JagexHooli

JagexHooli



21 Sep

Comment

Originally posted by iiwhiteey

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!)

Comment

Originally posted by happyrune

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.

Comment

Originally posted by Freakin_Magic

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.

Comment

Originally posted by Ratr96

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.

Comment

Our Ninjas are all over this - we're looking to hopefully deploy a hotfix very soon. Stand by for updates.


15 Sep

Comment

Originally posted by JagexHooli

We'll ping the team and hopefully come back soon with an answer!

Just to confirm, you cannot obtain pets from Herby Werby.


14 Sep

Comment

Originally posted by yaksnax

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!

Comment

Originally posted by caddph

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.

Comment

Originally posted by Im_Phteven

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.


08 Sep

Comment

Originally posted by RsAOROX

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).

Comment

Originally posted by TaifurinPriscilla

Messages 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...

Read more

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.

Comment

Originally posted by Mat_Mase

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=3

Additionally 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.


07 Sep

Comment

Originally posted by darn42

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.

Comment

Originally posted by Ironpackyack

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.

https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/fa3joi/rs_info_hub/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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.

Comment

Originally posted by xOTyrion

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/

Comment

Originally posted by Ironpackyack

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.

Comment

Originally posted by Kathrine_Is

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.

Comment

Originally posted by 5-x

The first paragraph of the newspost shouldn't talk about next week's update. When you have nothing to say, say nothing. It's a patch week, okay. Straight to the point, no more intros for 14 year olds.

We reformatted the Monday post recently with the header tabs and the new names to change the way we deliver news. Part of calling that tab Game News is so we can also communicate announcements regarding the game coming later in the week, so you know when and where they will take place. We won't do this for every announcement, but it makes sense for certain ones.

It's been a common request for us to centralize information more, so this is part of that - we saw some promising viewership results that (so far!) seem to indicate it's helping a bunch of folks.


29 Aug

Comment

Hi everyone. We appreciate there are a lot of thoughts and feelings around this topic, and we hear you. Thanks for your patience while we all regrouped here at Jagex over the course of last night and today.

We have been reviewing this further with key team members and senior team leaders, and we do feel this warrants a deeper investigation which we will be doing over the coming days. In the meantime, we do feel that the initial player bans were done in accordance with our policy on knowingly exploiting a bug or error (found here: https://www.runescape.com/game-guide/rules). However, we will also be discussing this in our review as well as part of that deeper investigation.

...

Read more

24 Aug

Comment

Originally posted by caddph

Was about to post the same; I don't know why they're calling for questions for a Q&A, when they didn't answer any from the last time they collected questions, and more or less did a runefest recap saying Orthen, a new quest, and GWD3 are still in the works.

We're going to tackle some from that last thread too. /u/JagexPoerkie is going to be sharing a collation of them from last time out in the thread. This is just to gather any new Qs that have cropped up since then.