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Originally posted by _Manks

That scale seems to work just about perfectly with a line from the Betrayal of Falador book series, it was something along the lines of a trip on horseback from Falador to Taverly taking 2 days on horseback.

I overlayed a map of France with the map of Asgarnia and tried to roughly measure the distance from Falador to Taverly. It's just about the same distance from Blois to Alençon, 84 miles. 30-40 miles per day is manageable for horses.

I know the books are only as canon as they need to be until the game goes in a different direction, but it's still nice to see them match.

That does throw my map out of the window, it'd put Gielinor around the size of our Moon rather than the Earth. I'm assuming it needs to be that large unless the planet's Anima is keeping things similar on a smaller scale.

Originally posted by _Manks

I've thought about that an unhealthy amount, and from my best guess roughly 4x the size of the current world map.

Basing that off the temperate regions of the map, with the North being very cold and our southernmost points being the hottest point, so that'd be the equator. Double it for Poll to Poll, then double that for both sides of the globe.

Also the map may be tilted slightly to account for Anachronia not being frozen.

I know scale theory will heavily influence it, but it seems to fit the best for a rough guide.

Originally posted by duke605

In the past, when given the same suggestion, they have said that they don't want agility to have any affect on combat. Tho that was QUITE SOME TIME ago... like maybe a decade ago. They insist on keeping it a useless skill

Originally posted by Fren-LoE

Mod Jack has actually elaborated on this very thing in a game design stream on twitch via the official runescape twitch channel. This stream would have occurred when he first assumed the role of Lead Designer for runescape 3.

TL;DR is that when increasing the spawn speed of bosses, there needs to be a tradeoff for the health of the economy. Chase items and common loot included.

The game's economy is blind to the difference of a massive damage buff to the player and the speed at which a boss respawns. These items would enter the game at a faster rate than they otherwise would have.

When presenting the idea of a rebalance to boss drop tables to accommodate a faster respawn time, as a theoretical solution, players were against this proposed solution.

He goes into depth on the subject in this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/...

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Originally posted by Geoffk123

Making Useful High level ranged and magic armor that goes hand in hand with the 110 smithing update?

i guess they're implying Primal was a useful high level armor?

Originally posted by The_One_Returns

Why aren't you just making all skills 120? You can add more content over the years. Dungeoneering was 120 in 2010 and it didn't even have warped/occult floors on release.

It's just really weird and inconsistent that some are 120 and some are 110.

Originally posted by FatNWackyRS

I'm inclined to say "no," but... you never know with Mod Jack.

Originally posted by Nolifedemon

this, literally like, why eat big bowl of dessert with small spoon?, because big spoon = food gone faster, food gone faster = sadness, so little spoon = twice as many scoops, = twice the happiness.

Originally posted by Hagdar

you don't need to investigate anything

200 steps to solve a slider puzzle

reduce that to half

Originally posted by mistrin

Yes! I'm sorry I completely spaced on that cutscene (work has been stressful the last few days, doing a cabinet install for a client that's picky), I loved how the Necromancy intro felt more "alive" so to speak.

So that leads back into the second part of what i was (poorly) attempting to ask as a tertiary part; 2d animations? How difficult would that be? Say as an example as Death is on the rowboat making his way towards Um in the intro cutscene, animating Death to row/wade his oar through the river of souls that aren't just skips in the motions, full animation?

Complete side note; as a carpenter I do take humorous offense to some of how some tools are portrayed in game (like the table saw in Fort, I look at that thing and just think my character is likely to lose a finger to how wobbly that thing is)(The other one that kind of caught me off guard was that there was a log splitter at the Christmas decoration crafting table)

Originally posted by mistrin

Honestly loving the amount of insight that you guys have been offering lately.

At the end of the day, it's hard to get people to understand how much goes into development and what kind of time tables are actually there.

Question for you to pick your brain; what about doing a 2.5d cutscenes and is it possible with the engine currently? When I say 2.5d scenes, like it's a 3d environment where you can layer different amounts of depth into it, but everything is done in 2d artwork where you're able to do panning techniques or 2d animations and not fully 3d modeled animations.

Originally posted by LordDarthAnger

Evil Dave’s Big Day out I think?

Dave (you) turns into a woman and your mom has you do the chores. Later on Dave turns himself into his mom while his body is taken over by his mom. He has his mom locked in the basement.

It is the irony