02-Jun-2010 - Video Q&A: RuneScape Content Team

[strilmus]

Wikipedia also never mentions anything about talking large snakes and talking magical constructs created to guard large rocks of unlimited potential, so I don't really trust their sources.

[stonewall337]

No they didn't but neither did we have magic, demons giant bugs and giant orc's. To be hones, compared to the rest of the RS content penguins are fairly close to being real.

 

 

Magic, demons, orcs, etc are all rather accepted part of fantasy. Fits RS' genre. Talking penguins during the middle ages do not fit the real life time period.

[strilmus]

Thanks for admitting that talking penguins are real, despite not being present during the Middle Ages as far as you know. I've been trying to convince people for ages about that.

[stonewall337]

Thanks for admitting that talking penguins are real, despite not being present during the Middle Ages as far as you know. I've been trying to convince people for ages about that.

Your logic is slightly flawed. You can't infer what you did. Stating that talking penguins DIDN'T exist during the middle ages in no way can be logically constructed as stating that talking penguins DID exist at other times.

 

Runescape is divided into 2, oh call them what you'd like. Perhaps genre and time. The genre is fantasy. Magic and things thus related. The time is the middle ages. Swords, bows, arrows, etc. Thus the democratic and republican party would no more fit into RS then would the lack of all fantastical elements. I can see talking penguins fitting into the fantastical element, but as would cute talking unicorns, they don't add to the "mature" view of RS.

[Danqazmlp]

But we don't all need a mature aspect to RS. It can take more maturity to enjoy the penguins than it does to enjoy the things which many consider mature.

 

Runescape is a game where there is something for everybody. Not only is it a game which can be played by many, it is a game which can be enjoyed by many.

[Obtaurian]

I've always thought of Runescape as belonging to the genre of fantasy MMORPG. We have dragons who teach arithmetic to goblins, mummies, zombies, and giants. Doesn't get much more fantastical than that.

[Maxingmck]

KGB was in the cold war, that =/= Midieval

[stonewall337]

KGB was in the cold war, that =/= Midieval

 

KGP. Not KGP. KGP=Killer gentoo penguin.

[Maxingmck]

The cold war took place in the last century

[stonewall337]

The cold war took place in the last century

 

Cold war is a general term for a period of extreme tension between nations, etc. It doesn't refer sololy to the US vs USSR cold war.

[muggiwhplar]

Are we seriously arguing about this?

 

 

 

On topic: that's unfortunate that batch 2 probably won't be out any time soon. Guess I need to quit holding out for it, and go ahead and spend my tokens :\

[Crazykid1321]

I think that the process of adding more Dungeoneering floors is more complex than we believe, and probably much more so than adding a few familiars like in Summoning Batch 2.

[Den]

And talking penguins is kinda kiddish. Not saying its bad per say, but I'd prefer time was spent on content such as WGS and TDS, then on the KGP and talking penguins.

 

And i'd prefer they work on fixing the interaction between players across different floor levels instead of other content, but I know they wont do that. ;)

 

Talking penguins during the middle ages do not fit the real life time period.

 

Runescape was a game last time I checked. Who cares if it fits into the real life middle ages?

[Danqazmlp]

 

And i'd prefer they work on fixing the interaction between players across different floor levels instead of other content, but I know they wont do that. ;)

 

I'm sure i read somewhere the reason they won't do that (which they have tried in the past) is that when originally creating buildings and the floor system they never expected to try inter-floor sight. Which means that the roofs are all too low to allow players to see the floor below without people inside buildings poking through the roofs. With the hundreds and thousands of combinations of items which would stick through roofs or editing the hundreds of buildings, they decided it would be too much work for the little pay off.

[Den]

And i'd prefer they work on fixing the interaction between players across different floor levels instead of other content, but I know they wont do that. ;)

 

I'm sure i read somewhere the reason they won't do that (which they have tried in the past) is that when originally creating buildings and the floor system they never expected to try inter-floor sight. Which means that the roofs are all too low to allow players to see the floor below without people inside buildings poking through the roofs. With the hundreds and thousands of combinations of items which would stick through roofs or editing the hundreds of buildings, they decided it would be too much work for the little pay off.

 

Yeah, I read that too. It was one of the couple legacy glitches they didnt think the time spent fixing would give enough back.

I still think it would be something worth trying to fix though, as it would have the possibility to change RS as we know it if done correctly.

[Danqazmlp]

I agree it would be very nice, but I'm not sure whether the time spent doing it would be worth it if it meant losing 3-5 regular updates as it would mean changing how so many buildings work.

[strilmus]

I mean they're already spending all their precious time and money on making solo dungeoneering saves work and lord knows why they built that issue into their code. :roll:

[Triquos]

I'd be scared too if I were on the content team and were asked to be in a video on their already busy schedule. I'm sure making a video for the players' was the last thing on their minds. I personally think the penguin hide and seek activity is hilarious, seeing penguins going around in bushes etc. reminds me of that madagascar movie with the penguins wanting to achieve world domination, of course the humans being completely oblivious to the cute creatures. The've also helped me gain level 51 dungeoneering without having to train it properly in daemonheim :thumbsup:

 

I never knew the content team came up with literally everything. I was hoping I might move over to Jagex land to become one but then they talked about scripting and programming errrg, I can't program and it bores me lol so there goes my chances of joining their team. Oh well, great vid, hope they bring out more =D

[bedman]

It's not the free exp I don't like, it's the fact that it's one of the most "kiddy" updates of the entire game. The game already isn't "cool" so to speak, but if I was seen by anyone hunting talking penguins that's just 100x less cool.

Wtf. The last thing I would think of when someone sees me playing Runescape is "Oh noes, they will see I'm looking for penguins hiding in a bush, now they will laugh at me in school". If anything, I think they'd find it funny.

 

Now more on topic: Is this our weekly update? :(

 

Is this me, or we really haven't had any good updates since dungeoneering? (I know I'm overlooking a few quests and whatnot here, but for me personally, I haven't had the feeling there has been any update affecting me since dungeoneering). I'm normally not the guy to complain, In fact, I wouldn't mind monthly or even yearly updates, when they would be more thought out and bugfree. However, now it seems we are getting updates less frequent, and when they occur they're still not that special/well thought out/... I might be making conclusion too fast though, so please don't quote me on this, just thinking aloud.

[Den]

Now more on topic: Is this our weekly update? :(

 

This week's update was Castle Wars Improvements.