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MTX

Non-Cosmetic Worlds

^{I do think cosmetics are a really important part of the game. If I came across as being dismissive last time, that's my bad. I'm sorry about that. What I meant though, is that it's an important part of how players express themselves through the avatar in Runescape and it adds to the vibrancy of the world. I would like to see more cosmetics in the game just delivered in a way players are happy with.}

^{That's also what alot of players have been saying. So there's a bit of a conflict if we're saying we want more cosmetics, whether its more cosmetics on TH/SGS but at the same time asking whether it's possible to turn them off is a bit of a conflict there. So it's not something we are pursuing at the moment. I didn't want to be dismissive about it because a lot of players have asked about it in the past and a lot of people have suggested it in the past.}

Milking Players - "Other Companies are worse than us"

^{I think the thing about being better than other companies or not as bad as other companies is a bad a way to put it. So my hands up there. I think what I was trying to say, I think I do want us to take a more of a responsible position on it and to be a kind of leader rather than just following what other companies do. So we try and keep track of what's going on in others areas of the industry. We work really closely with Ukie, the trade organizations for games in the UK. And we work with them to make sure we are following their recommendations and what they would advice. And I think Jagex, we've been doing this for awhile and we should take a responsible stance on this. So I'm hoping we will do better with that in the future.}

Timeline

• Nov. 14 - Premier Pass Event Newspost + Premier Club Launch
• End of Nov. - Premier Pass Event + Experimental TH promotion
• December - Advent Calendar
• January onward - More Experimental TH promotions
• 2nd Half of 2020 - Store Unification/Improvements

Strategy

^{Part 1 - Alternative to Lootbox | Part 2 - The Value of Subscriptions}

• Pass Newspost will talk about the focus on cosmetics and addressing issues better than the previous iteration.
  • It will discuss some of the work we've been doing to experiment with TH/finding alternatives to loot-crates.
• It's a really important thing going into next year to look for an alternative to Loot crates.
  • How we can be more transparent | Reduce things like RNG | Offer the choice of rewards players want.
• The first experiment will run alongside the Premier pass event. In January you'll see more of these experiments.
  • Focused on new designs/mechanics.
• The Premier Club has more rewards at the same prices as last year, including access to the Premier Pass.
• More focus on season holiday events and get a better plan in place for it.
• Sync up between the teams.
• Clean up all the currencies and unify all the stores.
  • We will be transparent on those designs, and talk about it, etc.

Runemetrics

• Regular Runemetrics is available to all players, but the Pro version requires an additional payment.
  • Premier club members can get a 50% discount.
• Currently there's an overhead in running the Pro version, mainly due to data storage
  • If made available to everyone the cost would shoot through the roof.
• We are looking at how we can get around that in the future through other solutions.

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Lack of Updates

No Contingency Updates

• We didn't' have contingency updates in there that would could have/should have done.
• Projects swallowed up all the time/resource
  • Weapon diversity was dropped since it wasn't right for the game based on beta feedback.
  • Comp cape became small and less content focused, less things to achieve.
  • Bank Placeholders became bigger.
  • Archaeology - XL Update.
  • 120 Farm/Herb - L Update turned became an XL Update.
• A quest was delayed due to a lack of time/resource. (It still exists)
• 120 Farm/Herb is better to be released in 1 update rather than batched out in multiple updates.
  • Didn't want to do another '120 Slayer'.

What's Next

I really appreciate the patience.

• Due to the time and resources on Archaeology, and 120 Farm/Herb there was a gap of updates.
  • We accidentally went to expansions again, and we hope to not do it again.
• Addressing it for next year. For me it's winning back player's trust and give real value to the subscription you pay.
  • 1 way to do that is to get cadence back through "Seats".
• We are doing a significant post-launch of 120 Farm/Herb and Archaeology.
  • Focused on fixing problems and adding stuff based on feedback.

Seats

• Teams focused on producing something every couple of months.
• Currently 3 Teams: Quest Seat, Remastered Seat, Epic Jam Seat.
• Epic Jam Seat - Focuses on finishing stuff made in game jam (PvM Hub) and Ninja stuff as well.
  • And other updates, activity pets, contingency updates.

Updates

Seat work will start in December and players will start to feel it in February

• Nov. 25th - 120 Farm/Herb
• December - Christmas Event
• January - Archaeology Skill
• February - Seat Projects

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Activity Pets

Newspost | Follow-Up Blog - Friday

Player Feedback

^{My take: We've given out a lot of pets recently and players have felt it, Pet-scape. Alongside Slayer log, we've been asking players to play the same content over and over again. Only so much you can do of that. Why are you adding new stuff when the old stuff could use a brush-up. In this case, older pets don't have overrides.}

^{We saw the excitement around combat pets and it was positive, people loved it and the competition around it. So we thought it would be a small version of that. It was more negative than we expected so we looked into it.}

New Plans

• Pull down the size of the update.
  • Voting highlighted 3 pets that were higher than the others.
  • Money-making, Clues, Area pets, and a Runescore pet (based on a player suggestion).
• With the time saved, do a Pet Remaster: Look at old pets who don't have overides & QOL Fixes on pets.
  • What sort of QOL changes would you like to see on pets to make them less infuriating.
• Pet Overrides: Less pets with unique animations or More pets but with generic animations. - May poll it.
  • Strawpoll
• There are plans to do something about Legendary pets and skills for them. We will talk about it.

