Can a Jmod explain the entire DLC package situation?
DLC wasn't really the right word. What the team were referring to were the Membership Access Packages, which will be how Steam only users can access Membership. We'll be detailing those closer to launch, but that's what they were referring to.
If it helps, the reason the word DLC was used is because those Membership Access Packages will appear under the 'DLC' section on Steam - just the way that platform's terminology goes.
Is there a Mod Cadence yet?
Not yet, but when there is, they better make a regular appearance.
... I'll see myself out.
I'm sure the team will appreciate seeing this feedback. We're still hitting our stride so it's great to see that (at least for some of you) you can feel the step up already. Lots of hard work going into making this happen.
Is it just me or does it annoy anyone else how much mod warden says cadence?
The word cadence is WAY overused by us lot on the Community Team too in meetings - it's pretty much a self-meme at this point for us. We say it all the time. Pretty sure we all need to stick our head in a Thesaurus to fix it!
(As /r/Dalmathus said, it's a pretty common dev industry term so it's not really surprising we all say it!)
The point isn't that yak tracks are bad events or that the top events are better, its that you need variety.
If they only release one type of event it gets stale no matter what. Throwing in an occasional winter weekend type event and holding of on the yak track for a few months not only changes it up but makes you look forward to the yak track more when it returns after being gone for a while. Sure, maybe some of those events aren't the best examples but the other half is pretty beloved and would be well received when it hasn't been done for so many years.
I mentioned this in another thread, but there are other kinds of events coming as well as Yak Track and Double XP LIVE events. Halloween is in our sights, and this Holiday is definitely something we're thinking about.
We're also putting some serious work into our existing events as well - Yak Track is probably a good example of this where we've continually tried to improve the rewards through to the tasks (especially with the new lore moments in this one). We'd love to hear if you are feeling the effects of it or not.
the grind spell doesn't work on wyvern bones
Thanks for the report.
The Ninja Team are aware and we're going to look to address this in a future update.
Too bad Jagex stopped with events and replaced them with yak tracks.
The kind of events I'm guessing you are referring to are still very much on the cards, living alongside Yak Tracks and Double XP LIVE style events too!
We've been teasing it a little on stream, but we do have plans for something new this Halloween with an eye towards the Holidays as well.
Our Ninjas are all over this - we're looking to hopefully deploy a hotfix very soon. Stand by for updates.
We'll ping the team and hopefully come back soon with an answer!
Just to confirm, you cannot obtain pets from Herby Werby.
Can we obtain pets from the Herby Werby D&D? It does use bxp, so the exp drops don't seem to be 'lamp' exp
We'll ping the team and hopefully come back soon with an answer!
Just used another effigy star from an Unstable effigy (this time on Hunter) and it gave direct xp as well (equivalent to a medium xp lamp).
/u/jagexhooli not sure who exactly to tag, but hopefully you can help chase this down. I submitted an in-game bug report as well.
Thank you for tagging me. We'll notify the team.
Can we get skilling pets from the Effigy Incubator nodes?
Chased down an answer on this one! The nodes do not provide a chance to find a Skilling Pet - whether the D&D is in an active state or not.
I was going to comment about my thread from the forums, but seems I've been beaten. :P /u/JagexHooli - It would be great to work closer with Jagex on a type of thread to collate everything into a singular area. I've been running the Social Media News thread on the RS forums for over 2 years now, with some help from the community. It would be nice to have JMods come along and post, or link to their posts made on Social Media. Regardless of any outcome, whether this post is even read or not, I will be continuing to post on the forum thread, as there's been countless people posting on the thread about how they do not use social media, and use my thread to find out information from external sources.
Thank you for doing that. Admittedly, I need to spend much more time there too in general. Really appreciate the effort to fill a gap there for the forum community though (and the feedback).
Read moreMessages like these are cool - my problem with you writing that here is that this is should be on the main website.
We, as a community, need constant updates. Where are you at, what are the plans, what plans are getting delayed, how will things look moving forward (month by month basis).
