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    March 10, 2020

    RuneScape TL;DW 474 - Road to Archaeology #1

    TL;DW 474 - Road to Archaeology #1

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 12:44 PM PDT

    Video | The Road to Archaeology pt.1 | Runefest Info - potentially outdated Info

    The below information are topics covered during today's stream. I will be making a Mega-thread containing ALL info at a later date.

    General

    Capes of Accomplishment

    There is NO grace period for 99 Archaeology. But there will be a 6 month grace period for 120 Archaeology.

    • Maxed Cape - will be removed until you obtain 99 Archaeology.
    • Regular/Trimmed Comp Cape - will be lost until you re-obtain the Maxed Cape.
    • MQC - will have new reqs but they will also have a 6 month grace period.

    Accomplishments

    • Jack of All Trades & Master of All - Removed until Archie is obtained.
    • Gather's cape - Removed until obtaining the shard after 99 Archaeology.
      • Other shards will be given back.

    Boosts & Bonuses

    Only boosts obtained through the Archaeology skill will work.

    • The following will NOT work:
      • Clan Avatar, Auras, XP Lamps/Stars, Bonus XP, Refer-a-Friend, Incense sticks.
    • The following will work:
      • Daily challenges, Skillchompas, Archaeology outfits
    • There will be no Urns/Juju potions for Archaeology on release.

    Skill Interface Changes

    Skills Tab | Skill Guide

    • Clicking on an item in the skill guide will provide detailed information about that item (level, location, stats).

    Other

    • Grace of the Elves and Porters work with Materials and send them to the storage box.
      • They do not work with Soil.
    • Players will be given 50 free bank space when the update launches.
    • Some NPCs will be voiced.
    • Over 200 new Achievements

    Excavation

    • Excavation Spot - Obtain artefacts, materials, and soil.
      • Each spot will provide a group of materials which are specifically needed for the Artefact found there.
    • Material Caches - Caches located away from the main site which guarantee a certain material and soil.
      • Work similar to trees, when exhausted it's exhausted for all players.
      • Each one only contains 1 type of resource.
    • Time-sprites - Similar to Rockertunities but also slightly different.
      • Permanently present but requires you to be active and follow them around the excavation site.
      • While interacting with it, you will receive specific benefits.

    Mattocks - The pickaxe of Archaeology.

    Smithable Mattocks - (No +1, +2, etc versions) | Special Mattocks - Dragon, Crystal, Imcando, etc

    • Bronze-Rune mattocks will be available in a shop.
    • Dragon mattocks are obtained through Archaeology and through PvM.
    • A Dragon mattock is needed to make the Crystal Mattock & Imcando Mattock.
    • The Crystal and Imcando mattock are used to create the Mattock of Space and Time.
    • There is also a hero mattock item.

    Excavation Discoveries

    • Artefacts - Always found broken and when the progress bar is full. (Can be banked).
    • Materials - Are used to restore artefacts.
      • Stored in the Material storage box (similar to the metal bank but found near Restoration Benches).
      • Tradeable but not stackable.
    • Soil - Filtered at a screen station in the Varrock Digsite for additional materials.
      • Can be stored in a Soil Box within your inventory (similar to an Ore Box).
      • Tradeable but not stackable.
      • Some players will like it and use it, some won't like it and sell it.

    Restoration

    • Artefacts require a certain amount of materials to mend them.
    • The restoration process gives the most significant Archaeology XP in the game.

    Restored Artefacts can be:

    • Given to a Collector - Complete their want-list in return for Relics/other rewards.
      • First time reward for completing a collection & a reward for repeating it.
      • You cannot hand in duplicate artefacts until you complete the collection.
    • Given to the Museum - Rewarded with Chronotes.
      • Will grant you 60% of the chronotes that collectors would provide.
      • Accepts duplicate artefacts.
    • Disassembled for new Archaeology components.
    • Kept for future uses.

    Levelling

    The gameplay is non-linear and has you go to various sites at any level.

    • Five new areas: Kharid-Et, Everlight, Infernal Source, Stormguard Citadel, and Warforge.
      • The digsite goes beyond just the base-camp.
      • Base-camp contains: Restoration Bench, Material bank, Banks, Site manager.
      • All the digsites have content up to level 118-119.
    • Unlock new digsites and new excavations.
      • Find all of their secrets, loot chests full of materials, encounter puzzles to be navigated.

    Rewards

    • Relics - Most powerful rewards, but you can only have a few active at once.
    • Ancient Invention and Ancient Summoning - will be covered in-detail in a future stream.
      • 4 New Invention Materials
    • Elite Archaeology Outfit - completely earnable in-game.
      • It will provide the usual perks you'd expect, like teleports to digsites and XP boosts.
      • As well as increased success rates with soil, excavation and faster restoration too.
    • 99 Skillcape | 120 Skillcape | Archie the Archaeology skill pet

    Reward Shop

    • Chronotes - New tradeable currency for Archaeology spent at a skill-wide shop full of rewards.
    • Upon completing the Tutorial, players will be able to purchase consumables.
    • Consumables provide various boosts to Archaeology (similar to those in Deep Sea Fishing).

