2007 March

RSBANDBUpdate! 92 - Foods of the World

This week Shane and Brad talk about various ‘Foods of the World’ while explaining the new city of Dorgesh-Kaan, Fishing Trawler updates, and another round of graphical updates. We also have the usual questions, tech news, and rants.

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Hosts: Shane, Brad
Duration: 1:04:13

  • Dorgesh-Kaan, a new city
    • New Agility course which requires level 70.
    • Sell your food
    • Many new things to train your Thieving
    • Use your Crafting skills to train Firemaking and get bonus XP!
    • Brad has a store in here.
  • Fishing Trawler the mini-game has been improved.
  • A graphics makeover for the cows, chickens and rabbits
  • A few technical updates…
    • Ability to rearrange items in your inventory without stopping what you’re doing.
    • Prayer delay now fixed.
  • Barelchest Anchor now has strength bonus changed to 100 and crush attack increased to 92. The price to have it repaired has been reduced to 230k.
  • New world switcher on the login screen.
  • Poll: What do you most want from a new skill?
    • “New ways to make money” with 30%
    • “An enjoyable skill to train” with 28%
    • “New items to customise the appearance of your character” with 15%
  • Listener questions
  • Apple TV’s have started shipping. Apple TV is a device that syncs iTunes with your TV.
  • Adobe Apollo, a desktop application development kit using web technology, launched.
  • Is the Pandora Lawsuit the end of Internet radio?
  • Rambling rants!
  • What we have been doing.
  • Our Events Crew is holding a Fishing Trawler event this week: March 25, 9PM GMT @ World 132.
  • RSBANDBInformer applications are still welcome, closing this weekend.
  • Shane is coding a new Skill of the Month system for automating signups, called Fred.
  • Mushroom Queen has made Shane a new signature!

By Shane on March 24, 2007 | No Comments »

RSBANDBUpdate! 91 - The Rambling Evil Empire

We are back again figuring out exactly what The Rambling Evil Empire of Jagex has been up to, in short… we look at this weeks updates with the usual addition of listener questions and tech news.

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Hosts: Shane, Brad
Duration: 52:34

  • New area released this week, Burgh de Rott Ramble
  • Barrelchest Anchor changes
    • Increased strength bonus to 87
    • Repair price: 700k; 50k first repair
    • Instead of dropping it when you die, you will drop 230k coins.
  • Prayer delay - approximately 1.5 seconds.
  • New edition of the Players’ Gallery
  • More QuestHelp: A Soul’s Bane, Between a Rock…, Horror From the Deep, Regicide and Throne of Miscellania.
  • Poll: Why do you feel melee is the most popular combat choice?
    • Melee doesn’t use many ‘consumables’, e.g. runes or arrows. with 57%
    • Melee has the better choice of weapons and armour. with 13%
    • It is easier to begin playing RuneScape for the first time as a meleer. with 8%
  • Listener questions! This week’s topic is Brad and Shane’s favourite skills, fishing and farming.
  • Microsoft’s Live OneCare security suite apparently has been deleting users’ Outlook and Outlook Express e-mails.
  • Viacom sues YouTube, claiming Google’s YouTube violates copyrights on a ‘huge scale’
  • Microsoft brings “Xbox Live” style service to Windows gaming
  • Rants!
  • RSBANDB member map. Add yourself to it!
  • RSBANDBInformer applications are still welcomed.
  • What have we been up to?

By Shane on March 17, 2007 | No Comments »

RSBANDBUpdate! 90 - Bugs, Bugs, and More Bugs?

After the commotion of the Great Train Brain Robbery we gathered to discuss the new anchor weapon, a few annoying Runescape bugs, and ’sound of muuuusic!’

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Hosts: Shane, Brad, Matt, MasterOfTheVortex
Duration: 1:07:50

  • The new “Great Brain Robbery” quest
  • The Feldip Hills are alive with the sound of muuuusic!
    • Music now sound the same regardless of your computer, rather than varying from machine to machine.
    • Ability to turn off the loading music
    • Added sounds to equipping equipment.
  • Postbag from the hedge
  • Poll: Which of these long-running quest storylines is your favourite?
    • “Gnome (Grand Tree, Monkey Madness, Glouphrie)” with 27%
    • “The plague series (Plague City, Mourning’s Ends, etc)” with 17%
    • “Elemental Workshop” with 13%
  • Bug on Runescape official forums allowing users to use other people’s sessions when copying and pasting the URL.
  • Another bug in game allowing players to attack other players outside the wild. Has been fixed now.
  • Listener questions this week including an audio question from Agent Waffles.
  • Windows Vista activation cracked? Oddly enough, it’s been taken offline.
  • Adobe to launch its highly anticipated Creative Suite 3.0 software bundle on March 27.
  • Adobe also confirmed plans to make an entry-level version of Photoshop available online.
  • Sony set to launch improved PS3 online service called Playstation Home.
  • New release of iTunes allows it to work on Vista.
  • Rants!
  • RSBANDB Brick Wall 2007! Directions are here.
  • RSBANDBInformer! is now hiring again.
  • What have we been doing?

By Shane on March 10, 2007 | No Comments »

RSBANDBUpdate! 89 - The WSG2000

There was not much Runescape news to discuss this week but we are proud to bring you three audio questions! Very good… Very good… Brad brings up WSG which is a WoW mini game similar to castle wars, hence our show title for this week. ;) We have the usual tech news and rants as well.

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Hosts: Shane, Brad
Duration: 50:15

  • No updates this week, but we have a Behind the Scenes update.
    • Temple Trekking service update
    • Music updatetwo new quests
    • New agility course
    • A graphical update
  • Three audio questions and many text questions
  • Vista bug forces legitimate users to reactivate operating system
  • Apple aired their iPhone teaser ad multiple times during the Oscars night.
  • Rants!
  • March issue of RSBANDBInformer! is out.
  • Events crew recruitment finalists should be announcement by next week.
  • We now have a new chat!
  • What have we been up to?

Show notes by Jeffy.

By Shane on March 2, 2007 | No Comments »