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More will be added to the skill over time, no doubt, but it's perfectly fine to stop training it if you've got what you want out of it. That's fine with us. There's already a bunch of reasons to train beyond 99 but it's fine if they don't encourage everyone.

I'd prefer it, in fact, if people did not force themselves to play content/games in general past the point where they are getting something out of it. I did some awful, long grinds in the name of unlocking Xbox Achievements when I was younger, which I now regret.

Actually to expand on that thought, I think the underlying thing that's going on here is the set of expectations that players have, and that we feel, are associated with a piece of content that has a particular label.

I wasn't involved in any of the specific decisions being made here, but this seems like a pretty accurate take to me.

The aforementioned engine update (to ignore skill prerequisites configured on achievemements) is scheduled to release in February. Hang in there!

I believe JagexHooli and the team are acting on the Godsword. I messaged them today and they confirmed.

We have shown progress quite frequently on the pets, but this detail may have slipped or not been shown fully. Apologies.

Please don’t think that new players are our priority. Until now, new players weren’t really thought of at all, and that’s why we’ve reached a point of a messy hame for new starters. We need to think of them again.

Active players are still the priority, absolutely.

We actually discussed this! One version had percentages, rather than absolute values, but we opted for this instead. There are positives and negatives between them. In the end, it’s a clearer and more understandable goal to go for RuneScore values

Sorry that I can’t reply to the depth you have here. Very generally, we opted for more tiers on Richie rather than more tiers on Zez, and we needed outsource for other Elder God related updates. We often have to make these kinds of decisions.

I appreciate and completely understand (and understood) the tiers of god armour. But older veterans aren’t the only players we make content for. This is a core pet that a lot of people will strive for, and having a detail that a vast majority (especially with new players coming in) won’t understand the nuances of is a problem. If this was a more niche pet, it wouldn’t have been a problem. Over the years we have increasingly made the game complicated for newer players to understand, so this kind of decision needs to be made more.

Still, cosmetic options and toggles for the pet are options for the future, but just wasn’t possible for release

I can assure you that there aren’t interns making decisions on this, it’s designe...

Typically an improvement is anything that progresses the state of the game or prepares it for future content. The feedback is heard loud and clear though and future patch notes like this one will be given their own dedicated space :)

Hey BabystepsX. Would be happy to chat further as a personal message? Feel free to reach out to us for things like this, we are happy to chat.

We chatted about the god trims, and there’s a few reasons we didn’t go with them: they force a god faction on the player, they put the gods into a hierarchy when we want players to consider them as equally viable to support, and the metal tiers are easier for a newer player to understand (you want them to recognise your achievement). Our original plan was to have more metal tiers, but that didn’t work out: hopefully that can change in the future.

I wasn’t aware of a LARP godsword if I am being honest. Is that something that was in your original design?

Or on zero with darts <_<