JagexRowley

What patches are getting you those values?

I'm fairly certain what you're referring to is not game content, but something for the website. I'll ask about it tomorrow.

EDIT: Planned to be released this Friday, wherever blogs go (there'll be a news post too, I'm sure).

Dig Site quest was reworked earlier this year. The hand-in point should be the Seth Minas in the large building on the dig site, not the one in Varrock Museum.

This is wildly incorrect. Parts of what was going to be the second expansion were peeled off and released as individual updates. Some artwork for it was seen in videos around that time.

We'll be releasing Archaeology journals for Stormguard Citadel (in November) and the Warforge (in December). These are just a bit of narrative to give some idea about what these two dig sites are about. We'll be doing proper road to release content (e.g. livestreams and probably some videos) in the new year.

This is considering the customer's perspective. Most bugs affect a very small percentage of players, so rebooting the servers, which would disrupt every player (kicking them out mid boss-fight, for instance) to fix an issue that is probably not even affecting them, is not desirable. Only if a bug is widespread, serious and not hotfix-able is it prudent to make an unscheduled update to coldfix it. Sure, we have update timers now, but that doesn't catch everyone, and even still disrupts gameplay. You have to weight up all the pros and cons for all players.

Lower case is how it should be in this case. Where you see thing in upper case like that, it tends to be due to the sentence being constructed in script, pulling things like NPC names direct from the configs (capitalisation and all) or from a list, for the sake of efficiency and for ease of adding to larger systems in future. Not really answering you question, just explaining the discrepancy.

The series should be completed.

I'm hoping we can come up with a reward from the series that is worthy, and see that as a necessity to continue/complete the series.

There is a found narrative within the series that is coming to the fore more as the series goes on.

It need not be 3 more quests, per se, but 6 more runes/puzzles. That could be one quest with 6 puzzles or six quests with 1 puzzle each. Which would be your preference?

Players are also, of course, free not to play them if they really don't enjoy puzzles. That is not reason enough to not finish the series for those players who do enjoy them.

Not planning to release three in a row. I am simply designing the rest of the series for potential future development by the quest sub-team. If and when they get developed and released is not something to consider at this point, it's just a Game Jam project, not a guaranteed update (like everything in any of our jams).

I would rather leave that possibility for a potential future rework of other skills in a similar way to how Mining/Smithing was handled.

The RS wiki notes the refresh days for each category of buyer. Log in on the appropriate day to roll a new buyer/contract, based on either what you have asked Granny to advertise, or what is in your pens if you've not asked her to do that.

https://runescape.wiki/w/Player-owned_farm#Reset_timers

It looks like tomorrow is when large contracts get refreshed.

However, assuming no issues arise, the dino farm update...

My aim for the EW quests is at most to prototype the next two puzzles, write the remaining lore books and design everything else. My intent is that the new quest sub-team could pick up EW5 - I would estimate that quest alone would take ~1 dev month to complete with appropriate levels of polish, as it would likely require reworking previous rewards.

Mod Doctor already did work (released ages ago now) to smooth out/improve the experience of EW1-EW4, remove frustrations, but it might also still be a good idea to revisit that and encourage more people to complete the current quests in the series.

Just to manage expectations, though, if it gets scheduled anytime soon I think will depend on coming up with a worthwhile redesign of the elemental armour set. I have a concept for that, but need to run it past Mod Timbo and others.

Nothing to add beyond what Raven already said. The skill is work in progress.

Dig Site quest will have its place in the skill somewhere, don't worry.

As one of the developers working on Archaeology, the skill and elite outfits are planned to be exclusively earned via training the skill (that's how we've designed and already developed them), and accounted for it in the skill's balancing.

Obviously, I can't predict the future (and have even less control over it), but I can't see anyone wanting to add it to TH even at a later date. TH has not broken any previous new skill embargo, so precedent should suggest this one will hold firm and, by the time it is up, a fair proportion of players will already have one, if not both, of the outfits, so any market for it on TH would be severely limited anyway.

Just a quick note to say 60% was just an example figure, not the actual balancing. It will likely be somewhere around that, but it hasn't been completely decided yet.

All you do in the quest is pass a few Earth Sciences exams...and make a significant archaeological find. You're effectively a student who got lucky. Qualifications are more the faculty side of things - you become guild staff.

Our anagram clues now also have to connect thematically with the character in question, as part of the hint to find them. Something with ROT or the like in it would be better (given Brother Tranquillity is a brainless zombie monk).

None of it is within, nor takes you through, a PvP area. The Wilderness connection is a thematic/narrative and geographical one.

No, you won't need any dragon pickaxes for them.