Old School Runescape

Old School Runescape Dev Tracker




23 Oct

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Originally posted by Master_AK

Have you done simulations of gp/hr of the expected loot following the changes/removal of emblems? Assuming the scroll and key prices stay constant.

Emblems were literally the only reason I did wilderness slayer, I loved getting that bonus drop. I already have herb sack and slayer helm so didn't care about the points anymore.

That's impossible given no one knows what the value of Dagonhai will be. We'd prefer to wait and see for that reason and adjust as necessary once things have settled.

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Originally posted by OMFGBoruto

When will these changes happen in the live game? I.E able to buy rune pouch from slayer masters for 1.5m

That's coming tomorrow with the update.

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Originally posted by Unlikely_Island

I know this is going to sound like a meme, but they chose to limit their accounts.
I've asked this a few times for the Q&A, but what's the point in choosing something which is harder, only for it to get easier?

Of course Ironmen should have access to the content, but adding a new way to get the content solely for Ironmen defeat the purpose of playing that type of account IMO.

We're not trying to make it easier, just trying to avoid unnecessarily making it harder than it already was.

The items will also be there for other players and improve the value of doing Wilderness Slayer all round - which has been a big concern since we're removing the tier 1 emblems from that table.

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Originally posted by WholeFactor

Most of the tasks are purely about arbitrarily "nerfing" that players ability. I'm not entirely sure, but it doesn't sound like fun gameplay

Maybe change tasks up with some specific buffs. Eg "you will deal 10% extra magic damage against your next bounty target". This would encourage players to deal with "nerf" tasks/engage with the content

They're challenging for sure, and we hope that the experienced PKers will find that fun. They're an extra (optional) incentive that rewards more points, so hopefully it'll be easier for a lesser experienced PKer to win a fight if they're facing an experienced one trying to complete a task. They're not for everyone, for sure.

That said, if you can think of tasks that you'd find fun to try and complete while playing the minigame, I'd love to hear them.

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Originally posted by Unlikely_Island

To alleviate the concerns of certain restricted accounts, these two upgrade scrolls willbe added to the Wilderness Slayer loot table. They will also remain in the Bounty Hunter rewards shop.

Let Ironmen loot emblems so they have to do BH for it, why should it come from something else?
If Ironmen want it, they should have to get it from the place that every other Upgrade Scroll comes from.

It also says "willbe" instead of "will be" in the blog.

I understand that way of thinking and leaned towards it myself initially. People seemed split on this one so we had to make a call. We went with this because it's an item IMs are used to having relatively easy access to, and a consequence of the rework would have been making them a lot harder to get so this seemed the fairest option. They're still in the Wilderness, after all.

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You can appeal that one via this link.

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Originally posted by LewisMcLaren

Hey what the hell i spent hours stacking up points in the BH shop on my ironman so i would always have plenty in hand in case i ever lost my rune pouch and various other items and now you're going to be removing the old shop? not really fair is it i don't wanna spent 10s of hours building my points back up again only for them to be removed later on. Not cool.

How would you feel if we converted your existing points to the new ones when the time comes?

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Originally posted by mikesena

/u/JagexTyran - your thoughts here?

I've passed this on to be looked into, you* will find an inbox message on the RuneScape website shortly with further information.

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Hey, please get in touch with us via this form and we'll be able to help you out.


22 Oct

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Originally posted by Nolivici

Thanks for the insight, I didn’t know a lot of that.

Right now, I know that there’s a ton of skepticism when about the validity of the “manual review” label, (people just assume it’s bull) which leads to a lot of frustration. Is there anything you can say as to what aspects of an account lead it to be more likely to get manually tagged as a bot, even when it’s not? i. e. frequent trades, total level, xp gain, etc?

Getting tagged manually as a bot by mistake could be a number of things including incorrect labeling by a member of the team etc, unfortunately as much as I'd love to talk about botting and what flags accounts in the first place, that's something we won't do I'm afraid.

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Originally posted by Deacon_Steel

Let me make sure I understand the process.

  • The system automatically bans.

  • A random daily sample gets checked.

  • If your account is not part of this daily sample, you are permanently banned with no appeal process.

  • The system bans very blatant (to how a system can determine) bots (mass created gold farmers etc)
  • The system flags other more bespoke/intelligent bots for manual review
  • Flagged accounts are checked by an Anti Cheating Specialist
  • Accounts are reviewed daily by Team Leads for accuracy
  • Accounts can be appealed if compromised by third-parties via this link
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Originally posted by punisher2431

Can slayer partner be changed and made useful

What would make it useful without also making it abusable via exacerbated points/XP gain?

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Originally posted by iainbrux

After the success of the farming guild, is the rework of other guilds in the pipeline for future work? It could be a great piece of content that if revived properly, and to community satisfaction, would have a very rewarding impact. Similar to have the farming guild has three tiers that pushes players to continue to level up their skill for all access to the guild.

What content would you want to see added to the guilds?

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Originally posted by [deleted]

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We've spoken about it in recent Q&As. We're looking to poll some Sire questions soon, and then I think we'll be looking at Grotesque Guardians.

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Originally posted by hey-boss

What is the reasoning for not already having fist of guthix? the rewards are not necessarily needed and they could be made into reality with communitys help.

It wouldn't be as simple as copy and pasting a minigame from RS3 to OSRS. We've seen the state of multiple minigames which lack enthralling rewards (they aren't very active) and I think the same would be said for FoG.

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Originally posted by Savuu

Can you make rune pouch buyable with coins from the bh shop meanwhile you work on bounty hunter rework? Like 500k would be a suitable price I think.

Currently only way to get a rune pouch is through slayer or with existing bounty hunter points. Does not feel great to be stuck not using your only rune pouch in pvp for this long.

There's something in the works for Rune pouches for the duration of the beta. Blog coming imminently.

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Originally posted by Ch0kexx

Why are people getting incorrectly banned? Can you do something about this to prevent further loss to other players who might not have a livestream/online following?