Behind the Scenes � December

[FlamesWrath]

For those saying this is a bad month, not all of us like huge boss monsters or annoying mini-games. Diaries are really fun for me. Things like the GWD don't appeal to me at all.

 

 

 

Nicely said. I agree, Achievement diaries were like the first thing I did when I became a member. Although i haven't completed all of the levels I enjoyed doing them. Im excited to see the new emote. And to the Christmas event and quest: I can't wait for the santa suit, I almost have enough money for a santa hat : And I love the quest that come with the event because that means 2 holiday items (kinda lol)

[Carl]

I had completely forgotten about Decembers BTS. I read it and it sucked. :|

[Vincent]

In our first update of the month, youll be asked to return to Falador, where the fourth Achievement Diary -Rewards will include brand new white lily seeds and a shiny new emote.

 

and something else? i guess. ok update but its really all about the rewards.

 

 

 

Once youve done that little lot, your next step will be a watery one, as you cross the Fremennik Province and the islands beyond. Rewards will include enhanced resource collection for your Etceterian workers, improved lyres, and a potential 20k experience reward lamp. would be lame if they had etceterian workers mine essence. whatever enhanced resource collection means. enhanced - increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality; "her enhanced beauty was the result of a good night's sleep rather than makeup"; "careful cleaning was responsible for the enhanced value of the painting" increased - made greater in size or amount or degree. 2 acheivement diaries better than 1 but its still all about the rewards. i hope they release both diaries in the same update.

 

 

 

we will be making further changes to the reward items associated with Stealing Creation. about the changes to Stealing Creation, please read this news post. i think this is total junk. no combat xp while playing. who knows what they plan to do with tools and they and the armour dont stack, what's the deal with jagex lately? will charged up tools be changed to a set # of charges? who knows? they arent saying. i just think this is totally sucky and a waste of time they could be working on other updates; where qa was during all this, i just think they're doing a lousy job. there i said it.

 

 

 

new haircuts for the game. Weve now gathered around 20 new styles and will be releasing them during December to the free and members games. ok? i dont care really. 10 new male hairstyles and 10 female i guess. they should just do it without a stupid headline.

 

French Servers- again not really a game content update. other than french translations for french servers. no new content.

 

 

 

weve decided to release a quest at the same time as our Christmas event. quest and event. i dont care for these updates they're here today and gone tomorrow and though the quest will be around; whoop de doo. free players can do the quest during the event so i wonder where the "icelands" will be. but i doubt it's anything that good or interesting.

 

 

 

Updates after December

 

 

 

Mobilising Armies

 

Weve found that although we could release it, we really want to take our time to make this the best update we can, so we made the difficult choice to hold onto it until next year.

 

 

 

we could release it? great so you will do more failed qa on it. and then we can postpone the update to january and in february get "changes to mobilising armies". whatever. no mention of ANYTHING else, so, wonder what that means.

 

 

 

and yeah 5 mondays in december; so whatever. the only thing i like about this months bts is that the achievement diaries are the 1st update; at least falador, hopefully both diaries will be released same day. if they gave us like 150 more bank spaces that would salvage the month and would be the best update they could give us.

 

 

 

Summary:

 

 

 

2 achievement diaries and rewards.

 

changes to stealing creation

 

haircuts and french servers

 

christmas event and quest

[Master_Smither]

I imagine the enhancement would just be more workers and not p ess. The 2 new diarys sound epic and I want to do them badly now :D. Stupid santa suit though we need a reindeer but the merchants voted santa suit to make money on their santas . Seems like an good month for the most part.

[Omar]

 

Updates after December

 

 

 

Mobilising Armies

 

Weve found that although we could release it, we really want to take our time to make this the best update we can, so we made the difficult choice to hold onto it until next year.

 

 

 

we could release it? great so you will do more failed qa on it. and then we can postpone the update to january and in february get "changes to mobilising armies". whatever. no mention of ANYTHING else, so, wonder what that means.

 

 

 

 

You're stupid aren't you? The reason why they're postponing it is for QA to do its job at its best. You rant about QA not doing its job, but you also rant about them doing it.

