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There's so much more we can, want to, and will do, but we do not have the resource to include any more at the moment. The additional points we're seeing raised (as Goblin mentioned we already knew about most of them too) will surface when there is availability in the roadmap for them.

The team can only work on so much at once, and we're already at capacity with what we've included within Project Rebalance as a whole so far (especially with adding Run Energy changes back into the mix). Whilst this is definitely a perfect time to hit everything at once if resource wasn't a concern, the reality is we do have to consider how much we're able to deliver and how soon we're able to deliver it.

I hope players feel like we've been doing a pretty good job so far of delivering meaningful updates in addition to the staple content releases you've come to expect, so I don't imagine we'll be sitting on making further changes for years. That being said, it's important that we don't ...

They should be live in the next few months. I don't want to give exact dates just yet but I imagine the majority will be done in May, with the Run Energy changes going live after then!

Thank YOU (collectively) for providing it! <3

Nothing new to share on that front. It's coming, just can't say exactly when right now!

That's one way to release an update early I guess!

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The NPC Defence changes is extremely exciting, I think it'll be a really good change! And the fact we'll be doing a beta for it means you get to try it out in-game too which will be so much nicer than just reading numbers :)

Thanks for raising, forgot to update that one, oops :3

Hey all, thanks once again for all of your feedback on the last update (Tuesday 26th). I am happy to confirm that I've managed to sway the team into keeping the previously proposed XP rates you so keenly wanted to stay!

In addition to this, we've been able to bring forward the Run Energy changes so they will be part of Project Rebalance, but please keep in mind that these will come later in the year as we have to move a few things around (there's a LOT of content coming this year!).

I believe this is the last update we'll do on the general Skilling side of things as we move into NPC Defence changes next week and then continue with the rest of Project Rebalance afterwards! Exciting times!

There's a LOT more to this project than just these Skilling related changes - next week we'll be talking about entirely different topics. We've had to be selective on how much time/resource we commit to each topic, but we feel like the complete set of changes will have a much better impact overall than focusing just on Skilling.

Project Rebalance was never about straight up buffing Agility XP by significant amounts. As we said in this updated blog, our aim is to make Agility more rewarding and varied to progress through, not just faster. This means that our efforts are concentrated on giving players a wider variety of entertaining and XP-efficient training options.

We do know that many of you want to see Agility reworked in some form, and I imagine it'll only be a matter of time when we look to focus on that, but we need a solid foundation to work off and there are some big improvements that can be made before then (while we have the time and resource to tackle something like this rebalance).

We realise that we aren't able to deliver something that complex as part of this rebalancing project, but it was considered at the start and the team already have a solid proposal for how it'd be reworked. I imagine we'll be sharing news on that sometime, just no longer part of this particular project.

Hey all, I'm taking over this one for a while as Goblin is on holiday so bear with me as I'm not as close to the project as he was!

We spent a lot of time going over your feedback and the survey results to come up with these changes, so hopefully they resonate with how you were all feeling and we can move forward with some positive changes to various skills :)

Thanks for raising this to us.

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Apologies for being super lazy, but I think Goblin has already said about as much as we're able to say on this topic generally, so sharing it again here in case you missed that:

ACT are working on trying to find a consistent and enforceable way to remove these players from the HiScores so that real players are actually able to secure spots - note that this applies to all content in the game, including things like CG. The ACT and Game Engine teams are investigating manual removal from the HiScores for accounts that have already been banned, should be banned or for any other reason should not still be appearing on the HiScores. Note that there are some players who are permanently banned but still appearing on the HiScores who are included in this manual removal.

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The other post mentioned in my reply will hopefully cover some of this for you and the many others wondering. Until then I can't share anything else, sorry!

Hi all, I just wanted to give some reassurance regarding the quote from the article mentioned in this post.

We know bots exist, just as much as you do when you see them in-game, but it’s important to highlight that the article does not accurately reflect our strategy. Our priority is to always ensure every player has a good experience when playing both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape.

Since the news of the acquisition came about, many of you have been saying we’re not banning bots on purpose, mostly pointing to how we’re padding out player numbers. That just isn’t true and would not be good for the game. We are banning bots, more than we ever have before. But the reality is, and this is something we’ve said time and time again, it’s an arms race. As fast as we ban them, new bots are made. We’re constantly working to keep ahead of this race, and we ARE working on bigger initiatives to tackle botting as a whole, although we aren’t ready discuss the details of thi...

Welcome back. Enjoy the grind, you've got a LOT to look forward to <3