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TheGosfather

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Can we eventually get right click teleport options for jewelry?
In your inventory, no. While you're wearing it, yes, we could replace the 'Operate' with a set of item-specific options.

I'd love this =]

09-Feb-2014 23:15:53

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Saxo

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@PID: Yeah I figured as much, I've seen alot of people complain about it though and I can imagine how annoying it would be in 1v1 situations. I don't think people expect to go back to the old system based on IP, but wouldn't making your pid not randomize while in combat kind of fix it? and I don't think it would be too hard to do

The problem is that your pid keeps changing mid combat, not that it's randomized, so this should somewhat fix it while keeping it randomized still shouldn't it?

If (player isin combat) { do nothing }
else {
randomize pid code goes here
}

Rough code obviously, but I hope this helps makes sense what I'm trying to say

Tommi is right though, two people could die at the same time and your hitsplats would both appear at the same time. If this is possible to do again it would obviously be a much better option.

@Right click equip in bank:

Yeah I think I posted about it a few weeks ago, aswell as at the start of OSRS but haven't seen many other people bring it up. Would be really helpful to have imo.

That same update let you eat food while the bank interface was open on RS3 I believe, so that would be helpful too.

Was that one of your updates to the main game btw? you said you were glad I liked it so I assume so.. if so I swear it seems like every single good update on the main game was done by you lol

09-Feb-2014 23:54:44 - Last edited on 10-Feb-2014 01:03:52 by Saxo

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Ice Mage

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most sound Really good updates,
but could you please do a poll to bring in Grave stones and the GE ? that would make 07 Really Great. and I would then do more combat.

The community are highly against gravestones and the ge. Their not gonna poll something that doesn't have that much support from the start.

I Really don't know why every one is so against ge and grave stones it would only make the game more fun to play, I for one hate wasting hours standing around trying to sell/buy and then having to do the same the next day because of all the spamming that goes on... it is just boring, and I would much Rather have a grave stone then to lose all my hard eared gear.. that does not appeal to me at all

if some are so against then why not have it so its your choice to use them or turn the option off that would make every one happy ^_^

I don't even know if this person realizes what they're saying. An option to have gravestones or not? That's ridiculous, people say no to gravestones because they made the game so much less challenging, and actually punished you for dying instead of slowing down your xp/hr. Not to mention those that like to loot bodies if someone around them dies.
Having an option for gravestones would defeat the whole purpose for those who don't want them.
Because the thing you lack when you're looking back is the pressure, the feel that you have to act
Yeah everything is clearer when you're looking at the past
-Streetlight Manifesto

10-Feb-2014 00:40:34

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Ice Mage

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quick prayers passed. this one might pass i think, thats what matters.
Correct. Quick-prayers had the advantage of existing in RuneScape for several years before EoC, so people were accustomed to them, but if players would like a special attack orb, we could do it.

I'd always had a notion for updating the existing special attack button to show the threshold required for activating the special attack of whichever weapon you'd got equipped. That's not related to orbs, but I just wanted to get it out there.

And I expect I could make an orb highlight to show that info too.[/quote]

Also, I'd love to see this happen!

Originally I'd be against it, as I was the minimap orbs, and their functions, but now that it's passed I don't see why not.
Because the thing you lack when you're looking back is the pressure, the feel that you have to act
Yeah everything is clearer when you're looking at the past
-Streetlight Manifesto

10-Feb-2014 00:43:54

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Saxo

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I'd always had a notion for updating the existing special attack button to show the threshold required for activating the special attack of whichever weapon you'd got equipped. That's not related to orbs, but I just wanted to get it out there.

I think I saw you post this in more detail a few weeks ago and thought it sounded great. Would be nice to have this done eventually.

Don't agree with the special orb and would vote no, but I agree it probably should be polled just because Orion has one (kind of a shame the world we live in..)

10-Feb-2014 00:46:56

whyruhiding

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most sound Really good updates,
but could you please do a poll to bring in Grave stones and the GE ? that would make 07 Really Great. and I would then do more combat.

The community are highly against gravestones and the ge. Their not gonna poll something that doesn't have that much support from the start.

