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It would be much appreciated if we could stop this now.
It would be much appreciated if we could stop this now.
Read moreSome constructive feedback for your upcoming content related discourse is that we are absolutely sick and tired of the mods on livestreams all just saying "secret, can't mention it" week in and week out. I don't understand why you can't either just keep it hush until it's ready to reveal and focus on talking about the current known stuff you "can talk about", or just be fully open with the community.
It feels like we have just been teased along for months on end now with "it's secret, but we promise it will be big, it is on the roadmap, but not yet lol". No criticism to the work that you are all doing and the circumstances you have had to adopt to with Covid, and while I know that you said in a livestream "all will be revealed after clans / group iron / the backlog", there seems to be very little guidance and communication with the community and I hope it is something you can really improve on, and soon. As it stands, it appears as if a lot of the community I interact wit...
I think that's totally fair and I'm sorry that the community feel this way, we definitely hear you. We're trying to learn from mistakes made in the past. We have previously announced content and teased it far too prematurely (Group Ironman being one example).
I take on board your feedback. Of course not every update is going to be a huge one and I'm sure you understand that. You just want more communication about what to look forward to because you want to be assured there's a future for the game.
I can only apologize for the fact we're repeating ourselves.
It's a difficult situation. We need to answer the questions players are asking us, or else we get called out for not listening to the community. If players are asking us every week about large content updates, we can't share more until there is a date locked in. It does result in us repeating ourselves a lot of the time because we don't have an answer for you yet. Because of that, players feel we have a l...
Read moreThanks, but is there even the most vague ETA you could offer?
Should we expect it by the end of May, most likely June or possibly July/August? Based on current intentions and knowledge.
Current intention is to release this content to fill the gap between larger pieces of content. I can't offer any indication of dates as it is subject to change, and players will always call this type of stuff out if it goes off-schedule, but to my knowledge May is too early and August is too late for Phosani's Nightmare. It hasn't been Polled yet so we don't know when it will be released in game. We're an agile company so I must stress that approximate dates are subject to change, hence why we're hesitant to give any until it's locked in.
Can’t wait for my friends to come back so I can tell them to stop being lazy, those iron ores aren’t going to mine themselves!
Friends who mine together are bros for life!
Very excited for the clan release. Not having to log into the cc name holding account to rank people will be such a time saver. Is there any chance we can get a run-down of all the available features before the clan update launches? I've been on the edge of my seat, both with February's blog and Ash's tweets over the weekend, and would love to start talking with the other senior leadership about how we want to use all the new admin features!
If we just have to wait til the official release that makes perfect sense of course. Thanks again Jagex for this update, I can't overstate how thrilled I am.
I've passed this on to Mod Sarnie and he will be looking to arrange a livestream where we showcase some of the new Clan features. I can't guarantee this will happen before the release - it may be straight after (depends on schedule availability) but it's a great idea. Thanks for your enthusiasm!
If I recall correctly, Husky mentioned that Phosani's Nightmare was practically complete due to ideation sessions in developers' spare time.
When can we expect it to be polled and (if it passes) go live?
The Poll should go live in matter of days. I can't give information on when it gets implemented if it passes. That's subject to change but as the intention is to fill the gap in content for you, it shouldn't be too long to wait. Our focus for the short-term will be ensuring the Clans System launch goes well in the coming weeks. I hope this helps!
Is TOB hard mode coming after the roadmap is released or before?
TOB Hard Mode is intended to fill the gap in content so that's likely before - don't know if it will be a roadmap or if we're just going to talk in more detail about what's next.
I wish people would understand that you guys are busting ass to deliver the content everyone’s crying for and no matter how many people are on the team, this stuff takes time. Everyone wants you guys to rush rush rush then has a complete meltdown when something happens like the item glitch when sepulchre came out. We’ve had tons of new stuff lately to keep us entertained - shooting stars, Tempoross, Shades of Mort’ton rework, even leagues was only 5 or 6 months ago. Sorry that the gripers are the loudest, keep it up you guys. I’ll be here when the new content comes out and I trust you guys to make it absolutely awesome. The happy ones are unfortunately the quiet ones and there are more of us than the gripers, just maybe not on Reddit I guess. Thanks for doing things the right way.
