JagexGoblin

I don't disagree at all! Personally using visual metronome set to 9 ticks on RL to still have something visual, but it's for sure less intuitive than before.

Kieren gave a pretty good rundown of server topics in a recent Q&A. Maintenance last week laid a good groundwork for us to start making much-needed tech upgrades.

Improvements are coming and ongoing, we know the servers are a huge source of frustration for players at the moment, but there isn't anything for me to report specifically this week.

You still can get an extra hit, but you need to click the tick before the light comes out of the statue. We were attempting to manually recreate the old behaviour but haven't been able to.

You should get pretty consistent 1-downs if you're 99 mining and using your pickaxe spec, but if you want to time-save then you can count ticks. Light comes out on a 9 tick cycle, keep a note of which number it comes out on and then click statue as before. Not as nice and 'visual' as before but still doable!

I meant what I wrote, nobody can stop me. Also I literally can't ride a bike.

I'm super excited about it!

It's not very often I check Reddit and get surprised with something I didn't even know was happening, but I trust OP and can't wait to see what Jagex do for this one. Crazy that even when working here, stuff like this can still surprise you!

Edit: imagine my further surprise when I asked around and nobody knew what I was talking about. OP has made a fool of me this day :(

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Like you've pointed out in your edit, it is accessible, but we'd like to signpost it better! Think the website could use a little love in general to improve ease of access to information for players.

This account is so insane that I initially thought this was a screenshot from the beta worlds. Unreal HC! What's next?

We're still investigating the full scale of any abuse of the TOA bug in question. We'll take according action once that investigation is concluded, but we haven't issued any punishments directly related to the bug in question at this time.

Might be the case that the friend in question was coincidentally temp banned for something unrelated in this instance.

Would like to reiterate that the bug was hotfixed on the same day we became aware of it and that once we've finished our investigation, you can expect a formal statement from us to detail our findings and hopefully alleviate some of your concerns!

I'm pretty sure our plan is for them to count for any KC tasks for Wilderness Diary or CAs!

It's 'BiS' in terms of a BiS one-handed non-degradeable Strength training option for 75 Attack accounts, but outclassed in DPS by most other offerings (whip included). It has a max hit below AGS (and Claws, I think), as well as the Volatile staff (the best one-handed comparison) while also having a higher spec cost.

They're all PvM drops! Which one in particular are you referring to as 'BIS' in this case?

I understand where people are coming from with this and completely get the concerns, but feel as though there is a lot in the WBR aimed to alleviate these concerns.

1: Singles variants still allowing access to uniques (same time to complete for current uniques, maybe slightly reduced rates for proposed new uniques)

For me this means that irons are less likely to feel as though they would need to pay for protection to obtain uniques, which (speaking anecdotally, since I was just playing at the time and a little more casually, but still had some fun with multi revs in small groups of pals) was a pretty significant chunk of the 'demand' for these services in the multi revs era. Irons are a big chunk of the playerbase, giving them an alternative to specifically chase the uniques they might be after should reduce the demand for this kind of service. Compounded a little by the fact that the base Rev weapons are so much better...

The beta is to give people a chance to play around with the weapons and give us feedback for any tweaks before polling (assuming this is relating to the Wilderness Boss Rework Rewards, at least).

This is something I'd be especially keen on, for us to post to and for the flexibility it allows us, Twitter is one of the easiest platforms to get stuff out quickly. Would be very happy to see us integrate a feed if it's something on the cards

2 hour maintenance on Wednesdays isn't routine, though it is somewhat frequent! We've had a whole bunch of updates go out without any significant downtime recently, just a fair few cases of longer downtime periods (which should hopefully reduce as we're able to start upgrading hardware to address server/IT issues)

There's actually a pretty strict characterlimit on in-game broadcasts, and in this case it literally is just server maintenance (unrelated to your suggested copy, in case it needs clarifying).

Worlds should be back up by now in any case!

While it came to us on pretty short notice, IT and devs operate wholly separately. This is server maintenance to try and build a stronger foundation for hardware upgrades and isn't related to the bug you're talking about.

Apologies for the short notice in any case, but it's definitely not 'emergency' maintenance!

Hurt to see a good friend of mine and valuable colleague cop flame on this level, I can't lie :(