Jagex_Stu

Apologies that I sound so incredulous, but... really? Your associates who personally visited Jagex HQ told you that the Live Ops team is twice the size of any other team, and that they never talk to other developers?

This is so thoroughly disconnected from my awareness, of how proactively that relatively small team of JMods communicates and works with others, I honestly didn't think they were serious questions. My bad!

I'll acknowledge that, yes, we do work in an open plan office with all RS development teams on one floor, and epic, corexp and liveops are grouped together to focus on our team goals.

Physically that can be a little disconnective (some devs on the opposite side of the office I don't get to see as often since moving to corexp), but a lot of the daily communication happens through open Slack channels, face-to-face meetups, shared reviews, and even just kitchen coffee breaks, so inter- and intra-team communication feels inclusive to me.

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Good Guthix.

I'm going to save them the trouble and answer this one for you:

No.

No.

Definitely no.

Also no.

Follow-up: checked the JIRA and this fix is still awaiting QA. Have raised the ticket's priority.

I'm home for the weekend, so unable to review that bugfix from here.

As far as I know (we receive automated notifications whenever the status of a ticket we've deved is edited or commented, and I've not seen this one in my inbox the last few weeks), that issue hasn't been returned to dev, or copied to a release candidate, so presumably still awaiting or undergoing QA testing.

Probably not the illumination you hoped, but that's the light I can cast from the eldritch gloom of my man cave. :)

Thank you for your feedback. I agree with most of your points, and they're either things we hope to address in the future, or I implemented them the way you preferred, and was later compelled to change them to the current implementation to satisfy acceptance criteria from stakeholders.

I'll bear your feedback in mind if I'm allowed the opportunity to work in this area of the game in the future.

Actually I recall adding such a feature - but the approach to automatically selecting paths (something that wasn't originally part of the system design) changed a number of times during development, as we went through several rounds of stakeholder feedback with conflicting opinions about the degree of enforced guidance, which accounts for the final product being somewhat... enthusiastic about giving you direction.

It changed so many times, I don't recall if we shipped with the kill switch.

Could you please try turning off guidance system hints (Gameplay>General>Optional Interfaces in your Settings) to see if that alleviates the issue for you?

Hi there. Just a heads-up that a fix for this is currently undergoing testing:

"In response to player feedback, last week I submitted a bug fix to QA to support disabling automatically selecting achievements in a path, and applied that behaviour specifically to the quest series paths."

Until the patch note goes live, though, just clear your path if you don't want to do the next quest in that path for which you meet the requirements.

I'd also suggest turning off guidance system hints (Gameplay>General>Optional Interfaces in your Settings) if you're an experienced player.

"As in it’s more about clearing the paths permanently so after I complete any quests it doesn’t keep automatically tell me to go to another one."

Yep, that's what the above fix should fix (completing a quest in a series path will no longer automatically put you onto that path).

"because this is an Ironman it just keep telling me I have to do a quest even though I know I can’t complete it because there are additional hidden req for me"

Now, that sounds like a separate issue, because the next quest should only be selected if you meet the requirements. Do you have a specific example of where, as an ironman, the quest has a hidden requirement for you?

Thank you so much for sending in-game bug reports, AND for your hard work maintaining the wiki. :)

I already have a bugfix with QA about equipping the wand that was sent last week.

Hopefully your reports for the other issues will be repro'd and written up by QA soon, and I'll jump right on them. :)

In response to player feedback, last week I submitted a bug fix to QA to support disabling automatically selecting achievements in a path, and applied that behaviour specifically to the quest series paths.

Confirmation prompts are also an option, but as you noted we need to strike the right balance between short-form objectives (having to confirm every step in the tutorial paths wouldn't be good) and long-form objectives (you might but might not want to continue with the next quest in a series), so sounds like something we can build upon.

Would appreciate your feedback when that patch note goes live. :)

Regarding forcing toplevel panels open on Tutorial Island instead of highlighting buttons and making you click them... It's been a perpetual area of aggravation for us.

Unfortunately, the RS3 toplevel UI sacrificed readability for customisation. You can freely close, resize, dock your windows, at the expense that it's all stored client-side.

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As a maxed comper myself, I sympathise.

I've read such posts, but I'm a content developer - I'm not involved in anything of that nature, and therefore I'm not in a position to comment on it, or provide insights about our monetisation policy. Anything I could say on the subject wouldn't hold any authority.

It makes me sad to hear you've un-subbed, and I hope in the future you return to RuneScape.

You can. :)

To clear your current path:

In the activity tracker, right-click/long-press and Remove your current path

or

In the achievement path window, press the Clear Path button at the bottom

(Is it specifically Turael's Burthorpe paths you want to get rid of? When you clear your path, if you haven't completed Turael's Burthorpe paths, that button will be re-labeled Skip Tutorial, which you can press to flag them as complete)

If you need to re-open them, you should have a button for both activity tracker and achievement paths on your bottom-right ribbon.

Alternatively, the achievement paths window is on your achievement screen. (Press F1 (or Esc and choose Hero), then the Achievements tab). You can drag and drop the window out from there.

For this step, you need thread from the tanner's shop. His default action is to tan hide, so you need to choose from his secondary options.

Right click (or long-press, if you're on Mobile) the tanner and choose Trade.

If your objective tracker is giving you a different instruction, please let me know, and I'd be happy to help. :)

Have a chat to Fara the gnome challenge mistress near Burthorpe lodestone to kick off the daily challenge UI tutorial. Sounds like you need to complete the daily challenge path (which'll give you 5 introductory challenges, and after you clear one (but ideally all) of those you'll start rolling regular daily challenges).