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Behind The Scenes 2009; 02-Jan-2009
Topic Started: Jan 2 2009, 12:52 PM (420 Views)
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So, the first post of the New Year and you’ll be wondering what the next 12 months in RuneScape will bring. The past year saw the introduction of PvP Worlds, RuneScape High Detail, Summoning, our first Grandmaster quest, combat minigames, and Distractions and Diversions. What can we do to top 2008?

Well, this is the challenge that we’ve set ourselves: 2009 has become our official Upgrade Year! So, what does that mean? It means our New Year's resolution is to tweak and polish what we've already got in the game alongside creating new content. For example:

Doing the 'little' jobs that make a big difference (e.g. a 'You are here' arrow on the world map) and basically fixing all the annoying little niggles the game has. Things that may be the least glamorous to work on and talk about, but which really add up.
Updating some of the earliest content/quests to bring it up to date, and take advantage of all the features we have added to the game engine since it was originally created. Also, reworking old clues that no longer work now the game is bigger (e.g. 'Look west of the mountains' was fine when there was only one mountain, but not now).
Making the interfaces as intuitive, flexible and user-friendly as possible.
Then, after all that, we’ll start looking into abandoned and barely used areas/features of the game, and breathing new life into them.
Of course, we don't want to JUST do upgrades, so we're planning to do a mix of upgrades and new content. To achieve this we are planning on going back to releasing approximately four updates per month, which will alternate between upgrades and new content.

We’ve been trawling the forums, pooling opinions from our game teams and inviting everyone at Jagex HQ to voice their opinions on what they’d like to see in an upgraded RuneScape. As a regular player, there will no doubt be at least one feature you’ve always wanted to see introduced, to make your time in RuneScape even better. Chances are that it’s already on our list, but to be on the safe side, why not let us know? We’ll be monitoring the forums, so please tell us what you want to see. We can’t promise we'll do everything, but we’ll try to incorporate any particular trends we see into our plans, and let you know.

Well, at the end of my first newspost, I just want to thank you all for your continued support through 2008, and I look forward to seeing you all in Gielinor in 2009.

Happy New Year!
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summers69
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The idea of maintenance to old mechanics sounds appealing to me. Though one thing I don't see the point to is raising autologout from 130 seconds to 5 mins.. supporting afk? lol
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hopefully they update all the old quest story lines(lost tribe, plague city, ect.)
looks like a great year
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this is awesome.
i think that this needs to support afk for sure.

maybe like wow, guild wars and other big mmorpg's?
possibly no log out at all? and having a status that you can set to afk that will show freinds that you are afk?
it think that would be a HUGE improvment.
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sounds good..!
hope more mini games that give xp as a reward come out. :)

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Trix994
Jan 3 2009, 02:02 AM
hopefully they update all the old quest story lines(lost tribe, plague city, ect.)
looks like a great year

if that happens might actualkly do some more quests




and whats afk mean?.....i no a noob question but idk what it means
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lutekoma
Jan 3 2009, 11:51 PM
Trix994
Jan 3 2009, 02:02 AM
hopefully they update all the old quest story lines(lost tribe, plague city, ect.)
looks like a great year

if that happens might actualkly do some more quests




and whats afk mean?.....i no a noob question but idk what it means

away from keyboard
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tbh i dont think they can top 2008
i mean come on graphics and summoning there is no way unless they plan on making a sweet new skill
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Jan 4 2009, 07:35 PM
tbh i dont think they can top 2008
i mean come on graphics and summoning there is no way unless they plan on making a sweet new skill

they're not wanting to top 2008 just tweak it and make it better
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Ang C
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Honestly, i didn't find anything really appealing this year, like from what it says nothing huge.

Although the phoenix seems really interesting.
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Hm they didn't mention Mobilising Armies... I'm still looking forward to that lol
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the ordering of the spells will be pretty cool

new place for alching, teles in one place etc
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Jan 5 2009, 08:30 PM
the ordering of the spells will be pretty cool

new place for alching, teles in one place etc

i reckon they could also put spells that people wont use in a unused section :P
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