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New Year Message - 31-Dec-2009


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A very happy New Year to you all! We hope that you are filling your boots with good cheer and Party Pete-like celebrations.

 

During the first half of 2009 we learnt a whole lot from our community and focused mostly on improving our underlying technology and switching back to weekly updates. While this was possibly less exciting to some, it was very necessary to set the stage to make possible the updates we had planned for the second half of the year. Looking back at 2009, there have been some pretty big updates. A few highlights include:

 

Finishing the goblin storyline with The Chosen Commander.

High-level training updates for several skills with the Living Rock Caverns, the Agility extensions and the Woodcutting sawmill.

New rewards for skills, like the ancient curses, the extreme potions and the dragon pickaxe.

The Evil Tree.

Cool quests like Curse of Arrav, Blood Runs Deep, Hunt for Red Raktuber and The Temple at Senntisten.

The Objective and Advisor systems.

And lets not forget about new support for resizing the game window (even in Standard Detail mode) - no more playing in a tiny window!

So, what is the new year going to bring? For one, we want to continue producing quests at the rate and quality that we have been, which means expanding the most popular storylines and bringing a couple to dramatic conclusions. Well also be casting a critical eye over our existing skills, searching for holes, and filling them with new training activities and rewards. Thats before we even mention the new skill that is coming in 2010! And yes, there will be new combat equipment as well, and also a new Grandmaster quest but more on that closer to release.

 

Of course, we havent planned every single update yet because we want to take on board your ideas for RuneScape content as well, and naturally give ourselves the spare resources to make it happen. RuneScapes success over the last decade wouldnt have been possible without your passionate input, and we promise to continue to solicit and take on board your feedback. So, go to the forums and get your ideas seen, heard, then - in some cases even played in 2010!

 

We hope you have a great one!

 

Andrew, Mark Gerhard and Mod Fetzki

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So, what is the new year going to bring? For one, we want to continue producing quests at the rate and quality that we have been, which means expanding the most popular storylines and bringing a couple to dramatic conclusions. Well also be casting a critical eye over our existing skills, searching for holes, and filling them with new training activities and rewards. Thats before we even mention the new skill that is coming in 2010! And yes, there will be new combat equipment as well, and also a new Grandmaster quest but more on that closer to release.

 

 

That's the half interesting part

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You know, the only thing that I'm hoping for at the moment is improvements to the Great Orb Project. It's so flawed and glitchy right now, and Jagex still hasn't noticed it yet! :o

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I hope that the new skill is something useful and not just some skill that they try to get out

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Im sure im reading into the wording too much and incorrectly but "Thats before we even mention the new skill that is coming in 2010! And yes, there will be new combat equipment as well" The "And yes" part to me seems to be an extension of the previous sentence. New skill is a combat oriented skill?? I hope so...

Hmm it's a possibility, not sure though. Maybe it means something similar to summoning with the headgear, or maybe it's a continuation of the high levelled updates planned and not the new skill?
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Looks like its going to be a good year...

 

More storylines continuing (hopefully a new elven quest)...a new grandmaster quest...and a new skill :smile:

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Maybe our avatars will get noses and the male avatars will get genitals. I hate having a transvestite avatar :roll:

 

The male avatar sucks. I sometimes change my avatar to female and play like that for a while, then I change it back. The male avatar just doesn't have as much variety to it, and the shaping sucks. :rolleyes:

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searching for holes, and filling them

take on board

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So, what is the new year going to bring? For one, we want to continue producing quests at the rate and quality that we have been, which means expanding the most popular storylines and bringing a couple to dramatic conclusions. Well also be casting a critical eye over our existing skills, searching for holes, and filling them with new training activities and rewards. Thats before we even mention the new skill that is coming in 2010! And yes, there will be new combat equipment as well, and also a new Grandmaster quest but more on that closer to release.

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Well it looks like we will, in fact, be getting updates in 2010.

 

I remember jagex mentioned their plans for a combat rebalance sometime... perhaps the new skill could involve that (maybe introducing a system somewhat similar to the accuracy/strength idea behind melee combat to range/mage)?

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So, what is the new year going to bring? For one, we want to continue producing quests at the rate and quality that we have been, which means expanding the most popular storylines and bringing a couple to dramatic conclusions. Well also be casting a critical eye over our existing skills, searching for holes, and filling them with new training activities and rewards. Thats before we even mention the new skill that is coming in 2010! And yes, there will be new combat equipment as well, and also a new Grandmaster quest but more on that closer to release.

 

 

That's the half interesting part

Agreed. Kinda excited to see the new skill myself. And MABEY the skill update would be something to firemaking...thats my hope

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Looking back at 09 I am actually quite imppressed with what they did. They went back and redid alot of the structure that Runescape is based around. They did COUNTLESS bug fixes and they even gave us a decent amount of good, new content. And now that they reworked alot of the structure, I'm really excited to see what they can do with the new stuff they did this year.

09 was certainly a year of building up a base for future years to use and build off of.

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Msybe they will remove pvp

and bring back old wild and take away trade limits? \:D/

 

Ye, when hell freezes over.

 

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As long as they fix the PVP Statuette system, 2010 will be a good year.

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Lol why get exited? None of those updates will actually come out in 2010, if they are in development now.

Then why would they write about it? A year is a long time, they might have been working on a quest for 2 months and it can easily be released in 2010.. :wall:

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I'm a little surprised at some of the things they chose to highlight from 2009. Evil trees? Advisor system? I wasn't under the impression that those were the most popular or influential updates of the year. And they didn't mention the random event update or the run update, both of which had huge impacts on gameplay.

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I'm a little surprised at some of the things they chose to highlight from 2009. Evil trees? Advisor system? I wasn't under the impression that those were the most popular or influential updates of the year. And they didn't mention the random event update or the run update, both of which had huge impacts on gameplay.

But those are f2p :rolleyes:

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