JagexHusky

Having an NPC crew is something we absolutely would like to have as part of the skill! The idea that you can level them up, train them, scout them out is an exciting idea especially for allowing solo players to control large/colossal ships

Yeah, that was my thought too and why I initially pitched us touching on the core gameplay loop section first and then navigation second.

However, when we released our refinement schedule to the players there was a fairly loud demand for us to tackle navigation first as players didn't really see if it would even be possible to navigate a ship at sea in a way that felt oldschool or wouldn't be incredibly janky.

Ultimately they both go hand in hand and you won't really have the full picture until both are fleshed out and designed. So watch this space! Core Gameplay & Mechanics coming to you soon!

I'd be curious to hear your easy alternative workarounds and how you'd suggest the issues we outlined be handled instead. Then we can have a discussion about the pros and cons of each approach because I don't believe them to be "non-issues"

But yeah, fundamentally if something feels bad once if we get to a stage where they are more fully developed we're absolutely open to changes. It's just that we have to make design decisions now based on what sounds correct.

Copying my response from above

Numbers are placeholder currently and just to show our design intention. Specific variables such as how slow a ship moves or turns are things we really won't have a good handle without being in full-fledged development tweaking the numbers ourselves to see what feels best.

Also as you mentioned these numbers were envisioned to be for the base speed of a colossal ship and doesn't take into effect things like wind, currents, ship upgrades etc.

Numbers are placeholder currently and just to show our design intention. Specific variables such as how slow a ship moves or turns are things we really won't have a good handle without being in full-fledged development tweaking the numbers ourselves to see what feels best.

Also as you mentioned these numbers were envisioned to be for the base speed of a colossal ship and doesn't take into effect things like wind, currents, ship upgrades etc.

Damn, I always sound angrier than I am when I watch these back (maybe it's just the Scottish accent), genuinely just happy and excited to talk about the new skills after being away for 2 weeks!

FWIW Different people have different opinions and different reasons for them and I'm not bashing opinionated people. All I was trying to get across is how much is still undecided and to make a case to remain open-minded about the skill during refinement even if it wasn't your first choice!

Hope that makes sense

Completely unplayable, smh $11 :crab:

Sure

Your idea may be better than you think it is. Make sure you are one of the 1000s to post a skill suggestion today.

(And the OSRS Team are always looking for inspiration, there's no such thing as a bad idea!)

Grats! UwU

This was a fun thing to work on :)

Grats! UwU

This was a fun thing to work on :)

I believe he also said on that same QnA that he didn't want it to be as long as you guys waited for ToB and that he would want to release them eventually.

Droprates are a strange and difficult thing because we do change them and we need to be able to change them as we observe how players are interacting with the content. If too many of an item are coming into the game and prices plummet to the point that the content doesn't feel worth doing then that's a bad thing. On the flip side if they are too rare and no one is enjoying doing the content and don't feel rewarded for doing it then that's also a bad thing.

There's a lot of talk about whether or not they need to be hidden but the truth is that even small changes to the drop-rates can upset players (as we've seen since ToA has launched). Maybe we just release them anyway and tell the players to deal with it? I don't know which approach is better but I can certainly understand why there is a desire internally to keep...

If the team didn't like what "Mod Arcane was doing" then we would be pushing against that. I think he has some very good points and his opinion is completely valid. That said, it's a team decision and not his alone.

Even with that opinion, it would be very irregular (aside from Nex) for us to release drop-rates so soon after the release of the content.

Yeah it was!

Generally speaking the idea is for the content to get harder over time and not easier. We want players to be considering whether they feel capable of taking the next wave on and for some players they might just be capable consistent wave 6-7 completions etc.

Giving players buffs after every wave kind of just makes it harder for us to balance the content. Instead of the existing creatures you've fought before gaining an additional mechanic it's almost like they need to scale exponentially faster than the player would need to be?

We do like the idea of buffs generally though, that's why we've included them after the bosses on waves 4 and 8 in it's initial design

Things like requirements are kind of later down the line to iron out the nitty gritty details, our focus mostly was on making fun content and maximizing that part of it (plus doing core systems).

My opinion right now though is that slayer level shouldn't be required to do it, you're not actually fighting a Hydra (if that's the NPC model we go with) you're fighting something which resembles one etc.

Dangerous death for all types of hardcore players

We definitely want it to be a consistent moneymaker and to be substantially more repeatable for players than fight caves/inferno. The waves won't be super scripted and the modifiers which hamper you or buff the monsters should ensure the experiences feel different enough each time

No no it's fine :P

Hey, beat me to it, I was just about to post this here too so that those of us who worked on this in our game jam can get even more feedback than what is just available on Twitter. As always, let us know what you think!

I can't take all the creddt for this though, original idea was Mod Arcane and it's been worked on by him, myself, Elena, Jerv, Brow, West, Ry, Halo and Skylark as well.

Here's some other bits and pieces to go with it I tweeted out earlier this week: https://twitter.com/JagexHusky/status/1512047579411927044

Disclaimer: Just a headsup, this is a game jam project and hasn't been approved for the schedule, still has more dev work to do and isn't a promise that it'll ever come out, despite that we're just excited to share what we've done with as many pla...