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Doddsy


This week's update concerns Summoning and hairstyles: better usability, more pets and the return of the fringe.

You have provided us with so many ideas to improve the Summoning skill that we were spoilt for choice, and our wish list of improvements is getting longer and longer, but for now we have decided on the following improvements.

Firstly, we have raised the pet limit so that you can have twice as many pets as before. This seemingly simple change led to a major background change, which will improve the stability of the code so you will experience fewer bugs in future. Secondly, you don’t need to wait until a familiar has disappeared to use the next pouch; now you click a handy button in the Summoning interface to replenish your familiar’s timer to 100% when it has dropped below two and a half minutes. So, if you use beasts of burden to help carry things around, you can now use this button to keep them going, as long as you have another pouch of the same type in your inventory. Additionally, we have made it much more straightforward to trade in your pouches and scrolls with Bogrog, the ogre in Gu’Tanoth.

We often receive comments about and suggestions for new hairstyles from players on the forums. In particular, we read players' complaints that there was once a female hairstyle with a fringe that got removed. We searched and searched, but could not find any indication that this was ever the case, so we scratched our heads for a while...and then created one! Enjoy your fringes, and perhaps you might like to pay a visit to Party Pete to try out a special new hairstyle designed for partying.

Lilies of the valley have also blossomed around RuneScape. These fragrant spring flowers will stay until the next game update to celebrate the start of May.

Last but not least, we would like to point you towards a new link in the quest journals. The QuestHelp system is now accessible directly from your quest journal, and you don’t even need to log into the website to access either a hint or a spoiler for a quest.

As you’ll notice, this set of updates isn’t as large as you might have hoped, for which we apologise. A project we were hoping to release this week was found to have bugs, and so has been delayed until next week. While we’re aware that these are relatively small fixes, we hope that you’ll appreciate them nonetheless.

Mod Fetzki
RuneScape Content Team Leader

Sorry to disappoint but the "project delayed until next week" mentioned in today's RS update isn't MechScape. Soon though, we promise Ajd
http://twitter.com/OfficialJagex/statuses/1639118512


Patch Notes

The following small fixes and adjustments have now been made to the game. If you spot any further bugs in-game, please use the Bug Report feature ('Submit a Bug Report' under the 'Help' drop-down menu of the website).

Graphical
  • Players should find they no longer clip with the hairdressing booth.
  • Improved the position of the timer and other features in Pyramid Plunder, especially in HD.
  • Fixed an issue that cropped up when performing one emote after another, in which the second one wasn't animated correctly.
  • A render issue was fixed with another female clothing option from the Makeover Mage.

Quests
  • Sir Prysin's chat is now clearer if you've lost Silverlight and shouldn't talk about Darklight instead, which was even more confusing when you were on a free world.
  • Adjusted the checks to see if you can purchase another Helm of Neitiznot if you'd lost it.

Miscellaneous
  • The Makeover Mage has been given a quick (right-click) option to give yourself a bit of a sprucing.
  • The Hairdresser's chat has been made less confusing.
  • A grammatical error has been expunged from the examine option for the evil tree sapling.
  • A couple of items have been removed from the player stock of the Embalmer’s shop as they were untradeable.
  • Stopped a sound effect looping while in Tarn's Lair.
  • Reeso in Relleka will correctly greet you by your Fremennik name, if appropriate.
  • Ensured that some songs are played appropriately in the Dorgeshuun area.
  • When using the Makeover Mage, females had the option to wear 'shorts', but this was actually a skirt. This has now been corrected.
  • The code for the Makeover Mage and his/her interfaces have been significantly reworked and improved.
povifaith
i like the afros laugh.gif

yay first second post!!
Ming Der
QUOTE (povifaith @ Apr 28 2009, 10:38 PM) *
i like the afros laugh.gif

yay first second post!!

Amazing that you took the time to read it.

Anyways, it's great how Jagex is kind of listening to us now - a new era?

