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Mod John A

Mod John A

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Bouldabas:

what kind of tea is your favorite?(taste)

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I sometimes like peppermint tea, but I am mostly a coffee drinker. A far-too-much-coffee drinker.

23-Jul-2010 23:00:52

Mod Ash

Mod Ash

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Dasfaust: "Hi. Can we look forward to seeing 'WASD' (Arrow keys) walking in the game?"

Hmmm. Keyboard controls tend to be a bit more susceptible to laggy effects than a point-and-click. Think of the many interface puzzles in RuneScape where you have to press a button over and over again to move something... it'd risk being like that. Still, if we changed the chat system so that keyboard events don't automatically go to the chatbox, I suppose it could be tried, with a bit of game engine work.

23-Jul-2010 23:01:11

Mod Ash

Mod Ash

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Runed Scope:
"Is there going to be an update for the ring of stone anytime soon, or at all? And if so could you give like a year its going to come out in?"

I don't believe anyone's developing an update to that. You're welcome to send in ideas about what you'd like it to do.

40 Abyss:
"some one mentioned in an earlier q&a someone mentioned the strange machinery in the polivneach smoke dungeon having use will that happen this year?"

Neither John nor I knows anything about plans for that. It sounds exciting though.

23-Jul-2010 23:05:43

Mod John A

Mod John A

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Runemasterb7:

Jay, Q&A :) Here's mine questions: (tbe a lot off em :P )

1: I know the main cave goblin storyline is over, but will there ever be "sidequests" to this? I would love to do another quest together with Zanik, as it was one off mine favorite quest series.

2: What caused the cc/friends list/forums etc to crash jesterday?

3: Will quest capes ever be trimable?

4: How is the next dwarf quest coming up?

5: Do class rings work when not wearing them?

6: Are there more quests involved with the wise old man (and possibly zenevivia) planned for us to enjoy?

7: When is w100 coming back up? Also, maybe its not a bad idea to create another group questing world?

8: And finally, what are your plans for the rest off this year?

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OK, I can only answer some of these...

1) I would love to write some mini-quests with Zanik, but there are lots of other things I need to do so I don't know it'll ever happen. I will pass on the fact that there's interest, though, so you never know...

4) Right now I'm working on the core quest code, getting the skeleton in place, which I'll add the polish to later.

6) Nothing planned right now as far as I know.

8) Well, I'm probably going to go on holiday although I'm not sure where yet, and then at the end of the year I'll get together with my family for Christmas...

Oh, you meant Jagex's plans? No, sorry, I can't tell you that. ;)

23-Jul-2010 23:06:21

Mod Ash

Mod Ash

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FerrelShadow:
"Any chance for a forum app for the iPhone? I'm currently typing this from work on my iPhone.
Also, any hints on if the binding levels will be changed, or when Dungeoneering part two will come out?"

I think apps are a question for Web Systems.
The next Dungeoneering expansion is coming along nicely, and I've seen some extremely impressive boss graphics for it. I believe we want it out before RuneFest, although I could be wrong about that.

23-Jul-2010 23:08:33

Mod Ash

Mod Ash

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Toronto353:
"What hints could you give us about future quests that you are working on?
When will the next Penguin quest be released? It is an extremely funny quest series"

I'm not due to do any other quests at this time. RuneScape needs a lot of updates that aren't quests.

I like the penguin series too. Mod Nancy's currently on the popular Void Knight storyline, and I think she's more likely to see that to completion before moving back to the penguins.

23-Jul-2010 23:10:23

Mod John A

Mod John A

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Primal Body:

hey mod john A!

I am a very big fan of your story line! But what is the inspiration behind zanik? She is so cute!

Thank you for answer :)

from : Primal Body aka Sokk

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I'm glad you like Zanik!

A lot of different things inspired her and I don't think I could list them all. One was the character Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica (the new version, where Starbuck is a girl). Another is the song 'Us' by Regina Spektor--that's always how I've imagined Zanik's voice to sound, even though obviously you never hear it in-game. There are lots and lots of other things that inspired the character, though, and a lot of the creative process is subconscious so I don't even know myself.

23-Jul-2010 23:11:56

Mod Ash

Mod Ash

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Wizard Chill:
1)What have you most enjoyed working on?
2)What has been the hardest thing you have worked on?
3)How do you stay focused on long projects without getting bored?
4)If you do particularily well are you rewarded? :P

1. Love Story. Code, dialogue and music.

2. The first time we updated the login page to have a worldswitcher menu on it. That was the most complicated thing I ever wrote.

3. We have managers to help with that.

4. Jagex is a good employer, in my experience. That said, what I really like to see is happy players enjoying something I've done to RuneScape, and that is a very rewarding feeling.

23-Jul-2010 23:13:18

Mod John A

Mod John A

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A quick note:

It's 11pm here and we're only half way through the questions that have been answered, so I think we're going to start concentrating on the ones we've got interesting answers for and skipping the ones that are outside our areas of expertise. Sorry if this means we don't get to your question.

23-Jul-2010 23:13:23

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