[BabyPunchers]

Ha they missed it last time but they're sure to get my hairstyle this time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pic is not me, just my hairstyle. They better be in this update. :thumbup:

[The Observer]

 

Updates after December

 

 

 

Mobilising Armies

 

Weve found that although we could release it, we really want to take our time to make this the best update we can, so we made the difficult choice to hold onto it until next year.

 

 

 

we could release it? great so you will do more failed qa on it. and then we can postpone the update to january and in february get "changes to mobilising armies". whatever. no mention of ANYTHING else, so, wonder what that means.

 

 

 

 

You're stupid aren't you? The reason why they're postponing it is for QA to do its job at its best. You rant about QA not doing its job, but you also rant about them doing it.

 

 

 

Isn't that the classic consumer? :P

[Omar]

Long curtains is pretty close *points at own avatar*.

 

Okay, I edited it a bit in PDN to remove the ponytail. But it's close enough. ;)

 

@ Killerred: :P

[Emmentail]

Since our graphical update earlier in the year, weve been playing around with a variety of new haircuts for the game. Weve now gathered around 20 new styles and will be releasing them during December to the free and members games. These new hairdos include some rather interesting styles inspired by AkHaranu, a visitor from the unexplored eastern realms. Perhaps next year will unearth more fashions from these interesting folk? Only time will tell...

 

 

 

 

 

Eastern Lands next year please? :pray:

[Vincent]

 

 

 

You're stupid aren't you? The reason why they're postponing it is for QA to do its job at its best. You rant about QA not doing its job, but you also rant about them doing it.

 

 

 

i'm saying what makes you think the same qa that failed stealing creation is going to do much better with mobilising armies? all this does is give them more time to fail. tell me you dont expect to see "changes to mobilising armies" in february.

 

 

 

and the fact that qa failed stealing creation does not lend creedence to their ability to manage mobilising armies. i happen to like stealing creation but the tweaks that are needed should have been done before release and i dont think these tweaks are going to solve the problem. the thing they're not telling you is they [bleep]ed up with qa for stealing creation and the time they spent going back to fix those problems have taken away from their time to qa mobilising armies. and i stand by my comment that qa is doing a sucky job and i for one think they will continue to do so until proven otherwise.

[Omar]

I don't expect to see Mobilizing Armies changes in February. Just because QA failed one thing doesn't mean they fail everything. WGS is fine, PvP worlds are great if you take apart the terrible loot, which can't really be fixed. Do I have to give other examples?

[stormveritas]

Ha they missed it last time but they're sure to get my hairstyle this time!

 

 

 

Pic is not me, just my hairstyle. They better be in this update. :thumbup:

 

 

 

Oh good God I hope not. No reason to encourage such nonsense. You kids these days and your sacrificing depth perception and your peripheral vision in exchange for dramatic hair.[/getoffmylawn]

[Toad]

Ha they missed it last time but they're sure to get my hairstyle this time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pic is not me, just my hairstyle. They better be in this update. :thumbup:

 

 

 

jagex will never bring out the emo fringe

[Master_Smither]

Ha they missed it last time but they're sure to get my hairstyle this time!

 

 

 

Pic is not me, just my hairstyle. They better be in this update. :thumbup:

 

 

 

jagex will never bring out the emo fringe

 

 

 

Ya and maybe they will give us lip rings and tatoos! :pray: [/sarcasm]

[Omar]

 

Oh good God I hope not. No reason to encourage such nonsense. You kids these days and your sacrificing depth perception and your peripheral vision in exchange for dramatic hair.[/getoffmylawn]

 

Have you tried it? Turns out it's not that bad. I don't have emo/scene bangs, but when my hair gets in front of my face, it doesn't bother me that much. If I had bangs on my left eye, it wouldn't matter anyways, I can barely see past a foot with it.

 

@M_S: Duradel and the master canoe maker both have tattoos, and facial ones at that.

[H2PM]

Awesome.

 

This month looks to be alot better than last month.

[BabyPunchers]

Ha they missed it last time but they're sure to get my hairstyle this time!

 

 

 

Pic is not me, just my hairstyle. They better be in this update. :thumbup:

 

 

 

Oh good God I hope not. No reason to encourage such nonsense. You kids these days and your sacrificing depth perception and your peripheral vision in exchange for dramatic hair.[/getoffmylawn]

 

 

 

Really, a fringe isn't bad on depth perception. Even with jet black hair. Frankly, I like it so it doesn't really matter what you think about my hair. :thumbup:

[H2PM]

 

Updates after December

 

 

 

Mobilising Armies

 

Weve found that although we could release it, we really want to take our time to make this the best update we can, so we made the difficult choice to hold onto it until next year.

