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Tag: Dev blog
CCP Proposes Tradeable Skills, Community Not Enthused
CCP’s latest dev blog talks about coming improvements to the character bazaar, where players can buy and sell fully formed avatars in order to discourage less safe sales that would happen anyway on websites like Ebay. A majority of the updates concern the fact that the bazaar, while handy, is still too complicated for many players to confidently use, CCP has stirred the hornet’s nest with the announcement that players will be able to break their characters up into chunks and sell them piece by piece.
Effectively, you’ll be able to buy and sell individual skills without taking on the associated, and highly sought after, username xXx_420sm0k3W3eD_xXx.
By putting more control of your characters in your hands we hope to improve the game for everyone. Whether you’re an older player who would rather have ISK than those mining skills you don’t use any more, a clever new player looking to invest your fortune into your character, a Corp leader trying to move everyone into a new doctrine or someone like me who just realized that they would rather fly Armageddon’s than Stilettos, this feature has you covered. This all fits nicely to our overall game design philosophy of giving you control over your experience through cooperation and competition with each other.
The associated forum thread has broken two hundred pages, with CCP’s supporters pointing out that the function has essentially existed for years, albeit in the form of a full character rather than its individual stats.
(Source: Eve Online)
Jagex Details Possible Free To Play For OldSchool RuneScape
Old School RuneScape launched last year and continues its own track of development with a specialized team of developers. In the latest developer blog, Jagex discusses bot busting and free to play.Currently, Old School RuneScape is limited to players who have an active subscription to the main RuneScape game. Last year saw a limited free trial which Jagex acknowledges did not meet its mark as it did not see a significant increase in membership.
As part of an ongoing experiment in implementing free to play, new accounts starting May 27th will have trial access to Old School RuneScape for two weeks with a reminder that it may result in nothing changed.
The F2P journey that we are now all embarking upon will end two ways. If we find the right way to introduce F2P we will poll that method to you as a permanent addition to the game. However, you must also be prepared to accept that if we cannot find the right method, we can’t offer F2P as a permanent addition to Old School.
You can check out the entire dev blog at the link below.
(Source: RuneScape)
Old School Servers Are Here To Stay
RuneScape’s Old School server has been up and running for a few months now, with Jagex offering continuous updates to fix bugs and add in small features voted on by the community. One of the big questions that players have had since the servers launched is how successful they would be, what Jagex would ultimately decide about the possibility of an additional membership to play, and whether or not the servers would attract enough players to keep them operational.
Today Jagex released a developer blog for Old School titled “here to stay.” Players should be happy to know that the servers will remain online for years to come and, at least for the foreseeable future, will not require any additional cash.
When Old School RuneScape launched we said access would be included as part of membership for the first 6 months, and then we’d review the pricing. We’ve made that decision now, rather than wait for September… There will be no increase in cost for the foreseeable future and we aren’t planning to review the pricing again for at least the next year, if not much longer. You will be able to access both Old School and the main game for the price you are currently paying for membership.
Jagex is continuing to work on client stability, banning bots, and more.
(Source: RuneScape)
Old School RuneScape's First Content Poll Coming
Over the past couple of weeks, Old School RuneScape has seen a number of patches to bring the game back into a fully functioning state. This past week’s patch reintroduced the Construction skill, and with it player owned housing. Next week’s patch is set to bring back the mini-game Barbarian Assault. Alongside next week’s update will also introduce the first in a regular series of content polls, where Jagex picks ideas from the community forums and puts them up to a vote.
According to the poll rules, each feature will be run through a simple yes/no vote, and each poll runs over the course of a week and requires at least 75% approval in order to be passed. Only players with at least 100 total level in Old School will be able to vote. The first set of polls, listed below, will be simple content updates:
- Easter event – the 2007 Easter holiday event is re-activated to coincide with Easter this year.
- Herb naming – unidentified herbs become grimy <herb name>.
- Remove roof – a command to toggle the visibility all roofs on and off.
- ‘Enter’ to login – the enter key submits login information, rather than only the login button.
- Bank booths – left click bank booths to instantly open the bank interface.
- F2P worlds – still members only, but allows PKers to fight with F2P gear restrictions
You can find the entire announcement below.
(Source: RuneScape)
Old School RuneScape’s First Content Poll Coming
Over the past couple of weeks, Old School RuneScape has seen a number of patches to bring the game back into a fully functioning state. This past week’s patch reintroduced the Construction skill, and with it player owned housing. Next week’s patch is set to bring back the mini-game Barbarian Assault. Alongside next week’s update will also introduce the first in a regular series of content polls, where Jagex picks ideas from the community forums and puts them up to a vote.
According to the poll rules, each feature will be run through a simple yes/no vote, and each poll runs over the course of a week and requires at least 75% approval in order to be passed. Only players with at least 100 total level in Old School will be able to vote. The first set of polls, listed below, will be simple content updates:
- Easter event – the 2007 Easter holiday event is re-activated to coincide with Easter this year.
- Herb naming – unidentified herbs become grimy <herb name>.
- Remove roof – a command to toggle the visibility all roofs on and off.
- ‘Enter’ to login – the enter key submits login information, rather than only the login button.
- Bank booths – left click bank booths to instantly open the bank interface.
- F2P worlds – still members only, but allows PKers to fight with F2P gear restrictions
You can find the entire announcement below.
(Source: RuneScape)
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