Jagex_Stu

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Good save ;)

And thank you very much for taking the time to post this topic!

Pretty much how it is now, excluding some additions and modifications (mainly the things that are a bit of a nuisance, like the gradually increasing shards, the TokKul-Zo needing to be uncharged, and I think also the Fight Cauldron coffer buff).

I get that you're mad, but I feel I should address a few of these points:

• I put a way to read the bookcase in the Fight Cauldron into the game because a growing community of players were searching for it, and trying ever more elaborate methods to unlock it. There seemed to be a positive community building around that search. Rather than telling them to give up because what they wanted to find didn't exist, I wanted to give people what they were looking for, so there'd be a pay-off for their efforts.
• That meant writing and approving some special lore to discover (in my own time, because my working hours were dedicated to the next project I'd been assigned after The Brink of Extinction). This lore turned out to be, among other things, the first mention of a specific elder god other than Jas, and her name (Ful).
• This addition took a little approval from narrative peeps, testing and localisation time. Which meant that by the time I could get the pay-off ...

I certainly agree that unlocks at every level is desirable. (It's why Mining and Smithing have systemic upgrades inbetween the tiers.) In the case of Crafting, since it's a catch-all artisan skill, there's a variety of things to craft other than equipment (jewelery, pottery, etc) to help occupy the level gaps. If there were skills exclusively for Leatherworking and Tailoring, I'd agree big gaps between equipment tier unlocks would be a significant concern.

It would ruin Crafting if mystic robes required 50 Crafting for the set, instead of 51 Crafting to craft mystic boots, 52 for mystic gloves, 53 for mystic hat, etc?

I'd give Mod Raven's left testicle to be allowed to re-align Crafting and Fletching equipment to their Defence tiers, similar to reworked Smithing equipment tiers. The inconsistency irks me.

Also yes all of the QUESTS.

The Learning the Ropes tutorial from 2008 was classified as a quest and gave 1 QP.

That tutorial has since been replaced (6-8 times, depending on how strictly you define the increments!).

Since QP are a resource that can't be removed retroactively, that tutorial is considered to be complete for all players, whether or not their account predates Learning the Ropes.

Therefore new accounts start with 1 QP.

Still with QA, as far as I know (been visiting family in Australia). FWIW, this is the longest (in the 13 years I've been a developer at Jagex) an issue I've fixed has awaited QA with no progress. Possible the skeleton crew that worked Christmas picked it up. Will check its status when I get back from vacation.

Not as far as I know, as they include a combat and prayer challenge, and you need to clear at least one of the basic challenges before regular ones roll. Regular bones shouldn't put you over a level IIRC, but the buffed Prayer XP from the daily challenge rework could be an issue. You could reset your combat skills at Nastroth in Lumbridge in a worst case scenario. (I'll see if I can get Nastroth to auto-complete skiller-unfriendly basic challenges, if another dev doesn't get to this issue before me in the new year.)

No problem! Sounds like you're on the default path book. There should be a button at bottom centre between the tick and padlock tick boxes, currently labeled Paths.

Press that and see if it'll cycle over to Burthorpe. Also, just to be on the safe side, do it near the Burthorpe lodestone.

(If that button only cycles between Paths and Lumbridge, then your Burthorpe path book (which is the one that contains the Daily Challenges path) is being hidden due to you being considered an experienced player, which is probably where the issue arises.)

Could you please submit an in game bug report? Capturing your game state would be immensely helpful in reproducing this bug.

As a workaround hypothesis (I'm in Australia until the new year, so unable to view the code from here), please check you have the "Talk to Fara" achievement in the Daily Challenges path in the Burthorpe path book selected in your Activity Tracker (so there's a breadcrumb trail pointing to Fara), before talking to Fara.

(You can find the achievement paths panel on the Achievements tab in your Hero parent interface. The button on the bottom cycles through the Burthorpe, Lumbridge, etc, path books.)

When you're in the intended state, the daily challenge interface tutorial should start after one opening line of dialogue from Fara (so you shouldn't need to choose any dialogue topics), and you'll need to complete those interface tutorial steps to get your first 5 basic challenges.

Much appreciated! Thank you. :)

Yeah, I'm loving that too! So many challenges on my alt that I'd rather reroll than complete before (or I'd leave them in a slot incomplete so they couldn't reroll, like your fletching). Now I'm completing the challenges on all my accounts every day. :) Quick and painless, then I get back to skilling on my terms.

Could you please submit an in-game bug report? We'd like to take a look at your account to reproduce your exact state and investigate a fix.

It's due to the simplification of daily challenges. Previously, there was a specific challenge for thieving from stalls which could have a separate requirement from the pickpocketing challenge. So if you didn't meet the req for one challenge, you could still roll the other.

Now there's a generic Thieving challenge with no requirements, so we ensured thieving from stalls is possible even if you're level 1 F2P.

Technically these are the market stalls from Taverley, which we removed in the area decluttering in September.

Lumbridge made more sense as a place to support the Thieving skill (due to the nearby Thieves' Guild, pickpocketing NPCs, etc) and the assets were a better fit for the area than a druidic village.

I'm not sure how prudent it is to go into detail about another developer's project (but I'll discuss with Mod Sova tomorrow what he's comfortable sharing).

There's some aspects of the current lessons that have become increasingly problematic as the combat system has evolved over the years and our platform support has broadened, so it's not a quick fix (hence we had to temporarily disable it while we devote time to giving the academy dedicated development).

But rest assured it hasn't been forgotten about. It's been his primary focus since we released the Burthorpe FTUE, and he's been persistently hard at work at it.

Interesting. Both helms used to count! Will investigate. Thank you for the additional info. :)

I believe the intention behind this approach is to stagger the cognitive load of onboarding currencies...so you're aware that the currency object exists and have time to process what it's for (a lot of these currencies are for temporary events with particular engagement mechanics) in your own time, and through interaction follow the flow into the currency pouch (which is an inherently intangible concept). Some players have also reported they want to be able to destroy the currency and not have the clutter in their pouch.

Like you mentioned, there's a couple broader issues here in that secondary options are hidden under a mini-menu, so it's not apparent without right-clicking that there are additional options in some cases (and on mobile this takes greater effort to verify, having to long-press), and that the currency pouch itself is hidden away without tutorialisation. I'll mention it to our ux designer.

We received a couple similar reports at the end of this week and have a fix in QA.

It's hard to say from this screenshot which objective you still need to complete, as your task window (flag button on the left) is closed, and Turael says that throughout the path.

But in the reported cases, they'd equipped a helmet before the objective which tells them to equip a helmet, so needed to remove the helmet and re-equip it, so the action counts.

It might take a few tries due to the panel switching, but in the meantime see if you can quickly tap the helmet icon below your backpack to go to your worn equipment, tap the helmet to remove, then wear it again to (hopefully) complete the equip objective.

Alternatively tap the Home button in the top left, tap Hero, then the Loadout tab, where you should see Worn Equipment and Backpack on one screen.

Incidentally, if you long-press the postage stamps and oddments in your backpack, you should get an option to...