky: Yeah definitely should be, they don't fit being a level 60 slayer creature. Currently in discussions about what we want to do but hope to share more info with players in the near-ish future. --- Gambit: ED came up with a list of changes that would be nice to make on PVM and items in general, death mechanics too so will hopefully get information on that soon-ish too.
Timestamp. What will Nightmare of Ashihama's drop table look like beside uniques?	Not decided yet! That's something that can happen right at the end, we are aware that it has a lot of strong uniques so we don't want it to have a lucrative drop-table otherwise. You could consider it being average and roughly covering supplies. It will be a similar points system to allocate drops like raids. Still to figure that out.
Timestamp. Will we be able to pet the stray dog in Varrock after the Christmas event finishes? When is the Christmas even being removed.	Yes, but the hat is going. Tomorrow's update!
Timestamp. What are each of you looking forward to this year and what did you take away from 2019?	Husky: Group Ironman! Excited to see how that goes and talking with friends about it. Leagues was a great success and look to do another at some point. There were a lot of things that could of done differently and quite excited for the next one. --- Ash: Want to do death mechanics! --- Flippy: Jumping from Halloween to Leagues development was a great learning experience which was great.
Timestamp. With the cost of Revenant Ether being high, with the items being cheap would you consider a dismantle option like Zulrah items being converted to scales?	Like the idea of having an anchor like that. Will look at it, the items are still probably under-used beyond the reason of their value so will have to consider it overall.
Timestamp. Could Earth Warriors be removed from Vannaka slayer table ? Only Krystilia should be assigning wilderness only tasks.	Green Dragons used to be the same until Baby's were introduced elsewhere and the Earth Warriors have been with Vannakas table for a decade so it may not be entirely accurate saying that he shouldn't assign it altogether. Overall not really looking to change that, this can be skipped or blocked and for Hardcore ironmen this would be something that is up to the players consideration.
Timestamp. What about a high level slayer master that only offers boss tasks that are unskippable?	No, not keen to make it so that tasks are allocated that way.
Timestamp. Could it be made so that slayer task extensions are toggle-able rather than being bought and cancelled/re-bought?	Could be a good idea yeah like the idea.
Timestamp. How would you feel about removing Wrath Runes from Rune/Adamant/Vorkath drop tables? This would add some value back to RuneCrafting and very slightly reduce some overly-profitable NPCs.	This is in line with what we'd generally like to address with drop tables, but would be good to know more about the data on this.
Timestamp. Could a reclaim chest be added to Zulcano? This would help retrieving items without having to deal with Symbols or attacks.	For Zulcano we can move the items outside and charge a fee too? Depending on Ash's death rework that could be a solution.
Timestamp. Can you expand/explain this death rework idea?	This isn't fully detailed as there's a lot of edge cases and special items, but the principal is that we would like you to not have so long to get your stuff back after dying. But we'd like to make it fairer so that if you are having connection issues the timer isn't ticking down. We also think that having it on any world instead of a single world. The idea would be for the timer to only count down (for 10 or 15 minutes). Then we would want to see a disincentive to dying, like a fee that scales as your 'lost' item value goes up. Would want to mostly leave ironmen alone as they are. Having it so that a chest wipes when you die a second time, is a bit rough so we may consider allowing items from a second death to be added to the chest (to a limit).
Timestamp. What's the deal with Bounty Hunter?	To be honest there are a few things that didn't go in a way that we'd like. A few things that we did also like. It's only our first week back from the update and have started talks with the community and ideally run some opinion polls. There's no timeline just yet but yes there are things to change and improve with appropriate feedback.
Timestamp. Could you add a CTRL + Click walk feature similar to CTRL + Click to run?	Yes we could if the engine team makes some changes.
Timestamp. Would you consider adding a challenge mode to ToB, like not accessing the supply chest?	Would need to chat to Kieren about it to see what his thoughts/plans are! Where CoX has a much higher number of players, making a challenge mode is more accessible to more people whereas with ToB would be incredibly niche!
Timestamp. Any plans on making uses for Boss heads other than stuffing or recolouring slayer helms (and aside from the small prayer exp they might offer).	No plans but it's possible - we are open to suggestions! It may be good if they are consumed rather than just adding another one-off unlock.
Timestamp. Like Beginner clues, would you consider Beginner diaries for F2P?	Maybe? It could also be an option to make it so F2P can complete the easy tier of Lumbridge diary or something. It's a nice way to direct players to set goals and things to do with some direction. Still analysing what new players play-style looks like where they may have issues or how that could be improved which this could help. Discussion on how newer players could be directed to some quests that have a bit more substance.
Timestamp. Any ideas/hopes for mid-early level bossing that incorporates prayer switching	Husky: Sarrachnis was kinda meant to be a bit like that. This is why she's predictable in attacks and uses range and melee in obvious ways. Mid-level giant bosses can have interesting mechanics. Not shy on adding new mechanics or mid-level bosses just a matter of what and when.