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@ CM Team - Are any long term players ever considered when you select players to become P-Moderators?

Yes they are, as well as the rest of the community. We like to get a good mix when adding them to the existing team.

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13-Apr-2012 20:55:30

@Mod Jane in the past Q&A answers were put into a newspost after the event had taken place. Is it possible that this could happen again in future as they are good for reference but often are eaten by the page 51 monster?

Hey Wees,

I did answer this one in the last Q&A. I think it's a great idea to collect all the answers from tonight's Q&A and pop them in one thread. I'll see what I can do on Monday.

Mod Jane - Community & Events Director
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13-Apr-2012 21:04:52

Zayelion: Are most quest from this point going to be voice acted?

That's the word on the street. FremSaga2 was started before we considered that, so no voiced Thok for now

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Robo Hobo: Aha, I had suspected you would be the one behind the new Sagas! [...] I won't say how I had that hunch though

Those hidden cameras were YOU ! I KNEW it!! Keep your grubby mitts off my tasty Saga story notes!

Robo Hobo: Will the Moia saga be taking place in the fourth age? All of the current Sagas take place near the current day in the 5th age, but with going into the past there's a lot of potential to show some fourth age storyline in Daemonheim, rather than just writing about it in the Daemonheim journals.

You'll have to wait and see for yourself! But on that note, some of the earlier Saga ideas at the beginning of the project involved some interesting origin stories for a few different journal-referenced characters. Perhaps one day you'll get to hear Skaldrun tell you about them

Robo Hobo: [tell me spoilers!]

No spoilers for you!

Robo Hobo: What was some of your inspiration for the new Sagas? Or is it mostly based off of storyline stuff that was planned long ago when/before Dungeoneering came out, just bringing it to light?

The saga involving Moia came from one line in the game written many years ago. Ask me about it a day or two after the Sagas are released and I'll tell you about it

Robo Hobo: Were these Sagas part of the initial 6 that were planned for release at the same time? (but then the first three were released before the others)

The remaining three are secured deep within a vault at Jagex HQ, with Mod Raven keeping close guard over them at all times! They are mighty fine stories, again some day we may just hear them told. I touch a little on one story in the Moia saga, but I can't tell you what or where

...and since you asked so nicely...

Robo Hobo: Is 'Grondaban' intended to be in a future saga?

Our time machine is broken right now, but I'll assume future-mod_giragast has fixed it and is going to come back in time and post the answer below...

13-Apr-2012 21:07:29

13-Apr-2012 21:07:36

13-Apr-2012 21:07:53

How long have you been working on the Runespan project out of curiosity.
I have been working this since mid December.

RuneSpan is the puzzle based game that was mentioned during RuneFest last year right? Are you able to tell us whether or not our Runecrafting level will influence our abilities to complete these puzzles, or if it is just based on thinking?

The runespan isn't puzzle based. The concept has changed vastly since RuneFest. You will still have to think to get the best XP, runecrafting is an efficiency based skill so i've tried to keep some of that but i've also made it more social since it isn't very social at the moment and i've tried to make the gameplay much more enjoyable. But no, it isn't puzzle based.

Do you know whether there is a possibility of being able to make money through this method, or is that unlikely?

Not directly no, XP is your bonus here.

Will the Runespan be a minimage or really a way to train Runecrafting, just like Artisan's workshop, for example?
It is a new way to train runecrafting. It has minigame elements but isn't strictly a minigame. I'm not a big fan of boxing a skill into a minigame.

Will the Runespan be more than 20k exp/hour?
For certain levels yes

Will the Runespan be in a team, or solo training?
You can do either, i've added chances for you guys to work together and you'll probably do better working together but you can theoretically do just as well on your own

Is it what you had announced at Runefest as the RC minigame?
Yes but it is no longer a mini-game. I took a look at current runecrafting training and thought it could do with some more engaging game play throughout the whole skill. This eventually turned into the runespan which is far bigger than we originally planned but we are pretty sure it was worth it!

Along the same lines, I believe it was mentioned that this minigame would be an rune sink, ideally driving up the cost of runes (which I am currently working hard to make - 98 RC atm and getting 99 on Sunday ). Is this actually the case, as it appears in the bts as if there is no need to use runes, though I could very well just be reading this wrong.

