Hey,

Thought I'd retort here to what is some very useful and very fair feedback from Rubic here. These are also points I’ve wants to say for quite a while and I still to this day kick myself for but I live my life by a set of rules and one of these rules is that I can forgive myself for my mistakes provided that I learn from it and don't make it again. That said the points that you have raised specifically I do have more info that I'd like to share it has been a while and we have learned from what we did wrong with these updates.

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Runespan

Initially the aims for the runespan update was to release a minigame which the players could do for some runecrafting xp to break up the grindy-ness of the skill. When I approached this I raised that this will not fix the players issues with runecrafting in that it is a very dry skill that is not fun to train. One of my designs for a minigame was a game where you siphoned runic energy out of barriers that broke...

Hey I poked people about seren godbow today and I'm going to bug Daze every day until he improves it :P

I have one already and she already cuts in to my PvM gainz enough so I'm alright thanks!

(In all seriousness she's awesome and I wouldn't change her for the world, future youngest final boss title holder incoming, what do you think /u/Shaunyowns wanna race? Lyris vs Maisie, who can get Final boss first? )

Aww thanks guys, you're the best <3

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This sort of stuff is why I love doing what I do so seriously, much love!

Update and addendum to this comment (and why I shouldn't look up code and post on discord just before I go to bed...)

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If you're running enhanced devoted and devoted together, devoted can only roll while enhanced devoted is active. There is a very small 1 cycle internal cooldown that both devoted and enhanced devoted use to ensure you only get one roll of the perk per cycle. Enhanced devoted rolls first and then applies this cooldown and this stops devoted from rolling after. If enhanced devoted us up however, it does not apply this cooldown and the code falls though to devoted allowing it to trigger.

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I'll pseudo code below to better explain:

if (enhanced devoted applied) set improved prayer reduction
else if (devoted not rolled this cycle)
{
    if (enhanced devoted  roll is true)
    {
        apply enhanced devoted effect
    }
    Set devoted rolled this cycle
}

if (devoted applied) set improved prayer reduction
else if (devot...

Note this is a temporary measure until another job I have done goes live in which the player will be able to turn on a global warning about wilderness entry from any means via the doomsayer.

http://i.imgur.com/0InOOU4.png

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Hey all,

The Combat Council would like to talk about some core combat changes coming on Monday. These contain changes to a PvM tactic known as walking and to some items that debuff your enemies defence. Read on to find out what is changing and why.

Walking

For an NPC to attack a player they need to be between their maximum attack range and the square directly adjacent to the player. If the player is stood under the NPC (i.e. on the same square), the NPC needs to move in order to attack the player. Walking is the process of constantly moving under the NPC so that it gets stuck in a state of trying to stand adjacent to the player, thus never attacking.

Walking can detract from the intended difficulty of our top end bosses. Over the years, we've come up with different ways of countering it. In every case, though - be it Vorago’s stomp, Nex’s mad dance or Araxxor’s stun, they are band aids that don't actually fix the original issue. What is worse is th...

Hey all,

Following the thread on Friday regarding castle wars sabotaging here I have a few potential and partial solutions for you guys to vote on and to gauge opinions on.

For starters I will outright say I will not be addressing the trim comp req in this thread. While I understand the frustrations and while it is loosely linked to the issue it is not something I want to tackle at this time. If you want to raise this issue, please raise it in another thread.

Secondly, this doesn't involve any fixes for cade sabotaging, while we have had many suggestions I don't believe any solutions have been raised that wouldn't frustrate an effective castle wars player.

Now on to the good bit:

Make world 24 Guthix portal only

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You will now get XP from PvP combat. So please spread the word PM all skillers you know before the next warbands and tell them to get their bows with no ammo at the ready.

Details: http://services.runescape.com/m=news/master-skillcapes--combat-improvements?jptg=ia&jptv=community_news

Thanks and enjoy :)