Polling Update

A look at the revamped achievements system with positive steps forward. Plus our dissection of the latest RuneScape Mining and Smithing poll, what went wrong and where cognitive dissonance comes into play.

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Hosts: Shane and The RRMan
Duration: 1:53:02

• Achievements | Timed Hiscores
• Polling Update: Mining and Smithing
• Balthazar’s Big Raffle
• The Month Ahead – September 2017
• Listener Questions
• Hey Cortana, open Alexa: Microsoft and Amazon’s first-of-its-kind collaboration
• Apple Spars With Movie Studios Over Pricing Ahead of Apple TV Rollout
• Microsoft Mixed Reality to get support for SteamVR, Minecraft and Halo starting this holiday season
• August SkotM Update and September SkotM: Summoning
• Achievements of the Week
• Shane’s Pick: Firefox Send
• bit.ly/rsbandbnews
• What have we been doing?

Another look at Shattered Worlds with its revamped anima rates, is it how it should have been? Polls are back and a talk through the Mining and Smithing developer blog. Finally, make yourself feel lucky with a look at the top 10 skill pet dry streaks.

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Hosts: Shane, The RRMan, and Tanis
Duration: 2:18:42

• Shattered Worlds Anima Rebalancing | Patch Week
• Tweaks and Fixes (Release Notes)
• Volcanic Trapper | Elite Hunter Outfit
• Polling Update
• Stash Units / Uri’s Hidey Holes: Yes (86%), No (13%)
• Prepare to Dye! (Ice Dyes): Yes (83%), No (16%)
• Dev Blog – Mining & Smithing
• Q&A Live Stream
• Balthazar’s Big Raffle
• Top 10 skilling pets dry streaks
• Listener Questions
• Android 8.0 Oreo Released
• Samsung makes the Galaxy Note8 Official
• CNN follows NBC with launch of its own daily news show for Snapchat
• August SkotM Update and September SkotM: Summoning
• Unfocused Business by Tanis
• Achievements of the Week
• Tanis’ Pick: Game of Thrones
• What have we been doing?

Crystal skillchompas and the choice they bring to the game: augmented vs. chinchompa, gp vs. xp, single vs. multiskill training. A look at Invention batch 2 and a discussion on Oddments and a better strategy for bringing former event rewards to game.

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Hosts: Shane, The RRMan, and Sorensen57
Duration: 1:26:07

• Crystal Skillchompas & Tweaks
• Tweaks and Fixes (Release Notes)
• Dev Diary | Invention Batch 2
• Polling Update
• Listener Questions and Discussion Topics
• Facebook Launches YouTube Competitor, Watch
• Facebook shuts down robots after they invent their own language
• Disney will pull its movies from Netflix and start its own streaming services
• August SkotM Update
• Achievements of the Week
• Sorensen57’s Pick: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
• What have we been doing?

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!

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Hosts: Shane and The RRMan
Duration: 1:29:20

• The Beach | Solomon’s Store: King & Queen of Hearts
• Tweaks and Fixes (Release Notes)
• Polling Update
• Oddments
• Unfinished Business Q&A Stream
• Listener Questions
• Instagram Stories turn 1 as daily use surpasses Snapchat
• Windows 10 will soon include built-in eye tracking
• Apple has removed VPN apps from China’s App Store
• August SkotM Update
• A Lazy July
• Achievements of the Week
• The RRman’s Pick: Ready Player One (Book)
• What have we been doing?