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27 Feb

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Originally posted by runner5678

I’m a little confused by the agility course

What incentive do people have to PK there? Does the loot in the chest go into your inventory? It’s just builds over time in quantity earned each lap?

Inventory or looting bag most likely yeah, you get more out of it the longer you stay, but your odds of running into a player go up. Similar to stacking loot at Revs for example, it's not uncommon for me to stack up a 1m+ bag before leaving, which is the incentive for a would-be PKer!

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Originally posted by chaotic-rapier

Wildy course gp/hr is insane, considering how bots can just insta log, this is a huge buff to bot farms, you have to either make logging out not possible 5 seconds after doing an obstacle or add just a shit ton of level 12 skeletons everywhere so you are always in combat, also 2m gp/hr is insane compared to lvl 92 agility sepulchre which is around the same gp/hr, also i think chivalry should be nerfed if it requires no defence level anymore

There's a sentence in the blog around adding more skeletons with the express intent of preventing insta-logging to avoid scenarios like the former. Also worth keeping in mind that the rates in question assume you're wholly uninterrupted, if it's wild enough that it's a no-brainer to do, then there's more activity and your odds of remaining uninterrupted go down - or your loot tolerance decreases and you're less likely to stay on longer trips to really get the most out of it.

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Originally posted by HeyokaTroll

Throw in the chaos elemental while you guys are at it! If blipblop is no more, then blipblop is universal. Otherwise they should call it the 'elder chaos/abby demons teleblock scroll'

Kinda neat, will pass it on to the team!

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Originally posted by SmartAlec105

Will PKers be able to tell who opted into the extra loot? Or will they just kill everyone on the off chance that they opted in?

Think it'd be cool to try and add some kind of anim/indicator that somebody's opted in for sure! That being said, people might still do the latter because you genuinely never know when somebody's rolled up with everything without realising - twice this month I've run a wildy clue step with full rune pouches, idiots like me are the reason everybody is a potential target :(

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Originally posted by CharizardOSRS

Still not going to the wilderness with more than a clue and spade. Nice try.

We'll get you one of these days!

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Originally posted by Estake

Should we add the Blipblock Scroll, a tradeable item that unlocks the ability to block teleportation attacks from Elder Chaos Druids

Uhh so what ability does this blipblock scroll actually unlock? Is it a new prayer you have to keep running while killing these mobs or is it a permanent slayer unlock?

The blog isn't really clear in this regard...

The blipblop scroll blocks the Elder Chaos Druid's ability to teleport you all over the place, with the potential on the table for it to block the Abyssal Demons' ability to do the same!

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Originally posted by hubatish

Did the misc changes need to be separated in quite such detail? What kind of mad lad is gonna vote "yes more hellhounds" but "no more ice giants"?

I think I just wanted to make stuff as granular as possible for people just in case, appreciate that it adds a few seconds to voting but think it's preferable to do that vs. group questions up too much!

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Originally posted by SmartAlec105

While you’re looking at the Fountain of Rune, could we get left click recharging of dragon stone jewelry? It’d be a nice little QoL.

For the Wilderness Agility Course, will you move the clue step out of there if those changes are made? Paying 100k to do a single clue step would be kind of awful.

Can pass the first on as a feedback point for sure.

Second point it's worth re-stating that the 100k is intended to be a 'I'd like to opt in to extra reward' fee, it's not required to enter or to just run the course, only to gain the extra bonus loot bits! That being said, I'm sure the team would be open to adjusting the location to make it 'about as risky as it is now' in line with the change at the top of this blog!

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Originally posted by CarolinafanfromPitt

Wildy agility course will be botted to hell. It's awful to PK there. They will just have a logout script

"Speaking of risk, our final change is to add more skeletons (alive ones, obviously) around the course to make insta-logging less prevalent." is something we'd be aiming to do as well, would rather add energy restoring mechanics and encourage players to tank up or fight back than just insta-log at every turn.

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Originally posted by DynamiteTeacher

During the training Otto warns you to not use valuable seeds cause it is possible to fail and lose the seed. I failed twice before successfully planting without a dibber. Now that I completed the training I want to do farm runs without the dibber, but I don't want to risk my snapdragon seeds from being lost failing to plant. Can you confirm if once the training is complete, chance of success becomes 100%?

It does look that way :)

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It is truly an excellent video. It was very interesting to see concepts that I and the team have thought about almost explained back to us with different metaphors and ways of thinking about it. Helped to challenge ourselves on our way of thinking.

He manages to explain some things in a really succinct way which is awesome and I've previously encouraged people who haven't seen it on the dev team to watch it! It is also weird to describe something as succinct when it is 3h30 long but think that just speaks to the scale of what OSRS is haha and the time it takes to really deeply understand what makes it tick.

A lot of these things explain why this game works and isn't merely nostalgia. I've long considered that if it was purely nostalgia, peopole would play for a little bit and quick relatively quickly.

The section about the 'knobs' I've considered previously with a light bulb metaphor, which I normally simplify to 3 bulbs. One is "AFK-ability", "Rewards & GP/...

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23 Feb

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Originally posted by ljmt

How u kno

Edit: thank you for the replies I had read the post already just thought that part was a bit vague. Didn’t know “commentary” was referring to those screenshots specifically

It says it in the statement. Give it a read.

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Hey u/Fonduuu

Firstly, I'm sorry to hear that your account was hijacked, I know how stressful it is!

I would suggest the following after a hijacking:

  • Upgrade to a Jagex account, and secure your account with 2FA and save your back up codes both physically and digitally
  • Check your email is fully secure and not accessible to another person (I'd suggest 2FA for your email too) I'd also encourage you to review the inbox rules currently in place on your registered email address. If your registered email has been compromised, then a hijacker might have set up 'rules' which will redirect your incoming emails to another email address, meaning you might not be receiving important security information about your account
  • Be secure with your information and don't use the same p...
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Hey u/Active-Relief-5965

If you'd like to switch your authenticator app, you were correct in your assumption :)

you need to do the following:

- enable email 2FA

- disable auth 2FA

- re-enable auth 2FA with your preferred authenticator

Although from your message I think you're concerned about the back-up codes being saved to the cloud, these back up codes aren't saved within your authenticator, but they will be saved wherever you chose to download/copy them to.

I would recommend having cloud-back up for your authenticator though, as it protects against losing or breaking your phone!

- Jagex support

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Hey u/Unusual_Property_928

Sorry to hear this has happened - hopefully we can get your account properly secured for you now they're back on the account.

Without access to your account, I can't say for sure how the hijackers gained access, but if a hijacker has accessed your account, then the hijack could only be for one of the following reasons:

  • They have significant information about your account which allowed them to recover it and register their own email - upgrading to a Jagex Account will remove the ability to recover your account through the legacy recovery system
  • They have access to your email
  • You've unwillingly provided your login info + authenticator TOTP (phishing/keylogging by the hijacker)
  • You've willingly provided your login info ...
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