Christmas event - Our first taste of summoning?

[RedHanyu888]

In the Christmas event, we get to build and create our own snowmen. We even get to choose their class. Whats more, we get to heal them with their own blood. If you think about it, it's like summoning.

 

 

 

Has anyone noticed? Perhaps this is a taste of what Jagex has came up with for summoning. Maybe this will be like what we have to do when summoning rolls out.

[Bloodredsword]

There is already discussion about this in the official Christmas update thread...but yes. I personally think its a hint/try out.

[Kill_Thomas9]

It might be, but for summoning to be the "huge" update it has been made out to be, it will have to be much much better that this.

[RedHanyu888]

It might be, but for summoning to be the "huge" update it has been made out to be, it will have to be much much better that this.

Indeed, that is true. However, this is probably a small taste of summoning, or wha Jagex has brainstormed for summoning to be.

[snake6man]

this could be a taste of summoning, but it could also be one of the ideas they threw out (pun accidental). Maby they made it up and didnt like it but figured it would be a good holliday event.

[Italian5kamikaze]

Or maybe it has nothing to do with it at all?

[Kill_Thomas9]

It could be another test, similar to the quest that came out a while ago that was announced by jagex to be a test to see if the servers could handle summoning. (sorry, long sentence.)

[Byzantus]

i hope summoning will be better than that

[CentriX_2]

There's also some stags in the Land of Snow that could perfectly be a future summonable monster.

 

 

 

~Cent

[JimmyMcNabb]

how is putting snow together like summoning? :-k

[Mayjest]

Some things are certainly part of the mechanics of summoning, for example, the healing 'splats'. It's the first time I've seen the blue splats with any number except 0 in.

 

 

 

And is it just me, or was the blue a different colour?

[darkblade986]

how is putting snow together like summoning? :-k

 

 

 

It isn't the putting together of the snow, but the code that makes it work. For summoning, the code would be [Perform an Action -> Create a Monster]. This would test the ability of the code to create specific monsters (or in this case, NPCs) in a specific region. Most other NPCs are simply controlled by 3 different things: Whether you can see them or not (can be used in quests when someone should be somewhere at a specific time), the range that they can move around (which squares are they allowed to move to) and what to say, which can also change with quests.

 

 

 

Summoning will put to the test the second function predominantly: summoning a creature and having it predefine a region that it might work in.

[Aneron]

People had better not be able to steal your summoned creatures like they still snowmen

[Latinoking]

lol snowmans.

 

 

 

Fear my snowman army!!

[woodcutter12]

I actually didn't think of this, but I also think it was just a heres a building of snowman and thats it kind of thing, the new pet store was a clue though, Can't wait till it is released!

 

 

 

~2008 Rahila and woodcutter race to 99 summon-who will win? fnd out!~

[Lemurian]

Yeah, I thought about that when I was building lotsa snowmen. Seems to be working, eh?

[Alex_Ewan_1]

possibly.

[Epoix]

I'd Like to think it was, because i liked making my own snow man :)

 

(Although it was annoying when ppl out a hat on mine when i made it all myself :x )

[SwreeTak]

Yeah, it's possible that you're right. I loved to make my own snowman, so I will probalby like to summon other creatures as well!

[InkofDeath]

Doesn't surprise me they'd test their scripts with update, or any other update, isn't it fascinating? :-#

[o_knames]

My connection didn't seem too smooth when I was doing the event, so hopefully it's just a coincidence or something they noticed and work out.

 

 

 

Then again, I was doing it the same time as just about everybody else.

 

 

 

Then again again, the same overuse will probably happen when summoning is released.

[RedHanyu888]

My connection didn't seem too smooth when I was doing the event, so hopefully it's just a coincidence or something they noticed and work out.

 

 

 

Then again, I was doing it the same time as just about everybody else.

 

 

 

Then again again, the same overuse will probably happen when summoning is released.

 

Hopefully, There wont be allocated spots for summoning, like there is for hunter.

 

 

 

Although...The pet store does seem like a cramped spot.