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May's RuneLabs is here, and its for a small Halloween event. My submission is called Spectres of War. https://[LikelyScam]/m=player-proposal/a=13/view-idea?idea=34518 The spirits of fallen Armadylean & Bandosian followers, stalk the old caravan routes. Use either combat or divination, to fulfill deaths request and help them reach the afterlife.

Unfortunately I think you've pointed out one of the problems with quests. For a player that primarily quests, even if they doubled the number of quests, you would still have done all of them within a month. I love quests, but they're not longterm content. Most people will get an hour or two out of them maximum. World Events at least tend to keep people entertained for a week or longer when they come out. Bosses can keep those players entertained for months, as can skilling updates. Quests though even for those who really like them won't last that long.

Yea, I got lazy and just hung out at barb for the last of mine. Traded golden crackers with clanmates of mine too which helped. Barb fishing is good exp, and good prawn balls so seemed the best plan for me.

No one else noticed this? On the subject of RNG: fly fishing/barbarian fishing have pretty much perfect catch rates, which each turn in close to 1400 fish per hour. If you're saying it's 3 hours per egg, that's like a 1/4000 chance of an egg for each fish you catch. It's a depressingly high number for something that's "toned down" on RNG. Assuming prawn pennies/pounds double the rate, it's still 1/2000. Hefty. The golden crackers/eggs you can get from prawn balls/crackers aren't that common either, with their combined rate being 1/100. They do help out a bit, though, since if you stuck to the barbarian fishing spot, you'd easily score a prawn ball every minute with maxed prawn ball threshold perks. The real pain comes when you've caught the fast fish, or when you've had the misfortune of catching one or two fish from a multiple fish spot. For instance, I've obtained the leaping trout and sturgeon eggs, with the leaping salmon egg missing. Barbarian fishing is going to be an exercise in agony because of all the extra chances at the egg I'm going to miss because I've already obtained 2/3 of the eggs that spot can offer, so I have to either soldier on, and catch leaping trout and sturgeon that do nothing to help me, or move on to a fishing spot that still has all its eggs open to me (incidentally, this would be the rainbow fish spot, the slowest prawn ball/hr spot. FML). With cracker/eggs being 1/100 from prawn balls, it might be better to just stay at barb fishing instead of trying for rainbow. At a prawn ball per minute, that should in general get you the egg in 2 hours instead of 3. Yea, 1/4000 seems like a lot until you factor in how quick you're catching the fish and how its semi-afk anyway. Still better than champ scrolls.

I'm enjoying the update so far. They did tone down the RNG, its not like these are champ scroll levels of rarity, they apparently average like 3 hours per egg in a semi-afk skill. Plus, with golden crackers they gave you a way to buy your way out if you hate it so much, or work with friends to get them done sooner. Its been less than 2 days, and I have prestiged once, and have 7 eggs towards filling the tank again. RNG is a major part of the game, they aren't going to eliminate it. But this update has relatively little considering the amount of time per egg on average and the golden crackers. Even with bad luck this update isn't going to take that long to complete.

Pretty sure Pay2win team is doing both. Nah, Boss pets were done by the Ninja team. http://forum.tip.it/topic/327568-boss-pets-a-ninja-update/ Why would pay2win team waste their time on something that can't be sold for 235325 runecoins and bonds? Boss pets were done by the Ninja team, but the pet overrides are not being done by the Ninjas AFAIK. Pet overrides are an animation job, not a Ninja fix. Sayln is the project manager for TH and Solomons, says that boss pets aren't theirs to work on https://twitter.com/JagexSayln/status/585384566212448256 so would probably need to be ninjas.

I don't think the Agility suggestion sounds like an improvement. It just seems to be saying "make courses more annoying". It doesn't fix the fact that agi is still 99% useless. I'm voting for Rite of Passage. I'd rather have a good quest than another guild or an update to make agi more annoying

April competition is here. This one is for medium skill updates. So, trying to get support for my Faction Related Item Sink again https://[LikelyScam]/m=player-proposal/a=13/view-idea?idea=19

Waterfiends are demons?

Based on twitter https://twitter.com/Mark__Gerhard/status/571513553858895872 It seems to be http://cambridge.ventures/ Looks like they now have a NY office https://twitter.com/Mark__Gerhard/status/580512830434222081 I think at least Ryan and Oliver went to work for MMG though I mean it would be kind of weird for them to talk in their post about possibly doing this and increasing the Ninja team size if they had just fired a couple members of it.

Several of them left to join MMG's new thing. Mod Michelle's boyfriend was moving for a job and she's moving with him. I wouldn't be surprised if it was more like Michelle putting in her notice gave them a chance to reevaluate the wiki and realize that it wasn't used nearly enough to be worth keeping.

yea, but level up is so vague, anyone that wants better armour or to train familiars would choose that too. The one specifically dealing with stats is lowest. Then again maybe people figured fine tune would be redundant and went with 2nd favorite instead. Hard to parse this poll.

Kind of funny since actual stat changes and stuff seem to be the lowest option on poll at the moment.

Yea, they've been sort of half doing it. They still had to pay lip service to the smaller updates even if they didn't want to, which takes resources away from making better larger updates. I'd like to at least try this and see how they come out. There are a lot of big updates that are really needed.

Ok, so you don't need to reset to get all chests. Each gang has the same number of chests and they're linked, so if you open one the other will also be open if you go through next time. Also, resetting the quest lets you keep all your items and task completion. So if you shoo one cat, that cat will remain shoo'd and if you open a chest it remains open.

Interesting idea, and wouldn't be sorry to tie my idea in with it. We'll see how their plans go.

Except sidestepping the issues with the event itself altogether

Quests aren't competitive content. They shouldn't have a competitive title. I understand that some players dislike quests and will rush them, however Jagex should not be rewarding and encouraging people to rush through them that might otherwise have actually read through and enjoyed them.

To be fair, I did talk to Mod Kelpie on twitter and he answered some questions I had about whether my full idea would fit into a medium (it wouldn't) but the main problem was that I relied on the forums for parts of my idea and not on the RuneLabs post itself. I tried to fix it with this submission. I will keep the other more barebones one for medium contests and this one for larges till I either stop getting supports or one of them wins. If you have any friends in game that might like it let them know. Already back on front page but still a lot of votes to go to get back near the top. The easiest way to find it is to type "sink-large" into Runelabs search bar since mine is the only idea that has that.

I've had to re-submit my item sink idea since most of the bigger rewards were not specified in the post and so they marked it medium. Please re-support if you liked the original. Thanks. https://[LikelyScam]/m=player-proposal/a=13/c=rUFJBhzDOb4/view-idea?idea=28318

No problems here, been waiting on Rite of Passage since it was first teased. I would love to have my idea in game but looking at the top 5 the only one I'd even be slightly sorry to lose to is the Nomad Quest. I'm happy that it seems the good ideas are actually rising this time.

It has a lot of mechanics I think, plus animations, plus 6 pets, plus t90 weapons to create. There's a decent amount there. Most of it probably in mechanics and balancing

Support is open again, this time for Large updates only Large is like Arraxor, Broken Home Quest, and ports expansion. Please remember to check out my Faction Related Item Sink. Link is in my signature

Why people want spring cleaner so bad? I have it and never found any reasonable usage for it Makes Slayer a lot easier. Especially for things like mith or addy where it may not be worth the inventory space picking up the items, but the ores are worth more than the springs. Rune is good too if you're lazy.

Boss Practice Mode next week https://twitter.com/JagexKelpie/status/573881561235464192