darkhearted_raven

It's worth noting (not mentioned in the news post) that the changes to the way food works also increases the rate at which animal health and happiness increases since the two are linked. So it's actually easier to get healthy happier animals if you keep the food stocked.

So the numbers are in a testing phase at the moment (hence the bold) so subject to change.

We're playing it internally to see how it feels and whether it is too harsh. But we wanted to give you guys a good heads up before we make any changes so we can gather your feedback and adjust as needed.

So far 5x seems like it might be a little too far, so I've noted that feedback and am going to raise dropping it to 3x so it's a little less harsh.

Again, since there has been some confusion, this will ONLY affect the non-breeding pen. The breeding pen has not changed at all.

5* breeding rate AND chance down

To clarify this is only in the non-breeding pens. The breeding pen is unaffected.

This decision is based on repeated player feedback that breeding outside of the pens was the main issue. This adjustment allows the pens to be useful for completing breeding logs and adding a neat bonus to the pens, but prevents the issue repeatedly raised of animal overabundance.

As a trade off we have doubled the effectiveness of shiny boosting traits and increased the hereditary nature of traits so it should be easier to engineer the animals you want.

I regret nothing.

I cannot claim any credit for these, I believe this is the work of /u/JagexErator

Investigating now, it appears something odd has happened with an engine update. The good news is that if you load it in java, you should be able to just walk through the doors that should not be there. Hopefully we'll have an NXT fix soon, but that should at least let you complete the quest.

Definitely should not be a door there. Are you using the NXT client or java? We've got someone investigating this right now, but I thought I'd ask.

Obviously please submit an ingame bug report as it gives us a bit more data which we can use to track down the issue.

So, some of this is due to how the existing systems work, which I won't go into.

If we're creating a quest from scratch, then it's an increase of workload but it's something we can factor in. Dev wise, not too bad, but you are effectively doubling and sometimes tripling the QA load because they need to test it repeatedly in various scenarios. So there's a definite cost there that we need to factor in. Basically we need to choose whether to make it replayable, or whether we add in an extra action moment (or several) into the quest (i.e a puzzle, boss, interaction section etc) or a more interesting reward. Generally players are more interested in the first time feeling great than replaying existing.

However, if we're converting lower level quests that effectively requires us to rewrite the backbone of the quest and we need to do so finding a way that allows for existing players to keep their save states AND allow players currently doing the quest to not get disr...

We have replied multiple times about this. It's definitely something we would really like to do, but updating all the player models is a MASSIVE undertaking.

We're talking reworking every single piece of player kit, every single player animation and retesting the entire game. It's a tremendous job that would lock us out of content for a really long time.

It's definitely something we're looking at and definitely something we want to do, but it's not a simple thing.

A very interesting adaptation of races. I'm intrigued at the direction you took the ilujanka, I personally had them a bit more druidy, but the paladin approach works perfectly as well.

We are discussing these XP rates right now. If there is a development we will let you know, but we are definitely aware of the situation and are investigating.

We would need to align any anims with that, which again is a phenomenal amount of work. There are texture tricks we could do, sure, but it would be creating work for the sake of it and create weird situations where one person stands next to another with completely different face graphic styles, which would be super weird.

It's better to do it all in one go rather than try and hack a way around it which would just create a mess for future additions to the game.

Sadly a rework of the player character is an enormous undertaking that would use up a lot of resources for a LONG time. We are constantly looking into it, but it's just not feasible at this point in time.

That's a high poly sculpt. We use these before we create the low poly versions as it helps to create the best look possible. This is not an indication of new player models as we are not currently working on a player model rework (though it is something we are constantly investigating).

Glorious work there!

We should both be BARRED from lawyer jokes.

I guess neither of them had any.... OBJECTION!!!!

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I'll see myself out.

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Try some of the recent quests with audio on. The audio team have done some AMAZING stuff lately.

If you've got the combat skills give the elite dungeons a try as well, the music there is fantastic.

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