I Really don't know why every one is so against ge and grave stones it would only make the game more fun to play, I for one hate wasting hours standing around trying to sell/buy and then having to do the same the next day because of all the spamming that goes on... it is just boring, and I would much Rather have a grave stone then to lose all my hard eared gear.. that does not appeal to me at all

if some are so against then why not have it so its your choice to use them or turn the option off that would make every one happy ^_^

I don't even know if this person realizes what they're saying. An option to have gravestones or not? That's ridiculous, people say no to gravestones because they made the game so much less challenging, and actually punished you for dying instead of slowing down your xp/hr. Not to mention those that like to loot bodies if someone around them dies.
Having an option for gravestones would defeat the whole purpose for those who don't want them.

i completely agree lol i did get a slight laugh from what was said a toggle option for a gravestone does sound kinda funny to me.

10-Feb-2014 00:50:05

whyruhiding

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I'd always had a notion for updating the existing special attack button to show the threshold required for activating the special attack of whichever weapon you'd got equipped. That's not related to orbs, but I just wanted to get it out there.

I think I saw you post this in more detail a few weeks ago and thought it sounded great. Would be nice to have this done eventually.

Don't agree with the special orb and would vote no, but I agree it probably should be polled just because Orion has one (kind of a shame the world we live in..)

i dont understand why they dont just ban orion there has been a lot of people talking about how it completely destroys the game.

10-Feb-2014 00:52:19

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Saxo

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^ Agreed, even one of the admins of orion (rogie) posted on one of Ash's threads saying how the Orb buttons ruined the oldschool feel of the game. Couldn't help but laugh seeing as he was pretty much the person responsible for us even getting orbs let alone buttons.

So it was all fine for him/orion to have the orbs and an advantage over others, but when the RS official game clients features are better than Orion's the first thing he does is complain, lol.

But yeah, not much we can really do about it unfortunately..

10-Feb-2014 00:57:21 - Last edited on 10-Feb-2014 00:58:58 by Saxo

Envision

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as someone more or less asked on the last page, any chance we could get xp drops in a future poll?

i know Orion has it, but we should not have to buy and or download something (which breaks after every update) to benefit from something that the live game does not have.

if/when you poll xp drops would it be possible to add an xp counter too? not the 3 counters with the interfaces to choose what skill it tracks xp in, but the one forever ago where it was just a simple box that tracked "all" xp, and said

LOTS

at 214,etc.. xp (max cash - last digit)

10-Feb-2014 01:45:15

Alpaca

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@PID: Yeah I figured as much, I've seen alot of people complain about it though and I can imagine how annoying it would be in 1v1 situations. I don't think people expect to go back to the old system based on IP, but wouldn't making your pid not randomize while in combat kind of fix it? and I don't think it would be too hard to do

The problem is that your pid keeps changing mid combat, not that it's randomized, so this should somewhat fix it while keeping it randomized still shouldn't it?

If (player isin combat) { do nothing }
else {
randomize pid code goes here
}

It is a lot more complicated than that since it requires a lot of modifications on the server to properly handle it the way it should be.

I never quite understood this random PID thing, but how it should be to ensure it's fair for everyone. When accepting packets it should be handling them as they are received instantly and then every 600ms sending out updates for what happened. This puts less load on the server and is overall more efficient for just about everything. It also prevents the need to queue up packets and waste precious memory which is already terribly managed in JAVA.

Just a little tip since you seem to do programming and I saw you are using Booleans. The "isInCombat" would be inefficient since they cannot even be stored as a single bit. Instead if you store up to 32 bool values to an int value. You can access the values easily and change them all to what ever with a single calculation. E.g. setting an int to -1 will make all values true and setting it to 0 will make them all false.You can check if a set amount of values are true.

The Pros:

-Doing up to 32 area checks with a single calculation.
-Resetting all values with a single calculation.
-Compression saves ALOT of Memory.

The Cons:

-Data is compressed so you need to decompress it for even single c

10-Feb-2014 02:57:11 - Last edited on 10-Feb-2014 02:57:53 by Alpaca

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