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This week's stream was just a little something I hit up Yuey about cause I wanted to show some behind-the-scenes of development of 110 Mining & Smithing because i like sharing the inner workings and showing off concepts and ideas and how they evolved, which players (including myself) always love seeing from games.

At the end of the stream i wanted to tease some 110 WC & Fletching details because why not build a little hype and tease folk. Now, i'm cautious of sharing too many details in tid-bits in different times and places because ideally most of the info would come in a more consistent manner e.g. an RCE blog (coming soon™!) but i thought it's worth addressing some of the things mentioned in this thread :)

I'll start by saying it's very important NOT to underestimate the amount of time full skill reworks take and what you're actually asking for in reality. M&S rework took ~18 months to develop (but actually lo...

Still one of my absolute favourite projects <3

Regular GIM largely follows the same ruleset as ironman, so you'll be able to team up with mains and other irons.

Hey, you will be able to choose this upon group creation. They're presented as an equal choice to the group leader. You can also choose to downgrade from CGIM -> GIM later by the group voting on it.

Yes, as long as you're group ironman, you will have access to all auras.

After completion of the tutorial.

If the monster resets back to full, then you will be able to get XP/drops again!

There will be a icon on the NPC's buff bar to indicate if you aren't able to get XP/drops so you can easily made a decision on what monsters to fight or avoid.

Hey, we've added a 7 day window from group creation for founders status. As long as it's just adding extra players to your group, you will retain founders. If someone leaves and then you add someone else in that slot, you will lose founders however.

Currently the group storage does not have a cap on the amount of scrolls that can be stored within it.

This has been something that we have been discussing internally, and we are going to be looking into addressing the cap for all players in a future release, for GIM launch we felt this was the best way to enable clue gameplay as the other option was to not allow these to be stored.

Hey, for launch we are planning on Group Ironman (regular and competitive) to get no XP from the Halloween hub - this is because we'd like to encourage players to engage with the wider game. However, GIM and CGIM will still be able to engage with the event in general, gather spooky tokens, complete the quest and unlock the cosmetic rewards via the intended systems.

Longer term, we plan on regular GIM to follow the normal ironman rules; while Competitive GIM we'd love to discuss more with the community which direction you'd like us to go in - would you like CGIM to be able to get XP from holiday events or not?

Hey, if quest items are untradeable and haven't been added to the whitelist they cannot be placed in group storage, which cover Balmung and Sunspear. The ancient staff is tradeable which means you'll be able to add to group storage, however you still need to complete Desert Treasure as an individual to equip it.

GIM and CGIM will get the auras :)

Hey, for the most part we've aimed to restrict the ability to interact with others. For bosses, CGIM will only be able to use private encounters (which we've made free of charge!). For other activities, such as minigames and D&Ds, again largely you will only be able to enter/interact with them as a group - this does mean some minigames will be blocked on launched as there is no way to enter with just your group or they are currently blocked to regular ironmen; however we've tried to make as much content available as possible for launch.

Yes they can access Guthixian Caches

The Journey Achievements are GIM only, there are few extra achievements being added that are part of the journey achievements (Each Journey achievement is a series of other achievements) that will be available to all players, these achievements won't count towards runescore to avoid any shenanigans.

Group Ironman members can be free or members; and you can have any mix of players within an individual group.

Hey, yes anyone who selected this option will have the option to allow them to downgrade from Ironman to a Group Ironman should they choose to. They can also reaffirm their decision to never downgrade once more.

However, it's worth noting that you will only be able to downgrade to a Group Ironman, and never to a main account. This is to keep it in parity with OSRS too.

Yes, You could make a second "ghost" account just to get yourself setup and go play as a lone GIM, you would be a bit of a disadvantage numbers wise tho.

Heyo filling in what info I can atm,

1. You need an account that hasn't left character creation (or be an existing Ironman)
2. Not applicable
3. If you leave your GIM group you may join another group or transition to being a regular Main*
   1. If you were a Ironman who opted into never not being an ironman and then became a GIM you would not be able to covert to a main.

(I said ironman originally the team has corrected me)

Yes :) As long as you have the item, you can use it.