Behind the Scenes � July

[Platinum_Myr]

It should be good enough to allow groups, but not good enough to prevent solo slayer :) Right now duo slayer is not a real option because you can only meet people when on the same task. Which doesn't happen that often.

[Lep]

So... veteran cape... what do you think the chances of it having really good stats are? My guess is 100% chance to have 0 stats at all. And the way it's worded... it's not colour customizable? <_<

[Sorator]

So... veteran cape... what do you think the chances of it having really good stats are? My guess is 100% chance to have 0 stats at all. And the way it's worded... it's not colour customizable? <_<

I'm betting they'll fashion it after the 5-year veteran cape - so some stats but nothing massive, and not recolorable. (Which is perfectly fine with me. I'm not a huge fan of the color customization nonsense, lol.)

 

@Platinum: That's what I'm hoping for, and it sounds like that's what we'll get.

[Platinum_Myr]

I like the idea of customizable colors. But I think it really only should be allowed on the very top end capes like it is now. The reason is that it is a prestige feature to be able to color the game how you want. Though I wouldn't mind the option on the 10yr cape.. I like the idea of keeping it exclusive to the max/comp capes.

[Ammako]

So... veteran cape... what do you think the chances of it having really good stats are? My guess is 100% chance to have 0 stats at all. And the way it's worded... it's not colour customizable? <_<

 

'nuff said.

[Lep]

So... veteran cape... what do you think the chances of it having really good stats are? My guess is 100% chance to have 0 stats at all. And the way it's worded... it's not colour customizable? <_<

 

'nuff said.

 

Good catch. I actually never did get that ugly thing lol.

[HunterDexter]

I really don't understand why that cape looks so solid, it doesn't move when you walk with it, it's like it is made of cardboard or something, instead of cloth. Also, they should never ever let the playerbase choose the design again. :/

[Flyingjj]

Yeah, the community just picked each element individually. I remember that there were options that obviously went together, and some that obviously didn't. But the poll of course picked each element individually, therefore we're left with this monstrosity.

 

I'm excited for the ten year cape. I'll qualify, assuming they don't use stupid criteria like the first date you subscribed to members.

[Sorator]

Eh, it doesn't look too bad to me. *shrug*

 

I'd guess the ten year cape will use the same criteria as the five year cape. And very few people have had ten years of continuous membership (though I'm coming close).

[muggiwhplar]

I don't think you need to have been a member for 10 years total (has membership even been out that long?)... your account just needs to be 10 years old and you need to be a member to claim the cape.

 

Either way I won't be getting my cape till 2016 hah.

[Robert_R]

Eh, it doesn't look too bad to me. *shrug*

 

I'd guess the ten year cape will use the same criteria as the five year cape. And very few people have had ten years of continuous membership (though I'm coming close).

Your account just needs to have existed for 5 years to get the 5 years cape. It'll probably be the same for the 10 year cape unless jagex went crazy.

[Ruinous Edge]

I don't think you need to have been a member for 10 years total (has membership even been out that long?)... your account just needs to be 10 years old and you need to be a member to claim the cape.

 

Either way I won't be getting my cape till 2016 hah.

Membership for runescape was introduced feb. 2002, so in theory some players may have had membership for 10 years consecutively, but I'm tending to agree it will follow 5 year vet cape, and go by date of creation rather than date of first membership.

[The Rocket]

I don't think you need to have been a member for 10 years total (has membership even been out that long?)... your account just needs to be 10 years old and you need to be a member to claim the cape.

 

Either way I won't be getting my cape till 2016 hah.

Membership for runescape was introduced feb. 2002, so in theory some players may have had membership for 10 years consecutively, but I'm tending to agree it will follow 5 year vet cape, and go by date of creation rather than date of first membership.

The only potential problem with that is Jagex does not have any records on accounts created during 2001. Records start once membership was introduced. So for extremely old accounts created in 2001, according to Jagex, they'd have been around since 2002 if they subscribed to members when it first came out.

[Ruinous Edge]

I don't think you need to have been a member for 10 years total (has membership even been out that long?)... your account just needs to be 10 years old and you need to be a member to claim the cape.

 

Either way I won't be getting my cape till 2016 hah.

Membership for runescape was introduced feb. 2002, so in theory some players may have had membership for 10 years consecutively, but I'm tending to agree it will follow 5 year vet cape, and go by date of creation rather than date of first membership.

The only potential problem with that is Jagex does not have any records on accounts created during 2001. Records start once membership was introduced. So for extremely old accounts created in 2001, according to Jagex, they'd have been around since 2002 if they subscribed to members when it first came out.

I don't see why Jagex wouldn't have records of account creations during 2001, They've kept records of accounts made pre-rs2, for the veteran's server of RSC they are still running. So in theory they should have account creation dates from the very start of runescape, i.e RSC 2001

[Saradomin_Mage]

You'd think that, but remember there were people last year who couldn't claim RSC capes despite owning Bunny ears or Scythes.

Jagex claims to have the exact account creation date of each account but I wouldn't put too much faith in that statement.

