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Necromancy is a 2023 skill release. We're not targeting 2024 in any way unless there's a major shift in our project timelines for any reason.

It's context right? We have no Patch Notes, but it's for the reason of investing in the Game Jam for potential future content releases. We felt it was important to let you know why we have less updates for the sake of upcoming ones.

In terms of releases from Game Jam, that's a reality of most Game Jams you'll see out there. Some stuff will make it out fairly quickly, some stuff will come later (like our last Game Jam update earlier this month which contained some stuff from back in October) and some might be on ice until there's an opportunity - which can be anything from scope around other content production or a myriad of other things.

Edit: Stu posted something for context on what goes into bringing a Game Jam project to life from prototype to shipped if you want more insight on this. Find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/...

This Week In RuneScape is a weekly Newspost we do regardless of the size of the update (or in this case, with no Patch Notes).

It's more to give an update on anything happening in and around RuneScape that week as a whole - including Maintenance, Livestreams, Pink Skirts events, celebrating community content etc.

We sometimes break that rule a little to share certain news more broadly - like Murder At The Border which we dated in our last Email Newsletter and wanted to bring here too - but we think it's important we always have a one stop shop for what's going on (or not) in RuneScape every Monday vs just not posting.

There's an Economy Stream with Mod Jack on Wednesday where he can speak to that!

Coming next week.

Mentioned this in another post, but to share it here -

We do plan to talk about it much earlier than we would for a standard content release, but don't expect any news on it this month. Necromancy development is moving along really well, but it's not at a stage where we're ready to start revealing aspects of it just yet.

There's a Ninja Strike focused on the Wilderness coming next Monday - definitely things to look forward to next week.

• We're talking to the team about the World Crash reports and it's being investigated.
• You'll see more of the streams we used to do (Q&A, PvM, Dev Chats etc) coming back in the months ahead as the new CM settles in and takes the reigns on streams
• Jagex Launcher focus right now is the Jagex Accounts, which went into their closed beta phase recently. More updates are coming on this very soon too as we move to the next phase.
• We'll be talking about Necromancy in the not too distant future, but don't expect anything this month. We plan to talk about it much earlier than we do for standard updates, but we're not at that point as yet.
• New addition to the CM team is settling in well. It's only his third week in, so we're giving him time to get to know the teams, how things work, major focus points for the year and so on. We'll be introducing them in the coming weeks, likely as early as next week, with a stream.
• Max Cash is an Engine Update...

It's a trade off of no updates for a week to gain complete focus on putting together really exciting projects for more meaningful future updates.

Game Jam took place for an entire week this time, and some really exciting stuff came out of it - some of which will manifest into the game like we've seen over the past year from these.

The benefit is that it enables a lot more significant QoL updates, new features or even much demanded things like graphical updates for the F2P areas last year to come to life.

While it might not be now (because we have to schedule this in a way that ensures there's time for polish and QA), the end result is better updates down the road. These will happen periodically over the year and often have a light/no Patch Week to follow in those instances too for that exact reason.

What's your RSN? I can pass it to the team as I'm sure they'll want to independently review as part of the investigation.

Had the same thing happen to me. Got the choice of Processor boxes and click the box for Protean Processors, gave me Dummy Processors instead. Just decided to use them, but it was weird and annoying since I was 100% sure I clicked on the right option, so seeing this post makes me feel better that the game wasn't trying to gaslight me.

I'm sorry to hear this. Could you also submit a bug report for us? The team are already investigating these reports and every one we get could help. Really appreciate your help in advance.

You can submit a bug here: https://support.runescape.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360001355429

Thank you for reporting this, especially after that similar report the other day we're already looking into.

The_Five-O is spot on with passing on the same steps, but I just wanted you to know the team have been passed this report directly as well so they can add it to the investigations.

Thanks so much. I'll ask the time if it would be of use but getting the bug report in is the big thing. I'll get back to you if the team have any updates or needs outside the ticket.

Thanks for posting this. We absolutely want to take a look into something like this, both in case of there being an unexpected bug (especially as no code was changed in the Promo) and also to get what you should have had should there be a verifiable bug.

We don't have a ticket in about this however, so we're unable to help further at present.

Can you submit a ticket here so we can look into this? Dev took a look over the weekend but we'd need the report/account this happened on to properly investigate. You can submit that here: https://support.runescape.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360001355429

Looking to see if we can do that next week!

We won't be on stream next week as we'll be focusing on spending all our time with helping the new CM come aboard and settle in, so it could be a good time to do it with the gap in streams. Can't confirm that just yet though.

I do want to jump on here as it's a valid question to ask and one I feel we should be providing an answer for.

We do want to enable more of this, and our new CM has been hired with this in mind. Miva did a lot of fantastic unsung behind the scenes work that needed to be focused on during their tenure, especially when it came to representing your voice at the studio and the way we talk about content a lot more openly in advance/in more detail than we did previously.

What we were aware of though is that you were lacking that CM 'presence' - someone who's out there with all of you, SHOWING that we're listening and working with the team to enable more of those conversations you're looking for.

We were looking to moving towards that anyway through Miva's work, but with our new CM, we've had the opportunity to make that move by completely restructuring their focus from the get go. Based on the priorities we've set, you'll see this new CM on streams regularly, talk...

We'll cover this in a stream coming up, hopefully later this month depending on schedules.

We're planning to give more details on why it's not possible to ship it right now, but also where we're headed on the art/tech front in general as well.

The team are still spooling up for the year so it's a smaller update week this week as we build up to the year ahead.

Next week, we'll be dropping info on our next big content drop arriving in February as we enter the New Year in earnest with Fort Forinthry's first update!

We'll also be following up on the Design Q&A as soon as we can with more answers. Due to availability we couldn't quite do that this week, but we'll hopefully be able to do it next week (either written or streams).

This is awesome Rubic!