-Ming happy.gif
Kyo
Yay, now I can have afros biggrin.gif

Good update, I like the Summoning one.
one kid wonder
yaaaay you put my message up *smug smug smug* dry.gif
Pixel Bunnie
I love the new hairstyles happy.gif

I updated mine to the spiked ponytail with fringe; it looks great. wub.gif wub.gif

Great updates.
Ann
They look awesome, although the Mohawks on male characters are a little creepy xd.gif
Yippee
Well, I'm not a female in-game, so I don't need the fringe, but the party pete one sounds kind of cool. I like my harstyle anyway, though, so I might not be using it.

The quest help system, though I don't use it, is one thing I've thought should be in-game ever since I noticed it existed. Glad they finally did that.

Also glad they're postponing things now to get bugs out of them, instead of rushing them. Can't wait until next week. biggrin.gif (Maybe it's Mobilizing Armies...haven't heard anything about that for a loooong time. Waiting for MechScape too, although that's not really an update, and it has a separate team, so that can't be what was postponed.)
little boy 1100
Good adgustments, but I thought now we can summon 2 familiars, well we cant closedeyes.gif but other things are still very helpful.
Mocrac
QUOTE (Doddsy @ Apr 28 2009, 07:37 AM) *
*snip*

love the party hair idea and the fringe ty for listening Jagex smile.gif
Ambo100
Too many afros on sale, i don't know what one i should pick. So i bought loads. biggrin.gif

Afros should be allowed in your costume room imo.

QUOTE
# Improved the position of the timer and other features in Pyramid Plunder, especially in HD.


Excellent!
sharky
all the hair styles they create are wierd and for like hill billys or something lol

Mobilizing armys I heard got canceled
Shmoe
Yumm, I bought 3 afros. wub.gif

Scrum
I don't know about you guys, but I'm really pleased that Jagex are taking notice of what we want, and while it's not the most ideal thing in the world, delaying updates that are bugged. Well done. I'm going to check out the new stuff smile.gif
Magical
I'll go and play around with the hair style now :-) The quest-help feature is certainly an improvement :-)
Milky
Cool. Do you have to buy the hair from Party Pete?
Rurex
QUOTE
As you’ll notice, this set of updates isn’t as large as you might have hoped, for which we apologise. A project we were hoping to release this week was found to have bugs, and so has been delayed until next week.


Mobilising Armies? Maybe? Certainly? Speculate.
Goggie
Small Updates keep the RuneScape world ticking. I nearly always seem to prefer these little changes to the big 'in your face' Updates.
If Party Pete is endorsing a Hair-do, it must be cool! I will now go and investigate such matters devil.gif
Simple013
QUOTE (Pixel Bunnie @ Apr 28 2009, 03:00 PM) *
I love the new hairstyles happy.gif

I updated mine to the spiked ponytail with fringe; it looks great. wub.gif wub.gif

Great updates.

That ain't new, that's the way I have it
money for not...

Since about a year the spiked ponytail is available, pink is best btw...
Xela
QUOTE (Ambo100 @ Apr 28 2009, 03:30 PM) *
Too many afros on sale, i don't know what one i should pick. So i bought loads. biggrin.gif

Afros should be allowed in your costume room imo.

QUOTE
# Improved the position of the timer and other features in Pyramid Plunder, especially in HD.


Excellent!


Would have been nice before I got 99 thief V_V.
Shine
QUOTE (Doddsy @ Apr 28 2009, 07:37 AM) *
[*] Improved the position of the timer and other features in Pyramid Plunder, especially in HD.

[*] Adjusted the checks to see if you can purchase another Helm of Neitiznot if you'd lost it.


Been waiting on these updates for the longest happy.gif Thanks!

I hope that project was Bounty hunter slanty.gif
Ambo100
QUOTE
Firstly, we have raised the pet limit so that you can have twice as many pets as before.


I don't get this, I can't have more than one pet dropped at the same time, So what are they talking about? pfft.gif
The Who?
The afro is a sweet update smile.gif. I'm going to ty it out.
Dragonclaw
The new hairstyles and summoning updates are great! I'm glad they updated the questbook to include the quest help system. It'll sure come in handy for me from time to time. smile.gif

Great updates!