[Platinum_Myr]

They don't have 100% details on some of the original accounts, because it was two guys in a garage originally. However, I do believe they had account details for accounts before members. They also could set the date of any account before they tracked to the date of tracking start... Something like classic vs rs2 is a lot different because some accounts that are newer than rs2 have access to classic due to events that gave access. I imagine that keeping track of account creation date is important.

 

Lets hope they have good data, cause I want my 10yr cape.

[roky95]

Colours on that cape are so dull

[Sy_Accursed]

You'd think that, but remember there were people last year who couldn't claim RSC capes despite owning Bunny ears or Scythes.

Jagex claims to have the exact account creation date of each account but I wouldn't put too much faith in that statement.

 

 

I would not remotely class classic player on par with the creation date measure since the classic cape unlock was measured against having logged into classic (an admittedly flawed measure that probably only recorded post-rs2 launch classic log ins) not account dates.

 

Also they do have this data on account creation, just it only goes back to 2002 when members first launched, hence why it was only this year in around march the first people could've got the cape. This is a known fact that they have told us in that first pre-members year they did not store the creation date for w/e reason so all jan 01 - march-ish 02 accounts have 'creation' dates of the first day of members.

[Urza285]

You'd think that, but remember there were people last year who couldn't claim RSC capes despite owning Bunny ears or Scythes.

Jagex claims to have the exact account creation date of each account but I wouldn't put too much faith in that statement.

 

 

I would not remotely class classic player on par with the creation date measure since the classic cape unlock was measured against having logged into classic (an admittedly flawed measure that probably only recorded post-rs2 launch classic log ins) not account dates.

 

Also they do have this data on account creation, just it only goes back to 2002 when members first launched, hence why it was only this year in around march the first people could've got the cape. This is a known fact that they have told us in that first pre-members year they did not store the creation date for w/e reason so all jan 01 - march-ish 02 accounts have 'creation' dates of the first day of members.

Yup... Bac when jagex was a wee toddler as a business. I remember when they said members was going to be a sort of beta to test how well it kept the company running. Should it be successful it would remain and further features would be added... Ahhh the nostalgia *sighs*

[Leik]

Figured this would be worth posting here:

 

 

As a part of our Social Slayer update (that is planned for this week) we will be adding degradation to the Slayer Helmet. This will work the same as the Barrows degradation. As compensation for this the Slayer Helmet in it's 'Full' form will now give a 20% bonus to all combat styles instead of 15%. The Black Mask, Focus Sight and Hexcrest in their original state will still only give 15%

[Ruinous Edge]

Figured this would be worth posting here:

 

 

As a part of our Social Slayer update (that is planned for this week) we will be adding degradation to the Slayer Helmet. This will work the same as the Barrows degradation. As compensation for this the Slayer Helmet in it's 'Full' form will now give a 20% bonus to all combat styles instead of 15%. The Black Mask, Focus Sight and Hexcrest in their original state will still only give 15%

What?!? why Jagex why?....hope it doesn't become unwearable when degraded like barrows. And hope the repair costs aren't too high, maybe fixable with bob/POH stands rather than needing slayer points like DG item recharges.

[Alg]

Figured this would be worth posting here:

 

 

As a part of our Social Slayer update (that is planned for this week) we will be adding degradation to the Slayer Helmet. This will work the same as the Barrows degradation. As compensation for this the Slayer Helmet in it's 'Full' form will now give a 20% bonus to all combat styles instead of 15%. The Black Mask, Focus Sight and Hexcrest in their original state will still only give 15%

What?!? why Jagex why?

Indeed. Simply put, there's no reason for this. It doesn't make any kind of sense.

[Dragonlordjl]

Figured this would be worth posting here:

 

 

As a part of our Social Slayer update (that is planned for this week) we will be adding degradation to the Slayer Helmet. This will work the same as the Barrows degradation. As compensation for this the Slayer Helmet in it's 'Full' form will now give a 20% bonus to all combat styles instead of 15%. The Black Mask, Focus Sight and Hexcrest in their original state will still only give 15%

What?!? why Jagex why?

Indeed. Simply put, there's no reason for this. It doesn't make any kind of sense.

 

Unless...

 

"Once fully degrded, the slayer helmet no longer provides any bonus. To recharge it, you must find a slayer master and trade in 500 slayer points. But if you don't quite have that many, don't fret because we've added a brand-new Recharge Token to uncommon slots on the Squeal of Fortune! And because we care so much about the players, we'll do even better than that: for the next week, Recharge Tokens will instead occupy the common slots.

 

Happy gaming!

 

-JaGeX."

[Cow]

The compensation seems nice. But I'm very interested in how social slayer requires it to degrade. That seems very strange and annoying.

REALLYYYY hoping its not something like 200 slayer points to repair.

[Sorator]

Figured this would be worth posting here:

 

 

As a part of our Social Slayer update (that is planned for this week) we will be adding degradation to the Slayer Helmet. This will work the same as the Barrows degradation. As compensation for this the Slayer Helmet in it's 'Full' form will now give a 20% bonus to all combat styles instead of 15%. The Black Mask, Focus Sight and Hexcrest in their original state will still only give 15%

guh! >.< Dislike!