The TLDW post should also not be on Reddit, it should be on the Runescape website (I don't know if it is, because with me having to check Reddit, Twitter, Runescape website, Youtube channels and the lord knows what else to actually get all the info, missing something is incredibly easy).
I'm aware it is made by Rubic (who, by the way, you guys should hire and pay because holy f**k his/her contributions are top dollar value - ) and not you guys, but you seriously need to centralize all relevant information, and in a timely fashion. MAX 24 hours after a livestream ends, a complete TLDW should be on the main website with just as much detail as Rubics TLDW.
That's...
Thanks for the detailed thoughts. I think a lot of what we are working on will hit those notes so keep an eye out and keep this level of feedback coming for us.
This is one example of information that belongs on the runescape main site:
https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/iofc29/mod_ryan_confirms_recolours_for_essence_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3Additionally all stream VODs should be linked on the main site. It pains me that I already miss out on stream due to living at GMT+12.
I also speak on behalf of my clan who doesn't/refuses to use social media. A lot of us are older players if that means anything to you.
Thanks for this.
For sure on that example, that'll come under us bringing those juicy nuggets of info from various J-Mods into one place. Great to hear this is something you want to see.
On the stream VOD stuff, our tech is a little old (to say the least) on the website so that may be a bit more difficult than it sounds. Something we'll take a further look at for sure though. We are going to try announcement posts with the VOD in it for the major ones though, so let us know if that helps.
Mind, this isn't a huge issue for me, but often I'll follow links from here to twitter on stuff like drop rates, clarifications on content, that kind of stuff
Great to know. Hopefully our J-Mod response highlighting will help you there.
There have deffintly been hotfixes and bugs that I would have known about ages ahead of time. Most recently was a bug posted only to Twitter as well as its resolution. I couldn't quite pull that one up as my history is deep. But here's a link to a post asking for the same.
I don't know you as a mod but your response gives me some hope. I want runescape info on rs. Then social media. Twitter shouldn't be Runescapes platform. Runescape should be Runescapes platform.
Thanks for the feedback on this.
Honestly it's just difficult to take his words seriously right now. We have had more patch weeks than update weeks this year, so 3/4 isn't happening.
I miss the old days when we actually had weekly updates AND ninja updates instead of calling ninjas the update.
We only shifted to this approach around July. We realised that COVID's impact to production was going to really slow additive content so we re-imagined the plans to smaller but still beefy new content updates (targeting every month).
Since the switch, we're on track so far and we outlined the content coming in a recent stream. Rubic's TLDW post on it is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/ih6wnj/tldw_491_jmod_qa/
Does this mean you'll be posting relivant info on site and not just reddit/twitter/discord? Because THAT WOULD BE AMAZEING !!!
We're working on that in part for sure. We're cooking up something at the moment that includes a collating some key J-Mod responses from around the web in a bit of a one-stop-shop for example.
We want to invest more time in responding in places like Twitter, Reddit and Discord, so we think it's best that we support that by making sure any interesting responses aren't missed.
We're also going to trial posting an announcement post for any content we reveal in a stream (including the VOD) straight after it finishes to help on that front too!
Out of interest, do you have any relevant examples of information you felt you had to go to those places for that you couldn't get from the website? Definitely would love any feedback on that front.
That still doesn't justify the lackluster weekly updates we're getting. It really feels like a slap to the face we're logging in and the game info is pretty much "sorry this week is empty but np we at jigglyflex promise a good update next week". Really not worth spending money for premier when nothing has changed.
Things take time to develop. Warden talked about this on stream a couple weeks ago, but not every week will have something significant to share, though most weeks will.
As a team, we're really focused on delivering new content on a monthly basis, plus multiple Ninja Strikes a month, plus any events that may happen. That means 3/4 weeks a month will usually have some form of meaningful update beyond a Patch Notes week.
In other words, there will be an ebb and flow - but meaningful updates more often than not.
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