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Jagex Polls Completion Cape Changes In RuneScape
RuneScape is well known for its constantly changing landscape and design philosophy, weekly content updates will do that to you. The completion capes involve a long list of achievements in-game. As a show of their difficulty, these caps also happen to be best in slot stats and utility, which has made them almost mandatory for player vs monster activities.
This week’s poll is asking if players want to change that. There are two versions of the poll, one for players who have achieved the completion cape and one for those who never have. The sample questions below are for those who have never owned a completion cape.
- Should capes be cosmetic only or remain best in slot, but easier to maintain (or no change at all)
- If the capes are no longer best in slot, should Jagex add more requirements (Yes immediately, yes but gradually, or no)
- Jagex wants to make the requirements for completion/trimmed capes more consistent. Should unfitting requirements be removed (yes/no)
- How should Jagex deal with new cape requirements (special ex-comp cape, grace period, nothing)
- Should content inaccessible to some players remain on the cape (yes, no but separate cape, no)
The poll is accessible within RuneScape and will be live for another week. Jagex did note that this is not a guaranteed content poll, so the results are not guaranteed to lead to changes.
Menaphos Expansion Will Be RuneScape’s One and Only
Menaphos was meant to be the first RuneScape expansion, big content packages dropped on players every three months introducing new mechanics, new areas, and new quest lines. By estimations, the second expansion should be on its way for a September release, however recent news has revealed that Jagex is scrapping the development style after one go. While there will be larger content packs released in the future, there won’t be a release structure similar to the planned 3 month release window.
In a post on the official RuneScape website, Jagex revealed that while the idea was sound, the development of expansions had taken an unexpectedly high amount of focus away from other aspects of the game, which suffered as a result.
For the foreseeable future, content plans include bringing back polling to gauge player feedback for updates. Additionally, the content teams will be working on updates that have been in the works for quite some time, such as the bank rework, mining and smithing updates, and invention batch 2. The team is also taking a look at other community issues such as reducing the “dailyscape” daily task grind.
Finally, the big RuneScape 2018 poll is available for players. Jagex polls the community every year and uses that information to plan the next year’s content. Check it out at the link below.
(Source: RuneScape)
Guild Wars 2: World V World Poll Now Available
Should the Desert borderlands be removed from Guild Wars 2 World vs World? The team at Arenanet is holding a community poll and wants your opinion on whether or not the changes would provide a superior play experience. Players can log in and vote at the link below.
Vote here.
Guild Wars 2 Polling WvW Content
How should Arenanet prioritize world vs world content? They want to know, and they’d like you to tell them. In a post on the official website, players have been invited to vote on which project the team will work on next.
The polls are open until May 4th.
(Source: Guild Wars 2)
Daybreak Ignores Everquest Ragefire Vote
When it comes to Everquest and time-locked servers, polls ensure that the servers only progress as fast at the community wants them to. For Ragefire/Lockjaw, the latest set of progression servers, players voted by a very large percentage in order to keep the servers as they are for another six months, with the second most popular option being ASAP on Ragefire and 3 months on Lockjaw.
In an announcement posted on the official forums, however, Daybreak developer Aristo announced that the company will react to player votes by ignoring them, bending the rules and combining answers from two categories (ASAP and 3 months) and calling it the majority opinion. Instead of going with the top voted option (six months), Daybreak will instead open up voting for the Kunark expansion after three months.
Players stuck on Ragefire might have the option to transfer to Lockjaw, perhaps. It’s a possibility that Daybreak is investigating with no details or confirmation that it would be possible, also noting that the transfer wouldn’t be possible until after the servers fell out of sync.
Once Ragefire is settled into Kunark we’ll have to explore whether they want to return to the 6-month schedule or adjust it to a faster track. Likewise, although Lockjaw will hopefully be full of people who want to stick around in an era for a long time, we’ll check to make sure that remains the case as time goes by.
