RuneScape Discussion
- Elder trees will now fill farming urns.
- Mining urns now work with Crablets and Seren stones.
- Woodcutting urns now work correctly with ivy.
- A threshold of 1,000 has been added to the Ancient Summoning Stone drop from Vorago.
- A Dungeoneering Quick Home Teleport upgrade (Scroll of Quick teleportation) has been added to the Daemonheim rewards trader, available to the player for 50,000 Dungeoneering tokens.
- A Mazcab teleport spell has been added (spellbook and teleport tab) which can be purchased from the Armoursmith on Mazcab as a raid reward.
- The Clockworker's bench within a player-owned house can now create a batch of items instead of just one at a time.
- The starting and ending cutscenes for the Bork D&D will no longer play after the first attempt.
- Players are now locked to 1 of 5 locations (each corner and the centre) within the Dual Arena when initiating a No Movement challenge.
- Skill Pet Titles: Option 1: Create a new title for owning ALL 27 skill pets, and leave the ‘Jack of Trades’ as a reward for owning 19 non-combat skill pets. (64%). Option 2: Award the ‘Jack of All Trades’ title for owning ALL 27 skill pets, and create a new title as a reward for owning the 19 non-combat skill pets. (35%)
- Slayer Skill Pet: Yes, become a combat pet (62%). No, the slayer pet should remain as it is, consider as a skill pet (37%)
- Include:
- More treasure hunter keys
- Rewards from past community events (i.e. Sword of Raddallin, Energised Arm Cannons, Mystical staff, Silverhawk boots, spring cleaner)
- The amount of oddments received depends on how rare the prize is.
- Adding more achievements for final release.
- 100-150 kills required for kill count achievements.
- “Fun style” achievements, killing bosses with rubber chickens.
- Filled out categories, combat, mini games, miscellaneous categories plus the major re-design of the interface shown.
- 5% better chance for fishing, 22.5% better chance of enriched memories.
- 800-900k xp/hr
- Can use skillchompas from your inventory, different xp for failing and success.
- Can catch more based on your agility level. Level 99 agility will guarantee a double catch.
- Releasing August 7.
- Unfinished Business
- Bank Rework: There’s only a small number of people who know how the bank works who can work on the bank rework. Some other projects are being worked on by these people, therefore, work is paused.
- Mining and Smithing
- Haven’t been up front with some of the problems Jagex has had in working on this update.
- To do a full rework of Mining and Smithing we would see changes to coal, monster drops, those would need to be filled.
- Is Mining and Smithing a problem that is actually causing people to leave the game? It’s not why people are leaving the game. The tutorial, coming back and not knowing what the game is doing or how it has changed, or even some mini games cause people to leave.
- Jagex is proposing a stopgap Smithing update to update it to be more modern because the huge Mining and Smithing rework is very expensive time wise to do.
- When asked, “Which of these two statements do you most agree with?”
- 45% says a skill rework should protect the skill’s identity and methods of training.
- 47% say a skill rework should overhaul a skill and maybe even change the way it’s trained.
- “If we did it, we’d annoy one half of the player base.” — Mod Osborne
- Jagex is in a position where there are large updates such as Mining and Smithing, Mobile, and others that it eats away from other content, quests and combat content, then that brings Jagex back to expansions.
- What people ultimately want from mining and smithing is high level content. Useful combat armour, profitable at a high level, and an untradeable benefit were top 3.
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- The tier rework which Jagex had anticipated would be high priority was not. Interestingly, this could have also been the most time consuming part of the update.
- Jagex is contemplating adding high level content (usable armour, mining guild rework, overload style mechanic, etc.) and holding off on the other parts of the rework for later. This would address the top 39 levels or so.
- Jagex held a straw poll during the stream, 70% were in favour of such an approach. This means it will likely be polled in game.
- A new dye will be polled next week.
- Poll emote clues
- New master tier of clue scroll
- Clue scroll collection log
- Ability to get clue scrolls from skilling
- Looking at hidey holes for storing equipment.