Why do this update at all

• Get ahead of ourselves and have updates ready so we don't create situations where we have no updates.
• What I'm looking to do is to work with an external studio to help us produce a number of updates to get us some contingency.
  • Since we can't outsource Runescript, we are looking to outsource work other types of updates, e.g. graphics heavy.
  • Example: Activity Pets, rewards, and some updates kept as a surprise for next year.

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Java Client

Newspost

• Java is restricting us from doing more exciting things with the NXT client.
• It isn't fair to restrict that progress to cater to <4% of players still using Java.
  • Especially if they are capable of using it but just haven't tried it since all the improvements.
• We are working with them to fix problems with the transition.
  • If NXT doesn't work, we have froum threads players can submit feedback to.

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120 Herblore

General

• Release Date: November 25th
• 120 Farm/Ranch Out of Time - Stream next week.
• More Info: TL;DW 457 - RuneFest Q&A

Potions

The below list are known levels of potions. Not all potions/level slots are known currently.

Level	Name	Ingredients
55	Cooking Potion
79	Super Cooking Potion
95	Harvest Potion
99	Poison Bomb	Weapon Poison++ & others ingredients
100	Weapon Poison+++	Easy to get (nothing rare)
101	Sticky Bomb
102	Charming Potion
103	Vulnerability Bomb	Vulnerability Runes & other ingredients
104	Extreme Cooking Potion
106	Elder Overloads	Supreme Overload + Primal Extract + Fellstalk
107	Elder Overload Salve	Supreme Salve/Salve ingredients + Primal Extract + Fellstalk
110	Spiritual Prayer	Prayer potion (4) + Summoning potion (4)
117	Extreme Prayer	Super Prayer + New Dino Produce
118	Blessed Flask	5000 Harmonic Dust + a type of Masterwork process

Potion Details

• Charming Potion - It gives 1 extra charm to the base. Works with boosts which affect the base rate.
• Regular, Super, and Extreme Cooking Potions
  • Similar to the types of potions which came with Player Owned Farm.
  • Made using the Primal Extract at one point I believe (also needed for a Primal Feast)
  • Takes you to 116 Cooking.

• Harvest Potion - For 6 minute, harvest normal crops as mega versions of them.

  • Sweet Potato, Golden Watermelon, Rainbow sweetcorn, etc
  • The mega crops go into making the Primal starters, mains and deserts, which go into the Primal Feast.

• Blessed Flask - Special Flask made with a masterwork process - long time and a lot of resources.

  • 5000 Harmonic Dust is needed (also 4,000 Harmonic Dust is used for Archaeology).
  • It's a flask that holds charges of extreme prayer potions (20 potions, so 80 doses in total).

• Bombs - New types of potions

  • Throw them at enemies, 3-by-3 area of smoke, applies the effect of it to that area.
  • Sticky Bomb - Binds targets | Poison - Poisons targets | Vulnerability - vulnerability spell on targets.
  • Poison/Sticky Bombs last 6 seconds
  • Vulnerability bomb - shorter time, but the effect lasts the normal length (60 seconds).
  • All the ingredients are new/from 120 Farm. (Except Weapon poison++, and Vulnerability runes).

Raising the Skill Cap

• New Content: Bombs, Powerbursts, & Enhancements to most current potions.
  • There is content unlocks at every level, but some won't be named till the day of release.
• There are some are leveling benefits that will change the GP/XP or XP/HR which affects training to 120.
  • XP Rates - Levels 115-116: 2.5-3M xp/hr base (no bonus).
• There won't be any new types of training methods.
• 6 month grace period for the Comp cape.
  • Other achievements may or may not have grace periods for comp as well.
• 120 Skillcape Perk - Takes ingredients for 4 potions and produces 5.
  • Only works with: Overload, Supreme Overload, or an Elder overload.

Adrenalin Crystals

• Goal: Make Adrenaline Crystals more common which will help lower the price of Adrenaline Potions.
• Inert Crystal - New drop to a variety of bosses/monsters.
  • ROTS, QBD, Legions, Raptor Chest, Living Wyverns, Rune Dragons, and some more.
• Use Primal Extract and new Dino produce and turn it into an adrenaline crystal

Powerbursts

Overkill causes a 2 min cooldown on adrenaline potions, and it affects all powerbursts.

• Powerburst of Overkill - 4% Adrenaline every 0.6 seconds for 6 seconds. (40% adren total)
• Powerburst of Vitality - Doubles your base and current HP for 6 seconds.
• Powerburst of Acceleration - Give Unlimited Surge/Bladed Dive for 6 seconds
• Powerburst of Feats - For 6 seconds will let you spam your special moves of the summoning familiar at no cost.
• Powerburst of Master stroke - (secret, skilling related)
• Powerburst of Sorcery - (secret, skilling related)

Other

• Primal Extract - One of the new produce you can get from 120 Farming.
• Primal Feast - Best in slot food, requires near 116 Cooking.
• Super prayer QOL - Players can now crush Wyvern bones into dust to use instead of Wyvern bonemeal.
  • Bonemeal will still work as well.
• Naming conventions were followed, even if they are inconsistent across the board.

Bonus 120 Farming

• Shiny Animal Names: Pavosaurus Lucidum, Luminous Jadinkos, Witchfire Salamanders, Asciatops Lucidum
• No plans for weapon upgrades (polypore staff) with 120 Farming.
• Tomb Shroom - One of the new farming plants which allows you ot harvest more mushrooms at once.
  • Helpful for Zygomites

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