Daybreak Game Company seems to be suffering from a case of foot in mouth disease, as earlier today community manager Holly Longdale ruffled some feathers by stating that “casual players shouldn’t be allowed to fight Nagafen,” a rather out of touch comment considering that much of the content and competition is currently being nullified by large groups of players multi-boxing and botting.
“What we don’t want to do is instance raids, which is what casuals want us to do because they want to fight Nagafen. Casuals shouldn’t be allowed to fight Nagafen… that diminishes the achievement of others. That’s part of the challenge: You have to be better than the other guy; you have to be more strategic that the other guy.”
As for multi-boxing, Longdale assures us that they are “looking into it.”
(Source: Everquest)
Old School Resizable Mode Passes With 95%
Old School RuneScape’s latest poll doesn’t finish for another couple of days, but the figures are pretty much locked in. Chief among the long list of questions is whether or not players would like to see a resizable mode added. 95% of respondents (over 45 thousand) said yes, with a toggle to turn the feature on and off.
Also currently on the approval list are shared slayer tasks, Zulrah drops, new spell animations, achievement diary rewards, buffs to certain equipment, changes to teleports, left-click smith option on anvils, and more. A couple of questions did not pass community approval, including changes to the Fountain of Rune, an Armadyl male helmet, the ability to gain multiple bear heads, and changes to npcs in low level wilderness.
Over on RuneScape 3’s side, players voted on larger but less frequent updates, with weekly bug fixes and “ninja fix” micro-updates in between. Abyssal Demons won the poll on which slayer monster should receive rare, elite spawns, and the Seren and the Elves quest was the most popular suggestion from the Runelabs March poll.
(Source: Old School)
Old School Community Approves Grand Exchange
The Old School community has officially approved the implementation of a grand exchange auction house. The poll, which received over seventy two thousand votes, was approved with 76% and will be tweaked in another upcoming poll to decide just how the feature will function.
Players also approved dragon daggers, an increase in bank slots, and other small tweaks. The only two options to not get approved were a fee for items dropped at Zulrah and the option for filtered chat to remove text above players heads.
As always, Old School RuneScape polls require 75% approval to be added into the game.
(Source: Old School)
Old School RuneScape Polling Grand Exchange
Does the Old School RuneScape community want a Grand Exchange? We’re about to find out, as Jagex is gearing up to poll the feature in the next week. If it is voted in, the grand exchange will replace the current trading post where players can place offers on items but need to meet up in person in order to complete the trade. Should the grand exchange be implemented, it will also make way for the introduction of coinshare (expensive loot is turned into coins and split between party members) and lootshare (shared loot between party members).
Should the update not be passed, Jagex will poll updates to the trading post, including the ability to initiate a trade through the post, provided players are on the same world. Also set to be polled is the dragon defender, increase in bank slots, as well as numerous other updates.
Updates require 75% approval in order to be implemented.
(Source: RuneScape)
Old School RuneScape Polls Integrity Issues
How do you tackle issues of player integrity in a game where everything is voted on? You poll it, of course! The latest poll to hit Old School RuneScape deals with the issue of player activity and whether or not Jagex should deal with some less scrupulous, even if not exactly evil, behavior.
Players are asked to vote on dealing with AFK-training, players trading wealth between games, trust staking, and untradeable items being retrieved for free when lost to PvP. Options available are to do nothing, to implement a fix based on further polling, or to fix without a poll. Currently the majority opinion (based on 21,000 votes) is that none of the issues need to be dealt with at all.
As for the previous poll, the new continent was approved with a whopping 90% yes. 86% of players approved ten new achievement diaries, with 80% voting for elite diaries. The rest of the polls did not pass the 75% threshold, including repeatable tasks, another attempt to lower the voting threshold from 75% to 70%, an abstain option from voting, the option to change your vote, and changing the minimum requirements to vote (but just barely).
(Source: Old School RuneScape)
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