This isn't a rune sink directly no, however since no runes are being created via this method it should lower the amount of runes sat in peoples banks over time. I realise this isn't the same but it should help magic be the runesink as this is a far better runesink than one I could fabricate.

Why can't the forums use symbols such as pi in posts?

I don't know Ask the web dev team! Next Q&A Jane?? Senior Gameplay Programmer
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13-Apr-2012 21:11:52

Is it possible for you guys to release some theoretical xp rates at various levels?

Sorry but no, these are for you to play with and some players enjoy finding these out themselves!

Will runes be required to play the runespan?
No

Will this new runecrafting update make all other forms of runecrafting obsoleted?
No, runecrafting the current way should give you a tasty profit! The Runespan is geared towards leveling, if you want to make runes for yourself then you'll have to runecraft the old way.

Also, after this runespan update, if everything goes according to plan, we should be seeing very competitive xp rates ... this will leave only slayer as a slow skill even at high levels - so are there any plans to revamp slayer in an effort to make it faster, possibly for less rewards?
Not that i'm aware of but I can bug Mod_Chris_L for you about that one

Speaking of slayer, many drops have become so cheap that slaying almost isn't worth it (take the whip for example). Are there any plans on a slayer revamp adding more creatures/higher level gear which will bring much needed life to this skill?

We are aware of this, i'd like to see this looked at too but no promises i'm afraid.

Doubling the number of Blood altar tabs as a reward for the Morytania hard tasks was a good step towards making runecrafting more bearable: any other tricks up your sleeve?

The content devs always have tricks up our sleeves

On a scale of 1 to EXHILIRATING, just how fun is the Runespan?! More fun than regular training I presume?!
I'm going to say about 3.1415926......

And how cool are these staves coming with it?

Very cool, that have a couple of...special...abilities...that should make you want to train runecrafting Senior Gameplay Programmer
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13-Apr-2012 21:13:25

There has been a lot of demodding, and (to me) it feels like the demodding has outbalanced the modding. Are there any plans on giving players the opportunity to become "noticed" as a responsible player, perhaps willing to become a mod? I know about the old "Are you community focused" thread, maybe there are some other ways to find those willing to be added to the moderator team? I mean, myself (and the majority of people I know) have played the game fairly, been involved with the community, helped others, and I'm wondering if I will ever get the chance to be investigated for that.

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It's true we have demodded a lot recently - but only with sound reason, for example P Mods not reading our guidelines and then potentially muting people for the wrong reasons.

We are always thinking up new ways to find good people, but there will always be a lot of people who have played a long time, played fairly and helped out - we have to keep a sensible balance between the volume of P Mods and regular players.

One of the things we are looking at is an aspirational system, where people could effectively be noticed for P Mod vetting by carrying out activities that we think are supportive. It needs a lot of thought so that we don't introduce something which could be abused, but I do think that if we can get it going it will help a lot more people like yourself.

13-Apr-2012 21:13:50

This is for Mod Jane and/or Mod Stevew so they don't feel left out Keeping up with and managing the Runescape community must be tricky and frustrating sometimes but can also be very rewarding and fun. What would you say is the best thing about working in Community Management and getting to interact with the Runescape community?

Thanks for not leaving us out!

I have only been with Jagex for a year, however, I have been playing RuneScape for 7 years! So I came to Jagex with a passion for the game and the community already. Being here and working directly with that same community is the highlight of my job, for me it's more than a job, I really love what I do and love coming to work each day because it is never the same each day.

I love nothing more than jumping in game and chatting with people and I have been known to go a little crazy with rubber chicken in hand chasing bewildered players around the GE.

So watch out.. you never know if that chicken whacking sound is me!

Mod Jane - Community & Events Director
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13-Apr-2012 21:16:59

@Steve

I noticed you accidentally posted your CM forum features in the previous Q&A!

Hide Profile Edit Highlight Bump Bad Good Message Delete Hide-All Mute Kick Ban

Sorry, I'm just intrigued to know what "kick" does - the others are self explanatory.

Unfortunately I don't have the 'kick' permission. Mod SteveW is the only person that does!

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13-Apr-2012 21:19:20