Edit: 1000th post? Yay! biggrin.gif
Dr Skull
QUOTE
Enjoy your fringes, and perhaps you might like to pay a visit to Party Pete to try out a special new hairstyle designed for partying.
Afros ftw. cool.gif

QUOTE
As you’ll notice, this set of updates isn’t as large as you might have hoped, for which we apologise. A project we were hoping to release this week was found to have bugs, and so has been delayed until next week. While we’re aware that these are relatively small fixes, we hope that you’ll appreciate them nonetheless.

Mod Fetzki
RuneScape Content Team Leader
QUOTE
Sorry to disappoint but the "project delayed until next week" mentioned in today's RS update isn't MechScape. Soon though, we promise Ajd
http://twitter.com/OfficialJagex/statuses/1639118512
I first thought of Mobilizing Armies, not Mechscape. blink.gif
Blasphemy
Awesome update! biggrin.gif

Now this is what makes me want to check Runescape out smile.gif
firas
here are all the afros ohmy.gif
i bought them all tongue.gif

Blasphemy
Me dancing with afro-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ucknC13eI...re=channel_page (I don't know how to put the video here)
moridinzh
fros ftw. laugh.gif
rade775
Operate Lillies!!!!!
Cake
They said they will release Mobsiling Armies, and then they keep delaying it. dry.gif

Great updates, though not much to the hairs.
Mohorak
Lol, one day after I think to myself: Why don't they link the QuestHelp to the quest journal?
So they can read my mind.
*thinks hard*
Now if I'm right, I'll get banned in 3...2...1...
!POOF!
The Dragoon
i must say this is a great update! i dont use summoing but WHAT the heck and the new hair style is awesome!

<me
bennycool122
:box:Stop the giant turkey glitching!:box:

anyway i bought all the wigs... there soo cool... its fun to switch through all the wigs to time to time...
Egghebrecht
QUOTE (Ambo100 @ Apr 28 2009, 07:02 PM) *
QUOTE
Firstly, we have raised the pet limit so that you can have twice as many pets as before.


I don't get this, I can't have more than one pet dropped at the same time, So what are they talking about? pfft.gif

the ammount of pets you can have in general
(in your bank, invent, ...)
Ambo100
QUOTE (Egghebrecht @ Apr 29 2009, 08:27 AM) *
QUOTE (Ambo100 @ Apr 28 2009, 07:02 PM) *
QUOTE
Firstly, we have raised the pet limit so that you can have twice as many pets as before.


I don't get this, I can't have more than one pet dropped at the same time, So what are they talking about? pfft.gif

the ammount of pets you can have in general
(in your bank, invent, ...)


I never knew there was a limit.

I was hoping i could get two dogs.
Egghebrecht
QUOTE (Ambo100 @ Apr 29 2009, 10:50 AM) *
QUOTE (Egghebrecht @ Apr 29 2009, 08:27 AM) *
QUOTE (Ambo100 @ Apr 28 2009, 07:02 PM) *
QUOTE
Firstly, we have raised the pet limit so that you can have twice as many pets as before.


I don't get this, I can't have more than one pet dropped at the same time, So what are they talking about? pfft.gif

the ammount of pets you can have in general
(in your bank, invent, ...)


I never knew there was a limit.

I was hoping i could get two dogs.

before the release of summoning i had more then 10 overgrown cats in my bank (yes they stack if the same color)
so i dunno what the limit was
i expect it to be made lower after summon was out
doesn't really make sense otherwise
Doomsicle
QUOTE (Egghebrecht @ Apr 29 2009, 05:53 AM) *
QUOTE (Ambo100 @ Apr 29 2009, 10:50 AM) *
QUOTE (Egghebrecht @ Apr 29 2009, 08:27 AM) *
QUOTE (Ambo100 @ Apr 28 2009, 07:02 PM) *
QUOTE
Firstly, we have raised the pet limit so that you can have twice as many pets as before.


I don't get this, I can't have more than one pet dropped at the same time, So what are they talking about? pfft.gif

the ammount of pets you can have in general
(in your bank, invent, ...)


I never knew there was a limit.

