05-Sep-2013 - The New Solomon�s General Store

[Huge Noob]

The overhaul to Solomon's General Store is here, with the rewards from the Members Loyalty Programme being successfully re-homed among its already bountiful stock. Now you're able to spend your loyalty points on a wide range of items, some of which have received a major graphical upgrade and look better than ever – including the loyalty items you have already purchased.

Loyalty shop outfits are now cosmetic overrides and can be equipped through the wardrobe interface. Because of this change, players whose loyalty items were stored in dragon keepsake boxes will be refunded the keepsake key upon launch of the update.

You can also access your Members' Loyalty Programme information straight from Solomon's General Store. With just one click, you can view your loyalty points and details on how long you've been a member in one convenient location.

The Members' Loyalty Programme has also been reworked in terms of how you earn loyalty points:

• Anyone who is a member for a year receives an exclusive milestone reward, with further items for continuous years of membership. Note that this only counts back since the Loyalty Programme first went live, so no-one will get more than the first two items today.
  
• Any milestone items for which you're eligible will be sent to your bank. If you don't have enough bank space, you'll be able to claim them from Diango in Draynor Village marketplace.
  
• Players who subscribe for several months in a row receive bonus loyalty points.
  

Xuan is still around and you can now access the Solomon's General Store via his market stall. He'll still help you to retrieve lost auras and re-colour items.

This change marks a new and improved era for the Members' Loyalty Programme, with much more content planned for the future. We'd like to thank you for your patience while we were working on polishing this exciting update. We know that many of you were disappointed by the delay, so please accept our apologies. We hope that you enjoy using the newly merged store.

For more details, check out the official FAQ.

The RuneScape Team

In Other News

• Super September has flexed its pecs and continues to soar through the skies! Remember to check the news for details of your daily Super Challenge.
  
• With Vorago's deadly green bomb rotation coming into play this week, we're running a special Twitch event with Mod Chris L - Vorago's developer - along with Mod Ryan and Mod Oliver from QA. Join us on our Twitch.tv channel on Thursday 5th September at 6pm (BST).
  
• We've added timers to the icons for many of your favourite buffs, potion effects and abilities so you can see more accurately how long they have left.
  
• It's week seven of the Battle of Lumbridge and the final tier of rewards - Tier 3 - has now unlocked. There's also a new Duke's Dilemma to consider over in Lumbridge Castle.
  
• Check out the cute and combustible golden chinchompa, available on the Squeal of Fortune from Friday. Details to come soon!
  

 

 

[spoiler=Patch Notes]3rd September 2013

 

 

New Interface System:

 

Split private chat now works as expected.

Trying to private message another player with the tab button will once again display the name of the other player in the chatbox.

The quick prayer button on the action bar now works correctly.

Players will no longer click through the chat tabs with the "Click through chat window" setting set.

The XP counter ring now displays the current progress to the next level more consistently when the player is at over 50% progress.

Messages displaying remaining inventory and loan durations in the trade window now fit correctly in their boxes.

Players being assisted in Magic now have their assister's Magic level checked against in the Magic interface.

 

 

Skills, D&Ds & Minigames:

 

Medics in the Battle of Lumbridge will now put more effort in to healing.

Fallen rocks in the Battle of Lumbridge now return a larger XP reward when mined.

 

 

Quests, Challenges & Achievements:

 

The camera during the final battle on the submarine during Some Like It Cold has been fixed.

The HTML5 client will no longer crash if you die in the final battle of Some Like It Cold.

 

 

Other:

 

The lifepoints boost awarded by lighting logs in a bonfire now scales correctly with the new lifepoint values brought in by the Evolution of Combat.

Overload, prayer renewal and anti-dragon potions now display a countdown on their respective buff icons. Combo-attacks, some healing abilities as well as stun and bind icons also carry a countdown.

Balmung and the Fremennik seaboots have had their boosted damage against the dagannoth kings reworked.

Dungeoneering capes stored in a dragon keepsake key can once again be activated at the correct Dungeoneering level.

Attempting to reclaim an item stored in a dragon keepsake box is once again possible with a PIN set.

Any ceiling that Vorago has collapsed in stage 3 that isn't destroyed before the end of stage will fall down to stage 4.

 

[Saradomin_Mage]

Whoops, I was under the impression that the bonus we were getting for the 1-year and 2-year milestones were going to be points, not items. Shouldn't have blown them all :(

 

On the plus side, combat timers at last!

[Nobody]

Green bomb coming this week at Vorago FML

[chenw]

Xuan in game now has a button that links directly to SGS without the need to logout, also, his shop now only has recolors and Auras.

