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Daibhi

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Armodilo said :
Daibhi said :
Is this another case of Jagex neglecting their own official forum/website and treating it like it doesn't exist? Because I don't have a clue what any of you are talking about.


The tuesday twitch livestream outlined an update for the 14th doing a rework for the penguin D&D.


That'll explain it haha, I've fell out of the habit of watching the livestreams for RS. I'll have a nosey at it at some point today.

02-Sep-2020 16:07:36

Armodilo
Dec Member 2011

Armodilo

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Jeremy Cheng said :
Good changes, but I'm still not doing this dead minigame unless the xp and coins get buffed.


exp is getting a buff as it's going to be lamp based so for skills over a certain level it'll be 50%+ more and money is also getting a buff and it's about 1mil+. Assuming all spied and it'll vary slightly because a new peng is rng and doesn't count for the weekly cap.

But the gameplay aspect disappears it's just free stuff like TH. Good for you, Bad for me =P

03-Sep-2020 14:15:58

Pachuli714
Mar Member 2008

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What I find more troublesome is the whole idea of Secret Agent and 007 pengs since these seem to be single-player only NPCs, or at least from what I understand, first person sees, first person gets.

So, groups that hunt to spy pengs would be at a disadvantage for these particular pengs since you'd be much better off finding them on your own and since they spawn randomly, you'd really need to be hunting for all of them on your own instead of in a group, for that same reason.

This would effectively kill beloved FCs such as Team Penguin and others which is sad beyond belief. These dedicated folks have devoted so much of their time and effort to finding and trapping pengs each week for so many. This is just a slap in their face.

From what I can gather, Penguin Hide 'n' Seek is already one of the most popular D&Ds each week. Did this really need this overhaul? No, it did not. They could have just as easily done their graphical update to the pengs without it.

It's sad to see yet another of the best of this game just tossed in the trash without a second thought. I definitely will miss all of you, Canada Grrl and the rest. I love you guys. You made it fun and easy and a breeze each week. It was the one thing I looked forward to and now that's yet another thing of the past.

Runescape is dead. No one's just gotten around to turning off the respirator yet.

03-Sep-2020 15:42:35

Armodilo
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Armodilo

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Alternative solution to deleting the scanner, make it wild only. Wild has a reduced field of view and it's a rock on a dark map so it's harder to find than all the rest, so potentially a reward worth having. That still leaves the minigame of trapping and doesn't kill off the team based aspect for finding the rest.

03-Sep-2020 18:20:23

Pachuli714
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But that would still leave the Secret Agent and 007 pengs. So long as they spawn randomly just like the Ghost peng does, I wouldn't be likely to, unfortunately, even consider hunting with a group or on a world where they are trapped since I'd be better off on my own on another to find these for myself. These two would be the things that kill off group hunting, not the scanner.

03-Sep-2020 18:48:30

Mel Kazul
Sep Member 2008

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So my thoughts on the new 007 agents is that it adds a chance of obtaining fortunate components from the clue casket that you can get from spying it so that gives a small reason for players that don't normally do penguins to want to spy penguins.

As for the secret agents since spying them allows a hunter to go over the weekly cap they seem more like an option to keep the Comp/Trim rewards from being stuck behind a time lock. Alternately they'd be a chance at an extra med lamp or 2 small lamps if found. I Personally don't see a major reason for the fc to try and track these spies as they are first come first server however I do expect some ranks and possibly some wiki people will attempt to work out the spawns for these penguins.

While I'm not sure if these two will be a large incentive to have more players hunt penguins regularly I do see small uses for them.

As for the scan device I can see some hunters using it to get a hint and then asking in fc where that hint is. Example 'Hint for penguin number 6 says where brother's quarrel. Where's that?'
It be much easier than the current method of hunters asking if there are any Jatz/Neitz penguins followed by them asking if there is a penguin in every possible area of the world.

While I agree the scan function seems redundant to be used on a trap penguin, there are some penguin hunters that this will really benefit. Also if we're lucky it may help cure 'blind hunter syndrome' ;) .

The zap function unlocked at 40 penguins found does worry me, however Mod Daze has said on Reddit that they will be looking into adding a cooldown to it so no penguins are able to be returned to their spawn points with it. And that after the update they may look at changing the length of the cooldown if needed.

Regardless of all the coming changes I'll be watching to see what happens.
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04-Sep-2020 13:55:02

ironpariah

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Looking at the changes ...
I don't mind the graphical updates.
The shop change is *shrug*. I can understand keeping the current system, I can understand switching to something more generic.

I do share the concern that this will potentially bring an end to the World60Pengs and social peng hunting.
I do share the concern of trolling and interrupting hunters. (if any potential method for griefing is created, then someone will find a way to use it)

Flipside ... I'm reaching a point of "i don't care anymore".
Burnout on the game, with a main that is close to maxing again, but with 0 interest in getting Arch to 120 ....
I utilize the current peng hunting to supplement herblore to reduce costs by a few million gp. The value to a skill like Arch would be .. odd ... time saver? some cost reduction? due to the artisan and gathering aspect of the skill.
But the savings value to go shift to hunt pengs vs xp/hr in the skill just isn't there (118 herblore with 50 points was like 250k XP for 3 weeks or so of 'hunting'.)

Would I spy on a peng as I still might run around after the update? Sure.
If they completely change the system where it is more of a solo activity will I do a dedicated hunt? No.

04-Sep-2020 16:20:09

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