 

 

 

we could release it? great so you will do more failed qa on it. and then we can postpone the update to january and in february get "changes to mobilising armies". whatever. no mention of ANYTHING else, so, wonder what that means.

 

 

 

 

So you rather have them realesse it now? and not get all the maybe important bug fixed? That makes perfect sense.

 

Jagex-"Now we are going to realesse moblising armies now because people are too impactent and what not. And there is a bug that makes you die and lose all of your items."

 

-.-

[Vincent]

my last comment on this, i'll give you an example.

 

 

 

john comes in and does a great job 3 days of the week, he's scheduled to work 5 days but it cramps his style to come in for the scheduled 5 days. does john's boss appreciate john's good work 3 days of the week? sure, but if he had a choice dont you think he'd hire someone that does a great job for all 5 days of the week that is needed?

 

 

 

does john's good job performance 3 days of the week excuse the 2 days where he doesnt show up? no. no it doesnt. so, john's coworkers have to do extra work because he hasnt shown up 2 days of his scheduled 5. and things get behind, and the boss starts to hear it from the co-workers and pretty soon john is replaced.

 

 

 

should we keep john on? should john's co-workers have to do extra work because of john's failure? is it on the boss to replace john with someone that will show up and do a good job for all the days he's scheduled? i think the answers are obvious. and let me just add another twist to this. instead of john not coming in two days a week. let's say he comes in for all 5 but 2 of those days he shows up drunk and actually creates more work for the people he works with; that they have to go back and fix.

 

 

 

we can appreciate qa for the job they do, but when they mess up and that causes changes to scheduled updates and postponing; having to go back on 1 of 3 updates for serious balance and qa; when it should have been done right the first time! that raises serious concerns about the quality of work they are doing. period. end of story.

 

 

 

do i hope they get it right? of course i do. would i like them to to be able to fulfill their schedule? yes. am i angry that they keep messing up? yes. i'm saying instead of "they are doing a good job with 3/5 updates", they could be doing a good job with 5/5 updates and keeping up with the schedule. and i dont usually rant but this kind of thing where they go back half the time and tweak things on such a huge scale is just annoying. i can understand small tweaks here and there to improve things but wholescale changes and balancing that puts off other qa for other updates and the updates themselves is infuriating. looking back on 2008 that is what has been done for nearly 1/2 the updates and if you dont think that takes time away from other content then you are mistaken. and my annoyance with qa does not end there! numerous content has been tweaked and "balanced" and re-balanced and some are good and some are very bad. so, do i ignore the bad and praise the good? no, i look at the the entirety and weigh the bad with the good. how does the bad affect the game? due to the time spent tweaking and balancing etc. what things were left out? what things were looked over due to time constraints? does the time and effort they spent tweaking certain things justify not working on or taking a look at and changing other things? were the decisions to prioritise made correctly? should things that were given lower priority have been given that status? were there more important or necessary changes needed?

 

 

 

i weigh all those things to come to my conclusions.

[mrdoctorsir]

i want the santa suit to come out early :arrow: prices of santa hats are going to go way up when it does

 

also i hope the stealing creations update is soon anyone know when?

[M_u_s_ii_X]

New haircuts, Achievement diary, French servers, Christmas event/quest.

 

 

 

I'll be playing RuneScape more this month. :P

 

 

 

And to people who say "They will not bring out the 'emo fringe'" they might call it something else and also look at Harrinators avatar. VERY similar.

[Ravenkana]

Bloody hellfire, where's my random removal?!? Those things have infested Runescape long enough!

[T. Skill]

OH. MY. GOD. NEW HAIRSTYLES. :thumbsup:

[roanlo]

Holy cow! what a big month!

 

2 achievement diaries; new holiday quest, new hairstyles, FRENCH WORLDS :thumbsup: the one language i wanna learn :mrgreen: and the updated Stealing Creation.

 

 

 

AUome month:P Ah december, greatest month of the year \ (besides my birthday in February of course)

[All_Is_Great]

I'm soooo playing in French worlds, might give my french mark a boost :D