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This is a great question! There are lots ties to the Eastern Lands in-game already, and it's reasonable to assume that at some point we will expand over there, but we're not planning to go there with Sailing for launch. In order to do the content justice, it would need significant time spent on it as it's probably as big as Varlamore in scope. We want to focus on making Sailing good for the existing game world initially for launch and then look at expanding in future.

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Great question. We published a blog during refinement on Sailing gameplay (Adding A New Skill: Sailing Core Gameplay (runescape.com)), which includes 'secondary gameplay' activities. Secondary activities involve existing skills and Sailing, so you'd be getting XP in two skills. The amount of XP though is yet to be determined and the activities themselves would need to be polled separately.

We've also talked about islands and the content found there in this blog (...

What a comparison! Thanks for the question. :)

When you're sailing a small boat, we think it feels appropriate but we definitely see the concern when we look at large boats in comparison to the scale of the existing game world. During refinement, we looked at scaling up the world and moving landmasses.

When we investigated further, we felt it was apparent that we were trying to apply a real-life scale to a world that isn't trying to be at scale.

We have mansions larger than mountains, we have entire kingdoms you can travel between, on foot, within a minute or two, trying to enforce this sense of a realistic scale with Sailing just felt very against the grain for this game.

In light of this feedback, we've instead looked to focus our efforts on trying to control the size of the boat and try to tailor that to the environments at sea, for example, the areas around Crandor, Catherby, Port Sarim might be shallow waters which favour smaller boats whe...

Hey everyone,

The Sailing team are here to answer your questions on our most recent progress update blog. We'd love to answer questions and share a little more insight into what's going on behind the scenes with Sailing.

Get your questions ready, and be sure to upvote the questions you want answered.

Please note, the team have already answered a few topics in our recent Sailing Q&A here. We'd like to run more regular AMAs as we understand that we can't fit all of the questions into our Twitch streams, so we're experimen...

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We know that players really resonated with Sailing being NON-instanced as a skill, like most other skills are, so that it feels like it's part of Gielinor and not a minigame or silo'd off. The development team would like to re-affirm that it's non-instanced much as possible.

We mentioned having time-based challenges, like Barracuda Trials, for Sailing and those absolutely need instances where it makes sense as players would experience griefing if they are competing for a certain time.

The "mess" part is harder to answer with absolute certainty at the moment. We're not far enough in development yet but certainly we'll be looking to limit the amount of ships that are visible in an area at a time to avoid those problems.

I’ll try to also include this as a discussion point in our next Q&A as I think you’d prefer a dev to answer this rather than a CM. I think we do want Sailing to feel integrated with the game world but there is a balance which we will need to have so that it still feels familiar for players and doesn’t completely change how you play. Off the top of my head, I know that we won’t be adding retroactive requirements for existing quests, but there might be come retroactive rewards from existing quests. Outside of that I also know you would see minor changes to Ports to accommodate Sailing. But yeah that’s all I can think of right now. So will ask for more thoughts

Hi, we're looking into this right now - thanks for raising. It looks related to contribution changes we made this week following last week's update. Last week's update had accidentally nerfed loot gained by certain group sizes at Zalcano, so we released a fix this week but it's a bit too generous with shards. A hotfix is being prepared to make shards less consistent and we'll keep monitoring it.

Honestly it is lots of fun :D We also have a lot more teams that we're working with. The team scaled up significantly - we are now basically 2 scrum teams with dedicated art, QA, CM, dev and engine devs. I'm very optimistic about it all and it looks like we'll have progress update for you guys very soon :) And I really appreciate everyone's patience on this as I know it has been a while since we last talked about Sailing. The team is just genuinely so excited and honoured to be working on something as big as this. There is some pressure that we put ourselves under because we know how important it is to players to get right. It's a massive thing for the game and we know not everyone is sold on Sailing so we're trying our best to figure out what we can do to make it the best possible at every step. But we're having lots of fun with boats right now and I genuinely can't wait to talk about it more with you guys and get your amazing feedback. The community is mostly always on point with...

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Yes, please accept my apologies for the typo in that first instance, elite clues are also included in the buff. In terms of the Quetzin rate buff on Masters, I've just asked a developer about this for context. It's no longer happening (apparently it was discussed but not promised). The change today improves master tier rumours alongside fixes to the system that should mean experts are not going to be the de facto best way to acquire the pet. I am seeing a lot of feedback on this topic though so I will be more than happy to send that back to the devs if you're not happy with this change, just let me know!

We're way early in development to have definitive plans for this but I can ask this in our next Q&A, currently planned for Monday.

Within the next couple of weeks is probably a safe bet, just asked the devs. Sorry I can't really give exact dates for changes like these as something can pop up in QA testing which then pushes it back. Thanks for your patience as we work on this for you

Hi, just clarified with Mod Arcane and yes this is a typo and Elite Clues are also included in the buff. For context I've been on Sailing, so when I read this job it was a bit unclear to me about the change - that's why it was missed. I am amending the newspost now to reflect it and apologise for any inconvenience!

No if you've already unlocked it, it doesn't have a cost. :)

Thank you and I'm really sorry that was missed, I will make sure to include this in my report on Monday and bring it up directly.

Fantastic, thank you, I've added a player suggestion for the minigame teleport tab as it seemed like a really positive one.

Every time a new Maze starts, you will need to click the NPC. This is how it currently works and there should be no impact after our proposed Poll 81 changes.

In terms of your other point, the point of content is to train Magic, and the audience for the content is going to be on the newer/lower end of the scale, where run energy is a much more pressing problem for them. I hope that makes sense but I totally see where you're coming from with the run energy stuff!

Thank you so much for the other feedback I always really appreciate your comments on our blogs and newspost updates!!