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yeah, like maybe not removing time every time you get hit by a snake or increasing the chance of getting an outfit piece at a higher thieving level (like what they did with the dg recipes ish) or making it possible to complete the outfit BEFORE you hit 99 maybe we can be crazy and put a deposit box next to the mummy or something

at the end of this they need a terrible jokebook item

well, it's like, there's a huge metaphorical mole on jagex's face, and they can't see it but it's not going away

i hope those outfits are obtainable :P

oh, so the reason why you have to wait a day is because the snow acts like raffle tickets, and they're just using that to disguise that they're selling raffle tickets in treasure hunter, and it's even WORSE because it's not whole tickets, they're putting FRACTIONS of tickets on there and that somehow this still isn't gambling because you get lamps or something????????? hmmmm *sideeyesideeyesideeye* btw, they said that you're supposed to get double snow from killing this week to the 9th, and skilling next week to the 16th, so maybe kill more this week instead of trying to skill for it don't forget to get your THREE FOURTHS OF A TICKET from burthrope each day

the damn thing's stayed at 20-40 forever meanwhile, due to jagex not playtesting their ideas, people are camping near the tree with full snakes to prevent more snakes from spawning

this pile of snow vaguely resembles a pile of something else the joke is not lost on me

"we won't introduce new holiday rares" *introduces holiday rares*

are you seriously that broken up about it? you do know that every year the event hands out all thankgiving rewards that have ever existed, ever, so even if you miss one, you'll never lose out forever i forget if that includes the cornucopia but that's a regular drop on birds anyway

*gets soft clay instead of cup of tea* *throws it away anyway*

There was no other place Timbo would be, really

hey, y'know what would be fun, making a second chime item, and then making a THIRD ONE AMG LETS DO THIS panic sell pawya meat

they're probably planning to do that in another quest, but by that time they'll also figure out how to disappoint us in an entirely new way

they could have just sidestepped all of this! they could have made it more about the void creatures, and then stick in vague hints of elder god meddling here and there. who were these immense beings which left their mark so many worlds? why are there so many ruined civilizations in the void, and what of these creatures who speak of the Great Task? that would have been a way cooler teaser, while showing players who already know something different (more stuff about the void) while still touching on elder god lore. instead of an old lady going mad and falling into a hole because a big ol gremlin told her to do it, why not shove the player into the void and have them poke around instead, and they could have reused void assets (which have some pretty cool details already made) instead of four nearly nondescript caves of different colors they put the player into the quest AFTER the cool thing happens, and then they tell us about all of these cool things while we deal with some fussy stone heads and their stone minions while kipple, the most interesting character in the quest, does all of the important stuff, and the only time you get a real feel for his personality is if you initiate it yourself, and then at the end, after the second cool thing happens, he just shouts some generic crap about being too late and explodes, instead of anything about the void that we could have rubbed our brains on (i mean, we already know there are void creatures) runescape always hints at cool things happening, but rarely delivers, and then by the time they do put some up, we find out that they just kept smokescreening because they had no idea how to make cool stuff because they spent so much time hinting at it instead of actually making it and getting practice to do it faster and more efficiently by figuring out how to make nicer things with less assets, instead of just wasting assets everywhere and dragging the graphical speed down on things that people only look at just a few times, with their concept of saving on time limited to putting up terrible looking things they've already made

as I previously mentioned, if this happened after that quest, it wouldn't really make sense because the player would already know about this and even to some extent where everything is located, plus a few other elements in the story (like say, THE ENTIRE STORY) which would have heavily changed the outcome, but they have a dialogue option for people who already did FOTG too, but then Zaros would have had different dialogue if this happened first (he doesn't, this quest doesn't even register when I go back to talk to him), so really, they tried to split it both ways, and screwed up massively because there's contradictions for it happening IN EITHER DIRECTION

man i am glad i bought those bonds earlier when i was thinking about getting more runecoins with them still, i don't really know what they're thinking with their idea of raising the barrier to entry when the only rise in quality has been a halfhearted graphical overhaul (that's glitchy) and, well, the microtransaction content the average rate of update quality has dropped a noticeable amount, and the only redeeming parts of elf city have been somewhat eroded by jagex's sense of balancing, while all of the really wasted parts was because they had people vote on nice sounding content choices that they were never going to deliver on in a satisfying manner, but allowed rampant speculation as to what they would do, anyway and in order to accomplish that they had to stuff another content type into the garbage while its organs were sold to the highest bidder, while the elf city advocates gently reassured me that their choice wasn't going to do that, but I don't see any damn sign that it's not effectively dead for several years (they tell me the name is still alive, but the skeleton might as well be buried in the himalayas) until they repair their design and garner enough balls to make a stand where it actually counts instead of holding to shitty concepts that were undermined ages ago while letting other concepts that were important to gameplay get trampled into the dust, they're just going to keep driving players away when they find out that all of these trailers were just made to hide the crap its covering

oh, okay, i'll amend my previous statement i guess they actually are cutting corners for reasons

I actually agree... Why can't she accept that the world just needs to rely on nuclear and fossil fuel to get things done in the [fantasy] world now. Well I more upset with the fact that she would doom the entire world/universe for the sake of keeping magic for herself. Seems very selfish to me.

I feel like this would have gone a lot quicker if we could just implant The Measure into Kipple side note: I'm pretty sure one square occupying familiars would have a distinct advantage over the others

I would have just thought that a population that arranges itself based on their skillset would be more distinctive in regards to their own clothing, and have designs reflecting their form and function, such as more aprons for dirty work, and lighter and/or ceremonial clothing for the cathedral workers and spiritualists, gear designed for mobility on fighters, elegant outfits for musicians, etc, instead of "leaf patterns one through five" this isn't as much a technical issue as it is a "we're not going to commit manhours from solomon store stuff for things people won't be paying directly for, even in the place where we both want people to spend their time and not spend their time in because we can't decide how to focus our content" if they were so concerned about it taking longer to load in different textures, then they shouldn't have ever made so many cosmetic overrides that it takes me ten minutes to load everybody's individual outfits so that it stops skipping

I forgot to ask them to make these elf outfits more distinguishable from each other to the extent that it would make their population less....samey