JagexHusky

Hey, just want to jump in before the weekend and clarify that there are no plans for dragon smithing with Sailing.

We have some plans to use metals up to dragon (as stated in the comments) for building facilities on your boats but it'll likely be through a different name than "Dragon bar" there's just some placeholder item configs we never removed before the alpha launched and we know a bunch of you have had fun snooping around and speculating (which is completely fine!)

Anyway, regardless of any rough plans we may have, expect to hear more about how other skills and materials could be integrated in with Sailing in future blogs, along with plenty of opportunities to have your say.

Happy weekend all!

This was a fantastic read, thank you for writing this.

Sailing Hype! ~~

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We had a few talks with them early on just to kind of dig into what worked and what didn't. Naturally some of the learnings don't transfer across both games but just from a design perspective it's always great to get input as to what worked and what didn't especially from a team that had gone through this process multiple times.

You couldn't be more wrong. Everyone working on Sailing is so incredibly passionate and pouring their heart and soul into it. If Sailing goes down we're all going down with the ship. (But I'm confident it's going to be amazing)

Honestly, we don't do alphas. So we don't have the best frame for what an alpha should be at an industry standard but from my perspective I believe this to be more of a full vertical slice of 1-30 sailing. It's pretty polished as far as art animations and with rough balancing and the only content missing is crewmates and combat which we'd like to cook for a bit longer before showing players.

We've decided to remove a lot of the content skips present in the Runefest build because we really do want this alpha to be indicative of launch 1-30 and get feedback around that specifically.

At RF we had to be aware that some players might only have had around 15 minutes to check it out and while that does lessen their experience as a whole, we wanted to give players a lot more freedom over how to spend their RuneFest time the most.

We should have a blog going out soon with all the exact details, but off the top of my head, I think a week?

In all honesty, to some extent I think every player is uninformed, Yes-voters and No-voters alike.

While we've had a ton of player feedback during development it's been through closed NDA playtests (with hundreds of you who opted in through our surveys) it still hasn't really surfaced with the general community. THAT is what I hope the Alpha will accomplish the most, resetting it all so we all are all on the same page.

I spoke to hundreds of players at Runefest, Yes and No voters alike and the biggest thing seemed to be just vibes. People liked the Sailing vibe and voted yes, people disliked the vibe and voted no, or they disliked the vibe but trusted us so voted yes regardless.

Something I repeated a TON to multiple players at the event is "Blog 17 doesn't change an opinion someone had when they read blog 16" and I think that's so true for Sailing, even the few gameplay snippets we've shown of in-progress work don't fully capture the feeling of being on a b...

What the...

You're insane.

This will likely reduce over time. We've seen in the past that adding an additional new highscores where an existing variable exists can cause the highscores to struggle which affects players who rely on pulling that data themselves.

So over the next few months we'll likely reduce it bit by bit to help ease it.

I'd love to do it at some point, but "at some point" probably doesn't give you a clear answer. It seemed like a cool pokedex like UI when we made it initially but it's got some clear UX issues that have become clear over time.

What Goblin said.

We didn't have a clear consensus, there were two conflicting goals from player feedback:

• Static thresholds give nice clean goals to aim for. Hitting 500 or 1000 for example feels like an important milestone that should be rewarded.
• Dynamic thresholds have more longevity, as more slots get added we won't have gaps between tiers or need to make additional ranks.

Ultimately we've settled on a compromise, so that Gilded over time isn't going to get significantly easier as easier log slots get introduced over time (It will still slightly, but less than if it was static) while at the same time we'll reward significant milestones.

It's not perfect long-term but we can always add steps inbetween Dragon/Gilded if it becomes a massive issue. I've no clue when this would be though and player feedback will surely guide that.

I personally don't believe that the current system has an issue even at 2000 log slots (180...

This new interface is just an "Overview" interface. You can still directly open the old one, you need to go out of your way to see this one.

When you click on the header "buttons" it just takes you to that tab of the existing collection log, exactly how you'd expect it to look pre-update

I didn't want to do what CAs did and make you go through this everytime you wanted to see the log and just create additional clicks

I completely agree!

We have some designs yet to be shared for an activity called Deep Sea Trawling that I expect us to poll and blog in the future.

(We've mentioned previously that secondary activities relating to other skills would require a separate poll)

It just wouldn't be a sea expansion without introducing some new fish. I'll save what those fish do for then but I'm genuinely excited for the acitivty, it's one particularly close to my heart.

Damn, you're worse than me!

LOL, thanks, this just made my day.

I remember coding all of those NPCs and having a lot of fun doing so

o7