Thank you man that means a lot to the team.
First step towards Group Ironman. I'm hyped!
We love to see it bro!
Exciting things are on the horizon!! (Repeat to community x100 to ease concerns)
We have communicated what's coming but I know you guys want to know when. We will be in a better place to tell you when to expect content around July time. That's when we're planning to share an updated roadmap/discuss this in more detail on our livestream with you.
We have given a timeframe on the Clans System in this Newspost as the dates have been set (provided all goes well).
In terms of content you can expect from us, we've tweaked our roadmap to offer you guys a TOB Hard Mode and Phosani's Nightmare whilst waiting for new content to be released. Leagues is coming this year, DMM is also being worked on and coming this year. Group Ironman will also be arriving once the Clans system has been released and any potential issues with it fixed. We also ensured that Poll 75 included PvM tweaks in the hope it might improve QoL for PvMers in the meantime. Poll 75's tweaks to PvM is also aiming to support Combat Achievements.
Speaking of Combat Achievements, we ha...
Read moreIn the clan citadel can we have a pit than if your character falls in it deletes your account?
I highly doubt something like that would happen, but if there was enough community demand for it...you never know.
Will there be a clan highscores page?
It's something we hope to implement but this is not going to happen on the initial launch this month. The infrastructure being done for Group Iron Man should help considerably, when that comes. :)
I think it's clear they'd hoped we'd all be bossing for two months solid with Combat Achievements, but as that got delayed due to the Blowpipe issues, it's thrown the Content Calendar out of wack :/
I'm annoyed at the lack of updates too but ironically it's not the fault of any of the new dev team, but rather whoever "balanced" the blowpipe back in 2015
We were hoping equipment balancing would have been done sooner. It sure did throw a spanner in the works, but the community's concerns are paramount and we're hoping to ensure that we do it right this time, even if it's a lot slower than we'd like.
Clans, Kourend quest, PVM diaries, equipment rebalancing, Group Ironman.
Lot of things to look forward too, can't wait for them to also actually start releasing! :P
Yes! Definitely. There's even more cool stuff we are itching to share with you when the time is right and we have solid dates in mind. Thanks for your positivity (we can't wait to release them too :P)
That loading screen is pretty neat
<3 no u
No update again? I’m sorry but what is happening, you say the development team has never been bigger but the lack of content updates the past few weeks is just sad.
Sorry about that. We're making sure that from a tech point of view, the Clans System update will go as smoothly as possible on launch. It's going to be a very impactful update. There's more content on the Horizon after Clans has been released, but I understand it's not coming in the timeframe you guys are looking for.
Any ideas for the timeline on group/clan ironman?
The foundations and infrastructure is in place - we're hoping to share more solid dates and information with you guys around Summer time (July).
I raised this issue on Wednesday 5th May to the Anti-Cheating team. They kindly told me that we'd banned ~6400 goldfarmers from Tuesday to Wednesday this week. This is something we're looking into and we appreciate you raising this to us. Please continue doing so, it helps us in CM a lot when it comes to reporting bots/RWT/goldfarming back to the wider team.
There isn't really an excuse but I will add a bit more context to help you guys understand more of where we're coming from. Farming gold itself is not against our TOS. We cannot ban accounts that farm gold daily until they have engaged or are engaging with RWT.
We can profile these accounts but our bans need to be justified, meaning that without evidence we cannot ban based on suspicion.
We have raised the fact that lots of goldfarmers should be banned based on looking at the HiScores. We use the HiScores to help us identify these accounts, however we will not operate on a fixed schedule due to the fact ...
Read moreThe beauty of OldSchool is that you can choose to play how you want to for the most part. I have seen that some players feel pressured to play efficiently (which is great) but that's usually self imposed. Most of the content in the game is doable at mid level.
If you want to play the game casually, you absolutely can. There's other games out there to suit player needs better if their main focus is getting boosted XP rates in a shorter amount of time.