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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...

Camel staff has a big hole through the middle and a khopesh is an Egyptian sword design… I’d say the staff is closer in design to the staff Jafar has in Aladdin which is a really cool design. Also, just because RS3 has done something it doesn’t diminish someone else doing art in a similar theme.

Woah! Incredible, that snake staff is next level. I’m showing these to Mod Grub ASAP :D

Unsure of them myself. Made them smaller which made them blend more with the beam. Might work if they are only on the higher tiers so they’re easier to tell apart if colour-blind.

tbf me and Flippy were all for this a few weeks back for... another project. Some were skeptical on whether players would want it though. As the reddit thread on friday got popular I started putting something together. Was a little too hungover yesterday to do anything and was sad to see RL beat me to it :P

I made these for Warding back in 2018 and the consensus from the players at the time was that they looked bad and were lazy. A player came up with a better design and it gained traction. When it came to adding these last year we leaned on the design the players preferred. We're never going to please everyone and sometimes we just have to accept that.

I can assure you I’m entirely out of the loop as it has nothing to do with my day job. I hardly know who rendi is and I also don’t particularly care.

Reach had great ideas but limited understanding on the limitations of OSRS.

I’m an environment artist, not CM.

No.

Seems strange, looks accurate. That was my point :P

Seems so strange seeing an accurate representation of rivers in the OSRS style. Especially love the delta in the north-east :D Great job as usual!

Nope, just really poor planning and misguided use of resources. Mounts are not technically possible now and they certainly weren't 6 years ago.

Glad you're enjoying the remapping :) Your Arc and pisc maps will go a long way in shaping the future of those houses - as I've said in the past... your Arceuus map made me start my old one all over again, haha. Come to think of it, my second Arceuus map is probably quite out-dated now too.

The blending of cultures is the best way to create a unique feel while also grounded and realistic. A little something I picked up from the WoT series as the Aiel are such a cool and unique concept with highly clashing influences. It'll be a shame to run out of Zeah stuff, but considering it's taken us 5 years to get to this point I don't think we'll be hitting that moment any time soon :P

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A lot of credit for the diversity goes to ex-Jmods Maz and Wolf. They spent a lot of time making sure content like seaweed, sulliusceps and birdhouses had their niches well after the initial release.

As for the layout, I’ll take the credit :P it was something we wanted to make sure we’d learnt from the initial Zeah release and all the feedback we got. We probably spent more time working on Fossil island than Zeah and it has a fraction of the land. Also still quite pleased with my suggestion of a hunter creature that gave herbs. Initially the idea was that it would roam around randomly and slowly grow herbs but in the end it got fused with tracking instead, which was a great call.

Thanks and I’m glad you like it :D

Yann is a fantastic artist! He’s the guy that made the concept artwork for Vorkath :)