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18 Aug

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Originally posted by BioMasterZap

Yah. With all the mentions of random letter "uraels" in the comments, I wanted to make sure the mods remembered Spria exists. In my other comment, I mentioned how there is a lot more room to build lore about her moving to Draynor to break out as her own Slayer Master after spending years of training with her father. A newbie Slayer Master, or even one before they are officially a Slayer Master, should work for the sake of the quest to introduce the skill while also being able to direct players to her father in Buthorpe. And while we don't know that much about Spria except that she took over for her father in RS2, I think she'd be a more interesting character to explore, especially if certain events ever happen in OSRS...

Ed had mentioned Spria earlier today actually. :)

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Originally posted by DaklozeDuif

Hey Sween two things.

1) If you end up adding a second NPC, you should make it Spria!

2) So if this NPC is added to Draynor, this would add a bit of a lore-headscratcher. Why would the Draynor people ask some rando to kill the vampyre when an Expert in slaying monsters lives there? Sure WoM is there too but he is a retired grumpy old man that robbed a bank, so it makes sense they don't want to approach him.

The blog has been amended, and Spria has been proposed!

I've discussed the latter point with the team and we're confident we can address that in a fun, humorous, Old School-y way!

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Originally posted by waterywaterywater

Would keeping Turael in the same spot, but adding a sibling to Draynor that works identical in functionality be alright?

Could place a Slayer Tutor here for example to introduce players to the skill

We've discussed this, especially as Draynor is more difficult to get to regularly (Burthorpe has the minigame teleport for example).

It's probably we'll amend the blog and the poll question tomorrow!

We'd likely move Turael to Draynor, and have the sibling/replacement take over in Burthorpe. This is because Turael would play a part in Draynor during the quest.

How does that sound?

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Originally posted by ZealousidealPirate3

If it does pass try to make some sort of indication in the house that the master used to be in tell people where he has moved to since it might be confusing for people months down the line returning to the game and being unable to find their slayer master

Love it - we should certainly do something like that if this goes ahead.

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Originally posted by Kahooots

Sorry for missing my chance to ask league related question for Monday's stream, but I was curious if there are any plans to battle account sharing in the leagues?

As it's all about fun for sure, but many also enjoy competitive aspects of this mode, thus giving everyone a fair chances to compete.

As part of the ongoing look at our rule enforcement (which I discussed last week here: https://youtu.be/gUHlpk7dQxk?t=2021), those rules will surely cover things like Leagues!

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Originally posted by flame1148

Hey old school team, can you share the current status of bringing the mobile graphics engine (rasterizer?) to desktop clients? This was discussed back around the time of mobile release as a planned project, but we haven’t heard much lately. This is a BIG deal, at least to me, since the mobile client scales up to 120fps and presumably even higher, while the desktop clients cap out at 50fps regardless of your hardware. This is lower than even the cheapest monitors. High frame rate feels incredible, and I personally would happily forego a few content updates to modernize the presentation.

Thanks for all you do guys!

Edit: P.S. Since you guys are looking to do a better job at retaining new players, I really feel that the initial “feel” of a game, how smoothly it feels and handles, goes a long way to do that. It’s a big reason why many can’t jump from WoW to other MMOs.

We've got big tech news to share in the coming months. Some fascinating articles ear-marked for the Sep/Oct/Nov Gazettes, with focus on tech stuff. Nothing to share before then I'm afraid!

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Originally posted by Lode5tar

With the introduction of the new slayer quest to help new players understand what it is, would it be possible to move Turael to Draynor village? People have been saying Burthrope is pretty far for a beginner slayer master, moving him there would make life easier for the newer players considering how close nearly everything he assigns is located near draynor and lumbridge. Honestly the Lumbridge Swamp caves is the defacto slayer cave for beginners.

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Edit: Updated at 1pm BST (19th August)

We've edited the blog to reflect that Spria won't be able to change tasks like her father, Turael, does.

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Edit: Updated at 7pm BST (18th August)

We've made changes to the proposal!

Some of you have pointed out that Turael residing in Burthorpe doesn’t make sense. He's the lowest-level Slayer Master, yet he's pretty far away from new players. We'd like to propose adding a Slayer Master to Draynor Village. Now, because we haven’t been as diligent as we would have liked with changes to early game areas (the Draynor Village dock, for example), we thought it was important to hear your views about this potential change. We aren't going to change the layout of Draynor, any Slayer Master will instead take up residence in a vacant building.

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17 Aug

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Originally posted by green_bin_coon

Runescape has a minimum drinking age?

hmm... I suppose it's unlikely :P

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They look a little young to be drinking :P Lovin' these pieces though, keep 'em coming ^.^

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Originally posted by teh_piz

Unrelated but could you look at "Piz180" got it banned like 15 years ago for asking to log into a strangers account. Not proud of it but I was also 10. Hoping to see if I can recover it.

Looks as though the ban has already expired :)

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Originally posted by Professional-Equal45

the gold on that account was mine.... A friend quit rs and gave me the account said it was his and hand trained and all.. biggest rip to me Is that a perma ban? can i do anything about it?

That will be a permanent ban yes. I can only recommend playing on accounts that you've created in the future. That way you know that they haven't come from dodgy people in the past.

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Originally posted by Professional-Equal45

Is that RWT?

Yep

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It looks as though the account was banned because it was bought from a gold farmer