Reiterating my replies to your previous thread https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/1b40nd3/comment/kt9a544/ , I empathise with your struggle, but I am unable to assist you with your major macro ban. The policy I have been told to follow is that developers are explicitly not allowed to intervene in player account issues.

Nice try, Stan. You gain a level in social engineering.

Seriously, though, we're longing to talk more openly about what we're working on. Hopefully we'll get the all-clear soon.

Those quest requirement cleanup fixes were implemented over Feb gamejam week when the quest requirement cleanup released (have been in the queue for a little while due to the big combat beta release shortly afterwards) - I've since had to move back to my assigned episodic project.

I've compiled a long list of requests I've received from players wanting skill requirements in about 30 quests to be lowered/removed - Devious Minds was already on it and I've just added a JIRA for Tomes of the Warlock. (Thanks for that!)

They're a project in themselves, so it's something I could potentially explore in a new project over several future gamejams, but out of scope for the released quest requirement cleanup, which was predominantly focused on required quests.

Yes.

I don't think they provide a direct method to contact individuals on their team - if you want to appeal your ban, I suggest using the appeal an offence link above, and then the next available member of the player support team will process it.

No, we (developers) are not allowed to intervene on your behalf. You will have to personally liaise with Player Support about your account.

Necromancy and Archaeology do indeed have a unique jingle for level 99 and 120. (Other skills reuse their second "over 50" jingle.)

Had a dig into the code and looks like they are used at the specific levels of 99 and 120, not the range between 99 and 120 (wherein they use the "over 50" jingle), which is possibly why you might think they aren't implemented?

As you've contacted many JMods in the past year, this probably isn't news to you, but content developers are not allowed and do not have access to the tools to deal with account issues or bans, which are handled by the player support team. I have no experience, authority or qualifications in the area of banned accounts.

I can only point you towards the player support page for assistance, which includes an area to appeal your ban. https://support.runescape.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115002238729-Appeal-an-offence

That sounds like something Mod Giragast (engine developer) started in a 2023 gamejam and was working on further during the Q4 community hitlists.

Looks like his engine work that it was dependent on has released but the content side of it is unstarted. Everyone who was assigned to work on community hitlists throughout Q4, including me, were assigned back to developing Q1/Q2 episodic projects at the start of 2024.

That specific issue (a task he created named "add variant of Surge that doesn't break pathing" looks to be what you're describing) seems to have been reassigned to the combat modernisation team in late January, so perhaps that's something they might explore after the release of the combat beta frees up Ryan and Sponge to work on other things.

(I can't confirm whether or not that's an imminent priority - that's just going off what I can see in our ticketing system, that the task is now listed under the combat modernisation team's backlog.)

I'm looking forward to both too! :) Happy 'Scaping.

Good idea, but not going to happen. When and if gamejam projects are released is outside my control.

Happily we did recently get confirmation that several of the smaller updates developed and completed in prior gamejams are currently scheduled to release in a ninja strike in May, and that currently includes combat skill levelup jingles. Plans change, so no guarantee, but that's the current ETA.

I can understand wariness to include additional projects in Monday's release, as the combat beta was a massive amount to get through release candidate testing in one week. I've got a few fixes from the quest requirement cleanup developed during Feb gamejam week that are waiting in the release queue but couldn't be accepted this week as they're relatively minor. All in good time, and we have to be patient.

I'm pleased to report that Mod Easty hotfixed the pink dye issue earlier today. Just got home and checked on my main to confirm and yep, you can definitely get pink dye from Betty. Happy Falador area tasking!

We don't have patch notes this week, as production was shut down the last few days for the quarterly gamejam so the release candidate team could participate.

So earliest for a cold fix would be next Monday - but combat beta is in RC this week, which is huuuge, and likely to limit how many bugfixes can be accepted into RC this week.

I've requested a hotfix for the pink dye issue (it's a server-script only change, so can be hotfixed), but whether that passes is at the release candidate team's discretion.

Thank you! That looks to be due to relying on inheriting the 59 Magic req via Defender of Varrock that used to be on Family Crest to defeat Chronozon.

Have requested a bug report from our QA.

BlameLatin

Thanks! Have raised this with QA to investigate a fix.

Thanks! Have requested a bug report for this.

Thanks! Have requested a bug report for this to make that line conditional.

The Q1 gamejam is next week, and I committed in this week's livestream https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2061690966 (00:46:47) to fix a long-requested niche issue, reinstating unique levelup jingles for combat skills.

There's a very dedicated voice that requests this fix in every weekly game update newspost: eg

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Yeah, as noted in a similar reply elsewhere in this thread, if you're on ironman, you'll still have to kill chompies yourself to get the 2 raw chompies for As a First Resort.

For players who can trade, though, removing the requirement opened their options a little.