    Qualifications

    • Location: Varrock Digsite (Archaeology Guild)
    • Receive diplomas which recognize your Archaeology accomplishments.
    • Qualifications are basically meta-Achievements.
      • You will be required to master virtually every aspect of Archaeology at a certain level band.
      • Unlock new researchers, new chronote shop stock, and more.

    Player Owned Nerds - Researchers

    • Unlocked at Level 40 Archaeology & Assistant qualification.
    • A research team who will do things while you are away.
    • If they are successful you will get rewards - materials, artefacts, and new archaeology drops.
    • You must be a higher rank than the researchers you wish to hire. (They can have additional requirements).

    Research Management Info

    • Types of Research:
      • General Research - Perpetual thing you can do.
      • Special Research - One off, narrative driven research.
    • Research and the rewards scale to your Archaeology level.
    • Mission lengths have no effect on rewards, it just gives players more control at the rate they wish to.
    • Research can't fail, but if you cancel you'll lose the initial investment.
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    FTFY

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 12:10 PM PDT

    The recent oddments sale is a disgrace and not for the reason jagex thinks.

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 10:06 AM PDT

    Dear Jagex,

    These recent oddments promos are getting out of hand and probably not for the reasons you think. Players should not have to follow all of your social media and play 24/7 to be made aware of these promotions. As a person with a full-time job I can't just pop over to RuneScape whenever i please or crawl through every jmods twitter to see updates.

    Just before double xp weekend you pulled a similar thing where without any sort of announcement other than on a jmods twitter (if memory serves me right), you decided to make oddments 66% off. Okay, kinda shitty on your end but hey! At least the promo lasts a few days plenty of time for the news to spread around even though there should have been a post on your site or in-game... Because y'know... Not everyone uses every social media...

    Now you pull this absolute unit and spit on the face of people with full-time jobs or who simply are in a different time-zone. You throw this op promo without announcing it anywhere then remove it before people who have full-time jobs get home. Nice one jagex 👌. Honestly you keep outdoing yourselves.

    If i just put my tin-foil hat on i can imagine a few jmods and their buddies having oddments stacked up for stuff like this.

    Was the promo op as shit? Yes. Would anyone who actually plays the game be able to tell that before it was released? Also yes. Is it fair for people who don't spend their lives online? Fuck no.

    These early-bird bonuses are getting out of hands.

    Regards, Someone who can't play 24/7 hoping for early-bird bonuses.

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    Regarding Gambling: Just saying Jagex; with Archaeology you finally have a narrative excuse to destroy the much hated Duel Arena, and subsequently RS3 Staking, for good. We could destroy it in some kind of event tied in to Kharid-Et.

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 10:48 AM PDT

    When you've wasted all your oddments during the 75% sale and watch those who were too late for it.

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 11:37 AM PDT

    Excuse me wtf is this haha

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 05:06 AM PDT

    Updated but kept sufficient room for whatever else happens in March...

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 01:10 PM PDT

    Ever since I saw a certain bank flex picture as a wee lad, I've wanted to have a bank collection that I could look at and be proud of. It's got a long way to go, but I'm happy with how it's coming along.

    Posted: 09 Mar 2020 10:55 PM PDT

    Finally done with the dream outfit

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 08:33 AM PDT

    Willy Wonka on Rs3?????

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 11:58 AM PDT

    Please at least announce upcoming oddments sales in Mondays' "update" posts.

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 10:21 AM PDT

    It's poor design having sales with no announcement at all, having to rely on other players for the info or miss out.

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    I don't think that's meant to be there

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 02:43 AM PDT

    With Master Crafting making it's debut, there's only one next logical step:

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 09:54 AM PDT

    Fisherfolk, prepare your tackle and get that rod out.

    It's Master Baiting time.

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    Medium star sale fiasco

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 08:31 AM PDT

    For anyone unaware medium stars were briefly on sale for 75% off and now for 33% off.

    This is a pretty big mess up, especially considering neither sale was communicated to the players as of yet, hours later. Sales should really be communicated ahead of time or at least at the time they are activated.

    This also doesn't inspire confidence as a consumer. Just imagine if the situation was reversed and how ripped off anyone who went for the 33% off would feel when it later gets bumped to 75%.

    I do like oddments sales, but they need to be done and communicated in a better way.

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    Speaking of ancient artifacts, can we get new ones?

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 01:02 PM PDT

    Archaeology 120 Master Cape & Skills

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 10:52 AM PDT

    Oddments sale

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 07:28 AM PDT

    So med stars are 134 oddments each. I swear they were 50 each like an hour ago. What gives?

