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My biggest regret was not adding a twisted pyromancer

When things pass with 90% approval what am I suppose to do? Agree with the 5 people who message me on twitter? Art is subjective :/

The concept was by Mod Jerv and the implementation was by Ghost (who does contracting work for us nowadays) - they did an awesome job :)

The top one is not a god book, it's... umm... something else...

Incredible! :D

We struggled to find a good magic item to freshen up. We try to stay away from items that are too connected with lore and magic items tend to have very direct connections. We didn't want a repeat of the twisted ancestral from leagues 1 and the mystic sets are widely used so seemed like a good option. I agree though, there are a lot of options in the bracket what with robes of darkness and enchanted :/

I love it ^.^

Ah yes, it was an accident but we left it in as it was a funny way to customise the shield. How it happened... well, the colourspace in OSRS is incredibly small and the least amount of depth is within the lower end of saturation and luminosity, this is why a lot of older items are quite bright and colourful. This means if we're using these darker, more desaturated colours there's a high chance for overlap. In this case the base shield colours just happened to overlap with the boot slot base colour.

The way recolours work in script is they're fed a colour to look for and a colour for replacement, with most things there isn't much chance of finding something you didn't want recoloured to be recoloured. Not the case with player-kit! All the default outfits (think of the tan and green seen in the default character) have a colour which will be recoloured based on whatever the player has chosen. If that colour exists on an item it too will be recoloured.

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Hmm, maybe there could be barbers in most towns/cities who offer different hairstyles? It seems strange that there is only a single hairdressers in the entirety of Gielinor. I agree that putting everything in one town is a little flat and reduces the need to explore, hence my hesitation :)

You have a point although I think the make-over mage might be the exception to the rule. At the very least, allowing f2p to change their boots and bracers should probably be addressed ;)

It could be incorporated into the world in interesting ways too, say there's a travelling barber who offers fewer options than the full shop in falador. Might be worth making them a bit more affordable too and... perhaps a little more pricing consistency between the genders... Kinda feels strange in retrospect that there are so few clothing shops that offer outfit services and how there is only a single barber in the entirety of Gielinor...

I created spiked manacles for that exact reason but I feel an option less edgy might still be a nice thing to have. Makes fashionscaping easier, for instance.

It annoys me how hidden a lot of these features are and it's something we've spoken about recently. Ideally all of these customisation elements would be available in Lumbridge as it is where everyone starts... but I'm not sure that's realistic. At the very least, a redesign of the UIs is needed, especially for the hairstyles as they've been added to without much consideration with how crowded the UI has become. More bracer and feet varieties would be nice too (like a barefoot option!)

Thanks for putting this together, it helps a lot having all this info in one place :)

Looks like someone just did, haha

Same goes for KQ as the D chain wasn’t in classic either. The D chain was BiS for less than a year, which seems strange… I suppose it stayed as a flex item for a long time so it held its price well.

I knew this when I added them, hence the dialogue you get from Lithil and Strong Ronny when you speak to them about why they are there. I figured the Sanctuary had been sealed off for so long he wouldn't have been able to find them.

I keep seeing this and feel the need to make a point - the bosses have horns. Also, none of my ideas are original, I steal them from players.

Yes.

This comes up often but it’s honestly just a coincidence. I sat next to Mod Gee when she made it and I don’t recall chompy birds ever coming up and highly doubt it’s something she would’ve done intentionally.

You are correct that we do re-use a lot of graphics, though usually in - hopefully - more subtle ways. For instance the animations and rig of Sarachnis borrow from the Nylocas from ToB. I also repurposed the base mesh and animations of Tarn Razorlor for the Shaeded Beast. There are also times where we re-colour assets or add to existing wall-kits, the one used in Forthos Dungeon is a combination of a kit created for dragon slayer and another which was made for the mine under myerditch :D

it’s all part of optimising the process as remaking everything from scratch for every update would take too long.

Tbf there were initially very good rewards and players flipped out that they were too good. Trying to please everyone is a tough balancing act. To claim that the item sink wouldn’t have worked is also quite short sighted as - much like current skills - they weren’t released and then never touched again. Skilling updates happen all the time and they’re based entirely on how the players interact with them.

Warding was an attempt at an old school style skill, most skills are fairly mundane and simple and one of those hadn’t been pitched before. Clearly that isn’t a good direction to go in as while it got majority support, it didn’t get the required super majority. Maybe it was poorly designed, most voters thought it had potential. After all, with skills like firemaking the bar is pretty high.

If a new skill is to be approached again it won’t be a flashy announcement. If anything, running a fairly basic poll - should we work on a new skill? - Before even mentioning a co...