 

Edit: SGS doesn't seem to have been updated so far. In fact I can't see anything that has changed.

[Ambler]

Green bomb coming this week at Vorago FML

This week's rotation was impossible enough ._.

[Yoko Kurama]

The update isn't here yet for a lot of people, apparently. They either get whitescreen, or nothing changes, particularly if they access it from the site, as well. Odd.

[chenw]

the 1 Year milestone item is on Diango

[Sy_Accursed]

Mmm no sign of new store for me atm.

 

Also I like how the super hyped 'milestone' rewards are hideous near identical bronze tiara/crown things...because useless items that look fugly and have no use is just what we all want especially crown cause it's not like we don't have several other better looking choices.

[Wkw]

what are the milestone rewards?

[Sy_Accursed]

Fugly bronze crowns with a barely visible I or II on the front.

[God Of Lego]

Fugly bronze crowns with a barely visible I or II on the front.

 

AHHAHAHHAHAHAH

 

I would rather take the 2 years membership money and buy a P-Hat.

 

(not that I would do that. Its not worth the pixels. But in comparison)

[Yoko Kurama]

I only have the 1 year crown, but it's actually not bad looking. I don't know why you hate it so much. It's a bit small, you have to zoom in to view it. It could be bigger, but that's about it.

[Saradomin_Mage]

inb4 the gold crown is after 10 years lol

[Sy_Accursed]

Cause its plain and boring and we have easier to obtain better looking crowns. Not to mention how much they hyped milestone rewards as some big reward for ur loyalty and its a frigging crown. No emote, no xp, no functional use heck it's even an ITEM instead of an override as part of an update tht specifically made items into overrides in recognition of the fact we prefer them. Then of course the fact the that two year milestone reward is virtually identical to the 1 year reward so it doesn't even offer any sort of distinguishing feature that you are more loyal.

[Riptide Mage]

Funny how even after a week's delay they fail to properly roll out the new store.

[Sy_Accursed]

It's rolled out fine, they just can't reload the game and external servers at the same time so soloman's server is now being reloaded to update that end of things.

 

As confirmed by jmods in-game.

[God Of Lego]

Cause its plain and boring and we have easier to obtain better looking crowns. Not to mention how much they hyped milestone rewards as some big reward for ur loyalty and its a frigging crown. No emote, no xp, no functional use heck it's even an ITEM instead of an override as part of an update tht specifically made items into overrides in recognition of the fact we prefer them. Then of course the fact the that two year milestone reward is virtually identical to the 1 year reward so it doesn't even offer any sort of distinguishing feature that you are more loyal.

 

In a year we will get the crown of spins. If you've bought 100+ spins you can have the crown. It gives you 1 spin a day more and gives you an emote that turns you into a giant spinning wheel. Not only that its an animated crown that constantly spins on your head.

[Riptide Mage]

It's rolled out fine, they just can't reload the game and external servers at the same time so soloman's server is now being reloaded to update that end of things.

 

As confirmed by jmods in-game.

 

So the loyalty store and SGS are disabled for days at a time..and they couldn't update it then? That's poor planning and design.

[Alg]

So the loyalty store and SGS are disabled for days at a time..and they couldn't update it then? That's poor planning and design.

SGS has been open for the entire time, and all they disabled for the loyalty store was the ability to spend your points.

[Umdlye]

inb4 the gold crown is after 10 years lol

 

You're in luck! You get a gold crown in a mere 7 years of loyalty!

[Yoko Kurama]

As I had anticipated, the SGS items are far too pricey with Loyalty Points. Not really worth spending Loyalty on it unless you absolutely need to have something and have no other use for Loyalty.

[Sy_Accursed]

Well this is a big let down.

 

Pointless milestone rewards, barely anything buyable with loyalty and what is is predominantly the less appealing stuff and pretty much all vastly overpriced.

[Yoko Kurama]

Actually the rather high Loyalty prices were in the BTS video. So it wasn't really a letdown, for me at least.

[chenw]

The most useful things for me from SGS: 208,800 for bank spaces, and 56k per dragon keepsake key.

 

Thank god i spent coins on the spaces...

[Riqualyn]

Oh, only 208k loyalty points for 50 bank spaces.

 

That's 19 months consecutively.

 

So 19 months loyalty is worth $11 USD to Jagex. Good to know.

 

Edit:

 

At a glance through, Loyalty point to Rune Coin ratios seem to be:

 

Boosters: 552 LP/Coin

Keepsake: 444 LP/Coin

Hairstyle: 355 LP/Coin

 

So Boosters are actually the least effective use barring any hidden gems stuck around.