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    Jagex, please allow redistribution of the launcher by third parties!

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 04:03 AM PDT

    The current game EULA prevents redistribution of the launcher in any capacity. The impact of this clause is all Linux third party packages have to wrap around the official installer and grab the executables from Jagex directly. Given the official Jagex instructions did not work for nearly 4 years, I absolutely believe the majority of the community is utilising third party packages for installing the game on Linux. This redistribution clause does nothing to ensure that Linux players are using Jagex's official instructions.

    As of last week, another Linux bug has been introduced in the official Linux installer, preventing the game from being installed, which is about the worst bug possible for an installer. This bug impacts every third party package because of this redistribution clause, and even though the bug was found in the first 10 minutes of the update going live, we are now looking at up to two weeks of waiting for a fix, if not more. This could have been mitigated substantially if not for this redistribution clause, but as is, more and more people are being hit by it.

    ​

    Please revise the EULA for RS3, and extend this to OSRS, to allow third parties to repackage your own installers for the purpose of providing compatibility to other players. The current scenario benefits absolutely no one. The majority of time spent working on these packages is because of legal limitations, not technical ones. And the end result just makes everyones lives harder. No malicious user is going to follow the EULA to begin with, it does not achieve the intended goal whatsoever.

    ​

    Tl;Dr

    Please allow third parties to repackage the launcher for both games, feel free to enforce restrictions such as no modifications to the executable code, no misrepresentation of the source, making it clear there support is unofficial, whatever.

    Take after Valve, who allow this exact same scenario, for these exact same reasons, and work with their community rather than causing unnecessary problems against it.

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    This is getting out of hand!

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 05:41 AM PDT

    Medium Prismatic Stars are now 33% off, down from 75%

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 07:12 AM PDT

    Early bird bonus is over folks

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    Why the Crafting Guild Event 'could' be a good thing

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 06:47 AM PDT

    Personally, I like the Crafting Guild event. I think it's much nicer than filling Lumbridge Crater with AFK and arguably OP(?) training methods - and let's be honest, we're always going to get these events from now on.

    With the Crafting Guild event, they've graphically updated the NPC's of the Guild, the floor of the guild, and added a bank chest and Invention workbench. The only problem is, the bank chest is temporary - I don't think it should be.

    Given that these events will be happening regardless, I think it's a perfect opportunity for the teams involved to update, rework and revitalise content. Imagine if after this event ended, the bank chest was kept in the guild and players could make urns faster in the guild. That'd be fantastic, because it would make the Crafting Guild useful - and Jagex have mentioned and various points over the last decade that they would like to make Guilds useful again.

    We could see these events updating all of the Guilds in the game - improving them and making them useful alongside the events. Let's say that the next event is in the Cooking Guild - there's room to make the Cooking Guild a useful hub for training Cooking alongside that - Perhaps we can make Pies faster in the Guild. A Mining Guild update could allow us to bank ore via the Dwarven NPC's.

    It doesn't have to just be Guilds though, it could be any piece of outdated content within the game. They could do a Shattered Worlds inspired event and add new rewards, minibosses and hiscores to Shattered Worlds alongside it. Or, they could do a Dungeoneering event, and update the Daemonheim wall kits, rebalance the bosses and add new rewards aside that. Perhaps a Mage/Range Guild event which introduces Magic and Ranged Defenders from level 1 to 70. The opportunities are endless.

    What would have made this even better is if they had also updated the wall kit of the Crafting Guild - as it's graphics are from the early 2000s. They could of also added a robust glass machine, loom and spinning wheel.

    I hope these events continue to be in places that are able to revitalise old content, rather than just being in the Lumbridge Crater. Like I've said, it'd be nice if the bank chest in the Crafting Guild stayed, in order to make it a useful Crafting location.

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    Nice

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 11:39 AM PDT

    Cold fix at 2:00PM game time - Resolving a graphical issue in the Crafting Guild

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 06:06 AM PDT

    Hey all,

    In an attempt to reduce the size of the icon displayed above the head of the master crafter in the crafting guild things haven't gone as anticipated. As a result, various other images are being displayed above the NPC's head right now.

    Additionally this hotfix is also causing client crashes to players and stopping them from logging in all together.

    In order to resolve this we will be applying a cold fix to the game at 2:00PM game time. This means we will have to temporarily turn off all worlds to carry out the work. Expect the downtime to be +- 10 minutes.

    Apologies for the inconvenience.

    Keep an eye out on this thread for future updates in relation to the pending cold fix.

    Update 13:39:

    • Countdown is live & broadcast is out
    • Added a line of players experiencing crashes and/or not being able to log in.

    Update 14:04:

    • Game is back up and everything is looking good, apologizes for the inconvenience once more.
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    This is not a clue...?

    Posted: 10 Mar 2020 11:01 AM PDT
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