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Mod Chris E

Mod Chris E

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Soo, about the same time the friends list problem occured, my fps got to a reasonable number (from my normal ~5 to 15-20, it was a bliss :) ). It went back to ~5 when it got fixed. Did the friends list bug have anything to do with the upcoming fix to the fps issue / Optimus or was it just a weird coincidence?

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Think it is probably unrelated, sorry.

13-Apr-2012 19:09:58

Mod Philip

Mod Philip

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CptnMetaphor:

"Mod Philip:
Bots, unfortunately, have slowly been returning to RuneScape. Can we expect another BotNuke to take care of the color-scraper bots that have been continuing to plague this game? "

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Our main target with the bot nuke was reflection/injection bots. We have already made some changes to make colour-scraper bots more unreliable. They tend to be a bit rubbish anyway. We have more plans to deal with them. They will probably come a little while after the Optimus changes, as they are rather a different class of bot to deal with. Technical Director

13-Apr-2012 19:12:49

Mod Chris E

Mod Chris E

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1. Any way the chat NEWS could be split from the game filter? I would like to see the news, but I'm not interested in seeing that I am swinging an ax at a tree.

- The content team can do this, I think.

2. The game supposedly doesn't support multi-cores, but I am 100% certain that my computer splits the load between the cores. Am I just lucky?

- Nope, sorry. We use multiple cores for just a couple of tiny things at the moment.

3. Why do some of the original locations like Lumby, Fally and Varrock lag like a beast? I'm pretty sure I used to run at high FPS on a very bad computer there, or else I wouldn't have played. Is there anything that can be done from your end?

- I would guess this is down to player numbers in that area, we're aware of the problem.

4. Many of the game interfaces cause massive FPS drops. The chat box for instance takes a full 25% of my FPS. The ONLY difference for me in resized vs fixed screen is that chat bar. If I clear it my FPS is EXACTLY the same. Why can't we get some temporary relief from recoding these interfaces? It seems like a project that can help but won't take an entire year!

- What graphics mode do you play in? Translucent interfaces in the software graphics modes will causes a performance hit.

5. How do 'world specific' bugs come about? For me there is this problem of loading at the Gnome Stronghold. I can get frozen 100% of the time, or get it to load 100%. Depending on the world.

- Not sure about that, sorry. Most likely just random chance related to what is currently on your memory heap.

6. WHAT is up with the 10 second freeze on the first cast of a polypore staff? This is literally a game breaking bug but there has been no relief since it was released. IS this a much deeper issue?

- We haven't had this mentioned to us before, we can investigate.

7. I get an instant 50% increase in FPS using 64 bit java. From what I have read 64 bit should actually be slower. Would a 64 bit client be helpful or is this just some bizarre thing I have stumbled upon with my own system?

- The newest versions of 64bit Java are faster now, historically this wasn't the case though.

13-Apr-2012 19:13:53

Mod Chris E

Mod Chris E

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Are you still planning to implement Indian servers?

- Not that I'm aware of, sorry.

Are there any plans or ambitions to create Chinese Servers or Market Runescape in any new Countries?

- Chinese is tricky because our font and translation systems won't support it at the moment. I don't think we have plans for other localisations at the moment.

I know Jagex has pride in the fact Runescape uses word of mouth to spread and grow in popularity. In this day and age, and with the current popularity of RuneScape, shouldn't marketing be thinking of TV Adverts or boosting publicity to make RuneScape a Household name once again?

- You'd have to check with the marketing guys on that one, sorry.

13-Apr-2012 19:15:54

Mod Chris E

Mod Chris E

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This is a bit of topic but why doesn't a J-Mod just go to green dragons on a few worlds and ban the bots? This would take 10minutes max and you'd be able to ban 200+ bots atleast...

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Because they'd be back in 5 minutes. We have better plans up our sleeves :)

13-Apr-2012 19:16:21

Mod Chris E

Mod Chris E

Jagex Moderator Forum Profile Posts by user
Concerning bot detection and action on reported bots.

1. Does Jagex have good bot detection software? Can it detect a bot within a few hours of botting?

- We can detect within a few seconds of botting usually, occasionally longer, however this system isn't fully active yet.

2. Can Jagex act quickly on the bots it has detected? That is, once a bot has been detected, can a penalty be quickly applied?

- Again, yes, but we're not quite ready for go with the system yet.

2. Can Jagex quickly act on our bot reports? After reporting a bot, can we expect action within a few hours?

- See above!

13-Apr-2012 19:17:25

Mod Philip

Mod Philip

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TheRoohster:

"Hi Game Engine team :)

I'm one of those strange "Mac Users"... 2 questions if I may?

1. Do many people at Jagex use Macs, either in the office or at home?

2. Will you continue to support Mac users for the foreseeable future?

Thanks in advance, Rooh. "

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I am the only developer in any team of Jagex who uses a Mac at work :)

I have to say that I like some things, and don't like others. I like that it is a proper POSIX-y system, so I get a nice terminal without having to deal with cygwin. Not really a fan of the pretty stuff though...

We will continue to support Macs for the forseeable future. In fact, the reason I use a Mac is so that I have a good incentive to make sure that the game runs well on them! We know there are currently a few issues, but they are in our todo list to look at.

Hopefully OpenJDK will soon be avaiable for the Mac, and we'll be able to package up a downloadable client, like we do for Windows, so if and when Apple stop supporting Java, we'll still be able to run RuneScape on it. :) Technical Director

13-Apr-2012 19:18:13

Mod Chris E

Mod Chris E

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1. I haven't played on my mac lately because there has been a OpenGL zoom in glitch, are you even aware of it, and will it be fixed?

Or have i missed the fix altogether because i haven't played on opengl for 2 weeks

- I don't think we're aware of any problems like this, certainly our macs don't exhibit this problem.

2. Please make a official linux client, i don't want to use a player-made one for security and i would really prefer that jagex would just release a tarball that could be used on all distros

- Sorry, we have so few players using Linux it's not worth our development time at the moment.

3. Will we ever be able to assign hotkeys manually? ( such as F5 and F6 to switch to prayer and to inventory )

- The content team can make this happen if you ask nicely!

13-Apr-2012 19:19:26

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