- Pre-production on this update
- Moltaire was looking at the idea of accumulating certain daily tasks.
- Don’t want: Removing certain D&Ds.
- Devices are done, in QA.
- Machines are in production.
- Power generator
- Potion maker
- Auto-alcher
- Machines will be built on hot-spots in the rooms off the invention guild.
- Auto-siphon
- Dev diary will be coming out in the next couple weeks.
- General fixes: removal of inspiration, simplification of parts, easier way of viewing what a given component will produce in terms of perks.
- Reasons to level up your items beyond level 10.
- Evil Dave Quest: Will have that Gower Quest vibe.
- Graphical Reworks
- Seers Village: Secondary project, progress is slow(er)
- Witch’s House: An in-between project from Menaphos to Clue Scrolls
- Two models have started, very early on
- Attack pet and Defence pet concept art has been completed, ready to move onto model state when modellers are available.
- Polling system will be getting an update to be more comprehensive.
- The polling system wasn’t used properly. “We started off with some big polls… then down the line community/design by committee updates. As a result something would win with only 23% of the vote. Then that turned into we’ve got to have a poll for something then we’ve got to create something and that’s when you get ‘Lol the troll’ which obviously didn’t go down too well.”
- Polls will be pre-empted with dev blogs like they are on old school.
- Anima rates will be tweaked, in QA right now
- Chests will restore prayer, summoning, and life points.
- Ninja team will make use of the new polling system to determine how many people actually want a certain update. There’s no point in creating an update for only 3 people.
- Updated models for the GWD generals are in progress right now.
- High level slayer mobs (3) update coming in the next few months.
- The top option for a potential new skill sometime down the road is to do something new, like what Dungeoneering did for the game.
- Permissions list came low in the survey
- Clans could potentially see work done in 2018
Listener Questions and Discussion Topics
Question from Jamandy52
Do you think they will have a 'batch 2' of the beach like last year?
What are your favorite rewards?
The beach is my favorite event of the year, every year. I've never finished and I hope to this year! [RIP SKOTM LOL] Last year the strength was the best one for tokens, any ideas what is now?
ICE CREAM is tradeable next week! =D
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- A_seafarer - 99 Hitpoints, August 2, 2017
- Douglas_fir - 99 Prayer, August 2, 2017
- Kexy - 99 Hitpoints, August 2, 2017
- Danieljsaint - 120 Slayer, August 1, 2017
- Im_barra_ok - 99 Invention, August 1, 2017
- Danieljsaint - 120 Slayer, August 1, 2017
- Supertje - 99 Construction, August 1, 2017
- Pyrnassius - 120 Constitution, July 31, 2017
- Kebabthief - 99 Divination, July 31, 2017
- Mandii - 99 Summoning, July 31, 2017
- A_seafarer - 99 Firemaking, July 30, 2017
- Magichunter - 99 Herblore, July 30, 2017
- Wolfeltopia - 99 Woodcutting, July 30, 2017
- Magicking - 99 Divination, July 30, 2017
- Siiyan - 99 Hunter, July 30, 2017
- Karen_angel - 99 Thieving, July 30, 2017
- Aerient - 99 Hunter, July 29, 2017
- Tim2 - 99 Invention, July 29, 2017
- Aerient - 99 Invention, July 29, 2017
- Aerient - 99 Farming, July 29, 2017
- Aerient - 99 Dungeoneering, July 29, 2017
- Supertje - 99 Runecrafting, July 29, 2017
- Im_barra_ok - 120 Magic, July 28, 2017
Show Data
- Episode Title: The Unfinished Polling Business
- Teaser: A run through of the 2017 beach, urn tweaks, a polling update on Skill Pets, and a look at this weeks Unfinished Business Q&A stream with what it means for Mining and Smithing!
- Recorded Date: August 4, 2017
- Release Date: August 4, 2017
- Hosts: Shane and The RRMan
- Duration: 1:29:20
- Editing Notes: None