I was hoping i could get two dogs.

before the release of summoning i had more then 10 overgrown cats in my bank (yes they stack if the same color)
so i dunno what the limit was
i expect it to be made lower after summon was out
doesn't really make sense otherwise

The limit was in the thousands. tongue.gif
Some guy on Zybez had 1000 purple cats or so. tongue.gif
Egghebrecht
QUOTE (Doomsicle @ Apr 29 2009, 11:53 AM) *
QUOTE (Egghebrecht @ Apr 29 2009, 05:53 AM) *
QUOTE (Ambo100 @ Apr 29 2009, 10:50 AM) *
QUOTE (Egghebrecht @ Apr 29 2009, 08:27 AM) *
QUOTE (Ambo100 @ Apr 28 2009, 07:02 PM) *
QUOTE
Firstly, we have raised the pet limit so that you can have twice as many pets as before.


I don't get this, I can't have more than one pet dropped at the same time, So what are they talking about? pfft.gif

the ammount of pets you can have in general
(in your bank, invent, ...)


I never knew there was a limit.

I was hoping i could get two dogs.

before the release of summoning i had more then 10 overgrown cats in my bank (yes they stack if the same color)
so i dunno what the limit was
i expect it to be made lower after summon was out
doesn't really make sense otherwise

The limit was in the thousands. tongue.gif
Some guy on Zybez had 1000 purple cats or so. tongue.gif

i imagine cats were treated differently then otherwise it really doesn't make sense tongue.gif
LightSlei
QUOTE (Ming Der @ Apr 28 2009, 08:41 AM) *
QUOTE (povifaith @ Apr 28 2009, 10:38 PM) *
i like the afros laugh.gif

yay first second post!!

Amazing that you took the time to read it.

Anyways, it's great how Jagex is kind of listening to us now - a new era?

-Ming happy.gif


A respectable CEO for a change.

Oh, and am I the only damn person on RS who has a female character that uses the pixie style O_o. Seriously, I never see anyone else with it.
Ruin
QUOTE (Cxkslei @ Apr 29 2009, 02:04 PM) *
QUOTE (Ming Der @ Apr 28 2009, 08:41 AM) *
QUOTE (povifaith @ Apr 28 2009, 10:38 PM) *
i like the afros laugh.gif

yay first second post!!

Amazing that you took the time to read it.

Anyways, it's great how Jagex is kind of listening to us now - a new era?

-Ming happy.gif


A respectable CEO for a change.

Oh, and am I the only damn person on RS who has a female character that uses the pixie style O_o. Seriously, I never see anyone else with it.


nope i have one.
sionnach dhu
QUOTE (Ambo100 @ Apr 29 2009, 05:50 AM) *
I never knew there was a limit..


There's a limit to how many total pets (other than cats) you can have; it's tied to your Summoning level. Apparently they've doubled it.
ewoksrule91
QUOTE
Lilies of the valley have also blossomed around RuneScape. These fragrant spring flowers will stay until the next game update to celebrate the start of May.

April flowers bring May flowers so maybe there will be some kind of weather next month.
Ruin
QUOTE (ewoksrule91 @ Apr 29 2009, 02:45 PM) *
QUOTE
Lilies of the valley have also blossomed around RuneScape. These fragrant spring flowers will stay until the next game update to celebrate the start of May.

April flowers bring May flowers so maybe there will be some kind of weather next month.



do you mean April showers bring May flowers?
Bluue Maask
I love the afros. Never knew Jagex would introduce them. Afro power!
Radiance
Just tried out the new hairstyle. I like it wink.gif .

And...it was interesting how random that flower event was. I was heading off to the chaos tunnels when I noticed something was off. Oh yes, the flowers. Then I actually decided to read the front page.
Ur Pk3d Up
QUOTE (povifaith @ Apr 28 2009, 07:38 AM) *
i like the afros laugh.gif

yay first second post!!


yeah afros ftw lol
Atomic Stuff
Afros are amazingly sexy. Especially the white ones. xd.gif

The April flowers are hawt! I
Azreal Diz
kinda think the afro should be a bonified hair style instead of being a wig

but mostly i find them annpying, but thank god for a nice little summon update
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